Cat Food Survey for homework

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How many cats do you own? 1
How many are pure bred? 1
How many are mixed breed?0
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify) canned
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy? cheap stuff
How many cans do you buy per week? 10
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food
What is the most important reason for buying this brand? no reason
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify)
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like?
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents?
Do you greet your cats when arriving home?
Your age, gender, marital status?
 

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How many cats do you own?
None but 2 claim me plus ferals
How many are pure bred?0

How many are mixed breed?
2 indoor and you guess on the ferals
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify)
One gets dry the half get dry the other one get s raw and canned
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy?
I rotate about 10 brands///
How many cans do you buy per week?
varies on how much raw is eaten
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food
What is the most important reason for buying this brand?
Nutrition taste and the girls willingness to eat it
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify)
raw from the vet canned various stores
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like?
the cat eats it
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents?
Yes though one is my sister
Do you greet your cats when arriving home?
Yes one does
Your age, gender, marital status?
28 f single
 
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Thank you all so much for your participation!! I am overwhelmed by the number of responses. I'm sure my professor would be very delighted to hear. The ironic part was no one in our class actually own cats, so she said this would be a very interesting case for us to study. Hopefully you all enjoyed answering and have fun with the cats!
 

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How many cats do you own? 3
How many are pure bred? 0
How many are mixed breed? 3
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify) dry because its the only food they like
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy? none
How many cans do you buy per week? 0
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food - price, flavours
What is the most important reason for buying this brand?
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify) grocery store
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like? my cats aren't picky as long as it is dry food
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents? sometimes
Do you greet your cats when arriving home? yes
Your age, gender, marital status? 20, female, living with my boyfriend
 

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How many cats do you own? Currently 7. Soon to be 3.

How many are pure bred? 0

How many are mixed breed? 7

What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify): Mostly dry, wet twice a day. They think the wet is a treat.

What brand(s) of canned food do you buy? Friskies

How many cans do you buy per week? 14

How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food
What is the most important reason for buying this brand? Price and cat's preference

Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify) supermarket

How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like? If its gone within 30 minutes or so.

Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents? Yes.

Do you greet your cats when arriving home? Yes.

Your age, gender, marital status? 26, Female, Married
 

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Originally Posted by student84

Thank you all so much for your participation!! I am overwhelmed by the number of responses. I'm sure my professor would be very delighted to hear. The ironic part was no one in our class actually own cats, so she said this would be a very interesting case for us to study. Hopefully you all enjoyed answering and have fun with the cats!
You're welcome! We've gotten practiced at answering such surveys. It seems that at least one or two students find their way here to complete the assignment every semester.
 

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How many cats do you own?14 and at this time we have 11 kittens
How many are pure bred?4 adults and the 11 kittens
How many are mixed breed?10
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify)currently we feed a mix of Petsmart Authority and Chicken soup for the cat lovers soul Adult formula for the Adults and Kitten formula for the kittens. We feed Meow Mix pouches, and selects for our wet food. each cat gets half a cup or pouch per day. We feed these foods as the ingridents are good and healthy, and it is affordable.
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy?Meox Mix Cups
How many cans do you buy per week?49
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food Price and Nutrition are the most important factors, i want a good nutricious food, with a price i can afford.
What is the most important reason for buying this brand?Nutrition, and that my kids like it.
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify)Petsmart and Chuck and Dons
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like?Trial and Error
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents?Yes
Do you greet your cats when arriving home?Yes
Your age, gender, marital status?23, female, engaged
 

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How many cats do you own? 5
How many are pure bred? 0
How many are mixed breed? 5
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify)
Azrael is on prescription dry and wet food because of a health problem he developed when he was eating
kibble.
Jack, Peewee and John Doe are raw fed because I believe that is the healthiest way to feed any animal (my dogs are raw fed as well).
Tryon is on Innova Evo kibble as she's being a bit of a pain about switching to raw

What brand(s) of canned food do you buy?
Azrael gets prescription canned food.
The raw feeders don't eat canned food.
Tryon doesn't like canned food.
How many cans do you buy per week? 3-5
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food Nutrition is the most important. The closer the food gets to a raw diet, the more likely I am to buy it. Add in grains or preservatives and I don't want to know from it.
What is the most important reason for buying this brand? Innova Evo is grain free. Az's prescription diet is important only because of his health problems.
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify)
Raw food I buy at the grocery store, butcher shop and local health food store depending on who's having a sale that week. (Buy one get one meats at the grocers is a nice thing
)
Az's food comes from the vet.
Tryon's kibble comes from a specialty pet store.
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like? Well... I have seen cats go on hunger strikes before if they don't like the taste of something.
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents? Surely.
Do you greet your cats when arriving home? Surely.
Your age, gender, marital status? 26/F/POSSLQ
 

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How many cats do you own? 1
How many are pure bred?0
How many are mixed breed?1
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify)Wet food. It gets more moisture into her system, and as she has done excellently on it (she is allergic to corn). I also give her raw chicken wings and organ meats.
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy?Felidae
How many cans do you buy per week?I buy her a case of it every 3 months (24 cans once every 3 months).
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food
What is the most important reason for buying this brand? I like to give her at least two flavors for variety. My concerns with her food is that she'll like it, it has a decent quality of ingrenients, and that she will do well on it.
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify) I buy it online. I cannot find any corn-free foods within a reasonable disance.
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like? Trial and error. The only way to know what they like is to have them try it.
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents?Occasionally. I mostly call her my weird little roommate.
Do you greet your cats when arriving home? We greet each other. She usually runs up to me when I come home. When she doesn't I greet her.

Your age, gender, marital status? 22.f.in a relationship
 

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How many cats do you own? 1
How many are pure bred? 1
How many are mixed breed?N/A
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify)he get's dry 24/7 and canned once in the AM and then again in the PM. The dry is my choice since I am out of the house 12 hrs. a day and want him to have access to food as he feels hungry. The wet is to suppliment the moisture and protein levels
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy?Science Diet
How many cans do you buy per week? 14
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- 2taste, 1nutrition, 6price, 5coupon, 3flavors variety/selection, 4looks like human food
What is the most important reason for buying this brand? He does well on it
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify)Petsmart or Petco
How do cat ownsers know what brand their cats like? Trial and error
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents? YES
Do you greet your cats when arriving home? YES
Your age, gender, marital status? 46,F,S
 

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How many cats do you own? Four.
How many are pure bred? None.
How many are mixed breed? All (I'm pretty sure anyways..).
What type of cat food do you feed them? Why? Multiple choice- dry, canned, semi moist, combination (please specify) Dry (Friskies and Meow Mix.. Purina kitten chow for Clover) and pouched (Iams and Whiskas). Dry is out all the time, pouched is fed in the morning and evening.
What brand(s) of canned food do you buy? Iams and Whiskas pouched food.
How many cans do you buy per week? Usually one full box that the pouch meals come in.. sometimes only a few pouches at a time.
How important are the following in selecting a brand of cat food?- taste, nutrition, price, coupon, flavors variety/selection, looks like human food We usually buy a certain brand, see how well they like it, and then go from there. We don't do the really expensive brands.
What is the most important reason for buying this brand? Them liking it.. if they don't eat it, we try a different brand.
Where do you purchase the cat food? Supermarket? Specialty store? Other (please specify) Supermarket or pet store (PetSmart).
How do cat owners know what brand their cats like? We give them a certain brand, and if they like it, we keep feeding, and if not, we try something new.
Do you refer yourself as your cat(s)' parents? Yes.
Do you greet your cats when arriving home? Yes.
Your age, gender, marital status? 17, female, "in a relationship"
 
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