On 12/30/2011 5:15 PM, Lesley wrote:
On Dec 30, 2:29 pm, wrote:

There are chapters and chapters I could write about the very distinctive
digestive tract of cats that would further prove the necessity of a
canned food diet,

Or I could just point out my recent experience- when I had Dunzi and
Sarsi they'd get 3-4 pouches of wet food a day then quality dry to
free feed from. Did well on it

Then we got Bonnie..now she's a polite ladylike girl and once she got
over her initial shyness a very friendly one but there is one issue
she stamps her dainty little paw down on and that is her food- she has
a healthy appetite to put it mildly but she point blank refused to eat
kitten food wet or dry so we were forced to try the same diet we did
with Dunzi and Sarsi (Issi and Gaz never got special kitten food and
did well enough despite it) but that dainty little pink nose went
striaght up in the air when faced with dry food! And it soon became
obious Dunzi was the one who liked dry- Sarsi liked a little but that
was it

So now it's easier to put down 5-6 pouches of wet a day for both of
them- I have a small bag of IAMS and Sarsi likes a couple of pieces as
an occasional treat but literally a couple at this rate the smallest
bag will last half a year at least- I give them to her when she's been
good (At this moment the rate she's being good it will last a decade
or more)

The only problem we;ve had was when Felix "As Good as it Looks" went
onto special offer- this is a rather expensive pouched wet food that
we would normally only feed occasionally but after a few days of
feeding it every meal Sarsi was having loose poops that didn't smell
very nice at all so we switched back to the ordinary with some of the
good stuff now and again and her stomach settled down within 24-48
hours so maybe it was a bit rich

And they both look magnificent! Sarsi's always had a harsh thinnish
coat, which we put down to genetics- no she now boasts a longish silky
sleek coat and Bonnie's a picture of glowing health as well

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Yeah, that's the biggest difference you'll see when they're switched to
canned - their coats get very luxurious.

Health-wise there's even been cases where diabetes was "cured" by
switching to a canned diet. I know there is no cure for diabetes, so I
have to assume it might not have been "true" diabetes, but all symptoms
went away and all medications were able to be stopped, so there's really
no difference. Cats are just not "built" to process carbohydrates.

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