Cats Suddenly Picky About Food

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"noone" wrote:

But even so, if it came to who "wins," ultimately I would; all I'd have
to
do is shut them up in the shed outdoors and confine them to that;
there's
nothing there they can destroy and I wouldn't hear their constant
meowing.
They'd have the water & food they need, with the option of eating or
dying.

So how successful would THAT guerilla warfare be, I ask?

And then someone reports you to animal welfare.


And there are much, much worse things than that in store for those
who abuse creatures weaker than they who depend on them. There
are natural laws that govern such things, and they are much more
powerfully enforced than any man-made laws. G All in good
time, alllllll in good time. There is justice in the natural order of
things, it is just sometimes hard to prove cause and effect.

The measure of a man is how he treats his pets.
Some man you are.

Oh, and please don't have children.



"noone" wrote

...all I'd have to do is shut them up in the shed outdoors and confine them
to that; there's nothing there they can destroy and I wouldn't hear their
constant meowing.

"~Echo~" wrote in message
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The measure of a man is how he treats his pets.
Some man you are.

Oh, and please don't have children.


A big "meeee toooo" to that! But I bet she already has.

For what it is worth, I am noticing that they are eating the hard food. They
eat it in far less amounts than before, which indicates they're sort of
"picking" at it like they're eating enough to maintain but not eating the
normal amounts--as if they're "holding out" until the "real thing" in their
mind (the soft food) arrives, which it won't. But they ARE eating it.

I did, in fact, read at one website (cat professor?) that it was best to
give a cat hard food, and that in fact if you ever gave them soft food
they'd get picky on you. Sure enough. So I guess I learned my lesson.

Again, I do NOT hate the cats, I don't have any meanness intentions at all,
don't have any intent to starve them, don't have any intents to shut them up
in a cat carreir outside (just saying that I COULD do it if they made life
in the house hard enough, which they haven't by a long shot). I just want
things back the way they used to be, when they ate the hard stuff and didn't
complain. To me it's no different than (say) spoiling a child by giving it
cake & ice cream for dinner because it's "what it likes and I love them"
only to have them, what else would you expect?, complain and "pick at" the
food when you return to meat & potatoes.

And again, if I could simply give them soft food as an occasional "treat,"
something like (say) one can for each cat every three days or so, and it
didn't contribute to their pickiness then I would have NO problem doing
that. But given that I've read enough at other places that say hard food is
just fine for them, then I figure what's good enough for other cats is good
enough for mine. Doesn't mean I don't love them and want them to do well, I
just don't have any intent on "spoiling" them. Loving them, letting them
suck on my housecoat when I'm at the computer trying to type, no
problem--heck, that's cute even. But they don't walk on water, either,
that's all I'm saying.

Thanks for the tips.

noone wrote:

: For what it is worth, I am noticing that they are eating the
: hard food...

Actually canned food is better for their health. At Petsmart, good
quality 5.5 oz cans (~1 can per cat per day) are about 50c, cheaper
ones 30c. If you cannot afford even that, give them 1/2 dry and 1/2
canned. You will have to experiment whether it works best to give both
kind of food every meal, or morning dry and evening canned, or
something else.

Cats are by nature independent and picky. They depend on you for food
and it is not too much to ask if they show preference for one kind, the
kind they instinctively know to be better for them (because it has more
protein which they need and less grains which their body can't use).

If you too got nothing but pretzels all your life you'd be used to them
until one day you tasted what your body told you was real food.

They are just being cats: their little bodies know they need proteins,
not grains. If that is too much for you, find them another loving home
and get a dog instead. Dogs are more obedient, and also able to digest
grains, so they can and will eat what you give them.