I'm just wondering what everyone feeds their kittens, and cat/s!?
What do they prefer?
Do they like treats?
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I'm just wondering what everyone feeds their kittens, and cat/s!?
What do they prefer?
Do they like treats?
Isis eats Purina Cat Chow and only Cat Chow. We've tried to give her better food but she refuses to eat it. She would eat around the new food when we started mixing it in with the Cat Chow. :rolleyes: She won and we gave up.
As for treats, she doesn't really like cat treats. She's much rather have a bite of beef or chicken or some pasta. She use to like green beans too but for some reason she won't eat them anymore. Dustin will give her syrup when he has pancakes or waffles on the weekend. :eek: Then he has the nerve to be shocked when she's hyper later in the day. :rolleyes: And for some strange reason she likes beer also. As long as you have a beer in your hand, you will have a permanent lap cat in my house.
What do I feed? Friskies, both the dry food and wet. Occasionally, Fancy Feast or the foil pouches as a treat.
What would Cassie prefer? Baby food meat purees, preferably chicken and turkey. Stir-fried chicken breast. Mozzarella cheese. Deli turkey. The liquid from a can of tuna fish. Shrimp. The foil lid from yogurt with some yogurt still on it (treat AND plaything- cool!) The white from a hard boiled egg. Milk!
Treats? Cat grass or human food, please.
All three of mine used to eat Meow Mix but when Dixie started having problems because of hairballs, I changed her to Purina One for Sensitive Stomachs. Now they all eat it.
They each get ½ a can of 9 Lives once every week or so.
Nothing but Pounce and catnip treats around here...
Now for table food, Toby likes my fried chicken (white meat only) and a bit of meat from Sonic burgers; Dixie likes whatever scrap she can find left on the table like corn but if I hand her a piece of corn or whatever, she won't take it and Churchy likes spaghetti and Ramen Noodles. They all like the "gravy" from my beef and broccoli when I order Chinese and the water I drain from a can of tuna.
Purina One, Salmon flavor. For treats they like Temptations best. I've tried to switch treats, but Shai isn't having any. She'll cry and pace around my feet until I give in or walk away. The other 10 aren't as fussy. They will accept or leave anything else. Since Temptations went up by 30 cents a package, I've been trying other things. So far, nothing has been totally acceptable.
On the other hand, Nosey will eat nearly anything I give her, including baked potato. :rolleyes:
Boomer eats Purina Cat Chow Complete Formula. Every once in a while we will give him a little bit of wet food but he usually ends up throwing it all up an hour or two later
They eat prescription kibble. Mostly Royal Canin Urinary S/0. Onyx eats Royal Canin Renal. They get both the kibble and the canned formulas.
The cats who don't actually need the prescription food get different canned food. They only get a couple tablespoons per day so it's usually whatever was on sale that week!
Sophia will be going on an all canned diet. I'll go get her a variety of kinds today and see what kind she likes.
They like just about any kind of treat! If one doesn't, another one does!
AvoDerm Cat food dry. Really good nutrients, excellent for the skin and fur.
My 5 all eat a mixture of 2 dry foods Royal Canin Fit 32 & Royal Canin Hair & Skin 33. As for wet food. Vixen gets Almo Nature Light (she's a little poofy but don't tell her I said that), Vega gets Almo Nature (she's a bit of a snob and refuses the other stuff), Bella, Frost & Phoenix eat Purina Gourmet Diamond or Perla.
It costs me more in a month to feed the cats than it does to feed myself & hubby. We want to make sure their needs are met nutrience wise.
As for treats. Vixen is a hairball magnet so she gets Gimpet Malt Kisses as treats. It helps with BIG time with her hairball issues. Vega & Frost like Trixie's Happies salmon flavor. Bella will only eat Gimpet Malt Kisses. She doesn't need them but she gets 2 a day. And Phoenix will not touch treats to save her life. Phoenix' idea of treats is a different type of dry food. :rolleyes:
Vixen likes also as a treat (human stuff) olives & pizza. Vega almost anything that isn't nailed down. Bella almost anything that isn't nailed down. Phoenix just a taste of sandwich meat now and then (turkey and porchetta being her favorites). And Frost is a fussy butt. He will has a taste of turkey and he likes a little bit of marinara sauce.
All 7 of my fur posse like Purina Cat Chow only. I just this year started giving them treats sparingly. They like Whiskas Temptations crunchy. They don't really care for soft treats. Creamsicle is allergic to all treats and even Purina Cat Chow Indoor Formula. Occasionally, I'll give them some of my dinner if it's chicken or fish and Coco Puff loves raw chicken, so occasionally I give him a few bites. As a special treat, I'll give them Fancy Feast Gourmet canned food once a week. Puddy also eats KD canned and dry because she's in chronic renal failure.
My 4 boys are fed NOW! Grain Free dry, and a variety of wet foods. They each get a 1/4 of a can of wet with both feedings. The dry food is excellent, it has some of the best ingredients I have seen, and is lower protein than most grain free foods. It is also cooked slowly, in small batches.
As for treats, I give them a variety of different brands, but they only get them a couple times a week.
SCIENCE DIET CANNED, WHISKA GEL POUCHES, AND IAMS ALL AGES DRY CAT FOOD WITH NUTRO COMPLETE INDOOR CAT DRY TOO.
AND OF COURSE THE FOOD OF THE CAT GODS
WHISKAS TEMPTATIONS.
AND FROMMS SURF AND TURF, A HEALTH FOOD DRY.
HAS ANYONE ELSE TRIED THAT?
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My 4 cats eat a mixture of 2 dry foods Royal Canin Fit 32 & Royal Indoor-Outdoor. They get this for breakfast and for dinner.
For lunch they get päté from a supermarket, called Carrefour.
Treats? Not on a regular base, in fact they get it rather rarely. But I can make them VERY happy with some dry Canadian catnip (thanks too Catty :) )
Mine eat Innova. Their coats look amazing on it, and it was the first food Corkscrew was willing to eat when he had fatty liver disease and needed to be force fed. I tried several different foods and he choose the Innova.
Smudge eats C/D (a prescription food to prevent crystals) but he does enjoy treats! He likes Kitty Kaviar (bonito flakes) sprinkled on his canned food, but his favorite treat is vitamin E. I found out by trying to put it on an allergy ouchie on his face, but he made it very clear that where it belongs is right on his tongue! So I looked it up, and it's totally safe, so when he hears me rattling my vitamin bottles in the morning, he trots into the kitchen and purrs for his treat. I just puncture the capsule with a pushpin and squeeze it out onto my finger, and he licks it off, purring like it's melted butter!
Bobby has to have prescription food: IVD, Venison and Green Pea kibble. I get the cans as well and give him one about once per week.
The rest of the crew are on Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul kibble. They get moist food added about once per week. That could be Nutro desserts, or a pouch, a can (half per bowl, so with luck half a can per cat).
Treats: What ever I offer seems to go! :D Temptations, Pounce, bits of boiled chicken breast, anything else I come across. I do not give treats regularly, maybe once per week if I think of it.
Max has a full bowl of Medi Cal Reduced Protein dry at all times. At night he inhales one small can of Fancy Feast.
About 3 or 4 times a week I give him some special treats - Wiskas Temptations Chicken or Hairball formula. I do have some Pounce treats but have stopped giving them because he gets the "runs" from them. :o
Dry: Hill's Dental formula. They were on Royal Canin SD (or whatever the urinary stuff is), but needed to lose some weight. Hill's Dental does the weight, teeth, and crystals.
Wet - Royal Canin; 1/8 can each in the morning. Doesn't sound like a lot, but when it's mixed with a bit of warm water (in a hot water preheated bowl, ditto for the serving bowls :) ) and the Omega 3-6 is added, it makes a nice appetizer before they dig into the kibble!
Treats - two Medi-cal treats in the AM, Greenies 2 - 4 when I get home/late afternoon. Oscar also loves plain yogurt as a treat. I grow my own cat grass, and love watching my 'little cows' graze on it! :)
Since Scooter Bug is so finicky (if he doesn't like his food or is tired of it, he throws it up for me to find)... right now all my kitties are eating a grocery store bought brand "The GoodLife Recipe". They all 3 love it. They still get their fancy feast (canned food, ooooh! yumm) and their pit-r-pat treats every so often but until Scooter Bug starts puking this food up, I'll stick with it.
(He's always done this, it's not a new thing...)
Just got the free sample of Greenies dental treats I requested from greenies.com - Smudge definitely likes them, so he'll be getting those as treats too. I used to give him C.E.T. treats to clean his teeth, but then he abruptly decided he didn't like them. Cats! They're like New England weather. (He even looks like a little storm cloud, in an oddly calm and peaceful way...)
My cats have been eating dry kibble made by WELLNESS and it is the HEALTHYWISE kibble that is supposed to be lower in calories. The wet food is a variety of different kinds to keep things interesting and I give it in the evening as a treat.
But....I just changed things yesterday.
I've been googling about Irritable Bowel Disease, something one of my cats has and found that a cat food made by EAGLE PACK with duck and oatmeal is helpful with this. I picked up a bag and a few cans and every single one of my cats LOVES IT!! I'm hoping it will help my cat George too, who is allergic to so many ingredients that are not in this food.
I've decided that the way I'm going to off set the price of the food ($27.99 for a 6.6 pound bag) is to stop free feeding them and just give them a small bowlful each in the a.m. and p.m. with a teaspoon of wet for a treat which I hope will also help my cats Paddy and George who are obese. I might even save money this way! :D
I feed them Purina Cat Chow, but sometimes will buy different varieties, such as Indoor Cat Formula and mix together with regular. I had bought a cheaper brand awhile back and none of the cats would eat it - they also ate around it when I mixed together. I have bought Purina Kitten Chow lately for the kittens, but the big cats end up eating most of it. :)
Since Starr was diagnosed with colitis/IBD/food allergy problems I now have to feed all of my cats grain free diets. They eat Innova Evo wet and dry and I also mix in some Evangers Turkey & Butternut Squash Dinner in with the Innova Evo wet food for added fiber. I've noticed that they all seem to feel much better now and they're much more active too. All of their coats are so soft and shiny too.
They also get some Vitakitty chicken breast treats a few times a week. These are also grain free and have nothing in them that will affect Starr's tummy. They're also high in fiber. The food may cost more but I'm glad that I switched because I want them to remain happy and healthy for many more years to come.:)