Hello all
I have 2 cats, one is about 1.5-2 years, the other is just about a year old..
My older cat, Tenchi, is like the family dog. He will beg for *anything.* When I cook I try to give him tastes of meat, but he particularly likes to eat fruit and will beg for peaches, pineapple, you name it. Is there any harm in giving him foods like this? My household doesn't really have any exotic fruit that may cause an allergic reaction or anything but so far just your run of the meal basic fruits he's been really happy with as a snack. Not to mention steak scraps
My other question lies along the border of nutrition\\behavior. I hope it's alright here in this thread.
Jasmine the youngest came into our house from the pound. They spayed her and we immediately picked her up as soon as she was recovered enough to go home. We got her at 4 months old. Unfortunately she got sick from her operation, and we had to feed her with an eye dropper.. We would give her water through it as well as mushed up food- offered her chicken broth mixed in with dry food heated up in the microwave (sort of a menu our vet gave to us) .. even a supplemental vitamin paste since she began to loose weight.
Jasmine eventually made a very strong recovery and although she is a growing kitten she hasn't grown nearly as big as Tenchi (tenchi is male, jasmine is female btw)..
not to mention that as soon as she was able to eat on her own again and felt strong enough to be free fed- she'd RUN to Tenchi's bowl and eat his dry food. No kitten food, no wet food, no shrimp, no fish, no meat, no fruit..
It seems like the ONLY food she wants is our older cats dry food. Yet our older cat, though he mostly gets dry food supplemented with wet still gets lots of yummy scraps, it seems Jasmine is the opposite.
Thank you for any suggestions\\feedback etc you may have
-Christie
I have 2 cats, one is about 1.5-2 years, the other is just about a year old..
My older cat, Tenchi, is like the family dog. He will beg for *anything.* When I cook I try to give him tastes of meat, but he particularly likes to eat fruit and will beg for peaches, pineapple, you name it. Is there any harm in giving him foods like this? My household doesn't really have any exotic fruit that may cause an allergic reaction or anything but so far just your run of the meal basic fruits he's been really happy with as a snack. Not to mention steak scraps
My other question lies along the border of nutrition\\behavior. I hope it's alright here in this thread.
Jasmine the youngest came into our house from the pound. They spayed her and we immediately picked her up as soon as she was recovered enough to go home. We got her at 4 months old. Unfortunately she got sick from her operation, and we had to feed her with an eye dropper.. We would give her water through it as well as mushed up food- offered her chicken broth mixed in with dry food heated up in the microwave (sort of a menu our vet gave to us) .. even a supplemental vitamin paste since she began to loose weight.
Jasmine eventually made a very strong recovery and although she is a growing kitten she hasn't grown nearly as big as Tenchi (tenchi is male, jasmine is female btw)..
not to mention that as soon as she was able to eat on her own again and felt strong enough to be free fed- she'd RUN to Tenchi's bowl and eat his dry food. No kitten food, no wet food, no shrimp, no fish, no meat, no fruit..
It seems like the ONLY food she wants is our older cats dry food. Yet our older cat, though he mostly gets dry food supplemented with wet still gets lots of yummy scraps, it seems Jasmine is the opposite.
Thank you for any suggestions\\feedback etc you may have
-Christie