Hey all -
A quick question to all of you.
I adopted my 3 1/2 year old cat from a local shelter, and when I got her she
was really rather under weight (she's only about 6 pounds, and is long
haired...). She stopped eating when she went into the shelter, and was
there for over 6 months before I brought her home with me.
she picked at her food for a good two weeks before she felt comfortable
enough to eat.
to help her gain weight I started giving her wet food (Whiskas.. she hates
Friskies.. why? I don't, but she does) and mixing in some science diet to
keep her teeth happy and healthy. well, she has definitely showed in my 3
months of owning her, that she does not like beef or poultry flavored foods,
and generally will not do more than lick off the gravy and leave the meat
chunks (tried cutting them up.. no dice there either..) she eats her
seafood flavored food up like no other.
what it comes down to is the following: can I feed her just seafood food?
will she get all her nutrients and vitamins she needs from that? or do I
need to keep giving her beef/poultry so she can stare at it?
or will alternating science diet dry food with the wet food do it?
please help! because she's still skinny, and I want to make sure I'm doing
the right thing for her!
Thanks!
whayface - 04 Oct 2005 13:53 GMT
>Hey all -
>A quick question to all of you.
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>Thanks!
We have six completely indoors and we have dry always available for them mixed half and
half with Friskies dental dry then ine the AM and PM we give the 2 that live with my ex
Sheba seafood flavored moist which is all they will eat. Once in a while we give them the
moist Fancy Feast aspic or fish and shrimp during the day if they eat all their AM Sheba.
My 4 get the same dry mix but 1 just eats dry, 2 prefer Fancy Feast turkey feast and / or
chicken feast then the other prefers Fancy Feast fish and shrimp or the aspic.
Once in a while I will give them a can of 9 Lives or something moist but they take a
couple bites and look at me like "What is this???" and leave it.
The vet says that the thing about fish being bad for cats is not true if it is canned fish
cat food. The ones that eat canned fish have been eating it since we got them with no
trouble. I even give mine human canned tuna once a month as a treat. A small can for the
four.
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Dr.Carla,DVM - 05 Oct 2005 04:14 GMT
Right about the seafood cat food. Reputable cat foods will contain all the
essential nutrients that cats need. Feeding a cat only canned tuna fish
packaged for human consumption is deadly because it does not contain the
essential nutrients a cat needs.
>>Hey all -
>>A quick question to all of you.
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No More Retail - 05 Oct 2005 04:04 GMT
Mine can't eat the beef for some reason it makes them sick