My cat was treated for a Urinary tract infection?

Those vet diets are garbage. They are all a marketing scheme because those big named brands fund vet programs and vets make extra cash by recommending them. They all have sub par ingredients.

Those companies try to make their case by stating protein that comes from corn is "an excellent source of nutrients" and is "highly digestible", when corn in pet food actually isn't all that digestible and is in no way a good substitute for meat protein. Many animals are allergic to it and much of it is worthless filler that ends up in your back yard or litter box.

What's "with" them, is that corn is a lot cheaper for them to use and the image of their brand as "vet recommended diet" still allows them to charge high quality food prices.

Better foods have ingredients like parsley and cranberries which help urinary health. Any high quality food is going to be better than feeding your cats by-products and corn. they key with urinary diseases is water. The more water you can get the cat to drink the better. You may want to try feeding her mainly wet food and use the dry for a treat or a special meal if she really likes it, a few times per week. The water content in wet food should really help her if she eats it as a regular diet.

My boy used to get those. They will get those when they don't drink enough water and are dehydrated too often. Forget about the special foods for now and just use little tricks here and there to help her get more fluids, like feed wet food and add a bit of water to it.. ad a bit of water to dry food; If you eat canned tuna let her have the pressed out water, they love that. etc. Dry food also absorbs water in the stomach. Your kitty could just be dehydrated too often. Maybe try trading out a little bit of the dry food for some wet food every day too. I don't know about your girl, buy my boyt was just one of those cats that's always barfing or spitting something up which contributed to him being dehydrated and more prone to UTIs.

People will get UTIs and bladder infections too if they stay dehydrated for prolonged periods.

IF you don't pee enough, an infection can get a foothold in the urinary tract or bladder... if you're not peeing enough, its from insufficient water intake. When you have a UTI, the reason the cranberry juice is recommended is because it makes you pee and just peeing helps clear out bacteria. Same thing applies to cats and all critters.

First off corn gluten is just a fancy way of saying corn syrup. I hate people who think that corn syrup is bad for you it's not, it is the same thing as cane syrup which is the first step of making sugar. And if you think that protein is not part of a cats diet you need to watch some YouTube videos about lions and tigers and watch what they eat. It's meat, which is dun, dun, dun, protein. So just talk to your vet and see what he, or she suggests as dry food and pay 75% more for the "All Natural" brand.

my sisters cat used to always get urinary tract infections because he hates drinking water. now we never let him eat dry food only wet and we always mix water in with the food.

I feed my cat Costco's brand of cat food (Kirkland) and pedigree for my dogs.....They have been eating these for years and all are healthy and have never had a problem with UTI's.

For the best quality of food for your cat you should buy from your Vet - canned and chow foods. They have the best quality than store-bought foods.