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best supermarket wet food? and other qs.

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Cat98 · 31/01/2014 13:01

My cat is 8 years old. She eats Iams dry food, with a pouch of Felix wet food every other day. she loves the wet food but I don't give it to ehr more often because at her last check up we were told she has the beginnings of gingivitis, also because of all the rubbish that is apparently in the likes of Felix!

My questions are:

  1. is this amount (ratio) of dry to wet food ok?
  2. should I be giving her more wet food, and if so can you recommend a brand that would be better for her (that she might like - we tried Nature's Menu before and she wouldn't touch it! She likes the Felix in jelly).
  3. Anything else we should be giving her to help look after her teeth? She'd never let us near them to clean them!


Thank you so much for any advice :)
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issey6cats · 31/01/2014 13:20

my cats get 1/4 of a tin of either butchers classic meat or asda fish in jelly each morning both of these contain high meat/ fish content and no cereal which is the bad ingredient in wet food and then they get 1/4 of a mug of harringtons biscuits in the afternoon and my 7 year old cats have good teeth with no tartar there is something you can buy to add to their water which is supposed to be good for bad teeth but ive forgotten what its called someone else will be along with the name of it

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GoatsHaveStrangeEyes · 31/01/2014 13:23

If I was buying from a supermarket it would be butchers for mine too. And it's not even pricey so it's win win.

Mine eats mostly dry (applaws) with a pouch of wet a day or some raw mince.

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Damnautocorrect · 31/01/2014 13:26

Lidl premium wet food is good. The ash content is minimal and it's less than £2.50 a box.

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FushandChups · 31/01/2014 17:31

We have Aldi pouches here - the ones in gravy seem popular (normally have to forage for the brown box) but they do jelly and little ones in pate too. Cheap as well Smile

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kazzawazzawoo · 03/02/2014 19:51

Issey, do you mean PlaqueOff that you add to food or water?

My cats currently just have Butchers Classic wet food, as my 2 year old cat recently had bladder problems and my vet told me male cats can be susceptible to bladder problems if they eat a lot of dry food.

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intheround · 03/02/2014 19:57

My cat has 1 pouch Tesco Senior in Gravy twice a day.
No dry food at all.
She is 10 and has great teeth (no tartar, no gingivitis) BUT she hunts all the time and eats what she catches .

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