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Thanks kittymonsters and jcat,
I think that I will not try mixed diet (dry+wet) anymore. After buying the Almo lamb+rice dry food, it started well. She ate 9 gr when I filled her dish, she seemed to like it. But then she ate less and less, and from 3 pm to 6:30 in the morning of the following day (today) she ate nothing.
I think my cat is multi-allergic to almost everything in dry food that is not meat. All food has some allergen, when it is not corn, it is rice, chicken, potatoes, or that long list of vegetables that "natural dry food" has.
She seems to feel real fear for dry food. She prefers not to eat. So I have selected some wet foods based on their composition and not in if they're famous foods or not.
I also talked with another veterinary from the same clinic that I go. He said me that there were allergy test. They cost 400 euros +300 to make the vaccine to immunize against the allergies she may have + 3 months of treatment. It is just 50% effectiveness, and may be aggressive for some cats. 400+300+200 = 900 euros in a treatment just 50% effective and that may end if no dry food alternative because ALL dry food contains some cereal, vegetable or chicken.
If effectiveness was at least 80 or 90 percent I may do it, but this is plain stupid because it is really random and in addition there is no dry food to choose.
She also rejected raw chicken meat that I tried to feed her, that is something that she always liked. I think that she instinctively rejects what is harmful for her.
So I tell you what I'm going to do, and please tell me if you find it's right or not.
I will be feeding her with 3 cans of 100 gr of wet food, at 7:00, 15:00, and 23:00, so there's 8 hours between meals.
This is because sometimes she asks for food all night and we can't sleep. We are trying to educate her to not eat by night from 23 to 7.
I will use some foods that are 11% protein, 4-5% fat, 2% ash, 0,5 cellulose, humidity 82%
I have used this calculator to know that it's more or less 76 calories per 100 gr. I have calculated that these cans have 2% carbohydrates.
http://www.scheyderweb.com/cats/catfood.html
Is this ok? Is 8 hours between meals acceptable? Sometimes she eats 250 gr or less per day, never uses to eat 300 gr. Is this right?
I think that I will not try mixed diet (dry+wet) anymore. After buying the Almo lamb+rice dry food, it started well. She ate 9 gr when I filled her dish, she seemed to like it. But then she ate less and less, and from 3 pm to 6:30 in the morning of the following day (today) she ate nothing.
I think my cat is multi-allergic to almost everything in dry food that is not meat. All food has some allergen, when it is not corn, it is rice, chicken, potatoes, or that long list of vegetables that "natural dry food" has.
She seems to feel real fear for dry food. She prefers not to eat. So I have selected some wet foods based on their composition and not in if they're famous foods or not.
I also talked with another veterinary from the same clinic that I go. He said me that there were allergy test. They cost 400 euros +300 to make the vaccine to immunize against the allergies she may have + 3 months of treatment. It is just 50% effectiveness, and may be aggressive for some cats. 400+300+200 = 900 euros in a treatment just 50% effective and that may end if no dry food alternative because ALL dry food contains some cereal, vegetable or chicken.
If effectiveness was at least 80 or 90 percent I may do it, but this is plain stupid because it is really random and in addition there is no dry food to choose.
She also rejected raw chicken meat that I tried to feed her, that is something that she always liked. I think that she instinctively rejects what is harmful for her.
So I tell you what I'm going to do, and please tell me if you find it's right or not.
I will be feeding her with 3 cans of 100 gr of wet food, at 7:00, 15:00, and 23:00, so there's 8 hours between meals.
This is because sometimes she asks for food all night and we can't sleep. We are trying to educate her to not eat by night from 23 to 7.
I will use some foods that are 11% protein, 4-5% fat, 2% ash, 0,5 cellulose, humidity 82%
I have used this calculator to know that it's more or less 76 calories per 100 gr. I have calculated that these cans have 2% carbohydrates.
http://www.scheyderweb.com/cats/catfood.html
Is this ok? Is 8 hours between meals acceptable? Sometimes she eats 250 gr or less per day, never uses to eat 300 gr. Is this right?