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Anyone have cats that have made it over the age of 15 or even 20? If so, what did you feed them? Anything in particular you believe contributed to their longevity? Any other habits?
have you tried cooked cat food? i just cook some meat (chicken breast, chicken liver, or turkey) i grind it up, cook it in water. and add some vitamins. I use U-stew, but there are many other brands, and you can even buy the vitamins and mix it up yourself. But my cats love this stuff! I switched them from canned food, to home cooked food.In the past 6 or so years, I've fed them the highest quality foods I can reasonably afford. We do Friskies pates, with cans of Wilderness and other premiums mixed into the rotation. They always have a bowl of dry out for free feeding and for that we use Authority from Petsmart. Honestly, if they would eat it, I would love to switch them to raw. My older ones are so set in their ways, I'll have do the switch with our next generation of cats.
Yep, I've tried home-cooked. No go.have you tried cooked cat food? i just cook some meat (chicken breast, chicken liver, or turkey) i grind it up, cook it in water. and add some vitamins. I use U-stew, but there are many other brands, and you can even buy the vitamins and mix it up yourself. But my cats love this stuff! I switched them from canned food, to home cooked food.
Havent been able to convince them to eat raw. lol But this is working thus far.
Oh my goodness, cats sure are picky arent they? It tooks me a few weeks and a few recipes to get my cats away from canned food. I do use a meat grinder for the liver, and half the chicken, although i do cut some of them, as one of my cats likes the chunky pieces.Yep, I've tried home-cooked. No go.
Every time I cook a whole chicken, I fix the giblets for the cats. But they always end up sitting there in the dish until I have to throw them out. I've done them raw and diced down teeny-tiny, and cooked and mashed. Even tried it without the liver in case that texture was turning them off. Picky boogers!
We have issues getting them to eat some of the chunkier premium foods. They are not even very chunky, just not super-fine. I have to mash everything with the back of a fork until it is almost a paste. I do want to get a meat grinder to see if that fine texture they produce will help. One of my new, adult cats seems to be more adventurous in his eating habits, so I am going to try to switch him and my youngest over once I get that meat grinder. I've been eyeing up my Mom's, but she's not letting go of it, lol! I'm hoping my not-so-subtle hints will result in a Christmas present.
or harmed by sick humans.I also believe cats that go out supplement their diet, get more exercise and enrichment, but alas it only works if they do not get killed or succumb to poison or disease.
Which is sad but true. Our new enclosure is great: it's basically a screened in porch so there's nothing to supplement their diet :-) but watching chipmunks, squirrels, birds, and bugs close-up sure keeps them busy... and totally exhausts them by the end of the day! I wish we'd done this sooner, for them and us.
or harmed by sick humans.
a good way for cats to get all that you say, and go outside safely is a cat enclosure. its what i plan on doing. to enclose part of my yard for my cat.