New boy arrivestomorrow

[Italiangreyhound]

Our lovely, new, black and white, six-year-old, male, rescue cat arrives tomorrow.

We'll keep him in three or four downstairs (small) rooms to start with, no going out for two weeks or so. No going upstairs until we know he won't pee on the bed!

We'll keep him on the current food, wet once a day and dry once a day.

We'll arrange pet insurance, lifetime.

We have got cat food and water bowls, two litter trays, cat flap, cat bed, new brush and a tunnel, getting a few new cat toys tomorrow.

Gouie Louie has been in a cattery for almost a year, is timid but also very affectionate too! He is lovely and we can't wait to love him. But have we forgotten anything, please?

What amount for dry or wet do you think? please?

Have you bought any wet food for him yet? (Different foods usually have different values.)

He looks gorgeous!

Some cats like dry, some wet, some both. Depends on the brand how much to give, but I think rescues can be a bit gluttonous at first- I guess often they've not known where the next meal was coming from, or been living with strange cats so having a bit of competition for food. So his greediness might be at a high level for a while but he might also settle down.

I feed 25/30g of Applaws dry a day but that's only breakfast (they have 100gish wet for dinner) and my two are tiddlers so he might eat more. At this point I wouldn't worry about over feeding toooo much- watch out for him thinking he'll always get chicken though!

He has James Wellbeloved dry food, and I got Whiskers jelly 50g sachets (which is what he was used to) plus we have some Tesco 100g gravy sachet to use up if he likes them (we have about 30 of these so don't want to throw them away unless it is a bad idea to switch food with him). he just loves the wet food so at the moment he gets
50g wet in the morning
100g wet at night
About 12 Dreamies a day (individual ones)
about a third of a tiny carton of cat milk, the carton is about the size of a yoghurt pot.
I also leave out about 40g of dry food every morning but he is only eating a bit of it and not terribly interested.

Is that enough? Too much?

Thanks.

Sounds OK for the time being although myself, I'd try to wean him off the cat milk if you can. I'm not keen on giving cats milk products even if the products are lactose-reduced or the cat happens, unusually, to be lactose tolerant. Water is best.

See how he's doing over the next few days. Is he pooing and peing OK?

PS - does he actually have a constant supply of fresh water available to him?

Seems to be pooping very well, and smell of pee!

What do you mean by constant supply, he has a big water bowl and in the summer our last cat had two water bowls which were changed regularly.

Sounds fine.

Thanks Cozie.

Have started a new thread here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_litter_tray/2356145-Weepy-eye-dandruff-and-wee-oh-my

With a couple of concerns if anyone feels like reply, please.

Ooh, they try it on a bit at first.

As soon as he comes to terms with the delicious food you've decided you're going to feed him, he'll settle.

One of my cats is a beautiful B&W Mog. Wouldn't be without the MCat. Amazing little man.

Thanks Mantra he tried it and scoffer it! I also dropped some plain cooked chicken on the floor so he now has some of that!

scoffed it!