I hope the Health folder is the right place to post this.
I have not posted here much and am curious as to what kinds of things regulars here practice as far as things like:
Litter box
Types of food
Indoor/outdoor
For/against declawing
I've been going by the practice that the general rule of thumb for litter boxes is one box per cat plus one...to avoid litter box wars for multi-cat households, and for the case that some cats don't like to share and some don't like to pee where they poop.
I've also learned that many vets are not schooled in nutrition and it us up to we, the cat parents, to learn about nutrition. And that most grocery store brands as well as Hills/Science Diet are "junk food". That it's important to learn to read labels and know what cats need, that they are obligate carnivores and should not have corn and other grains. And that wet food diets are much healthier than dry food diets.
After having lost 11 of my past 12 cats to the road despite living rural, I made a personal choice to keep all cats indoors now. I was "catless" from 1998 to 2005...when Philly came into our lives in '05, I had already committed myself that cats would be strictly indoors.
I am against declawing. Is declawing a taboo subject here? I know it can cause a lot of controversy and arguing, and if it is something not encouraged to be talked about here, I will abide by those guidelines.
So, I have 4 strictly indoor only not declawed females and 6 litter boxes and they eat a mostly wet food diet which I am sad to say for now is Friskies because no one is employed in our home right now. I would prefer to keep them on the previous rotation they had been on, and still sneak the good foods in when I have a few extra dollars...previous to unemployment I was feeding a rotation of Natural Balance, Chicken Soup and Performatrin canned foods, usually the chicken flavors. They get small snacks of dry food but mostly canned food for their diets.
Rather than searching around for posts, I figured I'd just jump right in and ask about these things and see what kind of responses I get. Thanks for listening and thanks for any responses!
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