My answer to your gravy question would be: most of the time but not always. Tiki's foods (especially Gourmet Carnivore) have lots of slurpy juice (I think @bonepicker picked the right word for that... juice) but there isn't any carby stuff in that food. And Weruva's Cats in the Kitchen cans have a sort of gel/aspic/glop-like stuff that's not too carby, either. Beyond avoiding grains, I don't buy foods that are thickened or otherwise enhanced with ingredients like peas (in various guises), potato (starch) or tapioca. Well, except one Soulistic pouch food that has chicken and pumpkin that's thickened with tapioca: I drain off most of the sauce! Nutro Natural Choice's minced and sliced foods are also low-carb. Just watch out for those breakfast scrambles!
I switched my cats to the pate only. I put the cans in warm water for about 5 mins before opening. This seems to loosen the pate up so it's not a lump. My cats will lap the gravy but pick through the meat pieces often rejecting them.
LOL! My first cat ate houseflies. Not sure those cans would sell very well. She also ate pizza and mac n'cheese. We had to guard that stuff with our lives otherwise she'd snatch it right up!
When my cats had their URI a few weeks ago I broke down and bought a bag of the cheapest greasiest crap on the shelf that I could bring myself to morally feed them. Because they love it. Friskies Surfin n Turfing. The first ingredient is ground yellow corn. It does however meat their minimum standards and it's the one thing I knew they would eat. I had to force feed Kitten twice. Not only is it not pleasant for either of us it's simply adding stress to an already ill cat. I suspect that there are millions of cats that have never seen groceries like some of them here get and they seem to live long happy lives. By the pound and feeding guides the higher the quality of cat food the less they need, they fuller they feel and in general the less litter box odor. Mine go to the basket the friskies is in and try and pry the container open. Its like Kitty Krak.
AdorableOh yeah. all of my cats are grazers and if they go back to the dish and any part of it is crusty they will sit there, look at the dish and look at me, then repeat. It's like, "Um, you can get rid of this and give me something else any time now".
I hate wasting food too. I have thrown out countless cans of high end food because they refused to eat. Sometimes 3 cans in a row were rejected before I finally gave them something "acceptable".
Sophie also hates it when I put anything on the kitchen table other than their food dishes. She will scratch at the offending item until I move it. If it takes me too long to respond, she'll push it onto the floor then when I go see what the noise was, she'll look at me like, "what? I didn't do anything! Your purse jumped off the table onto the floor"
This is her "innocent" face
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We've donated some pretty nice food to the local shelter plus we always take some new cat toys. That or we donate it to the Senior Center. The meals on wheels lady out here knows who has pets.
That is so funny! We fed our last cat in a crystal dish (it was very cheap, though, fake cut crystal, definitely not Waterford!) when she was sick and it was hilarious to see it filled with gucky-looking raw chicken!
Mine would like medium rare porterhouse steak, grilled or roast chicken or grilled pork chops. Preferably served warm in these charming Waterford crystal bowls
My cats will only lick the juice off the canned food. So instead of wasting it I put it outside at night for the raccoons. I just hope it does not draw any ferals. I had my last two put to sleep last year because they were very sick. I had a feral colony and got them all sprayed and neutered 15 years ago. I'm just not able to start all over again.
