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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
My two house-mates (Pete and Fred) gained too much when I tried using
one of those feeders they seem to be nibbling all day long so I decided to purchase a seven-day auto feeder a few months ago, set to open twice a day at 6am and 5pm with heaping 1/3 of a cup serving at each serving, they've lost some much needed weight but now I'm concerned I'm not giving them enough to maintain a good heathy weight especially since they are purely house cats but they usually clean the serving dish between feedings- but not always. They have always ate Chicken Soup for the Cat but I recently switched to the Lite version and both have always seemed to have thrived on CSFTCLS with beautiful clear eyes, shiny coats, clean and gums and very playful. The bag instructions as usual are vague but better then most companies..they recommend 1/3 to 2/3's of a cup "per day per cat", if I go by that and I'm only feding them 2/3's total am I slowly starving my boys--I'd rather they be fat and lazy then to hurt them in any way-- I'm concerned. Pete and Fred are currently at 9-10 pounds @ 2 1/2 yo they seem to be getting close to ideal for their bigger size. |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
If you really want your cats to be healthy, don't be so lazy and feed
them a good quality canned food twice a day. If you continue to feed them dry you are asking for urinary problems in the future. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
Not to mention that dry food has way more calories than canned food.
S. -- **Visit me and my cats at http://www.island-cats.com/ ** --- "---MIKE---" wrote in message ... If you really want your cats to be healthy, don't be so lazy and feed them a good quality canned food twice a day. If you continue to feed them dry you are asking for urinary problems in the future. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
On Jul 27, 1:04*pm, (---MIKE---) wrote:
If you really want your cats to be healthy, don't be so lazy and feed them a good quality canned food twice a day. * * * * * * * * * * ---MIKE---In the White Mountains of New Hampshire * (44° 15' *N - Elevation 1580') You started out calling me lazy Then tried to change the diet but I had requested help for dry food? ..is that typical of someone living on a little mole hill @1580 feet in NH? BTW, many years ago in this very group I'd read what seems like thousand's of articles on this dry vs canned..I desided to go with high quality rich dry food. If your so set on your *assumptions..start another threat listing totally unbiased results favoring both and let us me the desisions or are you too lazy? columbia river 430 ft in wa,st |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
"mystro" wrote in message ... My two house-mates (Pete and Fred) gained too much when I tried using one of those feeders they seem to be nibbling all day long so I decided to purchase a seven-day auto feeder a few months ago, set to open twice a day at 6am and 5pm with heaping 1/3 of a cup serving at each serving, they've lost some much needed weight but now I'm concerned I'm not giving them enough to maintain a good heathy weight especially since they are purely house cats but they usually clean the serving dish between feedings- but not always. They have always ate Chicken Soup for the Cat but I recently switched to the Lite version and both have always seemed to have thrived on CSFTCLS with beautiful clear eyes, shiny coats, clean and gums and very playful. The bag instructions as usual are vague but better then most companies..they recommend 1/3 to 2/3's of a cup "per day per cat", if I go by that and I'm only feding them 2/3's total am I slowly starving my boys--I'd rather they be fat and lazy then to hurt them in any way-- I'm concerned. Pete and Fred are currently at 9-10 pounds @ 2 1/2 yo they seem to be getting close to ideal for their bigger size. Get them off dry and you won't believe the difference in their eyes, coat, and behavior. The only reason to feed dry is because you value convenience and economy over your cats' health. |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
On Jul 27, 3:09*pm, "blkcatgal" wrote:
Not to mention that dry food has way more calories than canned food. S. Some do and some don't..it way too much of a generalization. I didn't ask my question to open a discussion on dry vs can it's been done adnausium..I'm was simply asking for help from people who don't have an agenda...sorry From those who are interested here's a link of ingredients http://www.chickensoupforthepetlover...s/ingredients/ |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
"mystro" wrote in message ... On Jul 27, 3:09 pm, "blkcatgal" wrote: Not to mention that dry food has way more calories than canned food. S. Some do and some don't..it way too much of a generalization. I didn't ask my question to open a discussion on dry vs can it's been done adnausium..I'm was simply asking for help from people who don't have an agenda...sorry The agenda for cat lovers is the welfare of the cat. You can't even be bothered to dump dry into a dish twice a day, so my advice to you is to give them to someone who gives a ****. |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
"mystro" wrote in message ... On Jul 27, 1:04 pm, (---MIKE---) wrote: If you really want your cats to be healthy, don't be so lazy and feed them a good quality canned food twice a day. ---MIKE---In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') You started out calling me lazy Then tried to change the diet but I had requested help for dry food? I would love to see someone help your cats out of your household. You're a flaming ****ing cat-abusing moron. Buh bye. |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
"blkcatgal" wrote in message ... Not to mention that dry food has way more calories than canned food. S. -- **Visit me and my cats at http://www.island-cats.com/ ** --- "---MIKE---" wrote in message ... If you really want your cats to be healthy, don't be so lazy and feed them a good quality canned food twice a day. If you continue to feed them dry you are asking for urinary problems in the future. I killfiled the ****head. Can you imagine anyone so goddamned lazy they cannot dump DRY food into a bowl? Jesus. The poor cats. |
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2 Cats Daily Dry-Food twice-a-day's amounts?
"cybercat" wrote
Can you imagine anyone so goddamned lazy they cannot dump DRY food into a bowl? Jesus. The poor cats. Well, I have dryfeed munchies here and sometimes I forget to refill the bowl. Keep in mind Daisy has wet food twice a day so this is a small side noshe with eukanaba dry. I keep a 1/4 or so cup in there and it normally takes her about 4 days to eat that up. A sort of 'munchies' attack like we might get. |
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