What wet cat food?

BargainGalore

We feed our outdoor cat Sheba or Purina Gourmet but my daughters feed her indoor cats with Royal Canin Indoor Cat dry food. You dont need much of it to give cats is full of goodness

My cat is very fussy and the wet cat food I mentioned is about the only one he will keep down, tried loads of different makes.

WeAreGhosts

I'd love my cat to eat the decent stuff from Zooplus, but she's flatly refused everything I've offered. I followed advice to keep offering the same thing, but she starved herself for three days and the vet told me to give in and feed her what she wants.

Mine loves dry (I know, I know but she is quite a good drinker), but won't touch Applaws which I was gutted about because they are at least decent. If I mix some into her usual biscuits she will eat round them
She will eat Feringa, though, and they seem ok.

She gets wet twice a week - Sheba Fine Flakes or HiLife. I have got some Pollack in the freezer to try her on, and she's recently developed a taste for prawns ... but I don't know how safe they are for cats, so she only gets a few small ones each week.

happilymarried2013

My ginger baby loves prawns. When she used to come with me on my road trips we would share a prawn sandwich on the outgoing journey. She still loves them now - I think she can smell them on us if we eat them when we go out cos she comes for a cuddle, sniffs and walks off. its a bit tricky to give them now as her sister can't eat fish but loves it

robbyfine

I feed my both cats with felix! They like it.

Paulaviki

Both of my boys have whiskas wet food morning ad evening and dry biscuits left out for nibbles during the day. I buy tins of wet food as its more cost effective than pouches. They will only eat whiskas and it has to be in jelly, they won't eat the gravy or pate ones. Two happy and healthy three and a half year old boys!

WeAreGhosts

I really dislike the snobbery associated with what people feed their cats. Educating is one thing, being rude is another.

In the 80s and 90s we had a cat who was fed on supermarket food, because we didn't have the internet we knew no different. We never even thought about given her raw food as money was very tight. She never went to the vets, apart from annual boosters. A common tumour got her in the end. She was happy and healthy for 14 years.
I knew lots of people who did the same.

Now I have a cat who I've tried to feed the 'decent' stuff to. She's fussy and can detect the 'wrong' food from 20 paces. She's on grain free food, but we're never away from the damn vets.

Deep_In_Debt

When I was growing up we had cats and just fed them on normal supermarket food. They all lived well in to their late teens.

My mum had her cat pts last year - and her cat was just short of it's 20th year. Fed on Felix all it's life.

I have 2 female cats who will be 14 this year and have been fed mainly on Felix and Purina wet pouches and biscuits. Both healthy cats, no real health problems to date.

sangie595

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

I really dislike the snobbery associated with what people feed their cats. Educating is one thing, being rude is another.

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Totally agree. The only people who benefit from the pet food market are the manufacturers. They are selling food to us as humans, not to the pets we have. There are facts - for example, dogs need less animal protein than most people think and a lot less than cats need. But I think people get hung up on being perfect owners. I used to have cats, always had dogs. And I am old enough to recall the day when there wasn't so much choice, and puppies didn't get special food. There was dog food. There was cat food. And amazingly they lived to ripe old ages without any further fuss.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention to new knowledge about what might help them best grow and develop, and then to maintain. But really - how many animals does anyone know who will starve themselves to death rather than eat what is there? If I ignore the lentils because I know that if I hold out there will be chocolate, then all you are telling me is that I can have something else if I don't eat what you put out first. Few parents would accept that in their children. Children don't get to dictate the food choices, or chocolate and sweets would always be on the menu. Why do pets get more choice?

I accept that there is still rubbish food out there, but actually there's very little of it. Most is balanced and nutricious. I don't have a cat right now, but my puppy would like to vote for (safe) dog chocs and pigs ears and buffalo sticks, please. Unfortunately for him, those happen rarely and as extras (but within his food intake value) - I vote for actual food and that is what he eats. And if he doesn't want it, it's there for the next meal. But then again, I am a horrible human being and expected the kids to eat their Brussel sprouts!

So far the kids and the pets have all turned out fine!

Ilona

My old ginger tom is coming up to 20, he's been on Felix for most of his life. Has only been to the vet on a couple of occasions for minor ailments. Now he is old he gets a few treats.
Ilona

sangie595

Ilona wrote: »

Now he is old he gets a few treats.
Ilona

You sound like me. My old boy (died last September) got more treats in the last couple of years than in the rest of his life! By 14 years I reckoned getting fat was probably the least of it (not that he ever did get fat!) and he deserved to push the boat out a little. Now the youngster in the house sits and looks longingly at the cellar door at times - because he knows that is where the treats are kept! Largely because it is the only door he hasn't learned how to open!