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Cat Forum / General Topics / April 2004running out of cat food choices
Hi everyone I have three adult cats and they seem to be getting sick of eating the regular wet brand canned cat food. I don't blame them, its like a big blob of paste. I know that they will eat the shredded beef & chicken types- Fancy Feast offers a shredded chicken but unfortunately I'll go broke feeding three cats two cans each a day of that stuff (plus they are such small cans) Can anyone recommend a brand of cat food that has the shredded meat flavors so I can stop feeding them paste? I love my cats but they are so finicky! its so gross seeing this paste sit around for an hour and get crusty! ugh! Thank you Kathryn C > Hi everyone > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Kathryn C Have you tried some dry? Neutro salmon is liked by my kitties. I mix it with Science Diet and Authority. I couldn't feed my 7 canned food every day. I'd be broke before next payday. How about rotating wet then dry? LT "Linda Terrell" <lindat5@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:epxRkhlUwRo0-pn2-FVRTfZR5WjdC@dialup-67.31.205.160.Dial1.Tampa1.Level3. net... > > Hi everyone > > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > LT I was going to suggest the same thing. My cats have gotten so sick of the tinned wet food as well and I've tried just about all brands and all styles. The only brand they ever really liked was Friskies, but it has to be the ground - they won't touch shredded or chunky. Then they stopped eating the wet food altogether. I WAS leaving dry out for them all day and splitting a can between each cat every morning and night, but I was tossing out more food than they were consuming so I just stopped feeding them the wet. Now as a treat I'll give them a can of wet food every three to four days and it gets devoured. It saved my pocketbook, saved my sanity, it helps to starve the ant colonies living in my house AND the cats are still fat and happy. kili >"Linda Terrell" <lindat5@mindspring.com> wrote in message >news:epxRkhlUwRo0-pn2-FVRTfZR5WjdC@dialup-67.31.205.160.Dial1.Tampa1.Level3. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >gets devoured. It saved my pocketbook, saved my sanity, it helps to starve >the ant colonies living in my house AND the cats are still fat and happy. I have a dozen cats - they like the two Walmart house brands (Special Kitty - two flavors) of dry food. I rotate them: 20 pounds of one then twenty pounds of the other. Like you, I give canned food every few days as a treat, but not all the cats are even interested, especially now that hunting season has returned (mostly frogs at the moment, but a couple of the cats are eating little else). I also give them a bowl of half milk - half cream most days (most of the cats love it and it doesn't give them the runs like plain milk often does). Only two are obese, and they were that way when I took them in - two or three are perhaps a bit heavy for their sizes, but about the same number are under weight but healthy. Spooky finally - after about eleven years - started putting on a bit of weight, enough that I have taken him out of the skinny category. T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) SPAM filter: Messages to this address *must* contain "T.E.D." somewhere in the body or they will be automatically rejected. My three cats have a bowl of Chicken Soup and a bowl of Nutro Natural Choice always availiable. They also get a can of Purina Pro Plan each twice a day and sometimes three times a day if they beg hard enoough. It gets kind of expensive. The canned food alone costs about $100.00 a month, but it's the only kind they will eat other than Fancy Feast which isn't as good and costs nearly the same. Thank you for the advice everyone I've tried the dry food (Deli Cat, Friskies Senior, Whiskas) and they do pick at it but they won't eat it as a full meal. So finicky!!! Right now they seem to be eating Friskies shredded chicken -wet can but who knows how long this will last! :-) Cheers, KC > Thank you for the advice everyone > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > KC Don't feed it to them every day or they won't eat it! kili At the cost of canned food fed this often you could be feeding them real chicken which is better for them... How about a quality dry cat food such as Eukanuba? Might take a while to get them used to it, but it's worth it.
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