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So what do you feed your cat?

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GandolfBold · 28/12/2018 19:06

Picked up our rescue cat today. Haven't had a cat as an adult. She is beautiful and we are in love. We thought really hard about this and have done loads of prep work, got all the things she will need, but I hadn't even thought about what to feed her. Friends have given conflicting advice, one says yes to cat meat and one says no. As a child we had cats who were fed on tins and biscuits mixed together, but there now seems an alarming selection of brands and types of food!

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Vinorosso74 · 28/12/2018 21:14

So it's accepted by most Whiskas, Gocat and Felix are crap. I agree Royal Canin, Hills and Purina aren't much better-they are owned by Mars, Colgate-Palmolive and Nestle respectively so I'm not convinced that top quality pet nutrition is their priority.
There are loads of higher quality foods nowadays.

Largepiecesofcrookedwood · 28/12/2018 21:14

CrookedCat is now on a veterinary imposed wet food only diet Hmm
DH and I have already decided that he will not be going on a prescription diet if the time comes, so he is currently eating the best we can find. So today's dinner was Country Hunter (I'm very anxious about asking for this out loud Blush) with chicken and goose. It costs us around £1.80 a day plus a small handful of Canagan biscuits to stop him wasting away if a meal is delayed for any reason.
DH is somewhat oblivious to the cost, which incidentally is more than we pay to feed three medium sized dogs Grin

madcatladyforever · 28/12/2018 21:15

Mine is on a prescription dry food diet because she has a lot of health problems - hills science gastric at the moment.
My vet says when I get a new cat I should feed them the best I can get preferabluy gluten free and dry for their teeth.

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adaisychain · 28/12/2018 21:15

Mine gets three pouches of Iams a day and no dry, on vet advice as he has a very sensitive tummy and any time we change his food he gets epic shits for days!

We were told plain chicken is ok, and egg cooked with no milk...he loves egg but turns his fussy nose up at chicken!

Ollivander84 · 28/12/2018 21:16

Oh mine will also eat
Raw chicken wings (he tried to bring one to bed for "movie snack night" once)
Raw turkey mince
Heart
Tuna
Jacket potato and baked beans Hmm which he steals
Pork scratchings (he's allowed ONE as a treat but he will clamber over me and howl for them)

hartof · 28/12/2018 21:16

It took us a while to find food he'll actually eat so he has hills science plan wet. And royal canin sterilised kitten dry.

BentNeckLady · 28/12/2018 21:17

Lidl cat food.

freakinbananaspiders · 28/12/2018 21:43

There are as many different opinions as there are cat foods but the best thing to do is work out what you can afford to spend and go for the food with the highest meat content in your range. Both wet and dry. Then work downwards until you find one your cat will eat and doesn't get any adverse effects from. I prefer not to support the larger brands owned by Mars, Nestle etc due to animal testing concerns but one of our cats gets a dreadful dicky tummy on anything but Royal Canin so we don't have much choice. Hopefully it will be one of those cats who eat anything 🐱

Santaclarita · 28/12/2018 22:41

My mum has to feed her 3 cars different cat food, and they all change their minds every month on what they like. Good luck.

Santaclarita · 28/12/2018 22:41

Cats* not cars. Stupid phone Grin

Santaclarita · 28/12/2018 22:43

Oh and one of them will eat potato and carrot off a plate, ignore the meat, and begs for cheese.

Branleuse · 28/12/2018 22:48

mine have the tins from lidl and also lidl cat biscuits.

The older cats used to be fussy and only eat felix pouches, but since i got two more cats, they seem to be less fussy as they have competition. They are thriving

Lolimax · 28/12/2018 22:51

5 cats in the Lolimax house. A mixture of Whiskas wet and dry except this lush boy who prefers fresh chicken. And he gets it!

So what do you feed your cat?
Buzzzzzzz · 29/12/2018 00:16

Our old lady has the gourmet gold pate tins - fish flavours only. If you offer her meat flavours she doesn’t eat it and foods in jelly are licked clean of jelly then left. She has purina dry but rarely touches it. To be fair she only has three teeth left and is 15.

She will eat weetabix whenever she is given the opportunity as well and tends to stick her face in your breakfast bowl before you are finished Hmm

Those two are the ones we settled on because the pate is the only thing she eats the whole of and the dry is the only one so far that hasn’t made her throw up. We did start off with high meat content stuff but it was a no go for her. She is fussy, and I’ve heard that’s not uncommon with cats. At the end of the day, going for high meat content food is a good idea, but the food is only good if the cat will actually eat it and keep it down, so if it doesn’t work out that way there’s no point beating yourself up about a lower quality one if that’s what suits the cat.

Gotstuckwiththisname · 29/12/2018 00:32

Our cat only likes Aldi vitacat senior wet pouches. He gets the hump if we get him anything else - especially Tesco own brand. He will also eat any kind of dry food if available.

Ollivander84 · 29/12/2018 00:33

Oh yes to cheese. I dropped a tub of feta cubes once and it was like that hungry hippos game. He then tried to announce he was still hungry with a bulging belly full of feta. No chance

Whatsnewwithyou · 29/12/2018 05:04

Damn. I've just found this website with sciency-sounding reviews of all different types of cat food and apparently the James Wellbeloved dry food I've been spending so much money on is shit. May need to have a rethink...if people think the reviews on this site are accurate?? Please could I have your views?
catfooddb.com/brand/james wellbeloved

Juanbablo · 29/12/2018 06:53

Our cat will eat anything and everything. He mainly eats Aldi or Tesco pouches of meat in jelly and whatever biscuits are on offer. He's a healthy, almost 12 year old. At his last check up the vet said he had very good teeth for his age.

Bananarama12 · 29/12/2018 07:05

I would say James Wellbeloved is an ok food. Better than Whiskas, Felix etc but very overpriced for what it is.
Imo, raw is the best diet for a cat. 80% muscle meat 10% bone 5% liver 5% other organs.

Beaverhausen · 29/12/2018 09:05

I agree zooplus is excellent for a range of food and the price.

I have 10 cats mine are all on purizon dry and then a mixture of raw which I buy prepare and make some of my own and I have one fussy pot who will only eat gourmet.

The strays that I feed have animonda carny and hills science diet dry i get it all from zoplus except the raw.

meikyo · 29/12/2018 10:11

I've had several cats over a period of 30 years, moggies and pedigrees. Our vet says that Whiskas/ Felix is "junk food for cats" although 2 of the moggies mostly had that and lived to 18 and 19!
I currently have 3 pedigrees (orientals) who are youngsters. They eat Royal Canin dry once or twice a day plus 2 pouches between the 3 of them of Wainwrights per day. They are thriving and in excellent condition. As per PPs, find out what your new cat has been fed on and gradually introduce any changes so as not to upset their tummy.

meikyo · 29/12/2018 10:14

I forgot to mention that both the moggies had dental problems though, this may have been linked to the food.. haven't previously made that connection.

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