Cat Food

viv0147

I was feeding my 3 year old cat (felix) which at first she seemed to enjoy then she seemed to go off it, since then I have tried to give her different ones but although she will eat about half a pouch the rest ends up in the bin.
I have since started her on Purina one which she does eat but I don't feel its enough so I am trying her on wet and dry food her bodily functions are working well and she doesn't look as though she is losing weight but she does seem to sleep a lot all, suggestions about cat food etc. welcome because she is my first cat. Thanks

DD265

We feed Feringa Menu and Animonda Carny, both of which we get from Zooplus. They have high meat contents and we're on month three with no complaints from our mogs, but I'd say generally they aren't fussy so we're very lucky. I put in an order once a month for a variety of flavours (they do mixed packs) so maybe you could do similar with smaller quantities of different brands?

You might also consider whether she only wants 1/2 pouch at a time - can you put 1/2 down then give her more if she eats it all? Or maybe an automatic feeder so it gives her a bit during the day.

In terms of dry food, we were leaving out 'unlimited' AATU biscuits (from Pets at Home) which again are a high meat content. I do believe that they're a complete food, but we prefer to feed wet and just have the biscuits to make sure they don't go hungry. One of our boys is a little fatty though so we're trying to keep the biscuits to a smaller quantity.

HonourlessWeasel

Hello there,

I too have my first cat who I rescued two weeks ago - it's been a learning curve in terms of his eating. Battersea told me he seems to like dry biscuits on top of his wet food. That didn't work out for us after getting him home. We experimented with all sorts:

• A whole pouch, no biscuits.
• A whole pouch mashed up.
• Half a pouch with biscuits mixed up (he picked out the biscuits and ate them)
• Only biscuits.

We've come to the conclusion that he only likes chicken at the moment, so we're only giving him half a pouch of chicken which he licks the jelly off and eats some of the meat, then he comes back to an hour or so later and finishes off the rest. When he finishes it we give him dried food to graze on. Rinse and repeat in the evening. He gets treats as well, and he also gets some chicken that we have if we're cooking some or making a salad. Overnight, I'll leave him some dried biscuits which he also seems to eat most nights.


Every cat is different, and a vet has said to me he'll probably go off chicken in a few months and move on to something else, but if he's happy with it for now, then so am I. We were wasting a pouch of food every day that he wasn't eating or just licking the jelly off, at least we see him eating the chicken meat. All the other ones we're going to give to a neighbour.


If your cat isn't eating a whole pouch when you put it out, take it down to half. She's probably not hungry enough to eat it all, or may prefer to come back later for more. If he didn't pester me every morning, I'd probably only give him dried food. I was at the vet the other day talking about it and I'd seen what it said on the back of the box of Whiskas, that a cat the size of mine should have two pouches of wet food and another 15g of dried food. Ummm...he'd never eat that much in a day, he's just not that interested! And he's not underweight, he's about right apparently. Some humans don't eat much, maybe some animals are like that too?