Me is so excited about this series on hydration. And just so there won’t be any confusion, today’s post will be in human speak. Me told you all about water and fountains yesterday and the importance of keeping your anipals hydrated. Our bodies are made up of mostly water, 80% to be exact for us kitties. We also talked about how kitties don’t typically drink enough water. Fountains are a great way to get your kitty to drink more water, but that’s not the only way to help your kitty get the hydration he/she needs. Is it mommy?
No Dezi dear it’s not. Another good way to ensure the proper hydration is…
Wet Food right mommy? Canned food has a much higher water content than kibble and so it helps keep us kitties hydrated. Whereas dry kibble can help to dehydrate us.
You’re very right Dezi.
That’s why when sissy was diagnosed with CKD and wouldn’t eat, you bought every kind of canned food you could find. huh? And she still wasn’t eating all that well. Right before we left for BlogPaws she was only eating about a tablespoon of food every couple of days. We were so worried about her weren’t we mommy?
Yes honey we were. I know her well enough to know that if she could hold on till we could leave she would be much better because she loves to travel so much. And thankfully she was. Although she still didn’t want to eat anything I put in front of her.
Till wecame across the Weruva table at Blogpaws and they gave us sum pouches of their wet food to try. Me was so happy when she ate the whole pouch and asked for more
Oh yes Dezi, I was happy too. And before I could even think, I gave Lexi another pouch, and she ate it all up too. Not eating is a common problem in CKD kitties for a variety of reasons. And there is a great debate among CKD cat owners about the diet of a CKD kitty. The prescription diets are low in phosphorous AND protein. These prescription diets are based on a study by one of the largest prescription diet manufacturers and what worked for dogs. And as any cat person will tell you, Cats Are Not Dogs. What works for dogs doesn’t always work for cats. The other side of this coin is the people who believe that cats are obligate carnivores and need protein to survive. This school of thought has several studies as well just not by anyone as prominent as the other study. But this study says that CKD kitties should eat foods that are made of high quality Proteins and low in phosphorous. So after your sister ate 2 more pouches of the Weruva food the next morning I made it a point to see what the dry matter analysis of this food was. At the end of the day it’s more important that your CKD kitty eat than serve the perfect food and have them go hungry; but I was hoping that Weruva would not only be something that Lexi would eat, but that it would also be “good” for her. So off to their website I went.
I had my fingers crossed because often companies don’t include the dry matter analysis at all on their websites and sometimes even those who do, don’t include the phosphorous levels. To my surprise and delight, Weruva lists several analysis tables and includes the phosphorous content prominently. An ideal phosphorous level to feed a CKD kitty is 0.50 or below, but a phosphorous binder can be added to foods above that to make them more appropriate for the CKD kitty. I was thrilled to find that the TruLuxe line was almost completely under 1% and the Steak Frites which is one of the foods that Lexi had tried and loved, was within the limits of what is good for her without any additions. Meaning I could open the can and give it to her and know she was getting the proper nutrition and not worsening her condition. Her other favorites included the Peking Ducken, Quick and Quirky, On the Cat WOk, Chicken Frick A’Zee, and Funk in the Trunk from their original line. And all of these had good levels of phosphorous so no/minimal phosphorous binders were needed to make them suitable for her to eat. And the other big bonus was that picky little you loved them too. So with one purchase I could feed you both and know that you both were getting a good healthy meal suitable to your needs. And I really liked that the food was recognizable as being chicken or beef or duck or whatever. And that the first ingredients on each can after water or broth was the meat (protein) contained within the can or pouch. And it was really nice to see that beef was beef and chicken was chicken and so on. So many companies have “beef, duck, chicken, etc.”, and when you get to the ingredient list there’s no beef or duck in the can at all.
Oh mommy yous so wight. Me sure does like that Chicken Frick A’Zee and so many of the others too. And they even have a pumpkin pouch that me really likes. But me is happiest that sis Lexi has put on some weight eating the Weruva and she’s much happier too. And Weruva gives some of their proceeds to help healthy and treatable animals in shelters. And their foods are made in a human food facility according to the International human food standards. Me and sissy are eating foods that are prepared in the same kind of facility that makes human foods. That’s a great thing because it means the standards are really high.
And the peeps over at Weruva are so nice and told me that we could offer one lucky friend and reader a whole case of the 3 oz Tru Luxe cans of their choice. Is that not the most pawsum thing ever? Wanna know what makes it even better? It’s open to all our friends in the U.S.A. and Canada. Yep you read that right Canucks you can enter too. So, here’s how you enter:
Furst: Follow meez blog via email and share this post on Twitter or Facebook. (If you don’t have one of those accounts let me know).
Second: Leave me a comment on this post telling me which food you want to try.. (click on the words TruLuxe to see your choices).
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This give away is open to all residents of the U.S. and Canada. This Give away will close on Monday 7/13/15 at 11:59 p.m. Names will be entered into Random Picker and one winner will be chosen.
Disclaimer: As always we received no green papers for this review and Weruva is not responsible for the content of this post or our opinions. And it is our policy to only bring you things we have tried or use and think would benefit you.
Don’t forget before you leave to enter for your chance to win the PetSafe Dwinkwell Pagoda Fountain of your choice here.
Oh Meow, What a weekend. fire boomers all weekend long and funnew stowrms too. And fun at Cat Scouts and da Tabby Cat club too. Meez so tired. And yous know what? Me kulda been dehudwated too wiff all dat runnin’ wound out in da heat. But fankfully weez got furesh water available all da time. And not just any ole bowl of water eever, weez got a kitty fountain to dwink fwum. And yous know how much fun kitty fountains awe. Yous wunnewin’ why me be ramblin’ on ‘bout meez kitty fountain awen’t you? Well it’s cuz me wants to talk to you ‘bout sumfin’ weally purrtant today and dat’s Hydwation. Me told you earlier this mumff dat July be Pet Hydwation Awareness Mumff. And you all know how purrtant it be dat we all stay hydwated. Isn’t dat wight mommy?
Yes Dezi that’s right. 80% of your body is water. And as a kitty it’s not really in your nature to drink a lot of water. In the wild you would get a lot of water from the prey animals that you would eat.
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Me knows dat’s what they say mommy, but me be weally glad me dusn’t have to hunt fur meez dinner and eat little mouseys.
Well sweety I’m glad you don’t have to hunt and eat little mice either. But that means you need to drink more water, and that’s not something a kitty readily does.
We do tho’, don’t we mommy? Lexi and me? We luv to dwink fwum our fountains.
Yes Dezi, you and your sister do like to drink from your fountains. But I remember a time beore we had a fountain, and you didn’t drink nearly enough water. You’re suppose to drink at least an ounce of water for every pound of body weight. And if you don’t, you’re in danger of becoming dehydrated. And that’s not good. Water is essential for your well being. It helps support your vital organ functions.
And it’s wespawnsible fur fings like digestion and waste wemoval too, wight?
That’s right honey. Do you know what causes dehydration Dezi?
Me duz mommy.. It happens when we don’t dwink enuff. Or when our fluid level dwops cuz of heat or dwy kibble. We animals sweat diffewently than hoomans do. Dogs pant and we kitties sweat fwu our paw pads. Duin’ this can deplete us of dat much needed hydwation purretty fast. So we need to weplenish. And one of da ways we can get da water our bodies need is to dwink more water. But a bowl of stagnant water isn’t weally appealin’, and altho’ sum doggis dwink outta da hooman pawdee box, dat’s not weally safe. Us anipals seem to kmow dat runnin’ water be furesh water and dat’s why Lexi and me like dwinkin’ fwum a fountain. so much.
And OMC Were we ever blest to have wecieved a pawsum Drinkwell Pagoda fountain fwum PetSafe. You can check out their udder pawsum purroducts by clickin’ on their name. And you can check ‘em out on twitter and facebook also. Our new fountain has 2 water falls to dwink fwum and two bowls too, an upper and larger bottom bowl. And it looks purretty. It comes in 4 diffewent colors to match or blend in wiff any décor. And it holds 70 ounces of furesh water dat it wecirculates over and over again. And it has not 1 but 2 filters to make da water even cleaner. It’s made of ceramic so it dusn’t cause dat feline acne. And they say it makes it easier to clean. Is it easier to clean mommy?
Oh yes Dezi, it sure is. I love how easy it is to clean. And that all the parts are in one place. And that there aren’t a billion little places to get all gunky and slimy. Yes Dezi, I like your new fountain as much as you and Lexi do. And the replacement filters are easy to find and not too expensive.
Dat’s pawsum mommy. How offen do yous have to clean it?
Well sweety it should be cleaned and filled with fresh water weekly, or as needed, but the filters only need to be changed once every 4 – 6 weeks.
So then it’s easy to maintain. You know what wulda been gweat mommy?
What’s that sweety?
Ifin Pet Safe Wulda let us give one of these pawsum fountains away to one of our amazin’ furiends.
Well Dezi dear guess what? They are. You can give away 1 Drinkwell Pagoda fountain in any of the 4 colors to one U. S. reader.
You choose da color yous want ifin yous win.
Weally mommy? OMC Dat’s so pawsum. Well yous heard it furiends. Weez got a Drinkwell Pagoda Fountain wiff one lucky Americans name on it. (name will not be on the actual fountain) And you get to choose yous own color. Just cuz we like da beige dusn’t mean yous have to get dat color. So lissen up, cuz here’s how yous enter:
Furst you must follow meez bloggy by email. There’s a follow button wight there on da sidebaw.
Next, leave a comment tellin’ me what color yous wuld like ifin yous win. Yous have fwu Fursday 7/9/15 at 11:59 p.m. to enter.
Water is a gweat way to stay hydwated. Stay tuned fur more ways to Hydwate da Body.
Till da next time…………………..Be Blest!!!
Dezi = Blue
Mommy = Black
Disclaimer: We didn’t weceive any gween papers fur this post. We weceived a Pagoda fountain fur our unbiased opinion. As always we will only bwing you purroducts we use or have twied and fink will be of interwest to you.
Well surpwise surpwise, guess where me was duwin da towns big fire boomer display? Oh and it was loud too. It even drowned out da neighborhood garwage band, How many of ya’ fink me was UTB (unnew da bed)? Or better yet, in da bed unnew da covers?
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I’z wooda gezt in da bed unner da kuvverz fur shur Dezi.
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Fanks sissy. Me showed you, didn’t me? Cuz yep, dat’s me alwight. Stwetched out on da floor and sittin’ in fwunt of da Fandango Liberty cat twee. Me shocked mommy too. So much so she had to take sum fotos. Well today be Blest Sunday and our favowit posty of da week. Ifin yous read our last posty yous know sis Lexi not be duin’ to good. She has a purretty bad UTI and we have no gween papers fur da VET or medicine so mommy be tweatin’ it wiff natuwal purroducts and purrayers. So yous wunnerin’ why we fink weez so Blest? And we wuld answer cuz we know dat God can answer purrayers and so many of you, our wunnewful furiends be purrayin’ fur her too. And not so many days ago me was very sick and yous all purrayed fur me and meez all better now. So we know sis Lexi can get all better too.
And, member we told ya’ Ms. Ellen and Phoebe sent us a package wiff sum white gwass of our very own? Well mommy planted it up fur us and it’s spwouted!!! Me duz like to nibble and lick me sum gwass. Fanks again Ms. Ellen and Phoebe and all da gang at 15 and meowin’. Weez luvvin’ our gwass.
This gwass be so tasty.
We shur doo Dezi. And I’z gawdid a purrezzint too. Sum ov ya’ will reekawl weez had a Cat’z Meow toy a while back and weez playd wiv it till it jiz kawnked owt and woodunt go anee mower. And afur youz axed, yez mommy did try nu battereez and dat wuzunt it. Aneewayz, diz lazt week I’z gawdid a box in da mayl. Mommy finelee opund it and…der it wuz, a brand nu Cat’z Meow toy fur me. Frum owr furiendz Bugsy, Sparky, Tiger and Blackbeard. Faynk youz awl soz berry much. Ov korz weez lubz it. And I’z say weez cuz youz awl noez I’z sharin’ wiv Dezi jiz like she shayrz wiv me.
Oh sissy do yous member when mommy opened da box? We was boff stuck to her like white on wice waitin’ fur her to get it put togedder so we kuld play. And when she finally put it down and pushed da stawrt button we was 2 happy kitties. Of course mommy wanted to ketch sum fotos and at least 1 video, so she gwabbed da camewa, and…OMC da battewy was dead. So she gwabbed da udder camewa and…OMC Dat battery was dead too. MOL So mommy had to plug in and chawrge boff camewas. Well by da time da camewas was chawrged we was tired out and didn’t wanna play anymore. Ain’t dat da way it always goes? And then you got sick Lexi and mommy put da toy away till you get better So you can enjoy sum play time then. And me dusn’t mind cuz we also have sum pawsum udder toys dat weez’ll be tellin’ yous all ‘bout later this mumff. And guess what? Weez gunna get to have a few gweat toy give aways. We weally can’t wait fur dat. Me even told ‘em me wanted to be a cat tester fur any new toys this company makes. What company yous ask? Me can’t tell ya’ today, yous’ll just have to stay tuned.
This be da only foto mommy was able to get afur da batteries died in da camewas.
And as always our biggest blessings awe each udder and mommy and all of you. We awe very blest kitty girls to be sure. Join us this week fur a pawsum series on hydration and sum furbulous give aways.
Meowllo everypawdy and happy Independence day. Let me just tell ya; dat weez didn’t get much visitin’ dun yesfurday cuz mommy never went to bed da night afur. And weez late today cuz she just nodded off last night writin’ meez posty and never woke up again till today. It was wiff good weason me must say. At 3a.m. Furiday meownin sis Lexi made a bloody depawsit in da pawdee box. And she weturned fur several more in no time at all. Based on mommy’s past speriences, she panicked cuz it means Lexi has a UTI. Well ifin yous member mommy has lost a kupple kitties to complications fwum UTI’s, so she be a mess. And in all meez time on this earff meez sissy hasn’t weally looked or acted sick till now. So me didn’t know what to do. Well when all else fails…do da zoomies. Me zoomed and mewed all over da house. wasn’t anypawdy getting’ any sleep dat;s fur sure. So yesfurday when mommy twied to do sum visitin’, hers just stawred at da scween. Well sort of. Actually she was kind of noddin’ off every few seconds and jerkin’ awake wiff all da funner boomers. Yep we was havin’ more rain. So very little puter time fur us. So weez gotta ask ya’ to purrlease purray fur sissy.
Now on to Independence day. All over America peeps awe celebwatin’ today wiff BBQ’s, fire boomers. booze and furiends. But weally it’s all ‘bout a little document called da Declaration of Independence. Da founding fathers of da U.S.A (then only 13 colonies) awthored and signed into law a document of listing certain inalienable wights and gawanteein’ fweedom fwum da tyranny of da Queen of England and all udder governments. They was establishin’ our government. Dat original document has been ammended a few times fwuout da years, but it still holds twu today. Peeps, wake up, don’t let this or any government take away da wights da founding fathers and God gave you and da blood of so many bought you. Happy Independence day to you all.
Meez gunna be at da Cat Scouts fur a while today and sissy and me will be at da Tabby Cat Club fur a bit also. Yous invited to join da celebwations goin’ on all over da blogosphere today.
Service Cats U.S. 