Thoughts on senior food?

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Hello,

What are your thoughts on senior cat food? From what I'm reading online, it's lower in calories (which may not be helpful if your elderly cat is actually too skinny) but it may be lower in phosophorus which is good for elderly cats' kidneys.

Thanks

I tried it on Cheddar and Magic when they were around 9 & 10. It have Cheddar colitis, so I had to change back to standard indoor cat/ light in fat food. It was the Iams vitality range that she was used to. So I was surprised she reacted badly.

Mine wouldn't touch it 😂

I'm not really a big believer in all these different foods for different life stages though. I mean, why does a cat aged 4 and one aged 8 apparently need different foods, but yet one aged 8 one aged 20 are okay on the same thing?

In theory Girlcat should be on senior food, but as it was with her dear departed brother she shares everything with Tobias - she licks all the gravy/jelly off, has a bit of the meat, and leaves the rest for him to gobble up. But Tobias is only about 4 so not supposed to have senior food.

They are both fine on their current food (though Tobias needs to lose a bit of weight), and as their dry is Indoor formula that helps a bit.

I think the theory is that cats life stages follow a different path to humans. I year to 18 months as a kitten, then a "young" adult up to about 7, then the equivalent of human middle aged until they are very old so potentially another 10-14 years

Thanks all. I suspect at this point with DCat, the most important thing is keeping her actually eating enough, whatever it may be.

I gave Harry senior dry food but not wet. He was a fussy bugger or, as the vet said, quite particular so I was going to risk upsetting him!