Question of The Day. Saturday 25th of February

Hello, Happy Saturday!

What's on the menu for your cats today?

For breakfast we had a choice of chicken and turkey chunks in gravy or sea-food mix in jelly.

Our afternoon snack was half a serving of Sheba dry food with a handful of Crispy Kisses dry treats on top. I only give them half a serving each as they don't always finish a whole serving and my chubby cat always finishes any left-overs.

Dinner was lamb chunks in gravy or shredded tuna in jelly.

Overnight they get a bowl of Silver Spoon urinary care dry food with dried sardines sprinkled in top.  There is also a fresh tub of cat grass to chew up and spit out if the please.

How about your cats? What are they eating today?

Mogli had 100 g. of the usual limited ingredient canned food for breakfast and will get the other half of the can this evening. Today's choice is rabbit and potato.

This morning, Mollipop, Amber Louise and Muffin shared a can of Friskies Buffet Poultry Platter (1/3 of the can for each). Molli had her breakfast with a garnish of Hills Dental Diet, which is five pieces of kibble scattered on top of her canned food. Muffin had her breakfast with a garnish of Friskies Indoor Delights. 

Tabby and Ms. Pepe shared a can of Friskies Buffet Gourmet Bits (1/2 of the can each); Ms. Pepe's breakfast was heated in the microwave for 9 seconds because she likes her food warm now. I garnished Tabby's plate with a bit of Friskies Indoor Delights. 

If I don't garnish the plates with the dry food, Molli and Tabby won't eat and will walk around the kitchen in high-huff mood. Muffin will still eat her food, but then she expects the kibble immediately after she's finished and will sit at her "place" on the kitchen floor and stare at the cupboard with her dry food.

And then everybody finished their breakfast with a wee bit of Whiskas Cat Milk.

The Beast ate one cup of her Royal Canin Urinary Tract dry food, mixed with water from the cats' empty food cans. Followed by her monthly heartworm chewie this morning.

Lunch for the kids will be dry cat food and more RCUT food for The Beast. Supper will be cans of cat food as described above (just different varieties) and more of the dog food for The Beast.  And then they'll get a bedtime snack tonight.

They have us well-trained.

Mine got a special treat this AM, a can of tuna that I got on sale for 50 cents. They will get turkey shreds with cheese that noon, their usual, and whatever can I grab in the evening. My outside feral will only eat pate, turkey preferred, and little Mouse, (yes he's still around and looks fatter) likes 9 lives pate and chunk food, it must be what he was used to, he doesn't care for Friskies. My oldest, Burt, is the challenge, he doesn't eat much of anything, I'm lucky to get him to lick the juice off of anything. He still prefers dry, but his skinniness worries me. Trying to force a cat to eat is almost impossible, I try to tempt him with bacon and other foods but he doesn't much care anymore. 

we are boring in my house. tuna for breakfast (can lasts 3 days) with miralax for pumps.Honeybee comes in later to eat the chunks-most mornings I put in a second shot of water/miralax but I forgot to this morning-pumps licks the juice and doesn't eat the meat. This is the only thing they both will lick up religiously. Has to be Dark tuna or light tuna I guess they call it. They hate white tuna. Comes 4 cans in a pack-the green label..forget what kind..not bumblebee I don't think...

then they eat kibble Tractor supply 4Health-they really like this one so I have to measure it out otherwise they eat and eat=for weeks I was feeding taste of the wild but they don't really like it-they eat it but honeybee started burying the food and knocking over the bowl and scooping papers up into it (Jon has his pile of stuff he looks at stacked next to her bowl) it's in the livingroom behind the paper shredder because pumps won't eat out in the open..they have kibble for the day. sometimes we open a can of fancy feast but they just lick the juice and leave it.

Treats they get all day. Honeybee trained Jon to feed her treats by sitting at his feet and staring at him. If he ignores her she jumps up and bites his arm. Or meows first. Last night I got her to meow at him. Of course the twit gives her treats after so now she's trained him. this goes on about 4 or 5 times a day or more. He only gives her 3-5 pieces of those temptations. I give her freeze dried from orijen. She only eats those if she really hungry otherwise she licks it leaves them and walks away. She prefers temptations but I try to get her to eat as much of those good treats and not as many junk food...

pumps only eats temptations. She won't eat ANY other treat. We have tried! Pumps won't touch human food either. She is fussy. But give her a good mouse or mole she will eat that no problem. (Pumps lived on fresh kill for almost 7-8 years) she refused to eat kibble and only tuna. She was my hunter until Honeybee came along-then she stayed close to the house..only occasionally has she caught a mouse and it's only if Honeybee lets her have it. Thank goodness her wandering days are over. (I kept her indoors for a whole week back in 2006-she refused food-refused pets-hid under the bed-the vet said let her out otherwise we would have lost her to those people who say I am doing the wrong thing)

The cats each had one NV raw rabbit medaliion and a spoonful of rabbit / pre-mix or breakfast. Dinner will be the same but with NV chicken instead. Leroy's post-dinner snack is some NV Raw Bites in chicken. Their bedtime snack is more Raw Bites for Leroy and a spoonful of canned for Emma.

Popped in my favorite pet store yesterday and they gave me samples of Rad Cat frozen raw so Carleton gets a new treat to try.   

Artie is eating Hound & Gatos Lamb with duck liver. 

He free feeds. He will have breakfast, a mid morning snack, perhaps something around 3:30 and then a couple times before I go to bed.. and who knows what he does while I am sleeping.. but he does eat. 

Breakfast was Fancy Feast Classics, I think it was one of the Turkey ones. Cocoabean chowed down nearly 3 ounces. Casper nibbled for a couple of hours; he may have eating 2 ounces max (his appetite is not the best).  

Whenever Casper comes down from his mid-morning nap he'll be offered Weruva, today will be Steak Frites.  I stopped trying to feed the better food early in the morning because Cocoabean has fast food tastes and really just licks up the gravy of higher quality canned food. I'd rather feed them both the same thing whenever possible; but for a snack, I'll open up something else - mostly to get Casper some more food into him that is good quality protein.

Dinner will be Fancy Fast Classics again, whichever one I grab.  Both will eat about 3 ounces each, I find they eat better later in the day than earlier.

Casper gets a snack of about 1/3 of a small Gerber's Stage 2 meat based baby food a few hours after dinnertime.  I hide a Probiotic in it good for renal health (he has Stage 2 kidney disease) and he doesn't even notice.  Sometimes, if I need to pill him, I can hide it in the baby food also.  Or a bit of cream cheese.

Before everyone heads to bed, I put out a couple of tablespoons of kibble for each of them. I mix Orijen's Cat and Kitten with Halo Grainfree Spot's Stew.  The Halo has a lot less phosphorus although the protein isn't as good.  Casper's  phosphorus count is slightly elevated so I'm trying to cut it back wherever possible.  The Fancy Feast isn't the best for him but on the other hand he consistently eats it so I'm not forcing him into food he won't enjoy - he needs to fatten up a bit.

There might even be some tuna flakes for them. I'm cooking fresh tuna for dinner for us humans   

Mine also "free feed" with no health issues whatsoever, and, as most cats do when food is always available, they eat only until they're full, and don't overeat, hence their general weight is about average.

Black Friday and Clawed-Ya: breakfast: Fancy Feast wild salmon Primavera; lunch: Fancy Feast chicken Florentine; dinnerurina Muse (probably chicken); Eightsies: sliced fresh chicken breast; midnight snack: Simply Nourish chicken and duck stew.

The Big Eight: breakfast: Fancy Feast turkey Tuscany; lunch: Simply Nourish chicken and duck stew; dinner: Eightsies: sliced fresh chicken breast; Purina Muse (a variety of flavours); midnight snack: several Nutrish varieties.

Back Yard Foxes (yeah - I know they're not cats, but they act a little like cats sometimes despite being "wild" animals): the cats' leftovers; some sliced chicken and ham chunks; maybe an hot dog too.

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I've got one who tends to be too thin and one who tends to be overweight. Lily will eat anything, and I mean anything.  Popcorn, crackers, pretzels, milk, you name it. One night she stole a spear of asparagus from my plate and ate it!

For breakfast, I feed both of them a little less than 1/4 cup Purina One Urinary Tract kibble. I have to separate the two cats because Lily will gobble hers down, and then push  Mingo away and eat his, too. For lunch, she gets a few pieces of kibble, just to get her behind a closed door, and Mingo gets a Sheba portion. For dinner, Lily gets one Sheba portion, and Mingo gets a can of Fancy Feast pate. He is picky and doesn't much like fish, so it's always a challenge to a flavor that he hasn't gotten tired of. Once or twice a week I give Lily a can of Fancy Feast instead of the Sheba.

I give them Temptations as treats on occasion.

SIGH...kibbles, kibbles, kibbles.  I have a bag of premium indoor, hairball and weight control kibbles that cost more than I could comfortably do, but HEY, it's Hekitty.  It is sitting there.  SHE is eating from the bag of Friskies that I bought for Little Bit, who needs the extra calories.  That 20 lb bag cost less than the 7 lb bag of the premium.  I may just donate the premium and give Hekitty what she wants and actually likes.  I try to feed her well, but she is a junk-food junkie.  Won't touch canned food of any sort that I have found.  Won't touch human food, cooked or raw, except raspberry sherbet, 

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
SIGH...kibbles, kibbles, kibbles.  I have a bag of premium indoor, hairball and weight control kibbles that cost more than I could comfortably do, but HEY, it's Hekitty.  It is sitting there.  SHE is eating from the bag of Friskies that I bought for Little Bit, who needs the extra calories.  That 20 lb bag cost less than the 7 lb bag of the premium.  I may just donate the premium and give Hekitty what she wants and actually likes.  I try to feed her well, but she is a junk-food junkie.  Won't touch canned food of any sort that I have found.  Won't touch human food, cooked or raw, except raspberry sherbet, 

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Well of course - everyone knows that cats in the wild almost exclusively prey on raspberry sherbet.

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Mamanyt1953 said:

 
SIGH...kibbles, kibbles, kibbles.  I have a bag of premium indoor, hairball and weight control kibbles that cost more than I could comfortably do, but HEY, it's Hekitty.  It is sitting there.  SHE is eating from the bag of Friskies that I bought for Little Bit, who needs the extra calories.  That 20 lb bag cost less than the 7 lb bag of the premium.  I may just donate the premium and give Hekitty what she wants and actually likes.  I try to feed her well, but she is a junk-food junkie.  Won't touch canned food of any sort that I have found.  Won't touch human food, cooked or raw, except raspberry sherbet, 

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you can do what I do=mix two kinds up=the lesser of two evils=she gets a bit of both! They are so fussy aren't they?!

 
you can do what I do=mix two kinds up=the lesser of two evils=she gets a bit of both! They are so fussy aren't they?!

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I actually tried that.  The "good" food was on the floor.  She picked them out one by one.  This cat is NOT your normal "fussy."  I think her father was a minor imp of some sort.  

let's see......

dude and deedee are having some precise wild at heart river line canned, deedee will have some NV Pride tuna mixed into hers, and dude will have some Wellness sliced salmon mixed into his.

our punky is a whole 'nother matter. she's been tentatively diagnosed with IBD (vet thinks she may have been born with it). the latest i've been doing for her is 1/4 tablet of pepcid ac twice each day, which thus far has prevented (even) more diarrhea episodes. but she still is quite a picky eater, which can mean that she's experiencing some level of gastro upset. yesterday evening and overnight she had some jar baby food, with the thought that that is very calming to her gastro system. she's (very) active, playful, and seems quite her usual happy self though. today, she's eaten a reasonable amount of the precise wild at heart river line canned. i'm actually considering adding just a small amount of weruva paw lickin chicken to her wild at heart river line. i want to exercise caution, due to her IBD, but would like to see her enthusiastically eating her food. we use so much forti flora (just as a topper for punky, as it's a crappy probiotic but has the animal digest in it that she loves) that i should buy stock in the company!

I'm sorry, but this reminds me of this video LOL:

Cat owners try cat food:

All shared one large tin of mackerel in water, kibbles Cat Chow

nothing fancy bought from grocery store last time. 

Friskies 'Cat Concoctions' (stinks yummy) few bites each   

This morning was Nutro turkey I believe. :nod:

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
I actually tried that.  The "good" food was on the floor.  She picked them out one by one.  This cat is NOT your normal "fussy."  I think her father was a minor imp of some sort.  

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Button Moon will do that. If I give him his regular dry food with treats on the top he will very carefully pick out and eat every treat, then yell at me for more.

Some of these cats get fed a lot better than their people do, I think.