Give them Hugs and Kisses to help keep them healthy
Written: Feb 16 '04
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Pros: Helps alleviate itching, scratching and fur loss.
Cons: Expensive.
The Bottom Line: Hugs and Kisses helped my cat with her itching and scratching problems and she liked the taste too.
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| Kittyokc's Full Review: Warren Eckstein's Hugs & Kisses Cat Supplement |
My cat Cuddles was having a serious problem with itching and she was scratching herself bare, especially around her head and neck, causing sores. We hadn't changed her diet in any way and we didn't have fleas, so we were at a loss at what could be causing this. I was searching on the web for others who had problems and came across a product that appeared to alleviate this very problem in other cats and decided to give it a try for Cuddles.
Warren Eckstein's Hugs and Kisses is billed as a vitamin and mineral supplement/treat for your cat. But unlike other treats, this one claims to help improve your cats overall health when added to their daily diet. It really is more of a supplement for your cat than a treat, but it supposed to be pleasant tasting where even the most finicky cat won't turn it down.
Hugs and Kisses claims to help your cat in many ways, but the three specific claims that prompted me to try it were:
* Helps prevent excessive shedding and dander
* Alleviates dry skin and bare spots
* Relieves itching and scratching
These three things seemed to be what was troubling Cuddles the most and after reading the web site and testimonies from others, I just had to give it a try, especially with their 30 day money back guarantee. Other things the product claims to do are: Helps prevent urinary blockage in cats and Promotes resistance to stress and disease.
The supplements/treats themselves are brown in color and have the same odor as regular dry cat food, nothing offensive, but nothing to make you think your cat would jump at it either. They are rather large compared to most "treats" like Pounce and the like, but they are soft enough that even your older cat won't have trouble eating it. They tell you to feed one supplement/treat daily for every 2.5 pounds your cat weighs and that you can feed it as a treat or crumble it in their food.
The biggest test, of course, was if Cuddles would eat it. She is a very finicky cat when it comes to food, the only cat I have seen that actually turns her nose to some canned foods, so we were testing their claim that finicky cats like it. When I offered the first one to Cuddles, she did a lot of sniffing, even rubbed up against it and then gingerly took to from my hand (you always have to hand feed treats to her, she will not eat it off of the floor). After she ate that one, she looked at me for another and then another. It passed the Cuddles test and all I have to do is shake the container and she comes running.
Now for the funny part, my other cat Frisky, who will eat practically anything, won't touch these. He'll sniff them, but that's as far as he will go. This was very shocking since he very rarely turns down anything you try and give him and he will just walk away from these. It may be the size of them that he has a problem with because on a few occasions I have broken up a couple of these and put them on his food and he didn't refuse to eat the food because of it, so it could be the size.
After a few days of giving these to Cuddles, I noticed her scratching less and her sores were healing up and soon after he fur started growing back in where she had scratched it bare. Because it helped Cuddles, we kept using it as a daily supplement for her and she very rarely scratches, sheds less and her fur feels more silky. Frisky never appeared to have the same problems as Cuddles did, so I use it less often with him and I crumble it and sprinkle it on his food every few days.
Ingredients : Soybean lecithin, corn gluten meal, rice flour, rice gluten, poultry by-product meal, soy flour, dried whole eggs, vegetable fat, cod liver oil, dried poultry liver, wheat germ meal, dried digest of tuna, brewers dried yeast, garlic, betain, taurine, iron amino acid chelate, zinc amino acid chelate, Vitamin A acetate, D-activated animal sterol, thiamine hydrochloride, calcium pantothenate, and ascorbic acid.
Although Hugs and Kisses is on the expensive side at $14.99 for a 11 oz. container, it does contain a lot of treats in it and it really does help your cat if they have itching, scratching and shedding problems. You can either by it online from the web site (http://warreneckstein.com/n-hugskisses.html) or you can buy it from PetsMart, which is where we bought ours.
I definitely recommend Hugs and Kisses to cat owners who may be experiencing the same problems we were, it has greatly improved Cuddles condition and she isn't suffering anymore, which makes us very happy. This is one product we plan on using for a long time. They also make a supplement/treat for dogs, for any dog owners that may be interested.
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