What Do You Feed Your Kitties?

We feed Armada or Preferred Pet. Depends what store we can get to when we need cat food. But what do you feed your kitties?

I just switched over to Nutro Max Cat for dry and have a variety of wet.

Mostly Eagle Pack in wet with some Innova Evo and Natural Balance Green Pea and at the moment some Meow Mix Market Selects to entice a sick kit to eat more.

My cats are fed a raw diet consisting of ground mixtures, raw meaty bones, organs and muscle meat. My foster is being fed some raw meat, Natural Balance canned and Chicken Soup For The Cat Lover's Soul dry.

Right now we're in a transition, meaning we ran out of food a few days ago and haven't gotten the new food yet. Don't fret, they aren't starving, we've bought some crappy food from the nearby grocery store to tide them over until tomorrow or Monday (I'm sick with the flu and a touch of an earache, otherwise I would have gotten the new stuff back on Thursday or Friday). They were on Timberwolf Organics dry for a few months, then spent a month on California Natural dry, then they spent a week on Blue Buffalo's Spa Select line (canned) and I liked what I saw during that week, so when I get food, Molly and Willow will go on RAW (I'll probably get a bag of Nature's Variety Prairie, plus some other packages of raw meat, I'm not sure), but since Buffy won't touch raw meat, she'll continue with the Spa Select canned food. In the future I'll probably upgrade from BLUE, but the ingredients seem fine enough to me, and since I'm just starting out on all-wet, the 79 cents per can will REALLY help me out, lol

I'm currently switching from Eukanuba to Wellness. And I'm feeding a mixture of wet and dry food.

We feed wet and dry daily of Chicken soup for the cat lovers soul, and chicken soup for the kittens soul. We used to get wellness, but it has proven to be too expensive for 30 cats. We feed it to the dogs though (12 dogs).

We feed the strays outside whatever cheap food there is at Walmart..wet and dry daily..they don't mind the quality..at least they are being fed

one has canned raw homeade

one has canned /raw with dry Nutro natural choice and look s like Natures prarie lamb

the dog gets homemade raw canned

1/2 Chicken Soup Adult Light dry & 1/2 Solid Gold Katz-N-Flocken dry fed free choice. He occasionally gets some meow mix pouches as a treat.

After trying some other, more recommended, premium brands, I'm back to Science Diet Adult Hairball forumula. They seem to do best on that. I know a lot of people don't like SD, but I go by their health, coats, weight and poops. They flat out refused to eat Nutro, even mixing it over slowly. I ended up donating the rest of the bag to the SPCA.

I feed all wet, and I feed either Evanger's Holistic Pheasant or Evanger's Organic Turkey and Butternut Squash (which is a food appropriate for cats with CERTAIN food intolerances).

They get Nutro NCCC kibble as treats.

Both of my kitties were on the portly side, so they get some SD r/d.

Callie, my older kitty who doesn't like wet food, gets 1/2c - 3/4 c food a day; half r/d and half Royal Canin 33. She gets a bit of pumpkin & a little bit of baby food with her meds in it twice a day.

Hannah, my 18 month old gets about 1/4 C of dry food a day; half r/d and half a mixture of Royal Canin something or other and Natural Balance. She also gets 1/8 a 6 oz can of food twice a day with a bit of pumpkin.

Stephanie

My cat eats about 1/2 cup of dry Science Diet during the day and half of a small can of Fancy Feast at night. (With the Fancy Feast, it's more just her licking the gravy and leaving tiny bits of dry meat everywhere.)

Willow gets Natural Balance dry and a few bites of whatever Odo is eating that day. Odo gets a variety of canned foods. For a while, he was getting Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul, Natural Balance (several flavors), and Trader Joe's (several flavors). His stomach has seemed to be a little sensitive lately so I tried to cut out anything with fish. Now I'm trying a new batch, including Evanger's, Felidae and some other Natural Balance flavors.

Premium edge for kitten for my two babies and both seem to love it. They go crazy for butternut squash (baby food) so that's their treat now along with greenies.

18 on adult science diet, 3 on rx C/D science diet and 1 eats all wet science diet(any flavor as long as its "cooked in savory juices")

I feed my cats Hill's Science Diet Light formula as I'm trying to make them lose weight. The vet thinks they are overweight. I also added a small bag of the Hill's science diet sensitive stomach to the food as they were throwing up at times and so far it seems to help.


My vet says that Taffy who is 3 years old and 11 pounds needs to lose weight. I must admit she does look heavy but she tends to always want food all the time. She'll meow if I don't give it to her or at least a bit before bed.

Misty is 2 1/2 and she's a small eater and the vet says that she's about 8 pounds but he wants me to make her lose some weight too. She looks very slim though for her little size.

I give them both a 1/4 cup morning and night each day and they always have water all day long and I change it twice day. I don't give them any treats unless I do their nails but that's every five weeks. If they do get some canned food its a small amount of fancy feast and that's maybe every other week so once a month.

If anyone could give me any advise on it it would be so helpful to me.


Anne

Wet food (canned or raw) seems to help the most in weight loss. Dry food has carbs, which explains why so many cats are overweight when eating dry-only. I recently switched my girls to wet-only (Willow and Molly get RAW, Buffy gets canned) and we'll see if Molly loses weight. She's a hefty 11 pounds, but she's not yet "overweight." Just solidly built, lol. She, too, seems to love food and when I switched to wet-only and stopped free-feeding her dry food, I swear she panicked. She constantly hovered around her bowl and tried to remind me over and over that the bowl is empty, and would I PLEASE fill it up?! I don't think she was hungry (well, maybe a little), but I think it was more of the idea that for once in the year that she's been here, food hasn't been readily available, so what the heck is going on?

If you can't afford wet-only, you can try half wet-half dry.

Nature's Logic Rabbit Dinner, dry. She won't eat the wet food. This food has millet in it rather than rice or wheat, and the cat is very slender.
She also sometimes gets California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato dry, and a little Natural Balance Tuna and Crab wet for treats about once a month.

I feed mine Merricks they have 2 favourite flavours turducken and thanksgiving day dinner.