money tight ? pts your cat

cally6008

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chrisj2006

I hope you told whoever said that to go to h*ll !! that is disgraceful grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

zaksmum

cally6008 wrote: »

Yep, been told I should pts my old girl because money is tight for a couple of weeks.

Plus downgrade food from 19p per tin to the cheapest food ... which is what ?

And ... must give them complete dry diet, despite the fact that this would kill both the cats off completely.

GGRR .. :mad:

Told by whom?

Minxy_Bella

To be fair, that's not how I read the thread at all - it was you who retorted that you should put the cats to sleep. I empathise with your situation - really I do - but you did overreact.

Tropez

zaksmum wrote: »

Told by whom?

It appears the OP is referring to what she was told in this thread on the DFW board - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2989426

Having taken a quick read through I'm guessing the post on this board is due to the OP feeling frustrated that one person suggested she put her older cat "out of its misery" and that others apparently ignored the OP's assertions that her cats were unable to eat dry cat food, or unable to sustain a diet on dry cat food.

Personally, I feel that the OP has overreacted slightly, while the advice given to her on that thread is also unhelpful. It is never a helpful comment to suggest that someone give up their cat or have it put to sleep because they're caught short on funds for a very small amount of time (two weeks according to the OP), nor is it useful when people ignore legitimate concerns of a poster, such as in the dry food example, in order to chime in with "my cats eat dry food".

But as I say, I think posting here is something of an overreaction on the part of the OP, although I can understand as a pet owner why the comments were not taken to be helpful.

Regardless, Cally, I wish you all the best in sorting something out over the next couple of weeks that is suitable for both you and your cats. Hopefully things will work out for the best.

Rev

I agree with the poster who said not all people see pets as disposable.

For future though, I'd suggest changing to a high quality food, sounds odd since you're talking about saving cash but they eat SO much less of a quality food that you save a lot in the long run.

I feed two adult cats grain free high meat content wet and dry for £20 a month. The initial outlay can be hard (I live on carers allowance - I have to budget), but I put a big bag of applaws from wherever is selling it cheapest online (80% meat, grain free) and buy hilife pouches (60% meat, grain free) from home bargains for 18p per pouch. Measure the RDA of applaws, feed that and give a pouch each a day. Or I grab a top life tetrapack from asda (£1, 90% meat, grain free) and that lasts 3-4 days.

I Or even if you're by a home bargains the hilife pouches are 18p, the higher meat content means they need less, you feed less, thus you buy less.

Sorry if you know all this, not trying to condescend, just trying to offer a possible option for when cash isn't so tight and you may want to see if it saves you cash in the long run.

zaksmum

Tropez wrote: »

It appears the OP is referring to what she was told in this thread on the DFW board - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2989426

Having taken a quick read through I'm guessing the post on this board is due to the OP feeling frustrated that one person suggested she put her older cat "out of its misery" and that others apparently ignored the OP's assertions that her cats were unable to eat dry cat food, or unable to sustain a diet on dry cat food.

Personally, I feel that the OP has overreacted slightly, while the advice given to her on that thread is also unhelpful. It is never a helpful comment to suggest that someone give up their cat or have it put to sleep because they're caught short on funds for a very small amount of time (two weeks according to the OP), nor is it useful when people ignore legitimate concerns of a poster, such as in the dry food example, in order to chime in with "my cats eat dry food".

But as I say, I think posting here is something of an overreaction on the part of the OP, although I can understand as a pet owner why the comments were not taken to be helpful.

Regardless, Cally, I wish you all the best in sorting something out over the next couple of weeks that is suitable for both you and your cats. Hopefully things will work out for the best.

Thanks tropez. I wondered what the OP was talking about to be honest.

purplelotus

you can soak biscuits generously in water for the cats, it's just as much of a balanced diet as if you bought the wet food (which may also be reconstituted anyway, depending what price range it is in!). Dry biscuits are good for their teeth, wet food is good because it increases their water intake.

Rev

purplelotus wrote: »

you can soak biscuits generously in water for the cats, it's just as much of a balanced diet as if you bought the wet food (which may also be reconstituted anyway, depending what price range it is in!). Dry biscuits are good for their teeth, wet food is good because it increases their water intake.

Dry food being good for teeth is a total myth. No more good for their teeth than a rich tea is for ours.

A_Phoenix_of_Tangerine

Rev wrote: »

Dry food being good for teeth is a total myth. No more good for their teeth than a rich tea is for ours.

Sorry, but that's simply not true - crunching through hard dry biscuits scrapes away bits of tartar that can build up on the teeth. Plus, your comparison is pretty skewed since rich tea biscuits are obviously high in sugar, and a lot more crumbly / less hard than dry dog / cat food.

Many people will anecdotally verify that their pets teeth last a lot better and end up needing less work done on them if they have been fed a mainly dry diet, rather than soggy tinned meat, and this is backed up by scientific research - I found the following info just by typing in: 'dogs teeth + dry biscuit food' into Google Scholar - I didn't need to look long, this study came up on the first page of results!

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-0813.1994.tb00905.x/abstract

Rev

Cats and dogs clean their teeth by tearing meat from bones, creating a flossing action, eating dry food does zero for their teeth. And given the amount of sugars in the likes of go cat, wiskas, felix etc, comparing them to a rich tea isn't much of a stretch.

Also all found on google scholar

http://rawpetdiet.com/images/stories/PDF/The%20Truth%20About%20Raw%20Foods.pdf

And a few regular links

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/29941/pets/have_you_checked_your_cats_teeth_recently.html

http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html

http://www.petclubuk.com/pet-information/article/fat-cat-facts

http://www.facekitty.com/2008/11/does-dry-food-clean-cats-teeth.html


Obviously you chose to believe dry food is beneficial to teeth. That's your prerogative.