Purina Pro Plan Wet Cat Food, Focus, Adult Urinary Tract Health Formula Chicken Entrée, 3-Ounce Can, Pack of 24

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1. 124 of 126 people found the following review helpful

   
   Economical higher-quality FLUTD food, March 23, 2012

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   This review is from: Purina Pro Plan Wet Cat Food, Focus, Adult Urinary Tract Health Formula Chicken Entrée, 3-Ounce Can, Pack of 24 (Misc.)

   I live with three cats, one of which has to be on a relatively pricey canned prescription diet for a urinary tract condition. The problem is, this very same cat (Fred) loves to gobble down anything he can find, especially leftovers from the other two. I’ve started feeding this to my other two cats that don’t have the condition, as a preventative measure, and also to feel safe feeding them all at the same time and not having to worry if Fred picks up their scraps. I adopted him as an adult, and I think the people that had him as a kitten starved him or fed him a lot of “people food,” as I’ve caught him eating the weirdest stuff — from pizza to sugar cookies to jalapenos. This also might explain why his system is a little messed up.

   Frisky’s also has a “Special Diet”, which is cheaper and therefor probably not as good for kitties. I ordered that, too, just as a back-up if my other two wouldn’t eat Proplan. I would say they all preferred ProPlan over Frisky’s Special Diet (except Fred, who would gleefully scarf down hot garbage if he could get his paws on it). Cats like what they like, and my cats have slightly more expensive taste — again, except for Fred, who has quite an indiscriminate attitude towards food.

   I spoke with the vet about possibly switching Fred from his prescription diet to ProPlan and they reassured me that this was a very good food for cats with urinary tract problems, too. Fred is the least picky cat I know when it comes to food, so I would only switch if cost because an issue. I love my cats and they have a great life with me, but there are very occasionally some months where I have to eat off-brand ramen so I can pay the bills….so sometimes my cats have to slum it with me. They are pretty good sports about it. 🙂 I am planning to keep feeding this to my other two cats, with extras on hand for Fred if necessary.

   The delivery option is GREAT to save on trips to the store, and you can “subscribe” and save a buck or so. If you do the math right (I didn’t the first time, whoops), you can ensure the new palate arrives just as your little friends are polishing off the last couple cans. If you have prime, it even ships for free. Extremely convenient, cost effective, and perfect for the cat owner who would rather spend time at home with their cats than out running errands for them. I would highly recommend this product, especially with the subscription if you’re kind of lazy and a home-body like me 🙂

   Only negative thing I have to say: I just wish they came in bigger cans. I do recycle, but I feel that one large can would make less waste than two smaller cans. On the other hand, my fridge isn’t full of half-full cans after the cats eat their breakfast….

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2. 112 of 117 people found the following review helpful

   
   Amazing FLUTD cat food, September 30, 2012

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   Cynesige (Virginia, USA) –
   
     

   This review is from: Purina Pro Plan Wet Cat Food, Focus, Adult Urinary Tract Health Formula Chicken Entrée, 3-Ounce Can, Pack of 24 (Misc.)

   We have a 16 month old cat who suddenly got FLUTD. For about a month, she looked very uncomfortable and desperate to urinate, and was making a rancid mess of our house. She would spend the entire day going back and forth to the litter box, straining and straining, and then leave one drop of urine in the most unpleasant possible places – on our couch, our bed, etc. It was awful. Almost every day led to high-stress discussions about whether she might have a life-threatening blockage. Visits to the vet and internal medicine specialist cost us $3,500, and led to a complicated, expensive drug regimen. The $3,500 of vet analysis basically concluded with “We don’t know why it happened, and it’s really not fixable; you just have to manage it.” They recommended a special diet food sold solely through vets. It was ridiculously expensive. We looked out at a 15 or 18 year time horizon, and thought, man, that is just insane. I mean, if you have a 15 year old cat and you’re facing a year or two of special diet food, then OK. But a whole cat lifetime of prescription food? Only after other approaches have been tried.

   So we picked up a case of this food, along with Purina’s dry food for FLUTD cats. And that very day, her flutd STOPPED. Period. She has not had a single, solitary incident of straining or sign of discomfort since. It’s been about two months.

   And, both she and our other cat (who has no flutd issues) LOVE this food. They stand at the bowls and meow for it, in a way that we have not seen them do for any other food. Sadly, this food is only offered in one flavor (chicken), so our plan was to feed it to them for as long as they would tolerate it, and then integrate in some other non-FLUTD foods, to give them the variety that cats usually demand. Well, they have eaten this one flavor every day for two months, and they continue to lick the bowls dry and empty every single day….and STILL stand there meowing for more of it, the next morning. Insane…

   So far, so good, and this seems like a fantastic product.

   3 month update on 12/31/12: Not a single FLUTD incident since putting our cat on this food, three months later.

   16 month update on 1/11/14: Well, it’s been a while since I posted this review. Just wanted to add that last week the cat had a relapse of FLUTD. She had been off the FLUTD food for about a year, eating normal food and doing well. This recent relapse was a complete mess – our house was nearly in ruins after 3-4 days of the straining and the urine. So we put her back on the FLUTD food (wet and dry) and in two days it was all cleared up and she’s back to normal. I swear, this food is like magic. We’re going to keep her on this indefinitely. We have three cats now, and they all love this food.

   38 month update on 9/29/15: Can it really be? A 3+ year update on cat food? Yep. Well, here we are. Cat generations come and go, because sadly, as every cat owner knows, they’re on a different cycle of life than we are. Now we have a 3 cat colony, including the original FLUTD-sensitive cat from my 3+ year old review. She has never had FLUTD problems since getting her on this food! omg this IS the real deal. I hate to sound like a ridiculous corporate sponsor ad, but it’s true, this food is the BOMB. We don’t feed them this stuff all the time, for the simple reason that Purina made an inexplicably stupid decision to offer this only in one flavor. As every person on earth with cats knows, they simply will not eat the same thing every day of the year. I am quite sure the marketing folks at Purina know this, and that begs the question of why this isn’t offered in 4 or 5 flavors. Anyways…. due to the availability of precisely one flavor, we’ve had to mix and match this with other foods, but we still feed cases and cases of this stuff to our three cats. Bottom line: all three love this food. All three eat every drop. All three are 100 % stomach-problem free. This food is at least as good as any prescription food on the market for its medicinal purpose, and unlike the prescription foods, cats actually like it. So I am giving it a reiterated Solid 5 Starts, but for the love of the baby Jesus, what in the hell would it take for Purina to offer this up in a turkey, shrimp, beef, seafood, salmon, or other flavor? Help me out, Purina!!!

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3. 69 of 72 people found the following review helpful

   
   Our Vet Suggested Other Product–Glad We Ignored Her, February 24, 2012

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   This review is from: Purina Pro Plan Wet Cat Food, Focus, Adult Urinary Tract Health Formula Chicken Entrée, 3-Ounce Can, Pack of 24 (Misc.)

   Our male Maine Coon had Struvite Crystals in his bladder and he was passing them. After much vet-food and many x-rays–we ended up doing months of vet-sold food. The cat would starve himself until he had to eat it. Now we are all Pro-Plan and he’s been clean for more than a year (and he loves the Chicken flavor.)
   Go Purina, Go!!!
   And thank you.

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