Cat food questions - merged

Paparika

Don't know if this is the same for cats and dogs...

When I took my dog to be castrated yesterday, the nurse told me about what i should be feeding him now, (6 months now)

once neutered/castrated they should be on grown-up food, to do with hormones changing etc, can't remember the words she said but it did all make sense, whilst my dog is still a pup he now needs to move on to dog food.

I have a mountain of puppy food tho, but she agreed that mix that with dog food will be fine.

rita-rabbit

if it doesn't like kibble there is no way it will eat it, so don't worry

not true: I had a rescue cat from approx 9months & he would only eat wet food. So I bought some cat treats & hand fed him those. He associated anything hand fed as a treat so I then moved onto hand feeding him dry food & he's happily eating it from the bowl shortly after that

rita-rabbit

99% of time cheapest to buy pet supplies online

rita-rabbit

£ for pound own brand or whiskas or most of supermarket sold dried food is overpriced & not of good quality. Better quality food makes for healthier cats in the long run & less need for vets fees. Try:

Burns
James Wellbeloved
Royal Canine

moggylover

just_thrifty wrote: »

Hi, it would be better to feed your kitten with kitten food because they are growing so quickly and need a lot more nutrients than an adult cat. Just giving it small, regular meals is good too, 3-4 times a day. We feed our cats dried food- they like Hills Science Diet, which you can get for kittens too. Our vet recommended it because he said that lots of cats who eat canned food get kidney problems later in life because there's so much salt in the canned stuff.
Hope this helps. It's trial and error sometimes till you find what they like!!

Pop into your vet's, they always have leaflets with the sort of info your looking for.

I would have to say, that over many years I have seen far more kidney probs in cats fed on dry food - they just are not designed to eat dry food and drink lots of water.

In the wild, cats do not drink a great deal of water - the food they catch contains liquid - and that provides most of their needs. Have spent about 40 years in animal care and rescue - and I ONLY ever use dry food mixed with wet - as you would for a dog. Have also lost all faith in a lot of the advice given by vets now that they have a vested interest in selling "high end" processed foods.

Actually, the best food we can feed cats is scraps (and dogs for that matter) and mine often have rice mixed with boiled chicken (only buy loads of bones cheap from a local butcher - and clean the meat off once cooled) and add some veg - mine like carrots and cabbage. Also can get bags of chicken offal from same butcher - and this mixed in as well - all cut up fine and then cooked (no seasoning) and left to cool. I like to add a little aspic jelly to the liquid whilst cooking - which makes the liquid into a jelly gravy. I have also done this with lamb and beef bones - but find it harder to get ones with much meat on them. They also get some of the bits I cannot face cooking for us (:eek: ) like ox cheek and tongue _pale_ when I buy half a pig, a lamb or half a bullock (you just try carrying that in the house - even jointed and in boxes:rotfl: ) Large stuff gets minced up in an old mincer from a boot fair - and then cooked up as above.

On a tight budget and this costs very little (they also like it with some mashed, unsalted, potato).

Also, with regard to making sure food down all the time - ONLY if your cat is not overweight. Contrary to popular myth that cats will only eat what they need - there are plenty of Garfields out there:rotfl: .

gizmo18_2

hi i am looking for some james wellbeloved cat food but not sure where is cheapest to buy from? also cheapest seems to be to buy a 10kg bag but are these resealable? thanx

rita-rabbit

True some cats are very greedy. If you observe & pet your cats regularly you will see when/if they are not well & ocassionally (once or twice a week)feed them wet food I think their kidneys will be fine. In fact the odd tin of human type food like sardines now & again is good. I plan to buy a water fountain to encourage my 2 to drink more - when I get a bit more flush. Oh & I give them a bit of cooked chicken (no bones) & cheese sometimes too.

chookster

Hi

My cats love waitrose own brand cat food chunks in jelly, i used to buy felix cat food, when its on offer, as now its about 54p a tin, Waitrose own brand catfood is only 35p a tin, my cats are very fussy but they tuck in and really like it. I only go to waitrose for my catfood and to get stuff on offer as its close to where i live. Last year there was also 20% of there own brand cat food so made it only 26p a tin will let you know if this happens again.

I am going to a cat protection open day on sunday and will take some with me for the little foundlings, they might not have tried it.

roddydogs

Yup, but ASDA and Tesco OB is only 34p, Plus clubcard points?deals with Tesco. My !!!!! prefers the gravy ones

Pete268

Your both very lucky.

My little puss Tally will now only eat Whiskas 'Oh So Fishy' and 'Oh So Meaty' sachets at circa £4.15 per box of 12 sachets. I bought her some about 6 months ago when it was on a BOGOF offer and she turns her nose up at anything else now (refuses to eat it and tucks into her biscuits instead).

I might try her on the Waitrose stuff as that is about the only cat food I haven't tried yet!!

Pete