Poll: What do you feed your cats

Premium canned (and a minimal amount of premium kibble), with one or two raw chicken wings a week.

Premium canned and kibble for mine.

Premium kibble & canned plus raw once or twice a week.

Premium kibble & canned

Both my boys eat Solid Gold Katz-n-Flocken kibble and Solid Gold blended tuna canned and chicken, turkey, white fish & liver canned.

Innova Lite canned for my girlies. They enjoy the Innova kibble as a treat, about 7-10 pieces a day.

Sam's on vet food, both dry and canned, Mica eats what he eats (vet's fine with it) as, if I put two seperate brands of food down, Sam'll eat both, and it won't be good for his tummy.

They are on Royal Canin dry at the moment with Fancy Feast wet.

Prescription (I guess that counts as "premium"?) diet food: Purina OM. Kibble and canned. The vet prefers her on wet, but weirdly enough she's never really liked wet food and will only sort of tolerate it when there are no crunchies to be had. So Spoiled Big Mouth Kitty gets her crunchies in the morning and a little bit of canned at night.

What on earth is KIBBLE ? ? ? ?

Dry food, or biscuits.

Oh, what a wierd name, originates in US I suspect ! ta, now I can do the poll !!

Originally Posted by mooficat

Oh, what a wierd name, originates in US I suspect ! ta, now I can do the poll !!

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Thought "kibble" was originally from UK but may well be wrong. I know of very few around me here in the Chicagoland area who use that term...for what it is worth...

My three were just switched over from IAMS kitten to IAMS Multiple Cat - salmon. Occasionally they'll get canned as a treat but it isn't a staple in their diets.

Only Keef, the youngest, will touch human food. Sofia and Sabina turn up their noses to it. Sofia had a bad experience with snatching something off my place while I wasn't looking and that broke her of that habit. Keef, on the other hand, will go after an apple martini if given the chance (which is very rare!)...living up to her namesake I suppose.

WEll, I had never heard of the word kibble till I joined here, the UK forum I use mainly call them biscuits (as I do)

Hmmm. I've always used the word "kibble" for dry cat and dog food. I looked it up and here's what I found:

MSN Encarta defines: kib·ble [ kÃ:censor:bb'l ]


noun

Definition:

ground meal: meal that has been ground into small pieces and then formed into pellets, especially for pet food


Merriam-Webster defines: kibble
2 entries found for kibble.


Main Entry: kibble
Function: noun
: coarsely ground meal or grain (as for animal feed)

Continuing the KIBBLE saga......................its really intrigued me so........had a look in the dictionary, Collins Concise, and it has 2 meanings

1/ a bucket used in wells or mining
2/ to grind into small pieces

so there you have it !!

I've always considered the word kibble to be a 'technical' term for the small pieces in dry food.

According to dictionary.com

3 entries found for kibble.

kib·ble2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kbl)
tr.v. kib·bled, kib·bling, kib·bles
To crush or grind (grain, for example) coarsely.

n.
Meal ground by this process and used in the form of pellets especially for pet food.

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If you'd like the super-geek def of kibble, here it is:

a. That which is produced by kibbling, esp. (a small piece of) coarsely ground cereal or grain.

b. spec. A type of dry pet-food consisting of small pellets of processed food; pl., pieces of this. Chiefly N. Amer.
Kibbles is a proprietary name in the U.S.

And it came from the verb "to kibble": trans. To bruise or grind coarsely; to crush into small pieces. Also absol. Hence {sm}kibbled ppl. a.; kibbling-mill, a hand-mill for kibbling grain, beans, etc.

[OED]

Anyways, I feed Zissou 1.5 oz wet and a half cup of dry every day (seriously, that's all she wants, there's always a cup of dry out and if I give her more wet she sure won't eat it.

I feed raw