feeding 2 spoiled cats

"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].
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doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
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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

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

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

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

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.

wrote:
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.

The key is to look at the first 5 ingredients listed in the label. If
most of those are meat (excluding of course the liquid that is the #1 or
2 ingredient in all canned foods), then I'm ok with it. For Proplan
chicken and rice they list: water, chicken, wheat gluten, liver, meat
by-products. Normally, I avoid by-products and any food with grains in
the top 3 ingredients, but they love it, so I gave in. We do feed them a
large can of Innova light (less phosphorous and about the same protein %
as the regular one) first and wait until they finish that before we
serve the "yummy" food. Kinda like with kids, who first have to eat
their veggies and after that they get dessert.
Also for dry food they get a mix of Innova, Felidae, and Science diet
oral health (large kibble that's supposed to be good for tartar
control), so we know they're getting a good nutrition.

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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

"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

"Seanette Blaylock" wrote in
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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.

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