Thanks AC, yes I've been to the site a few times. Her problems don't seem to follow along with most of what I read there on IBD.
Maybe IBS. Or maybe just a sensitive system.
Mostly, in that site, I read the food list, but even on there, many of the foods have things "wrong" with them. BG for example has carrageenan, which the site recommends avoiding. Fancy Feast classics, while they don't have wheat or gluten, have dye, sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate, and artificial things, including menadione. Nature's Variety has the clay stuff that prompted me starting this thread.
My biggest concern about the food she is eating now, Castor&Pollux Chicken and Vegetable Stew is the
spinach. It didn't occur to me before, but then I started worrying about the iodine, but then when I went researching, instead of seeing trouble with iodine, I am reading about spinach being bad for cats because it is high in calcium and will cause oxalate crystals in her urine.
It wouldn't be so hard if she wasn't so finicky, or...maybe not finicky, but maybe certain foods make her feel yucky. On the other hand, I have trouble with that theory because she would kill for the Weruva or Soulistic foods, or anything with CORN, but all of those turn her bowels to water.
I think I might try the California Naturals for her again, which are on the food list of the IBD.net site.. She likes the venison and brown rice, but will eat it only once in a while. I might try the chicken, too I don't think I've ever given her that. I know they are owned by P&G now, but I've got to feed her something!