[TulipRoxy]

I just want to echo what Sugarcatmom said. I am studying animal nutrition right now, and I'm learning about all the problems that feeding high carbohydrate foods to a cat can cause. Cats are carnnivores, they have no requirement for grains at all. In fact they lack salivary amalyse to start the digestion of starch in the mouth, this puts a lot of stress on the pancreas to secrete enough enzymes to digest it. So, unfortunatley Urinary tract problems are extremely common, as well as diabetes, obesity and kidney probelms.

Even having your cat on a high quality dry food is not enough, he must also eat wet. This will increase his intake of water, and help prevent urinary tract issues.

I went through a urinary tract infection and struvite crystal problem with my cat, as he was only on dry food before I switched him to raw. Its not fun, lots of money, antibiotics etc. Since being on a low carb biologically appropriate diet he has had no reoccurence of crystals.