The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Elawin said:
Quite sure, unless of course it's in the form of a tabby cat :laugh:



Quite possibly - now she is quite elderly, she has become quite finicky in her choice of food. She can't seem to eat "normal" cat food, and lately has only been eating the expensive trays, but the choices are a bit limited. She did have some raw chicken today (pinched from my greyhound), but it has been too hot for her to think about anything else. I have ordered her some Naturo cat food - when I give it to the dog, she often pinches some). Or, maybe, I should let her choose her own :D
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sidevalve said:
Cats are odd - ours turns her nose up at the expensive sachets but loves the cheapest supermarket trays. Is it the best - maybe not but at her age we just give her what she likes
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Yorky said:
Both of ours refuse to eat the "top of the range" free samples.

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When we had our last cat we bought her a pouch of food from ALDI, she enjoyed it but it gave her the most horrendous wind . :ohmy: :sick: she didn't have any more.
 
sidevalve said:
Cats are odd - ours turns her nose up at the expensive sachets but loves the cheapest supermarket trays. Is it the best - maybe not but at her age we just give her what she likes
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The Naturo cat food was delivered this morning with the shopping. Only three flavours instead of the four I ordered, but the tuna mousse went down a treat - maybe she misread the label :laugh:, and she did eat half a raw chicken wing too. I think it's the texture of the foods that make her turn her nose up at them - the Naturo one is quite smooth. Normal cat food is far too coarse, and chopping it into her bite-size pieces is a rather laborious task, and the Sheba and Gourmet Gold ones seem to be a bit too rich for her to have all the time. I may have to start pureeing food for her - many years ago, when there wasn't so much of a choice in pet foods, I had a cat that used to eat some baby foods. I've also got some of the Naturo grain-free dog dinners and may try her on the odd spoonful from them. She eats the ordinary Naturo dog food, and can sometimes be caught munching on racing greyhound food, or trying to sneak bits of my dinner. Maybe, like you say, it is just a case of letting her eat what she wants, rather than what she should have.
 
Elawin said:
None of my cats will eat anything from the Aldi, Lidl, or Co-op own brands :(
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This one has purina biscuits for indoor cats, they are supposed to have less fat and salt etc. than others which is why we buy them because she has a weight issue which we are trying to keep under control.
 
Have always found our cats will only eat what they like anyway - whatever it says on the package and whatever is 'recommended' as being good for them by vets and experts - after all they can't read the label and they were after all designed to eat dead mice etc
 
sidevalve said:
Have always found our cats will only eat what they like anyway - whatever it says on the package and whatever is 'recommended' as being good for them by vets and experts - after all they can't read the label and they were after all designed to eat dead mice etc
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Humans are exactly the same, we know what we like but it isn't always what is 'best' for us.
 
We have been to the cheese club. This evening was French cheese

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Ok, cats are my worry, we had a cat turn up here about 3 years ago, hung round the back decking. I threw scrap meat out for it. He's here now every night around 7 ish, sits at back French doors looking in. Wife used to say that cats back. The cat gets all sorts salmon ,steak,sausages fish, all sorts. Never turns its nose up. He's reasonably friendly but won't let me pat it.

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sidevalve said:
Have always found our cats will only eat what they like anyway - whatever it says on the package and whatever is 'recommended' as being good for them by vets and experts - after all they can't read the label and they were after all designed to eat dead mice etc
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Mine dealt most efficiently with a mouse problem when a neighbour's garden shed fell down, but as I have several birds nesting in my garden in spring and early summer they are confined to watching Birdie TV via the French windows. My female black cat did get up on the shed roof this afternoon - something she hasn't done for a couple of years now - when I was lopping some overhanging branches from some trees at the end of my garden which have killed my shed roof. There were no nests, or indeed birds, there - I'd already checked.
 
Lullabelle said:
This one has purina biscuits for indoor cats, they are supposed to have less fat and salt etc. than others which is why we buy them because she has a weight issue which we are trying to keep under control.
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Our cats are currently eating this. It was "prescribed" for the older Black cat when he had kidney problems. However, because they both eat biscuits from the same bowl the young one has to have it also (but doesn't appear to mind).

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Reduced from £7.20/kg to £5.80/kg.
 
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