What do you think about this menu for new cat?

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Hello

I adopted a 12 year old female rescue 2 weeks ago. 6kg. Fairly sedentary so far. She's quite fussy on food. Doesn't like wet at all so far!

This is the daily menu we've sort of fallen into, what do you think? Too much/too little? Is the balance off?

Thanks

2 slices of ham
Small tin of tuna
Handful of dry food
A few dreamies

That diet sounds awful, not nearly enough and very unhealthy . Our rescue cat is about 2kg smaller than yours. She is fussy with a, small appetite but eats 2 sachets of Mon Petit per day and has 2 types of dry food available at all times in a small double bowl. She has a few dreanies etc every few days. Is your cat not hungry on that limited dit?

I'm glad you've seen sense with the dry food. Frankly you've been feeding her a high salt diet - having had a cat with kidney disease surely you knew this was a bad idea? And she won't have had any taurine unless she hunted every day.

Depends on the cat
Mine is 7kg and gets 50g of dry which is about a handful and one pouch a day, I don't want him to gain anything so have to manage it really tightly

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That's a fair point, which I hadn't considered. I'll need to think about this as I'm trying my cat on fish and chicken thighs diet in an effort to stop him vomiting all the time

have you considered raw feeding? I raw feed my two cats who came to us with tummy problems and they are doing amazing!

op look into raw feeding, cats a carnivores and this is the most species appropriate diet for them.

@Galaxywhirl I did think about it, and I would like to, but I'm concerned about parasites, although I haven't really looked in to it and whether they can get them cross species. Good to know it helps though

I tried both my cats on Bella & Duke raw food. Neither liked it.

I was just at the rescue today dropping off a load of unwanted food, toys and blankets!

My cats have untamed. They include actual meat, you can see chunks of fish and full prawns in the fish ones.

They have the wet and the dry food. They absolutely demolish every tin.