What do you feed your cat/s?

What do you feed your cat/s?

  • Wet only

    Votes: 5 10.4%

  • Dry only

    Votes: 2 4.2%

  • Wet and Dry

    Votes: 23 47.9%

  • Raw only

    Votes: 5 10.4%

  • Raw and Wet

    Votes: 6 12.5%

  • Other please state what

    Votes: 7 14.6%
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carolina

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mschauer said:
Complete and utter nonsense. Cats of all ages are commonly switched to raw. Mine were youngish but not kittens. The 4 of them were between 2 and 4 years old. I know of cats over 10 years old that were switched to raw with no problem.

I've heard about vets coming up with all kinds of nonsensical reasons to object to a raw diet but this is a new one!  :lol3:
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LDG said:
:yeah: My youngest cat is either 5 or 6 (no consensus on whether he was 3 or 4 when we rescued him); my oldest are going to be 10 this year. We are switching to raw - began in January this year. :nod: My holistic vet encouraged it, the other two conventional vets we work with are supportive. The one thing they all agreed on? The cats need to be on probiotics to ensure healthy gut flora. It is also suggested to use digestive enzymes, because with all those years of canned and kibble, their systems need some help with properly digesting the new diet. :)
...but when house cats get "lost," they survive eating garbage and hunting - not exactly bacteria or parasite-free.
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:yeah: Also transitioned to raw...... my youngest just turned 4, the two older ones turn 5 this year..... The older ones are taking it better than the younger, actually....... I think kittens are easier to transition just because they are not as addicted to kibbles, therefore are open and more flexible to new tastes/meats.... But to not doing well on the diet? Nah.... Not true.
 
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I forgot to say that I feed my ferals Purina Cat Chow and Purina ONE mixed together, and store brand canned food (which isn't terrible. . .but I wouldn't feed them the store brand dry food). Sorry ferals! It's better than eating out of a dumpster, though. Plus they can hunt for fresh meat if they want it.
 
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Hobo is taking to the wet diet very well. There are some he will not eat much of but mainly he likes more than half of the different brands and formulas.
 
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My kitty seems to only kind of lick canned food without actually eating it. Especially on pate's she just licks it without eating any of it. I think on other kinds of pieces in gravy she pretty much only licks the gravy too. So I want to feed canned but she won't eat it and I feel like it's wasting money to put it down just to have to throw it out. But she doesn't drink water much out of her water dish so I'm worried about dehydration. Thinking of getting one of those fountain things. So she's basically on dry but I still put a can down for her to lick every night, the small Fancy Feast sized ones. Then I have to scrape it out into the garbage.
 
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Josh Beck said:
My kitty seems to only kind of lick canned food without actually eating it. Especially on pate's she just licks it without eating any of it. I think on other kinds of pieces in gravy she pretty much only licks the gravy too. So I want to feed canned but she won't eat it and I feel like it's wasting money to put it down just to have to throw it out. But she doesn't drink water much out of her water dish so I'm worried about dehydration. Thinking of getting one of those fountain things. So she's basically on dry but I still put a can down for her to lick every night, the small Fancy Feast sized ones. Then I have to scrape it out into the garbage.
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Since she likes gravy, start adding a little warm water to the pate to make it into a slurry type meal.
 
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Is it better to keep some dry food around? Like say if I have someone coming over to feed him or if I board him? He is already picky with the wet I would hate it if he stopped eating wet and I didn't have any dry on hand.
 
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I feed wet and dry but now the warmer weather is coming they are hardly wanting any wet just complete dry.x
 
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Wet & Dry.  

Wet: Natural Balance Turkey & giblets/ chkn & liver/ sometimes the Duck & green pea & occasionally the Venison. (But mostly the Turkey he loves it & it's cooling for his allergy itchy skin according to a homeopathic vet). I stick to grain free & limited. Ings.

Dry: Natural Balance chicken & green pea or duck & green pea. (usually alternate bags).

He gets wet for breakfast & dinner to mix in his lysine & a pinch of nutritional yeast, and dry to munch on during the day & evening.
 
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I feed Bella and Thunder 9 Lives dry $3.49 and every now and then 9 Lives can food. 3 for $1.00 But when my Family Dollar (which is very close to my home) doesn't have 9 Lives dry, I do buy the cheap dry food. Is the cheap good for my cats or should I stay with 9 Lives ?

Every now & then I give my cats vanilla ice cream, little bit of cream cheese anything white. It must be a cat thing I guess.

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dejolane said:
I feed Bella and Thunder 9 Lives dry $3.49 and every now and then 9 Lives can food. 3 for $1.00 But when my Family Dollar (which is very close to my home) doesn't have 9 Lives dry, I do buy the cheap dry food. Is the cheap good for my cats or should I stay with 9 Lives ?
Every now & then I give my cats vanilla ice cream, little bit of cream cheese anything white. It must be a cat thing I guess.


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Well, if you get right down to it, 9 Lives dry probably isn't any better than the dollar store stuff :/. Check the ingredients to compare the 9 Lives to the cheaper food, and see if it's any different. Even if someone has to feed cheap dry food, some things to definitely avoid are added sugar, BHA/BHT, and ethoxyquin. And try to get one that doesn't have a grain as the first ingredient. I also prefer to avoid artificial colors, but most cheaper foods have a lot of coloring.
 
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I voted other. My cats normally get dry cat food and goat's milk along with whatever mice the catch. As of now, we are only milking one goat who is drying up so the cats don't get any milk. 
 
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Thanks guys. I will look at the ingredients before I buy the next dry cat food. Also my cats do not want milk just water out of the faucet.

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Mine only get grain free wet food. No kibble and no grains whatsoever. 
 
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Mine are 100% grain free wet and 75% grain free dry i'm transitioning them to no grain right now next month hopefully its 100% on both
 
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