A good cheapish cat food?

meritaten

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

I feel such a bad mum now ! I've always fed my Eric with Whiskas, Felix, Kit e Kat etc or even Asda/Co Op own brands and at age 16 he's a fine figure of a cat with sufficient teeth to shred my hands to ribbons if I annoy him ! . Ho-Hum he's too old to change eating habits now.

funnily enough ERICS MUM - when I was young ALL cats were fed on tinned cat food. Whiskas being considered the 'high end' and Kit E kat the norm. and supermarket own brands were widely used. most cats survived this! and even lived to a ripe old age.
I wonder why in this age of 'Science led' dry food diets - age 7 is a 'mature' cat and 12 is considered 'old'? to me, 16 to 19 is an 'old' cat.
I think cat owners are being 'bamboozled' by the pet food manufacturers. particularly those who make 'dry' foods.
my own Barnes is used to his 'dry' food being down all day for him to 'graze'. I have got him eating 'pouches' for his evening meal. and dry food doesn't appear til breakfast time. my aim is to get him eating three meals a day (like my other previous cats did). but slowly slowly catchee monkee! I am about to remove the dry food at his lunchtime (could be anywhere between 11 and 1 and replace it with tinned food. IF he will eat it! he is nearly 6 yrs old now I think - so changing his eating habits has to happen really slowly.

rita-rabbit

meritaten wrote: »

funnily enough ERICS MUM - when I was young ALL cats were fed on tinned cat food. Whiskas being considered the 'high end' and Kit E kat the norm. and supermarket own brands were widely used. most cats survived this! and even lived to a ripe old age.
I wonder why in this age of 'Science led' dry food diets - age 7 is a 'mature' cat and 12 is considered 'old'? to me, 16 to 19 is an 'old' cat.
I think cat owners are being 'bamboozled' by the pet food manufacturers. particularly those who make 'dry' foods.
my own Barnes is used to his 'dry' food being down all day for him to 'graze'. I have got him eating 'pouches' for his evening meal. and dry food doesn't appear til breakfast time. my aim is to get him eating three meals a day (like my other previous cats did). but slowly slowly catchee monkee! I am about to remove the dry food at his lunchtime (could be anywhere between 11 and 1 and replace it with tinned food. IF he will eat it! he is nearly 6 yrs old now I think - so changing his eating habits has to happen really slowly.

You don't need to feed kitten, mature or food for old pets. However most supermarket petfood is rubbish. My previous cat did eat Felix & go-cat quite happilly & lived to 21 years of age, however that was 20 years ago & we used to also give her cheese, jelly, leftover chicken & veggie stew every week. I think these days much food has been adulturated & we need to be vigilliant.