For cats I don't recommend making your own food long term as there are excellent foods available on the market that contain ingredients you might miss, like taurine for example. Homemade food can be done safely but most people don't want to do it long term or don't do it right. In general cats don't react well when you change their foods all the time. Change should be slow unless there is a drastic need to do so quickly. Cat food should be high in protein with most, if not all, of the protein from animal sources, like salmon or whitefish, chicken, duck, venison, etc., not grains (not corn, corn gluten, etc) , have a high moisture content, contain necessary minerals, taurine, and be lower in ash and magnesium (to help prevent UTIs). If your cat is diabetic you will need a prescription diet most likely. Some brands I personally find high in quality: Wellness, Natural Balance, or Evo canned as the main food and a dry version as a treat. It is trial and error what a cat will like but a consistent diet of cheap food will cost more in vet bills down the road. I would not give my cat green leaves if that makes the cat throw up, even cat mint or cat grass. I feed my 6 cats Natural Balance. Four of them eat Natural Balance Tuna and Shrimp Formula canned and also the regular Nat Bal dry with no issues. The other two, one prone to UTIs (a male), and one with food allergies I feed canned Natural Balance Duck and Pea moistened further with water and they also get some dry, also Duck and Green Pea (which is a limited ingredients food for the allergic cat) and although not the lowest for the UTI prone in ash and magnesium, by switching to a higher moisture canned food as the staple, and high protein, this helps to maintain the urinary Ph more naturally. I keep an eye out though all the time for UTI in the male. I have Clavamox on hand. Cats naturally eat flesh, bones, connective tissue, internal organs, in the wild, with little 'greens' as supplement. I don't recommend raw food however although some will tell you it's great, but IMO raw food can carry the same health risks to pets as humans as you don't really know the source of the meats unless you kill the food yourself. So, the next best thing is high quality meat based protein foods, as you can afford, and IMO canned food in a higher quantity over dry. But food is just that - a food discussion. Until you know what is wrong with your cat it is hard to say what kitty really needs. It sounds like your vet has not actually discovered exactly what is wrong with your cat and it may take time to find out what it is by the process of elimination of what it isn't. Your cat is not young at age 11/12.

The reason Nature's Miracle says not to use any other method of cleaning is because they know you will use another method before buying it. Now they have an excuse as to why their product doesn't work. Nature's miracle is junk. My wife and I are current replacing flooring in our house. We adopted a 3 year old cat that was left behind after the owner moved. We found out why she was left behind. She pisses and poops everywhere. She had some kind of pancreatic issue and was on steroids her whole life. She died at the young age of 12. We loved her so we endured the daily treasures left behind. I would destroy another house full of flooring for that cat. It's a small price to pay for that unconditional love. This is Pita (acronym for pain in the arse)

I had to think about this for a while whether to post this or not. I decided to post anyway. Please, please, it is not my intention to preach or to denounce anyone. This is for information only, information which sometimes we donÂt think of. One of the really nasty thing that is happening is the way we throw away electronic equipment, especially serviceable equipment. Even you take them to legal recycling centers, somehow they all end up in third-world countries killing thousands of children every year, and messing up the environment for hundreds of years for all of us. It is not that difficult to take care some repair/maintenance problems. Besides saving time and money, you will be very proud that you have accomplished a task successfully. I always pick up computers on sidewalks which people threw out. Many reasons people throw computers out. Many times itÂs just very minor problems. Most of the time when people throw out computers, they take out the hard drive and memories. I can get lots of old memories and old drives from corporate I.T. departments. Last couple of months, I fixed four computers and donated them all to Salvation Army Thrift Shop. One replacing the power supply (5 minutes), one replacing the start switch (10 minutes), one with a stuck CPU fan, and one with no fixing, it was a working computer. (Many internal components are interchangeable). This is how I clean really grimy smelly electronic equipment, which I do not recommend for others: 1. 100-lb psi compressed air gun to blow out the dirt. I do this outside in the garden because the dirt in the key board, power supply, CPU and graphic card heat sink is unbelievable. 2. Dump the whole thing in a tub of hot dish washing water for no more than 5 minutes. 3. Take the computer out and blow out all the water with a leaf blower. 4. Use an electric fan to blow on the computer for a few hours. 5. Wait one day to turn on the computer. I also repair small appliances to donate. Kat, sorry about going off-topic. dcarch

You will probably have to replace sub flooring to get rid of most of the odor. My mom/me had a cat 20+ years ago. She went in the corner of living room a few times, not many. carpet replaced 2 times, wood floor treated/cleaned in someway. Years later in real humid weather I swear you can still smell something. I am not sure if sealing alone will get rid of smell. Kitchen cabinets are probably a goner if they went in there, which they probably did. I have an area around cat box that my now cats missed, on cement floor. I have treated w/natures miracle, vinegar, straight bleach, by saturating a cloth and laying it on area for a day or so. Still an odor when I get down on hand and knees and put nose up to it.