Cat not a good eater?

[Bettacreek]

I'm glad that some vets are intelligent enough to look into nutrition. My tomcat was run in for a UTI problem (no blockage luckily, but he was inflammed), and the vet "prescribed" dry UTI Purina food. Unfortunately, vets aren't always taught about nutrition and overall health of the pets they treat, and they only look at it from the medical side (you'd think nutrition would be a big part). Anyways, I was fortunate enough to be a nutrition junky, and refused to feed purina, so, I did a few hours of research. This tomcat is no longer with us (he lives with my husband's grandmother), however, our female is with us, and she is still on the same diet of canned food with dry Castor and Pollux Adult Ultramix (top four ingredients are meat, no by-products, etc), and she's in great health.
Unfortunately, some people follow the vets' word blindly. I have a friend with 7 rescued feral cats. Darwin (one of the ferals) has diabetes. I checked into it, and, yes, you can wean cats off medical care simply with proper nutrition. However, my friend refused to even look into it and feeds Science Diet and gives insulin. :/


Back to the rabies vaccinations, my cat is not vaccinated at all. She's an indoor cat, and we (unfortunately) live in a city, where the risk of rabies is unheard of. My mother has three cats. They were all vaccinated to the law's requirements, but one cat started having seisures about once a month (a few times a month right after vaccination). They have since stopped rabies vaccinations and the cat is now fine. I think vaccinations are a personal opinion, and really shouldn't be forced upon someone. People criticize me because my son is not vaccinated for the flu virus, but, I do not want my son vaccinated for it for various reasons, and that is my (and my husband's) choice.