The acronyms for Hill’s Prescription Diet foods are not difficult to figure out. The “d” always stands for diet. It was easy in the old days, before there were so many different Prescription Diets. c/d was “cat diet,” k/d was “kidney diet,” and h/d was “heart diet.” If memory serves me correctly, when I graduated [...]
Obstipation, or chronic constipation in pets, is a condition mostly affecting cats, that causes stool to stay in the colon for an excessively long time, resulting in removal of too much moisture from the stool and a hard cake that will not pass. Several predisposing factors may be in play for patients to suffer from [...]
Regular readers first met Jack the constipated cat (Our Day Today) on a busy day in May, 2009, when he came in with one of his frequent episodes of stool that would not pass. Today he was in the same boat. Chronic constipation is common in cats who are seniors, obese or weak from illness [...]
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