Feeding my Cat

[smurfchops]

My cat is seven and loves his food - most of the time. I give him a mixture of Felix with biscuits or sometimes I feel it is a bit rich for him as it can give him the trots, so I alternate with frozen White Fish Fillets from Tesco or Sainsburys which I feel are more 'natural'. However lately he has gone off the fish, which I microwave with some water. He has always loved it, but maybe he fancies a change. What alternative fishy meal could I give him, not expensive please ! How abouts tins of pilchards? He loves them, in the tomato sauce, but are they likely to disagree with him,if he has them a lot of the time? (Plus they absolutely stink). Thanks all.

[stonekicker]

you could try some tuna at times too, but is equally stinky. i give mine tesco value (about 30p a tin) and they absolutely love it!

[Rosetta]

Yes, I give mine tuna but I buy the stuff in springwater as I was a bit worried by the salt in The brine as she has heart problems. I could try the one in oil, I dont know if that would be ok.
Our vet suggested complete dried food to keep her teeth healthy but the cat has to have medication once a day. There is no way she would have it in dry food, she can detect it at a hundred yards . She now has a mixture of the two. We give her her pillsin a small bit of soft food first to ensure she takes it .
What a palaver.!!! lol
Good luck, they can be fussy creatures.

[bensmum]

Florence & Daisy love a sardine occasionally (not in brine or tomato sauce!). They are very fussy though and I have to warm it for them slightly. Sorry - I'm a slave to my cats I know!

[smurfchops]

Thanks cat lovers, I know I'm not the only one potty about cats. My cat has all his food from the fridge and doesn't mind it cold, not keen on too much tuna though and doesn't like poached salmon or smoked salmon believe it or not. I will try some Tesco tuna and Pilchards but maybe not in brine, I 'm not too keen on too much canned cat food, I always think, what is in it ? Donkey ?? Loads of fat ?? Not keen on all dry food either, as they have to drink lots of water and that doesn't seem right that they are so 'dry'. Why do we do it ? Cos we love 'em !!

[mccfluff]

i poach chicken legs and shred the meat and give that to murph

[frankofile]

Funny enough, mine all adore sardines in tomato sauce in preference to sardines in oil. Personally I don't like oil, as the one time I gave it, well it acted like a dose of caster oil , poo everywhere. Appart from sardines in tomato sauce, mine are increiblly conservative, Wont touch trimmings from beef or pork, but love chicken skin. Panda says hello.

[puss_boots]

Don't talk to me about feeding cats. I have two of the fussiest cats in the Universe. They both sit looking at me every time I come home with a carrier bag hoping for something juicy. I give them human chicken one day, the next day they turn their noses up. Tuna, they like but not the cheap stuff.....oh no......the dearer brands. Prawns well thats another thing, but not the Tesco value ones its got to be King prawns or nothing. I must be mad, my husband goes balistic, he says the cats are better fed than he is. Last week I was determind to make a stand and went to Aldi for the cats food........does anyone want 2 boxes of Aldi cat food free, minus one satchet which got chucked in the bin.

[lindapinda]

Lol Puss ;-) Give up and accept the inevitable!! Think your husband should be going on a training programme though lol

[wolf63]

Frankie and Princess Merlin love Tesco's roast beef from the deli. Frankie guzzles it down really fast so that he can then go and steal poor Merlin's too. He eats it so fast he sounds like a lion guzzling on the whole cow.

I have a carrier bag full of sachets of food that are no longer acceptable to the two monsters. There should be a central point in each town where you can take the unwanted flavours and do a swap.

[puddicat]

Yep my cat zebbi is nortoriously fussy, my mum gives up trying to bring her new brands to try, just dosent seem interested in fresh fish, but loves the fish from the chippie take the batter off and give her some, she ends up eating more than me,loves butter and cream, and toasted cheese!!!!!!

[LoftyLottie]

What a brilliant idea Wolf63.

However, our local Morrisons has a tub in the foyer for people to donate dog and cat food to a local rescue sanctuary.

Funnily since my cat, Alicia, was first fed Hills dried cat food she really isn't interested in anything else - turns her nose up at everything, but every so often will eat half a Whiskas pouch if she likes the look or smell of it. It does make life a lot easier.

All I have to do now is tell her that it's not normal for cats to only drink water from a glass on the work surface and that I would prefer it if she went to the loo outside and not rush in with crosslegs to use the cat litter, before diving off out again!!

Cats, don't you just love 'em!!!

[puddicat]

Lofty my cat was traumatised when i got her we think she was a ferral cat that lost her way, got her to use the indoor litter tray, but wont really go outside for that long, but she will also cross her legs than do it outside, given up now that she is 8 years old!!!

[LoftyLottie]

Same age as Alicia, puddicat!

[ansme]

I kid you not last night my cat ate chinese chili prawn noodles I swear he's mad! Followed by ice cream in fact he chased me down the hallway when he saw I had it...so maybe try human food!...o and he love yoguart, thats spelt wrong but you know what I mean!

[bensmum]

I'm glad it's not just me who panders to their whims. Flossie won't eat prawns (fortunately). She doesn't ;ole coley either but will eat cod and love haddock. I also buy roast beef, pork etc. from Tesco's deli. I hate buying packs of new foods because I very often have to give most of it away. I'm lucky though because when I go round feeding cats if there is something I haven't tried I ask if I can try a sachet before I buy a big box. (I always replace it!). Most owners understand as they have similar problems with their own cats!
OMG Flossie - the old toothless one- has just had a mouse, do they ever grow up?

[smurfchops]

Thank you all so much, its nice to hear from so many cat lovers. Here is my baby, let's have some more photos !

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[bensmum]

I love ginger cats - he is absolutely gorgeous and well worth spoiling!

[lindapinda]

Aww smurf,he's gorgeous :-)..I love the way,a cat sees a box and it's love at first sight lol. Put a box down in the room,and our Wee Man is either in it or on top of it !

[Sir Alec]

There's a scruffy old cardboard box on my Dad's teak dining table which we can't remove cos it's where the cat has an optimum view of the garden!
I've been putting sachets he didn't want up the garden for the magpies and have been lucky enough to attract a hedgehog into the bargain! Slug free at last!

[LoftyLottie]

He's just beautiful, smurfchops.

Here's Alicia

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