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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2862395" data-attributes="member: 31094">My cat is approx. 10 pounds.  Until now, he has always had as much dry food available as he wanted (I used to give him 9 Lives Urinary Tract Care dry food) in a self-feeder.  Once a day, I gave him one forkful of Fancy Feast.  That was it.  Sometimes if my finicky girl kitty didn't want her Fancy Feast, he would eat hers also.  Both of my cats have done fine on this diet until now.At the vet yesterday, they said, "He's a big boy, so give him half a can twice a day."  This is a LOT of food, in my opinion, and I don't think he needs that much.  But if I were going by what they said to do, that would be 1 can a day, and they charged me $1.14 per can.  So 30 cans = $34.20 per month.  The bag of dry that they gave me was $12.  It's not very big.  My cats like dry food, so I was assuming two bags of that per month = $24.  $34.20 + + 24 = $58.20.I was going to try to give him half a can a day.  So that way I would only have to buy 15 cans a month, which = $17.10.  Total for the month would then be $41.10.I tried giving him some of the canned and dry last night and he wouldn't touch it.  I think he ate Boo's Fancy Feast instead.  I've replaced the food in the self-feeder with the Hill's dry mixed with a little of the 9 Lives so that they get into the Hill's gradually.He is doing much better today.  He was crabby last night and obviously still sore.  His sister wants nothing to do with him since he still smells like the vet; I wiped him down with a chamomile cat bathing wipe and she seems better.  But he peed last night just fine.  I think he thought I was nuts, praising him for peeing <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />He took the pill like a champ!  Zeph held him and I put it in his throat and he swallowed it as nice as you please.  Not a wriggle.  We'll see how he acts tomorrow when he's on to us <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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