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Clipton

Clipton / Clipton was my first foster failure and was a bottle-fed kitten I hand-reared since he came into the local shelter without a momma or any siblings. He had soft stools throughout his kittenhood and was ultimately diagnosed with IBD when he was just about a year old. My theory is that since he was raised on kitten milk replacer made it so that his GI flora never fully matured since he didn't get those healthy gut bugs from his mother. Vets dewormed him, put him on steroids, and also tried him on every prescription diet possible to try to help his GI issues. NOTHING worked, and if anything many of the diets made his stools even worse. Finally I was fed up with vets, and started feeding him a fully balanced raw diet, and EVERY symptom went away. I mean every single symptom. He was doing really great.
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nAfter a few years of raw, I fell on some hard times, and could no longer afford his expensive raw food, so tried him on kibble. He did fine on kibble at first, until after about a year he developed a neurological seizure-like disorder called Feline Hyperesthesia syndrome, commonly known as Rolling Back Syndrome. He was put on an anti-seizure medication which helped a little but we still had to have a sweater on him at all times to prevent him from ripping out all the fur on his back. He didn't like the sweater, and neither did I, and I was starting to get desperate, so I remembered how well he had done on a raw diet in the past. Unfortunately, the manufacturer that made his food before had discontinued their feline food, so I set out to find a new company. Honest Kitchen struck me as a great company, I loved that their food was human-grade, and I signed up for an account. Clipton has been on Honest Kitchen Prowl for about 2 years now and is continuing to do well with his seizure-like syndrome, still on only one anti-seizure med (the vet said they could add another but it would damage his liver) and on the Honest Kitchen food. I've never seen him this happy. Thank you Honest Kitchen for providing such amazing customer service and outstanding products too!