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What do you feed your cat and why?
I've been told by vets that wet food is bad, wet food is good, dry food is bad for an older cat and so on.
We just feed our moggies on Felix and they seem to live to the 16-20 range (if they are not hit by a car).
At the moment we have an old-man-cat who's grumpy as anything and has no teeth following an accident - I suspect he couldn't eat dry food.
However I keep getting told "science diet" and "dry food" - what do PH think?
I've been told by vets that wet food is bad, wet food is good, dry food is bad for an older cat and so on.
We just feed our moggies on Felix and they seem to live to the 16-20 range (if they are not hit by a car).
At the moment we have an old-man-cat who's grumpy as anything and has no teeth following an accident - I suspect he couldn't eat dry food.
However I keep getting told "science diet" and "dry food" - what do PH think?
Edited by 0a on Friday 17th February 02:55
Alan will not touch wet food. One sniff and he walks off. Scraggy refuses to chew dry food (despite us spending £200-£300 of the insurance companies money getting his teeth sorted), so prefers the wet stuff. But if Alan leaves any dry behind Scraggy will eventually wander over and hoover it up.
Mr. Sax will eat just about anything, so he has pouches or tins plus chicken or tuna and any other treats. He's always been like that even before his thyroid problem.
Kat on the other hand only eats dry food and is very specific what she likes, it's James Wellbeloved turkey & rice which we can only get from the pet shop in town. She also loves those little packs of Whiskers treats and those treat sticks. She doesn't like chicken or any other fresh meat or tuna.
Kat on the other hand only eats dry food and is very specific what she likes, it's James Wellbeloved turkey & rice which we can only get from the pet shop in town. She also loves those little packs of Whiskers treats and those treat sticks. She doesn't like chicken or any other fresh meat or tuna.
Munter said:
Alan will not touch wet food.
That's a great quote!Mine likes both wet and dry, often alternately. Wet food is supermarket own brand like Co-Op, Morrisons MyCat or Asda Tiger - luckily she prefers it to the more expensive ones - and dry is sometimes Go-Cat, sometimes IAMS for variety. And milk. And water from the bedside glass.
IAMS or Purina dry food only with a huge bowl of water. My cats drink lots of water.
I did try various wet foods when I first got them but they refused to touch it prefering dry foods. They get Coley a couple of times a month and will devour that, but turn their heads up an fresh meat off-cuts. Strange felines
I did try various wet foods when I first got them but they refused to touch it prefering dry foods. They get Coley a couple of times a month and will devour that, but turn their heads up an fresh meat off-cuts. Strange felines
Mine get one sachet of felix as good as it looks in the morning and evening. I sprinkle biscuits on top. Biscuits are left down all the time. As above biscuits are Jmaes Wellbeloved. We did try Applaws which went down a storm for a couple of weeks but not so now. Table scraps - scambled egg, sausage, ham, kebab, chicken, toast/bread, pate also go down well lol
I have two cats. They are both fussy, so after going through about every combination of wet/dry food we could find we settled on Wiskas Wet (in Gravy, not Jelly) plus some dry stuff the wife buys (can't remember what that is.) I know Wiskas isn't meant to be the "best" one, but it's the one they like the best.
Mubby said:
always makes me laugh the way you post about "Alan" 
ive said it before but great name
It has caused some confusion recently. The OH now has a co-worker called Alan. So when she was chatting to someone about the fact that Alan vomited over the sofa this morning (fir ball), it led to an interesting explanation. ive said it before but great name Munter said:
Mubby said:
always makes me laugh the way you post about "Alan" ive said it before but great name
It has caused some confusion recently. The OH now has a co-worker called Alan. So when she was chatting to someone about the fact that Alan vomited over the sofa this morning (fir ball), it led to an interesting explanation. ive said it before but great name pmsl!!Barney (13 year old Burmese) suffers from Struvite Crystals so he's on Hills C/D - mostly dry food for convenience, but occasional pouches of wet food for a treat.
Daisy doesn't suffer, but also eats the Hills for convenience, and they both seem to love it (lots of meaows and they polish it off).
Both healthy for their ages - just the struvite for Barney, and a recurrent cough for Daisy over the last 12-18 months which requires occasional Convenia (antibiotic) shots because nobody can figure out the problem.
Daisy doesn't suffer, but also eats the Hills for convenience, and they both seem to love it (lots of meaows and they polish it off).
Both healthy for their ages - just the struvite for Barney, and a recurrent cough for Daisy over the last 12-18 months which requires occasional Convenia (antibiotic) shots because nobody can figure out the problem.
Iams for my 2 - we always fed the dog on Iams and found that little & dry in meant littler and drier out too 
so seemed a good idea to continue with the cats.
They'll both hunt and eat what they catch, but other than the smallest scraps of cooked ham, they're not interested in human food at all.
so seemed a good idea to continue with the cats.They'll both hunt and eat what they catch, but other than the smallest scraps of cooked ham, they're not interested in human food at all.
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