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Cat Forum / General Topics / June 2003Cat not eating
I had Tommy inside all night and gave him his favourite canned food in the evening. He nibbled away at it all night so by the morning half of what he usually eats was gone. But this strange cat still tried to get me up all night asking for food. So I carried him to the full bowl several times and had to stand there watch him eat. Is he being a teenager now and playing up? Or is it just habit? Before last night he'd usually get me up in the morning, and I fed him. But one would think he knows if there's food or not... <a cat's mind>... I wonder is it better to feed the cat in the evening to avoid getting nibbled at in the morning? P.S. Tom loves jelly in his canned food, the neighbour's cats hate it. What about your cats? Carola If you leave canned food out all night you are letting your cat eat spoiled food. Treat canned food the way you treat your own food -- ever had food poisoning? Common sense should be applied here. I leave a small amount of kibble out at night for my cat. Daylight saving's time threw her off schedule. I am sure your pet is still on stomach time too. A "taste" of jelly wouldn't hurt, bit it is just sugat -- cat doesn't need it at all. MLB > I had Tommy inside all night and gave him his favourite canned food in the > evening. He nibbled away at it all night so by the morning half of what he [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Carola | If you leave canned food out all night you are letting your cat eat spoiled food. Treat canned food | the way you treat your own food -- ever had food poisoning? Common sense should be applied here. I | leave a small amount of kibble out at night for my cat. Daylight saving's time threw her off | schedule. I am sure your pet is still on stomach time too. A "taste" of jelly wouldn't hurt, bit it | is just sugat -- cat doesn't need it at all. MLB Sorry, I might have got the wrong word here (I'm not an English native speaker). I mean the stuff canned food comes in that looks like jelly, it's not sugary at all. Here we have the choice of three types of canned food: 'jellied' (or whatever), 'in sauce', and 'terrine' which is like p?t?. Tom likes 'jelly' best. Carola Canned cat food is NOT to be left out. After 15 minutes, it begins to spoil. Of course cats are going to be "picky" about it. Leave dry food out at nite. Give canned, only what they will eat at *that* meal, and toss anything else. Doesn't take a cat more than 10 minutes to eat, then the person has to get off their duff and put the food away, not leave it sitting out to spoil. Leftover in the can should be refrigerated immediately. > I had Tommy inside all night and gave him his favourite canned food in the > evening. He nibbled away at it all night so by the morning half of what he [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Carola > Canned cat food is NOT to be left out. > After 15 minutes, it begins to spoil. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Leftover in the can should be refrigerated immediately. My cats would never eat anything that had been refrigerated... and yet they will eat mice...ewwww. I feed the kittens some canned food now. I feed them all at the same time but mom always finishes first then tries to eat the others. I hold her off until the kittens seem to be done, then she becomes my refrigerator. :-) Problem solved and no waste. Just a mommy kitty getting perhaps a tad too much food. :-) AG The above poster is right. Cats will only eat fresh food (remember they are hunters they like their meat bleeding). With the weather as hot as it is cat food will spoil very quickly. You need to use refrigerate it then let it sit for a few minutes before you serve so the food is at room temperature. Secondly serve smaller portions. You can give your cat more kibble (the hard cat food) so that the cat isnt hungry to make up for it. Also remember to wash your dishes, food poisoning can be lethal. > Canned cat food is NOT to be left out. > After 15 minutes, it begins to spoil. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > > > Carola <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Also remember to wash your dishes, food poisoning can be <br>lethal. <br> <br> </blockquote> I feed my cats caned food on paper plates. It may be more expensive <br>but it sure beats trying to wash the dried crusty bits off the regular plates. <br>And, yes, I put the food on plates, not bowls. It is harder for them to <br>reach into a bowl to eat their food. The only thing that goes in the bowl <br>is the water and I make sure the level is almost to the top and I change <br>the water out about every other day. <p>Steve <br> <p>-- <br>To Reply take out the NO NO's <br> </html
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