*** Hi Mary,

I fed my 19 1/2 year old (dear Blue) Fancy Feast (and other supplementary
foods, his absolute fav was fried chicken breast) for @ the last 12 years of
his life. That's the only* wet he would almost always eat, guaranteed.
Toward the last 6 weeks of his life, he would only eat deli turkey, chicken
breast, roast beef and ham. I gave him a liquid vitamin each day to try to
boost his nutritional needs.

I do think F.F. as gotten a bum rap. Blue was always an extremely picky
eater and would never touch Hills Science and none of the other so-called
much better 'healthy' foods, try as I might.

I also fed him "Nines Lives" from the time he was a baby. Which at that
time, in the mid eighties, was about the only kind of wet food on the market
other than the reeeally junkie 'Cozy Kitten' (shrieeek! :-) brand. I also
fed Blue dry food (Whiskers was the only dry food he liked, other than
occasional 'hair-ball' kinds).

For me, the bottom line was to always keep him eating and like a devoted
nurse,  I would constantly offer him all kinds of foods every couple of
hours to keep his appetite stimulated. Perhaps I was just plain lucky by his
long longevity in feeding him all the so-called 'bad' foods, but as long as
he was healthy, happy and eating, I was satisfied and content.

ML