New kitten....questions & advice (merged)

Buttonmoons

I would of thought female cats would of been more prone to urinary infections like humans, because the urethra is shorter, hence bacteria can thrive and get into the bladder easier/quicker?

rita-rabbit

UKTigerlily wrote: »

I posted a link about dried/wet food but idk if anyone read it, was interesting. Said wet is closer to what they'd eat in the wild, high moisture & protein & low carb content & dry cvan have quite abit of sugar in it & be bad for the teeth, also something about it doesn't help teeth that much as it doesn't get to where it needs to be to clean the plaque off. I definitely believe wet to be much better for them, I too can't feed dried because mine's had Cystitis & the Vet said it's more of a problem to sort that than teeth if teeth needed to be & Cats on dried have just as bad teeth.

It's horrible when they get Cystitis & worse for males I think. Mine's been clear for two years since being on wet only & I hope she stays that way.

http://www.naturalmatters.net/article-view.asp?article=621 I think this was the link, it might've been another one, was quite interesting.

most wet food is full of rubbish including sugar.:mad: The best wet food is live catch, followed by raw. The prepared stuff sold is full of `stuff', do the wet food supporters all cook for their cats or does no-one read the ingredients... meat derivatives of 4% et al:eek:

Buttonmoons

Can you feed a cat raw chicken? My cat won't eat ANY cooked meats, but is always trying to steal chicken defrosting on the kitchen counters.

UKTigerlily

People will feed what they like whether dry or wet & it's down to individual preference as to which. There's nothing wrong with wet, alot of dry is filled with sugar too. I don't feed 4% meat & there's no reason anyone else has to either. I'm sure you can get good & bad of wet & dried. Reading that article & since googling it makes sense to me, I bet tho any Vet would say they've had Cats fed on all sorts of foods wet/dry/premium/cheap living to 15 & some on great food with bad teeth & all in between!

Buttonmoons

My nana is cat mad, she has 7 cats currently. Her last 2 cats lived to 16 and 19, one died because it chewed the carpet and it ripped its tongue open and bled out.....

The other one ate bleach. Barmy cats.

Her cats right now, the oldest is 13, and she feeds them on Co-ops wet food and whatever dry is on offer, but she gives them all fresh fish a couple of times a week (probs why they are fat) I don't think it would make a significant difference if they are fed on top quality dry or 4% wet, maybe make their teeth better and a shinier coat, but every cat I know is fed on supermarket nosh and is in perfect health.

UKTigerlily

Buttonmoons wrote: »

My nana is cat mad, she has 7 cats currently. Her last 2 cats lived to 16 and 19, one died because it chewed the carpet and it ripped its tongue open and bled out.....

The other one ate bleach. Barmy cats.

Her cats right now, the oldest is 13, and she feeds them on Co-ops wet food and whatever dry is on offer, but she gives them all fresh fish a couple of times a week (probs why they are fat) I don't think it would make a significant difference if they are fed on top quality dry or 4% wet, maybe make their teeth better and a shinier coat, but every cat I know is fed on supermarket nosh and is in perfect health.

Exactly! My Mum & Stepdad had two males that lived to be oldish, mine was 15 when he died & I *think* my Stepdad's was 16 when he died. Both were fed on wet & when my Mum met my Stepdad he was giving his the supermarket cheap range (Like the smartprice level) which had the texture of wallpaper paste & only came in original whatever that was!

Mine was on Asda Tiger until I got her aged 23 months, then up until recently she's been on Felix & Whiskas, but did have Iams many years back until I read about that testing (She was on dry Iams) She's almost 11 now & has a mix of Purely... & natures:menu & is in good health but I bet she'd have lived to be 20 on Felix/Tiger etc!

I do sometimes buy Tiger if I run out but she had teeth issues when on dry & so I dunno that dry is all that great for teeth as afaik they need to be tearing meat up & that to help their teeth (Not meat as in wet but like real meat)

Buttonmoons

Oh that supermarket own brand stuff looks awful!
Oh got his cat (which still lives at his mums) because his neighbour up the road had loads of cats, got that one, and it got bullied by all the other cats. His mum said he couldn't have it (they already had a cat called swift, which lived until 17 on whiskas, then wandered off one day, we think to die) so he kept it in the servants quarter (oooh posh) made her a bed with a hot water bottle, and his mum reluctantly bought in supermarket nosh, and he said it just plopped out the can. Ewwww. She ate it though!

I've never met a cat quite like that one, she will eat ANYTHING. One time we had her here as we were watching her for a week, and she ate OH's leftover hamburger, but not just the burger, the lettuce and the tomato too.....You'd think she was starved to death!

UKTigerlily

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Oh that supermarket own brand stuff looks awful!
Oh got his cat (which still lives at his mums) because his neighbour up the road had loads of cats, got that one, and it got bullied by all the other cats. His mum said he couldn't have it (they already had a cat called swift, which lived until 17 on whiskas, then wandered off one day, we think to die) so he kept it in the servants quarter (oooh posh) made her a bed with a hot water bottle, and his mum reluctantly bought in supermarket nosh, and he said it just plopped out the can. Ewwww. She ate it though!

I've never met a cat quite like that one, she will eat ANYTHING. One time we had her here as we were watching her for a week, and she ate OH's leftover hamburger, but not just the burger, the lettuce and the tomato too.....You'd think she was starved to death!

lol ewww I must admit mine used to be like that, once my ex OH & I decided to put down a tin of Iams (I think at the time we had it in a Quality Street/Roses type tin) & see how much she'd scoff before leaving it lol (I'm not that mean now) she kept going even when she was onviously full & struggling at which point we took it away.

Now she's not too bad, she never asks for it until the right time!

fullstop

You can tell that my kitten is a female, she is obsessed with shoes also slippers. A pair of shoes lying about and she is on then like a flash.

rita-rabbit

I don't now if you can tell if a kitten is greedy maybe just wait until the vet tells you he's become a cat & then measure his intake. Unless of course he starts to get really tubby before then!

Good luck