How much wet food daily?

[Bogburglar75]

Morning

Bogbastard has had a couple of bouts of cystitis so after good advice on here (thank you) Im moving him to all wet food. He is enjoying those tins of Applaws plus Sheba pouches. Unlike the dry which he nibbled at through the day he now polishes the bowl and informs me later that he is STARVING

How much by weight/amount do you feed yours if you give all wet? He's a big beast - 5kg+, neutered and having a very active summer out in the garden climbing fifteen feet up the wisteria and so on.

Please check your DCat is getting enough nutrition, Applaws is only a complementary food to be fed alongside a complete dry food. Not sure about Sheba.

Thank you all! He's had an extra pouch, a happy afternoon and is only now prowling in to give me meaningful where is the tea looks!

I know Applaws is only complementary but thanks for reminding me. It was fine before as he was getting it alongside complete dry. Now we are doing all wet I also need to move him onto wet foods that are complete and cheaper. The Sheba pouches are complete so I think with a mixture he will do OK.

I'm pretty sure the applaws pate is complete, the others aren't

Little M hates wet, (he'll sometimes deign to lick the gravy) but MCat has decided he hates dry.

MCat eats about 3/4 of a 400g tin of Butchers Classic a day. And I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly snacked on the biscuits when I'm not about. He's about 4.5 kilo

By the way Bog I'm well jel that you have a 15' wisteria.

cozie - about 3.7kg
I got him to sit on the scales and wait

It may not be quite fifteen foot Rubbish - it is certainly all the way up to our top floor and represents ten years of DH trying to cover up the horrible pebble dash on our sure return! It's flowered properly the last few years

Bogbastard clearly now thinks it's his personal climbing frame. He got stuck up there as a few months old kitten and I spent hours trying to coax him in through the bathroom window. These days he just thinks he's a flipping leopard and goes up and down at will. I suspect he still thinks if he can get higher up he will be closer to catching the birds ...

side return even. It's a mix of creeper, wisteria, climbing rose and clematis. Aka Jungle!

My neighbours have just cut down ivy that had reached their bedroom window.

Very wise. Ants.

And kittens. I don't think my poor mum has ever got over opening her bedroom curtains one morning to see a small black kitten peering at her from the windowsill on the wrong side of the glass! She tried to open the (sash) window very cautiously, kitten of course leapt backwards and disappeared out of sight.

Fortunately when she rushed downstairs he proved the old saying about cats landing on their feet

Kittens, cats, critters of all kinds, birds nesting. (And don't get me started on the damage to the underlying fabric! )

And the bloody spiders that venture into the house. Having to catch them and post outside = not enjoyable.

Ivy is our nemesis.

My neighbours have ivy growing up the fence - it's the most antisocial thing they could have planted as its broken the fence where it's forced its way through. We're not 100% sure whose fence it is but they have said we can replace it (no point cat proofing with a broken fence!) so we're in the process of trying to kill the ivy and accompanying bindweed.

Same here Pink!

Their garden is an unkept jungle, which creeps over the wall, killing off my lovingly planted plants, by denying them sunshine! It's even making the wall sag!

All I can do is get the secateurs out and chop the plant-killing ivy off at the middle of the shared wall. I won't even get started on their MAHOOSIVE Holly tree that deprives most of the courtyard from sunshine.

View and weep.

Ivy covered house

I'm not convinced they aren't cultivating the bindweed as well! The bloody stuff mingles with the ivy and is coming up through our grass! I seriously considered going into their garden ninja style under cover of darkness and pouring weed killer over the stuff! Everything I have is being smothered by ivy or strangled by bindweed!

In my hastily put together defence - no ivy! Virginia creeper, wisteria, rose, clematis. And it's all on a side wall which faces the neighbours garage across a narrow side return passage which was supposed to be a garage which the previous resident never got round to building (hooray!)

I don't think I am committing too many escaping-jungle sins of neighbourliness. The fact that the side gate is wired up like bloody Alcatraz to try and stop Bogbastard aka Houdini getting out the front may be another matter

Ha! I recall watching a zoo programme once where the big cat keeper, who had fairly breezed through securing the lions and tigers for the night, was shown double and triple-checking the locks of the leopards' enclosures.

He said something along the lines of 'Lions and tigers are straightforward - but your leopards? They're just downright sneaky'.

Pink, you need to kill ivy off at the source. So if you're on good terms with your neighbours, get some ivy poison, saw it off at the trunks, (presumably on their side of the fence) apply poison, then gaffer tape a heavy duty bin-bag onto the stump(s), to ensure the poison stays where it's supposed to be (i.e. not in local animal population's tummies).

Then when it dies off, use a wallpaper scrapey thingy, and a wire brush to remove dead ivy.

I did that at my old house, and it worked a treat. Fortunately I didn't have to consult neighbours. The current one's children proudly proclaim "I scared off that scabby Siamese thing". He's a perfectly healthy Devon Rex, and the breed naturally have peach fuzz/baldy patches. And he's my little prince!

Thanks Rubbish I'll pass that onto DH as he's the one who's been speaking to the neighbour's.

That scabby Siamese thing?! How dare they refer to Little Monsieur in those terms? He's gorgeous!

Ah, it's just the bloody ivy that gets my goat, I didn't mean to imply you were sinful.

I just wish they'd keep it under control, and prevent it from doing a pincer attack onto other peeps gardens.

Wisteria and clematis on the other hand, I'd welcome them. I'm crap at growing Clematis, because of a west facing wall, and the neighbour's bloody ivy and holly tree overshadowing everything. Perhaps I'll do a ninja attack on it, under the cover of darkness.

Thank you Pink. She only shouts insults over the wall. Silly woman. He's never even ventured into their garden! He just wades through the ivy on the wall and looks!

cozie absolutely! The saving grace appears to be that after Bogbastard shinned fifteen feet up the clematis, balanced out along a tiny cross branch, scrambled over the carefully organised chicken wire overhang and then leapt twelve feet down, we found him sitting in the front yard looking mildly puzzled about what happened next.

I am sure leopards put more planning into it

East facing wall, Bog. Not West.

Ah yes. I'd been thinking a west facing wouldn't be so bad! Think there are some clematises that like a north facing wall so might do with an east facing.
But can't remember which.