Methionine in Presription Science Diet, etc.
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:35 pm
We've been down this road before. A cat with crystals, and the automatic vet plan to put them on Hill's Science Diet Prescription Urinary Tract food. I thought the active ingredient to acidify the urine was methionine. Is it still in the products, or replaced? If so, with what?
We have been buying tubes of Methigel, which is the methionine in a paw-lick base. A lot of vets never heard of it. But my theory was that if the same ingredient is in the tube, AND the cats don't like the (expensive) prescription product, why bother?
We have had several cats use this with no problem, but the vet seems to ONLY know about Science Diet.
If someone has a can of Science Diet, can you tell me what the active ingredient is?
Thanks from stay-at-home Minnesota!
We have been buying tubes of Methigel, which is the methionine in a paw-lick base. A lot of vets never heard of it. But my theory was that if the same ingredient is in the tube, AND the cats don't like the (expensive) prescription product, why bother?
We have had several cats use this with no problem, but the vet seems to ONLY know about Science Diet.
If someone has a can of Science Diet, can you tell me what the active ingredient is?
Thanks from stay-at-home Minnesota!