Hello!
i am really glad to have found this website, and i can learn more and more about kitty care, etc. i really thank God i discovered the Meowhoo.com, which is a sister website. They referred me to this website.
i grew up with dogs and other animals. In fact, when i was a child, i thought everyone's home is like a zoo as well: we had rabbits, white mice, fish, birds, dogs, guinea pigs at home. It was not until i visited my neighbor's home that i realized it was just my family whose home resembles a zoo! Hehe!
i live in San Francisco, California.
Several years ago, i started feeding several cats outside my backyard. After many months later, i decided to adopt a cat, then two. Now, i have Daisy (20 months) and Venus (4 months/deaf.) They are both white kitties.
Okay, their diet schedules goes like this:
When i wake up in the mornings, i will clear all their dishes (4 in total - 1 water, 1 for dried foods, 2 for wet foods) and their two place mats.
By now, they will be scrambling excitedly here-there.
After vacuuming their food area, i will place two clean place mats, followed by a bowl of clean water (changed twice daily), then open two cans of fancy feast wet foods (normally a fish and chicken flavor.) By now, they are eating happily (at least i wish they are happy.. smiles.) i also give them a dish of dried foods. i used to give Daisy two combinations of wellness (salmon and lite chicken), but now, i add on the kitty foods as well.
i used to separate their diets, but gave up after they kept eating off each other's dishes. So, now, i combined their dried foods.
For the fancy feasts, they now have: tuna flaked feast, fish and shrimp flaked feast (favorite), grilled chicken feast (favorite), chuncky chicken feast (they don't like this), ocean whitefish feast in aspic seafood filets, ocean whitefish and tuna feast, sardine, shrimp & crab feast in aspic, ocean fish flaked feast, and chicken and tuna flaked feast.
About two hours after their breakfast, i will replenish another can, so forth - - in total about 5 cans a day.
The dried foods stay all day long, and water is changed at 6pm.
Please let me know whether i am at the right track, and whether anything can be changed or improved?
i fear that my lack of experience in cat care might result in overfeeding or something like that. Also, i am looking into supplements (or should i?) i have been reading n researching a lot on the internet (that is how i found about using theworld'sbestcatlitter so as not to "poison" my kitties) about cat care. However, there is no specific advice?!?!
By the way, the seven kitties outside get a combination of 4 dried foods every day (with fresh water.)
We all thank you in advance!
Please, ANY advice, is appreciated, as i hope to prolong my kitties lives as long as i can.
Cheers
