Adopting Cats - Food and Nutrition Advice

Kim_kim

I feed mine royal canine persian because that's what she was previously fed on. But I would prefer to feed applaws, like ojien but a bit cheaper.

Beckyy

We use Applaws dry food and Lily's Kitchen wet.

The ingredients of so many look pretty grim, I've found these two to be quite decent and they have always gone down well with our cats, never stopped eating it etc.

Well done with your rescues

pawsies

Would you consider feeding raw?

There'd be more variety which they might prefer if they do end up fussy.

pawsies

http://www.catbehaviorassociates.com/why-your-cat-might-be-a-picky-eater/

no1catman

pawsies wrote: »

Would you consider feeding raw?

There'd be more variety which they might prefer if they do end up fussy.

When my cat had a fussy period, wouldn't eat anything apart from a few 'dreamies' weight kept going down, started her on pig's liver (raw) just cut it up into manageable pieces - soon slide down.

paddypaws101

mortgageFTB wrote: »

Yeah, that's something else I'm looking at - somewhat time dependent, although I guess spending an hour at the weekend prepping the meals for the week isn't that bad.

I think initially we'll (try to) move them over to a wet diet, the Happy Kitty Company seems to provide high quality wet food, so we've ordered a selection and will see what/if they like it.

Happy Kitty do a great selection of foods.
As for raw, there are a couple of ready made brands, https://www.nutriment.co https://www.naturalinstinct.co.uk but personally I prefer to make my own with the help of a Phillips MG510 meat grinder

thriftyemma

Just adding my tuppence worth...
Our cat used to love regular wet food chunks. We tried most supermarket available brands, would NOT touch Felix, tolerated Whiskas, favourite was Sainsbury's meat in gravy. About a month ago, she stopped eating much at all. So after a bit of reading, we tried different textures. She now quite likes the flaked fillets of 'whole' meat, and absolutely adores pate!

The major point I came across was, cats are meat eaters! They need at least an 80% protein diet. They do not need all the fillers like rice and grains.
1. Avoid meats in gravy. Gravy is very high in carbs. Go for meat in jelly instead.
2. Complete dry food is very high in rice and grain fillers. I would avoid a dry-only diet.

Just my experiences. Every cat is different, and they will most definitely let you know what they do and do not like

fightingirishman

Personally I think you'tr overthinking this whole thing. We adopted a cat from a local shelter and quicky found that she ONLY likes dry food (so no need for back and forth on that one!). I think as long as they have ample room and stimulation, they are fine.

apusskidu

We find our cat doesnt like dry food in his main food dish, he will go hungry and wait for wet food to appear. But when we ran out of his expensive dry treats we snuck some dry food in his empty treat packet and he will jump and chase basic biscuits when served as a treat. :-)