Cat Sick

Battleaxe44

The fur ball paste can make a mess if the cats don't lick it off the fur. Mine hate it, so it sits in a drawer now unloved and unused... I suppose it is the cat equivalent to marmite...

his_missus

I was mean and put a splodge of it on Casper's nose so he had to lick it off. It did work for a while but then he started to associate a cuddle before teatime with paste on his nose and started blanking me.

I suppose you could mix it into wet food maybe...

I've never tried the treats as Casper's not real a treat cat.

I brush Casper a lot more often now and that seems to have helped, I guess he has less loose hair when he grooms himself.

catkins

antw23uk wrote: »

Personally I hate commercial cat food of any type and feed my cats the correct diet of RAW/ BARF which means hairballs are a thing of the past.

Our cats are fed 100g of food a day in general, this is divided into morning and evening and we buy it 'premade' from Natural Instincts ... actually works out cheaper feeding RAW than it does that commercial rubbish anyway
The only exception to this is if they are having a chicken wing or half a chicken carcass in the garden and then its much more than 100g but we dont worry about it when they are in optimum health anyway

Where do you get the Natural Instinct? I am interested in feeding this to my cats but their website says the shipping fee is £100!

Battleaxe44

I agree RAW is better for the cats, mine get one a meal a day of Raw, they graze on IAMS dry food and they get one tin of cat food between the four of them, this includes the yard cat who is anti social when he wants to be.

We don't get many furballs as the cats are combed every day.

Oldest cat is 14, the youngest is 2. We had a Persian who lived to 20 years, she had the same mixed diet. I can't remember if she upchucked a fur ball. She was such a fussy Missy...

Troutwrestler

Sounds like furballs...not a day goes by one of my 3 don't vom up one...usually in the most Revolting place.....my bed...my shoes??.

I wouldn't say your feeding them too much...my smallest cat (6kg) eats 3 pouches a day plus some biscuits...

If my boys were on pouches I would be bankrupt...they weigh 9kg and 9.5kg..:p

Also agree RAW is better but none of mine would take to it

Angelicdevil

cabbage wrote: »

found that out the hard way! but some posters are using Yoghurt to crush tablets in!

Natural yoghurt is OK for cats Yoghurt contains much smaller amounts of lactose than milk, so most cats can tolerate it.