Natures Menu

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

Harry has taken a liking to Natures Menu Senior. They only seem to make one flavour, chicken with cod and salmon. I'd like to try him on other flavours but I'm a bit worried as they will be adult rather than senior.

Does anyone else feed their senior cats on adult cat food and will he be missing out on anything? Also, does anyone know of anywhere that I can find it cheaper?

Thanks in advance.

I only have access to four flavours in the Country Hunter range. Luckily, Seniorboy seems to enjoy all of those.

I'm going to give him the adult and senior - as cozie said it's such high quality food I don't think he'll be lacking anything. I was hoping he'd eat the beef as the huge multipack works out cheaper - I'm sure he did it deliberately!

PS - I bought a mixed box of the 'ordinary' Nature's Menu food - only 70% meat if I recall but still good food - but he wasn't much enamoured of any of those.

Harry likes the senior chicken, salmon and cod NM and this morning had an adult chicken and turkey which went down well. Considering for years he would only eat James Wellbeloved duck biscuits I'm impressed that he will now eat at least five flavours of NM and all three flavours of JW biscuits (although he struggles with the turkey as they are too round when you have a shortage of teeth!).

All my boys have just preferred wet food, I think. (And they're the ones who eat the stuff.) Seniorboy has never much fancied dry food or treats of any description - but as he came to me at 14 with an already horrible mouth, I can't really draw any conclusions from that.

I never did find that missing chicken drumstick though.

Harry ate wet when he arrived but stopped eating it (admittedly it was Whiskas or own brand so not great stuff) and so we put him onto dry. After that he wouldn't touch wet until he broke his jaw. Even then we struggled to find something he'd eat.

He has recently taken to sitting watching me eat. I've given him a little bit of fish or chicken and he has a morsel and then leaves the rest, usually just where my feet go. I was talking to DH a couple of weeks ago and I took my eye off my dinner and all of a sudden a paw came up and hooked off a lump of mashed potato which he proceeded to inhale!

Sometimes food is habit right enough - but if his teeth were possibly a bit sore and infected pre-jaw, who knows but that he might have been feeling off-colour or tasting things differently.,

How's his weight now?🙂

The vet told me he felt a bit skinny last time and I must admit, after years of being told he was overweight, I took it as a compliment! She weighed him and she was happy as he was pretty much the same as last time, a fraction under 5 kilos.

We aspire to that sort of weight for Seniorboy.

(He's become - very gradually - skinnier as you'd often see in an old cat although he is given more or less anything he fancies to eat.)

I reckon it's just a case of keeping a weather eye on your lad.