I took Marble (1-year-old domestic shorthair) to the vet for very noticeable weight loss and the vet suggested a diet change might make him gain it back. He's 3.9 kg and the vet said that's an OK weight for him, but he can benefit by gaining a little more. He used to be significantly fatter, and I'm all for the weight gain.
I've been switching up food because I'm just not happy with the current market trend in wet cat food here. The vet said "ANY wet food" but like with people, health care providers expect people to make smart choices too. I've been to 4 super stocked food suppliers and they don't have much on healthy cat food, since dogs are a more popular breed to feed commercial pet food to and cats are regarded as lucky if they even get table scraps.
It's mostly fish stuff. The popular food content being tuna, sardine, and mackerel. I believe in fish being stuff that's chock-full-'o mercury, and I think it's horrible that the cat food considered "top quality" here is basically poison cos they're full of fish. In my opinion the fact that tuna and most fish may have indecent amounts of mercury in them should be on cat food labels that contain fish. But these are the cards me and my boys are dealt with. Vet zapped our money for the whole month away, Marble needs better food, and the market sucks.
I don't feed them any if I can help it, but I'm running out of choices. My budget is extremely low right now because the vets cost me an arm and a leg just for blood tests. I barely have funds for myself as is but as much as possible, I don't want my babies to suffer for that. Plus the stress those two vet visits caused Marble is likely to have consequences, maybe even more weight loss than we originally started with, even. So a better diet than just dry food is important right now.
So for the mean time I want to give them stuff they can benefit from that's reasonably priced enough. There's this packet of Smartheart sardine with chicken and rice, I can afford it on a weekly basis until my funds recover. I'm thinking this is a lesser evil, because I read the packet and there aren't any by-products, and the only grain is rice while the only fish is sardine. I'm thinking maybe the vitamins and minerals part is just some multivitamin they dumped in the vat when they were making this. This is what the rest of the packet says.
Is this okay? Should I go with whiska's kitten food instead? They eat that stuff too. Marble isn't a big fan of it but he still eats it. They get it for dinner cos he sleeps straight until midnight after that and I was thinking maybe he'd gain weight that way, like how humans gain more weight when they don't burn their dinner off or something? I read somewhere that switching up cat food leads to weight loss so I can't keep switching, but I don't know the basis nor do I have legitimate reference for that. Helpful input will be very appreciated.
I've been switching up food because I'm just not happy with the current market trend in wet cat food here. The vet said "ANY wet food" but like with people, health care providers expect people to make smart choices too. I've been to 4 super stocked food suppliers and they don't have much on healthy cat food, since dogs are a more popular breed to feed commercial pet food to and cats are regarded as lucky if they even get table scraps.
It's mostly fish stuff. The popular food content being tuna, sardine, and mackerel. I believe in fish being stuff that's chock-full-'o mercury, and I think it's horrible that the cat food considered "top quality" here is basically poison cos they're full of fish. In my opinion the fact that tuna and most fish may have indecent amounts of mercury in them should be on cat food labels that contain fish. But these are the cards me and my boys are dealt with. Vet zapped our money for the whole month away, Marble needs better food, and the market sucks.
I don't feed them any if I can help it, but I'm running out of choices. My budget is extremely low right now because the vets cost me an arm and a leg just for blood tests. I barely have funds for myself as is but as much as possible, I don't want my babies to suffer for that. Plus the stress those two vet visits caused Marble is likely to have consequences, maybe even more weight loss than we originally started with, even. So a better diet than just dry food is important right now.
So for the mean time I want to give them stuff they can benefit from that's reasonably priced enough. There's this packet of Smartheart sardine with chicken and rice, I can afford it on a weekly basis until my funds recover. I'm thinking this is a lesser evil, because I read the packet and there aren't any by-products, and the only grain is rice while the only fish is sardine. I'm thinking maybe the vitamins and minerals part is just some multivitamin they dumped in the vat when they were making this. This is what the rest of the packet says.
Is this okay? Should I go with whiska's kitten food instead? They eat that stuff too. Marble isn't a big fan of it but he still eats it. They get it for dinner cos he sleeps straight until midnight after that and I was thinking maybe he'd gain weight that way, like how humans gain more weight when they don't burn their dinner off or something? I read somewhere that switching up cat food leads to weight loss so I can't keep switching, but I don't know the basis nor do I have legitimate reference for that. Helpful input will be very appreciated.