On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:02:00 +0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Mack A. Damia mybaconbutty hotmail.com wrote:

John Doe jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote:
Mack A. Damia mybaconbutty hotmail.com wrote:

they both love the Fancy Feast wet food...they have not been
touching the dry food so much and just eating the wet

That's because of how you have fed them.

Nothing wrong with wet food. Whenever I need to give them
medicine, I use Fancy Feast wet. Doing that today. But I know it
causes tooth rot, just like sweet food does to our teeth (some
of you might not notice). So I followed their (medicated) Fancy
Feast with some Purina Veterinary Diet Dental Health DH. If I
were feeding wet food, I would follow each meal with a small
amount of that DH dry food.

The Purina DH is very expensive, but probably cheaper than the
same amount of small packaged treats meant to control tartar
buildup. And the DH is probably healthier than the small
packaged dental health treats.

I guess you know that they do not like change,

That is for sure. It's the smell and the taste. You have to
introduce it gradually.

and I am too soft with them. The younger of the two seems to
eat anything, but the older is very fussy. I would feel guilty
changing their diets. They are both still young cats - 3-1/2
and 2-1/2, so I do wonder about health problems as they age. I
live in Mexico, and there seems to be a vet on every corner.
The stores do not have much variety of food, and I mentioned
about the Mexican-canned Fancy Feast. I stock up with several
months-worth of food when I go to California.

Can you buy food online? I guess not. You have probably thought of
this already, but... You might be able to order some stuff online
and have it sent to the California address. Might have credit card
address verification problems with that. I'm sure you can track
orders online, so you will know exactly when it gets there.

Good luck.

I thought of the mail thing a while ago. I have a post office box in
San Diego, and I have a local courier service pick up my mail three
times a week and bring it to their office in Ensenada, Baja, where I
pick it up.

Packages and parcels can be a problem, and I decided to try to work
around doing that.

But I wouldn't know what to try; I mean, my thinking is that I feed
them well now, but I read all your messages about cat food and wonder.

I mentioned earlier that most cats in Mexico live on rice and beans!

Our family has had cats all my life, and we really haven't had any
problems with diet - except a beautiful male Himmilayan with a
pedigree that I found in Pennsylvania in the early 1990s. He must
have been at least four when I found him as a stray and discovered by
accident that he had a pedigree and had been used for breeding, then
given away to somebody who was careless with him and let him roam in
the dead of winter.

Actually, my parents kept him as I could not, and they sometimes fed
him people food from the table. Also, no special cat food. He lived
another five years and developed a urinary tract blockage from which
he died after surgery, but the vet told us that the breed is very
susceptible to blockages due to improper diet, and my parents (or I)
did not know anything about it. We think he was about ten or eleven
years old when he died. Sir Percy Cat.

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