Bozita wet cat food

spookylukey

wannabepennypincher wrote: »

I haven't tried the tins though I got the cartons so that they fit in the bin easier. I had the turkey pate but it ended up feeding the cats at the CPL as my boys seem to have an aversion to pate type foods. Most likely as they seem to prefer moving the food from the plate to the floor and then eating it and its easier to do this with chunks :rolleyes:

Are you me?! I took my pate cartons to the local Cats Protection too and my boys also like removing the chunks from the bowl to eat on the kitchen floor :rolleyes:

lostinrates

Thanks for the opinions guys, very apprieciated.

I did used to know the calorie requirement if them...um, 80 calories per kilo bodyweight? Firefox might know I'm quite happy to assume mine have a high energy requirement. They have access to outside during dy light hours and hunt very well, and do go a fair distance (because they are so pale I can see them through the fields), they are very, very muscular and fit, and the littler one carriers very little fat, the bigger one is in what I think of as ''good condition''.

The idea of one a day was nice as it sort of seems ''neat'' for rubbish and fridge use and means I don't have to plan a head for removing from fridge for morning meal:o but tthose are very obviously very minor concerns.

Ideally, mine should have dried food, and the reason I have a hard time getting it right is that the slightly larger one has a grain intolerance. If she easts it it won't kill her, but it makes her itchy. Because she has out side access and most foods have some grain in I can't kep her entirely grain free, but grain minimising is really beneficial to her, so wet food is all she gets here. I'm not convinced she doesn't help the barn cats on the farm down the road eat their go cat sometimes though:o. In many ways I'd prefer to control her diet and keep her indoors, but I feel that on balance, with where we live and the huge impact limited over unlimited grains has then I have taken the right balance fort us.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is they DO only eat wet food at home. WhatI might do, because I don't think they'll get through two caryons a day, is feed two other sachets/small tims a day hen they are not having raw supplement. We'll see!

Its hard to get it right!

Fire_Fox

lostinrates wrote: »

Thanks for the opinions guys, very apprieciated.

I did used to know the calorie requirement if them...um, 80 calories per kilo bodyweight? Firefox might know I'm quite happy to assume mine have a high energy requirement. They have access to outside during dy light hours and hunt very well, and do go a fair distance (because they are so pale I can see them through the fields), they are very, very muscular and fit, and the littler one carriers very little fat, the bigger one is in what I think of as ''good condition''.

Its hard to get it right!

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I had to go look it up!
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm

Energy Requirements for Kittens and Adult Cats

Age kcal/kg body wt

Kittens:

10 weeks 248

20 weeks 130

30 weeks 99

40 weeks 80

Adult Cats:

Inactive 40

Active 45-65

Pregnant 99

Lactating* 123--319

I am also not a massive fan of calorie counting with my human clients, as I find simply encouraging eating meals more frequently (muscle development), smaller portions (fat loss) and making healthier choices (everyone) is easier for people to integrate into their lives.

I'm also not yet at the stage of using calories with Noah, as he hasn't yet been professionally weighed and measured. Not looking forward to cutting down on his food, as he was sick this morning having failed to get me up to feed him.

lostinrates

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I had to go look it up!
I am also not a massive fan of calorie counting with my human clients, as I find simply encouraging eating meals more frequently (muscle development), smaller portions (fat loss) and making healthier choices (everyone) is easier for people to integrate into their lives.

I'm also not yet at the stage of using calories with Noah, as he hasn't yet been professionally weighed and measured. Not looking forward to cutting down on his food, as he was sick this morning having failed to get me up to feed him.

Yikes, an over estimate from me!

I have to say, I am finding calorie counting, seriously, incredibly useful. I have really complex health issues, which saw my weight double in a very short time frame a few years ago, both from the health issues, and the medicine treating the health issues. I've tried ''everything'' in the last few years (I was very slim and fit before being ill) with my doctors' and seeing a nutritionist and we managed to get it to stablise on strict calorie control, but loss was impossible to sustain for long at all..

anyway, I recently (three weeks ago) had a med change, and seeing the calorie intake stay pretty much the same but the weight plummet is INSPIRING. I really love calorie counter because of all the charts it makes it easier to look at the problem academically rather than emotionally when there is a pie chart!:o

I think in general you're right, ''serious'' calorie counting is hard work, keeping notes etc,(unless you want to live off packeted food, which isn't for me:o) but when things are seriously awry (I think probably emotionally as well as practically-medically) its useful, or it has been for me...as much when things have been going wrong as when they are going right....having the ''evidence'' of what goes in when you thing you are going mad is probably the only thing that kept me sane!