So I'm sitting here at the computer checking e-mail and stuff while
eating potato chips and beer. Cat-Boy comes in and decides, as he
frequently does, that it's lap time. I decide it's time for a break
anyway, so I let him in my lap. But this time it appears he's more
interested in the potato chips than getting his back scratched. I
offer him a small chip and, amazingly, he eats it.

We are talking about a cat (part Maine Coon) who has always been
totally disinterested in human food. He'll sniff at what I'm eating,
but never begs for it, even if it's steak. I've never had a cat so
blasé about food.

The potato chip aside, what I'm really wondering about is his regular
food. He won't touch any kind of canned food. All he wants is dry cat
food. And of all the various brands I've tried, his favorite is Purina
One "Advanced Nutrition Hairball Formula." He eats nothing else.

I started the hairball cat foods because his thick coat caused a lot
of puking up hairballs. He still horks one up once in a while, but
with the hairball remedy cat food things are a lot better.

One thing that worries me is the lack of variety in his diet. I assume
that the Purina cat food is reasonably complete, but variety is always
a good idea. I could force him to eat something else by withholding
the Purina, but he's happy and completely healthy, so I wonder if I
should bother.

The other thing that bothers me is whether the Purina I have been
giving him is a decent food for him. I realize the danger in asking a
question like that in here. This newsgroup is famous for people with
religious ideas about cat food. I'm only interested in knowing if
there is some serious, known problem with the specific Purina food he
is eating.

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