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Hello,
What a way to introduce myself here! I have just found this forum & am so thrilled to have done so. I have had cats my entire life. I was raised on a farm so the cats always got dry food. I now feed mine Purina One now after dabbling with Science Diet & some other vet recommended food, but am looking for something good as their waste stinks to high heaven.
So I currently have two yellow boys-one huge & one small!! The huge one is overweight-I found him as a kitten at a farm show & took him home when no one claimed him. He was the size of a 6 week old, but the vet aged him at 3 months. To make a long story short, he has made sure that he will never be starved again & has tremendous food issues. I tried to diet him once & after I tripped on him a dozen times one day, I decided this was a losing battle. My rationale-he's a cat & doesn't understand being fat can lead to a shorter life span/health problems!! I'd rather him be fat & happy, than miserable. That being said, we have given him light food & experimented with food without much success. Moving to cat 2, he's a normal eater, but did have the urinary blockage requiring surgery at age 3 & has refused to pee in the litter box ever since. (He's now 7 & the fat one is 6) He finds towels on the floor or paper to pee on. As we have a 4 year old, something is always somewhere on our floor unless we have company
, so he usually finds somewhere to pee. So now you know both of our problems so to speak.
Here are my questions: I really have not had much luck with 'good' food in regards to controlling poop odor & my fat boy wanting to eat less. So any food recommendations with urinary considerations in mind would be greatly appreciated. I just renovated my house slightly & moved my computer desk/station right by the litter box, so the odor is killing me. I also work online, so I'm here quite often & of course my babies always seem to need to go when I'm working! So any good smell food recommendations would make me forever grateful!
Finally, any suggestions on my pisser boy would be appreciated as well. My DH threatens his life at least bimonthly (Max cuddles & plays with him at night to stay alive I think)!! So any ideas for him would be great,too! Have a great weekend everyone & thanks in advance for all the great advice you all might have!
What a way to introduce myself here! I have just found this forum & am so thrilled to have done so. I have had cats my entire life. I was raised on a farm so the cats always got dry food. I now feed mine Purina One now after dabbling with Science Diet & some other vet recommended food, but am looking for something good as their waste stinks to high heaven.
So I currently have two yellow boys-one huge & one small!! The huge one is overweight-I found him as a kitten at a farm show & took him home when no one claimed him. He was the size of a 6 week old, but the vet aged him at 3 months. To make a long story short, he has made sure that he will never be starved again & has tremendous food issues. I tried to diet him once & after I tripped on him a dozen times one day, I decided this was a losing battle. My rationale-he's a cat & doesn't understand being fat can lead to a shorter life span/health problems!! I'd rather him be fat & happy, than miserable. That being said, we have given him light food & experimented with food without much success. Moving to cat 2, he's a normal eater, but did have the urinary blockage requiring surgery at age 3 & has refused to pee in the litter box ever since. (He's now 7 & the fat one is 6) He finds towels on the floor or paper to pee on. As we have a 4 year old, something is always somewhere on our floor unless we have company
Here are my questions: I really have not had much luck with 'good' food in regards to controlling poop odor & my fat boy wanting to eat less. So any food recommendations with urinary considerations in mind would be greatly appreciated. I just renovated my house slightly & moved my computer desk/station right by the litter box, so the odor is killing me. I also work online, so I'm here quite often & of course my babies always seem to need to go when I'm working! So any good smell food recommendations would make me forever grateful!
Finally, any suggestions on my pisser boy would be appreciated as well. My DH threatens his life at least bimonthly (Max cuddles & plays with him at night to stay alive I think)!! So any ideas for him would be great,too! Have a great weekend everyone & thanks in advance for all the great advice you all might have!