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wigginsmum

Ours love potato and wheat products too ... naan bread, crisps, pasta, chip shop chips. Once particularly loves curry sauce. They can have the odd bit as an occasional treat.

Good tip, cooltrikerchick - I'll have a word with my butcher re scraps.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi...wigginsmum.....i have been doing this for years.....and now i dont even have to ask my butcher, he allways keeps some by for me.......he used to put in pigs trooters.... but the dogs wasnt to keen on them..... but i am sure in some places they sell them...as part of their meat sales....

patchwork_cat

HI
You may have a chippy nearby that will give you fish for cats. Not all do.

I read that you shouldn't give tomatoes to cats, but a breeder once told me that you should give them tomato sauce (pilchards in tom. sauce) my cats have always loved the tom sauce more than the pilchards!

I am a bit concerned though - I am going to the vet tonight so I will ask him .

frugalfairy_3

Wow, so many replies, thank you all so much!

SnowyOwl, she doesn't have smelly breath, and she seems to be able to crunch those biscuity things OK so I don't think she has a problem with her gums (at least I hope not). She gets a once over from the vet at least once a year and they keep an eye on stuff like that for me.

That's interesting about the tuna, she only gets a can once a year at Christmas normally so I don't think she eats too much of that, I'll certainly look into giving her a more nutritious varied diet though.

Sardines in tomato sauce eh? :eek: The only food I've ever eaten (when a poor student) which made me actually throw up. Can I really inflict it on my poor !!!!! cat?

Thank you all so much, I really appreciate your help (and hopefully pusscat will too). FF xx

Lillibet_2

Frugal Fairy

I now my mum has been warned by her vet that if she feeds her cats a diet which excludes "cat foods" i.e just fresh fish, meat etc, she should add vitamin drops to the food as it won't contain the right mix. Don't know if this is just another vet scam to get more money but IIRC the drops aren't hugely expensive & it seemed like a good precaution to take.

Good luck;)

THIRZAH

Our cat will be 18 next month. We feed him a sachet of Felix in the mornings ( I know it's expensive but he likes it) and chicken in the evenings plus some dried food.

He has arthritis so we add his arthritis medicine to the chicken. He hates tuna and has gone off liver. I usually buy a couple of those "two for £5" chickens from Tesco and cook them for him then freeze it in individual portions.Sometimes I'll get one of those value turkey legs as a change.

It may not be the healthiest diet for him but at his age I'm more concerned with getting him to eat anything at all. Apart from the arthritis which is under control he is very fit for his age although quite thin and doesn't bother grooming himself as much as he used to so we have to comb him daily.

MrsTinks

If you ever have to give worming powder/pills etc then yep hide it in sardines in tomato I have 2 cats - greedy guts and fussier than a child who's been told veggies are good for it... ARGH! I have to always make sure thereis something the fussy one will eat quick enough for her brother to not steal it as he's on a constant diet. He'll even brave the dog if he thinks she's got something yummy enough ARGH!

I would say that although I'm a firm fan of BARF then this isn't for the faint hearted and for a 12 year old cat I'd be very careful about how fast you carry out such a change of diet

giggs11

my cat loves sardines and mackerel in tomto sauce and always licks all the sauce off before eating the fish, what is it about the tomato sauce they love so much???

frugalfairy_3

Ok looks like a trip to the meat and fish counters at the supermarket, then along with vitamin drops from the vet. I'd never heard of cats eating tomato sauce before but it's obviously very popular! Mine is incredibly fussy, never pinches stuff off plates or shows any interest in what we're eating (maybe that's a reflection on my cooking:rolleyes: ) so it will be interesting to see how she likes 'proper' food.

I'm intending to just introduce a little bit each morning along with her usual food for a while as she also has a bit of a sensitive tum. If it's disastrous I'll go back to the normal expensive stuff but I would like her to live a long and healthy life as she's very special

Thanks everyone, you're fab! :A

FF
PS Lillibet, I love your tagline

Floss

Have you tried the dried cat foods? My Stanley (fat, not flat) has the Pets at Home mature cat dry food - no smell, no waste, no flies and he hoovers it up! Was fed up of buying sachets for him to lick off the gravy & leave the lumps. He's in better condition too - healthy, more active than 12 months ago & he drinks water now too. He tried Iams, but I swapped after the Tesco BOGOF on the reduced 3kg bags finished, as it was too expensive!