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HELP! MALLORY CRUSTA, PLEASE! LIMITED INGREDIENT RABBIT FOOD FOR IBD KITTY!
Dear Mallory, and the rest of the Cats.com experts and community. I hope this message finds you well.
I noticed in one of your articles that Mallory feeds her cats a primarily rabbit based diet.
My cat-son, Nase, has IBD and I am desperately attempting to find novel protein food that he will actually eat, in order to start is exclusion diet (he currently only eats reliably Fancy Feast chicken wet food).
I realized that he more or less likes rabbit wet food (and duck sometimes). But I am really struggling to find a brand of rabbit food that he will eat consistently and that is of good quality.
Do you have any recommendations for limited ingredient diet rabbit wet cat food!??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I currently feed him the following foods: Open Farm limited ingredient duck dry food, Nulo duck and turkey wet food (trying to phase out since it contains turkey which can trigger possible chicken allergies, and also contains flaxseed and peas which can cause digestive problems…), Koha duck wet food (he only eats about a half a can before “burying” it…), Honest Kitchen turkey wet food (again, trying to phase out to cut out turkey completely), Open Farm turkey wet food (also trying to phase out…), Cat Person (Weruva) duck wet food (again, he eats about a third or half the can before leaving it), and finally Identity duck, rabbit and quail wet food (again, he only eats a bit, before leaving it).
The Identity rabbit wet food is the best I have found so far (super expensive, but high quality), but he won’t reliably eat the whole can, he only eats about half before “burying” it 🙁
I used to feed him Koha rabbit limited ingredient wet food, as well as Rawz rabbit and duck wet food. But sadly Koha apparently changed their recipe and now it has hundreds of tiny bone shards/fragments in it, rendering it un-feedable. And I recently found a big chunk of blue hard plastic in the Rawz rabbit food so I now have lost trust in them and will no longer feed him Rawz 🙁
If you have any suggestions for novel protein limited ingredient wet foods (especially rabbit) for my little boy’s exclusion diet I would be eternally grateful!
Thank you so much. Take care.
best,
adam
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Hey Adam,
It is a prescription food and would require prescription approval from your veterinarian, but the Royal Canin Selected Protein PR (pea/rabbit) is another option. I have used that as a go to for IBD kitties and my own IBD kitty has been eating it for about a good 5 years at least. At 17, she still loves it. No guarantees of course for palatability for any diet for any cat, but it may be worth looking into and chatting with your vet about. There is a dry food version as well. It is available through Chewy. Not inexpensive, but it has certainly been worth it.
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Hi Adam, I just came across your post. I’m actually the one whose cat follows a rabbit-based diet. What I currently feed my cats is Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet Real Rabbit Recipe (wet and dry food). Instinct has another rabbit recipe but it’s the Limited-Ingredient Diet products that are made ONLY with rabbit protein.
To mix things up, I also feed them Ziwi Peak Rabbit & Lamb wet food and Evanger’s Rabbit & Quail Dinner. If you can find a couple recipes your cat can tolerate, try rotating them… mine will get bored with one after a few days and start to eat less, so I usually have two different cans open at a time and alternate at mealtime.
Hope that helps!
– Kate
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