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"LynC" had some very interesting things to say
about feeding 2 spoiled cats: I feel badly if I don't give the canned food to them but again, I just throw it out the next morning. Is it possible to completely give up canned food and is that okay? For quite a few years, Felix didn't get canned [I was under the mistaken impression he didn't like it] and stayed quite healthy, except for one instance of FUS about a year after we got him [I switched his dry food and he's been fine since]. -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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"LynC" had some very interesting things to say
about feeding 2 spoiled cats: Thanks for replies. I have the plastic lid containers and have recently started to give both cats only a quarter of the canned food and they still don't eat it. They only lick up the gravy and then want dry food. They are a creature of habit and beg and claw at my legs for the canned food and then turn their noses up. Happens every single night. Maybe try the type that's more mush, not chunks in gravy. Felix did the exact same thing to the "chunks in gravy" type but eats mush-type quite enthusiastically. [Are you sure there aren't maybe dental problems in play?] -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about feeding 2 spoiled cats: Wet food is better than dry food, but they will survive on a dry diet. However, you might want to try different foods, some cats get bored with a particular flavor or texture. Our cats go bonkers for the new Proplan cans, particularly the "and rice" flavors. Available at Petsmart. OTOH, some cats throw fits about trying to change their dry food. We tried switching Felix to a different type of the same brand, and the little stinker went on a hunger strike! When his worried slaves caved and bought him his usual dry diet, he was trying to climb into the bag as soon as it was opened and gobbling it down as soon as he could reach some. -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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Ted Davis wrote:
If they are overweight and not eating something, it could be because they are overfed. You know, this is a thought. Do your cats go outside? If so, I wonder if they are getting food from someone else as well. They could be begging for food at night because that ritual is part of their nightly habit. But then when they get it, they're not hungry enough to eat it. Well, that's my theory, which of course is worth nothing if they're indoor-only cats! Joyce |
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Fat Freddy wrote:
Our cats go bonkers for the new Proplan cans, particularly the "and rice" flavors. Ours also. They love the ProPlan "Salmon and Rice" and Chicken and Rice".They don't care too much for the ones with liver. They eat about half of it and pester me until I give them the Salmon or Chicken. I wish it came in larger cans. Those little cans get expensive. Hmm... I've always avoided buying the "...and rice" flavors because I figure that if the actual *name* of the flavor has a grain in it, it's going to have even more grain than flavors that are just called "beef" "chicken" or some other meat. And I've always thought that too much non-meat food in a cat's diet wasn't nourishing enough for them. Am I wrong about this? I'd like to try some new flavors on them so it would be nice if the ones with rice added are actually OK to give them. Joyce |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:28:06 -0800, Seanette Blaylock wrote
(in article ): Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to say about feeding 2 spoiled cats: Wet food is better than dry food, but they will survive on a dry diet. However, you might want to try different foods, some cats get bored with a particular flavor or texture. Our cats go bonkers for the new Proplan cans, particularly the "and rice" flavors. Available at Petsmart. OTOH, some cats throw fits about trying to change their dry food. We tried switching Felix to a different type of the same brand, and the little stinker went on a hunger strike! When his worried slaves caved and bought him his usual dry diet, he was trying to climb into the bag as soon as it was opened and gobbling it down as soon as he could reach some. I was really afraid of that with Maya, I had all kinds of visions of Maya not only refusing to eat and telling me how dare I serve her this slop. Not all of that was fantasy either. I tried a lot of different canned food and she could go toe to toe with some of the later French Monarchs when it comes to haughtiness. I had no idea that cats would actually stick their noses up in the air and sigh in disdain. I bought Hill's Science Diet Nature's Best and she attacked the bag when I brought it in trying to paw her way into it. That stuff must taste great to cats. Matthew, Bruiser's little friend stops by to eat all the time and Paul his person told me he works in a store and brings home shrimp, chicken, fish and other things for him. The cat eats better than I do. I did suggest to him that maybe he should have some dry food for him because maybe he was missing some vitamins from that tasty diet. |
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I've answered this once but then I remembered a funny thing when my son
first started work. He told me he really LOVED peanut butter sandwiches so I plied him with them day after day! untill one day he said, " Mum I know I said I loved Peanut butter but I didn't mean day, after day ,after day," and I thought I was doing him a favour LOL well we all make mistakes! Jean.P. Seanette Blaylock wrote in message ... Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to say about feeding 2 spoiled cats: Wet food is better than dry food, but they will survive on a dry diet. However, you might want to try different foods, some cats get bored with a particular flavor or texture. Our cats go bonkers for the new Proplan cans, particularly the "and rice" flavors. Available at Petsmart. OTOH, some cats throw fits about trying to change their dry food. We tried switching Felix to a different type of the same brand, and the little stinker went on a hunger strike! When his worried slaves caved and bought him his usual dry diet, he was trying to climb into the bag as soon as it was opened and gobbling it down as soon as he could reach some. -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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"Yowie" had some very interesting
things to say about feeding 2 spoiled cats: (Oh, and Shmogg must have loaf style food *only*. None of this "mince" or "in gravy" for him, no siree) By "loaf style", do you mean the mushy type? That's the only type Felix will touch. If it has chunks in it, he'll lick everything off said chunks and leave them in the bowl. -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL |
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"Seanette Blaylock" wrote in
message ... "Yowie" had some very interesting things to say about feeding 2 spoiled cats: (Oh, and Shmogg must have loaf style food *only*. None of this "mince" or "in gravy" for him, no siree) By "loaf style", do you mean the mushy type? That's the only type Felix will touch. If it has chunks in it, he'll lick everything off said chunks and leave them in the bowl. Hmm, describing he texture of catfood.... By "loaf" I mean it can come out of the can whole if thats what you wanted it to do - it holds its shape. The other two varieties we have here are "in gravy" which has approximately 1cm cubed chunky bits in lot sauce, and "mince" style which is smaller chunks with not so much sauce between the chunks, but it still it won't hold its shape. Shmogg licks of the sauce so fast, he barfs, and then won't touch up the remaining chunks, but still meows because he's got an empty tummy. "Loaf" style is the only sort that stays down and/or doesn't get fed to the dog. (Fluffy just looooves cat food, whether its ben pre-digested by Shmogg or not, *sigh*) Yowie |
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