Feeding Bengals

[Indantherene]

When our Bengals came to us they were having half a sachet of felix each twice a day and mainly eating Royal Canin dry.

Now the male is a lot bigger I thought half a sachet wasn't enough and tried giving them a whole one each. They ate half. The rest went off. So I started giving them the expensive stuff - Sheba?- as the pouches are 85g not 100g and that worked great for months. Now they won't eat it.

Meanwhile our local Pets at home have stopped stocking the faecal reduction Royal Canin they were eating, and hasn't had the indoor one for a while. At the same time (before the food changes) the female has had the squits non-stop. She's been to the vet and nothing apparently wrong. The vets prescribed wet food didn't make any difference.

Some research suggested that they should have dry food with no grain. Tried James Wellbeloved. They will eat the JW Senior food bought for our elderly moggy but not the JW indoor adults. Tried Wainrights. Won't even touch it. Their absolute favourite is the cheap Purina senior food they steal from the kitchen.

Can anyone suggest what they should be eating?

If you believe bengalcatforum then only a raw food diet will do. Anything else and you shouldn't be allowed to keep a pet at all.

I feed 4 lidl pate trays a day and whatever else he can catch while out.

I avoid grain for him, it makes him really ill and it's a trip to the vet job.

Cats are complicated some times. Reminds me of hoe DP and freaked out when the only food our previous cat would eat changed it's recepy slightly, and the relieaf she deemed it acceptable.

What I would suggest you is to go to a speciality pet store if you can. They generally have a ton of samples, take all the grain free ones and try them out.

We got Acana (30% veggies,70% meat) no grains, the original brand is Orijen and has a bit more meat. Raw was too complicated and risky for us. The cat adores it.

Ah must add since you mentionned faecal reduction, on Acana our bengal goes poos less often and it smells much less than when ate Royal Canin.

Try Applaws dry food, it's 80% meat, no grains/cereals. You can buy it online from Zooplus. I free feed this to my boys (not Bengals) along with a couple of wet meals.

Thanks all.

I've never known such fussy cats. I will try some of these suggestions.

I have a Bengal. She eats a third of a tin of tesco cat food twice a day.

We have a few bengals and they have dried food, Orijen, all the time and a pouch of gourmet/sheba each in the morning and then chicken or tuna in the evening.

The applaws stuff from tesco, waitrose or internet is also good.