Cats don't read advertising brochures

Rita Trachsel explains, "The pads of our cat's paws looked very dried out: thick skin with cracks forming so that it was even bleeding at times.  Our cat no longer had any grip on smooth surfaces or glass - the bottoms of the paws are normally like slip-resistant suede."

We took our cat from the vet to the animal clinic.

The diagnosis was plasma-cellular pod dermatitis (inflammatory paw pads) with the cause being unknown, but eventually a weakness in the cat's immune system.  Our cat was treated for one month with antibiotics.  There was only a slight improvement.  Then our cat underwent a further 4 months of antibiotic treatment.

An alternative would have been an amputation of the affected paw pads.  However, this was not really a solution since all pads were affected.  So, after another 5 months of antibiotics there was a slight improvement.  After this time period a further consultation with the animal clinic resulted in them stating that a long-term treatment with a strong antibiotic was not a viable solution. They recommended consulting an animal dermatologist, who then did a biopsy.  Therefore, the cat was operated on and a tissue sample was taken from the paw pads.

Result from the Animal Clinic Bern:

"We have examined the biopsy and the changes are very strange and never before described in such a way.  It is not plasma-cellular pod dermatitis...it is not a text book case at all."

There was a lot more medical terminology in the report.  In any case, it became clear after this that there was little that could be done.  It is crazy that we have done everything imaginable and have not reached a result.  The cat would have to be put to sleep.

As fate would have it: two or three days after the talk with the vets I read a report in the newspaper about cats with different clinical pictures (kidney and liver problems, skin rashes and other symptoms).  They had been given 'GRANDER Water' to drink and they seemed better, even healthy again.

Immediately I searched for this water on the internet and called the representative in Switzerland.  That evening a representative from the company GRANDER was standing on our doorstep with a bottle of GRANDER Water and a water treatment pen.

I felt really silly...hocus pocus magic and so on....but the alternative was putting our cat down, which was also not an alternative.  So, I took a leap of faith and since then our cat has only been drinking GRANDER water.

It likes drinking this water.  It is expensive - about 40 francs per month - however the visits to the vet and the costs of medication for our cat were much more expensive and extremely stressful for our cat.  And, guess what, it works!

Our cat's pads are not yet fully healed, and they probably never will be, but immense improvement has been achieved and they are much better than before.  The first improvement was seen after only 2 to 3 weeks."