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Deiwos said:
All of our vets and the rescue centre we got him from recommend dry food (Hills Science Plan). Our vet even said the only time the recommend wet food is when there's something like cystitis or risk of dehydration.
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Ummm... no, just no... One of our cats contracted diabetes and died early because of it by eating only dry food. It was "recommended" too & not the cheap **** with a silly amount of added sugar.

Cats don't eat biscuit in the wild and it is not a fully balanced diet for them, let alone the potential side effects.

Be careful... I assume the vets are selling the food they recommend?

Even the cheap wet food is not all that great for cats... there is a lot of added sugar and salt to quite a bit of it.

It took us quite some effort to migrate on of our littles ones away from her sugar addiction.

Now they eat fresh chicken/pork but still have some decent dry food for snacks, one of the few types we could find without many additives.
 
Deiwos said:
Sorry but I'd rather follow the advice of my trained vet than 'cat info' and 'little big cat'. I do not feed my cat what I do for 'convenience'.
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Get another opinion from another vet then... I have first hand experience of what a dry-only diet can do to a cat.

This advice comes from more than one vet other than the one who recommended a dry diet.

Intelligent and/or 'well trained' people can get wrapped up in sales garbage too, you know, they don't all conduct all their own studies... the studies they read are frequently sponsored by the companies who make the food... whether the vet is biased in sale or not, the studies they read are & their experience won't often lead them to follow this up with their own studies, they will trust what they read, as they did as they were being trained ;)
 
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crinkleshoes said:
Ummm... no, just no... One of our cats contracted diabetes and died early because of it by eating only dry food. It was "recommended" too & not the cheap **** with a silly amount of added sugar.

Cats don't eat biscuit in the wild and it is not a fully balanced diet for them, let alone the potential side effects.

Be careful... I assume the vets are selling the food they recommend?

Even the cheap wet food is not all that great for cats... there is a lot of added sugar and salt to quite a bit of it.

It took us quite some effort to migrate on of our littles ones away from her sugar addiction.

Now they eat fresh chicken/pork but still have some decent dry food for snacks, one of the few types we could find without many additives.
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If you read my other posts you'd see that our vets don't sell the food they have recommended. We use Hills Science Plan which is designed to give them the balance they require (or so the vets say anyway). I'm sure you'll find plenty of vets recommending it. What dry food did you use if you don't mind me asking?

Everyone in this thread seem to think Vets are conmen and don't care about animal health/nutrition.
 
Deiwos said:
Sorry for taking the tone I did but you came across as lecturing me on being a bad cat owner (all the articles you linked make it sound like dry food is the worst thing ever).
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I apologise then, it was not my intention to make you feel lectured. I was just trying to offer an alternative view point to the vets. The one thing that sticks in my mind is that you say your vet "only recommends wet food when the cat has cystitis or at risk of dehydration" but then, what caused those ailments in the first place? Also, if that food CURES those ailments, why not feed them that all the time?

Just seems logical, to me anyway.
 
I'll be another one to chime in with getting ur cat off dry if you can. I used to feed my 2 boys biscuits as an all day side but after reading about some of the problems dry food can cause I would rather avoid these problems so have taken them off dry completely. They eat only wet now and the good quality stuff from zooplus, gonna have a go with some wet from The Happy Kitty Company too as this is highly recommended.

Ubernoob makes a good point about if the wet cures those conditions then surely its the dry that causes them so why not just feed them wet? Its not as if its hugely more expensive to feed wet either. And I leave the wet food down till I get home from work as my cats graze so they would never eat enough if I only gave them say an hour in the morning to eat. And so far I have had no problems, if their poo changes or they look unwell I will then have to get them used to a set meal time.

All were trying to do is help your kitty have a good life and also may save you from some future heartache and cost of having to treat your kitty as its been on dry.
 
we've had cats for, well forever, and we've always been told that while cats can survive on dry only (as long as they have plenty of water) its generally recommended to mix dry with wet.

our 2 get:

morning
1/2 pouch of meat each
50g biscuit shared

early evening
1/2 pouch of meat each
50g biscuit shared

where its been so hot recently a lot of the biscuit has gone to waste where they just arent eating it (i'm assuming its too dry, even with the amount of water they both drink).
 
I feed my cat Thrive Complete tins, it took a little while to get her to like it, but as its 100% meat with no fillers, its better for her in the long-run, at 75p for a 75g tin its not cheap (from ZooPlus), she also has biscuits down to graze on in between meals, i would edge away from having just biscuits on their own with no other solid wet-food.
 
No friends or family who might take them?

Could perhaps try the free ads type sites - otherwise there are various pet rescue websites, they should help
 
If you can't get any friends, family or friends of friends to take them, your best bet might be a private shelter, though it would probably be good form to give them cat food at the same time too.

I think Cats protection mainly use fosterers rather than keeping the cats in a cattery.
 
^^ As Red_knight says above a private shelter that uses fosterers could be the way forward. Load them up with enough food to hopefully see them through until they find a home and they should be quite happy. The place I rescued my two from are in Essex, they could be worth contacting however I don't know where you are, so maybe not.
 
There is a cat who loves to sunbathe in our garden, but is apparently terrified of me, and won't let me come anywhere close.

What is the best way to break the ice? I'm guessing food :p So my next question is, what treats do cats find irresistible? I don't actually want to feed her because she's not mine and is well looked after anyhow. Just something small and delicious that she'll find interesting enough to approach me for.

In fact there are several cats nearby who are all adorable, but scamper as soon as they see me. I'd love to give 'em all a bit of fuss if they weren't so scaredy.
 
FoxEye said:
There is a cat who loves to sunbathe in our garden, but is apparently terrified of me, and won't let me come anywhere close.

What is the best way to break the ice? I'm guessing food :p So my next question is, what treats do cats find irresistible? I don't actually want to feed her because she's not mine and is well looked after anyhow. Just something small and delicious that she'll find interesting enough to approach me for.

In fact there are several cats nearby who are all adorable, but scamper as soon as they see me. I'd love to give 'em all a bit of fuss if they weren't so scaredy.
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Most cat's whilst outside are much more cautious. They are in your territory, and will usually recognize you as a threat or anyone they don't recognize as a threat.

I suggest you approach them on more familiar ground and see if you can build a rapport. Cat's aren't stupid and in general don't wander around so starving that they can't resist a morsal of food from a creeping stranger..
 
Erm, assuming that the sunbathing cat is not a stray and belongs to someone. I would be seething if somebody fed my cat, without my knowledge.

My advice is that if the cat belongs to someone else, do not attempt to feed it.
If it is a stray - do as you wish.
 
sunama said:
Erm, assuming that the sunbathing cat is not a stray and belongs to someone. I would be seething if somebody fed my cat, without my knowledge.

My advice is that if the cat belongs to someone else, do not attempt to feed it.
If it is a stray - do as you wish.
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That's why I said I'm not looking to feed her ;)

But I don't think I single tasty nibble really counts. That's like saying you can't give a child a couple raisins from a van with a bear painted on it.
 
Just to clarify 1 single tasty nibble does count.
All it takes is a few pieces of food to give a cat diarrhea.
My cats have incredibly sensitive stomachs (some cats are more robust).
Its best not give a single morsel. UNLESS these are strays, in which case they are probably robust and are used to scrounging food from dust bins.
 
sunama said:
Just to clarify 1 single tasty nibble does count.
All it takes is a few pieces of food to give a cat diarrhea.
My cats have incredibly sensitive stomachs (some cats are more robust).
Its best not give a single morsel. UNLESS these are strays, in which case they are probably robust and are used to scrounging food from dust bins.
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Point taken, but I'd still like an answer to my question. Let's assume the cat is a stray, OK?

What treats do cats find most enticing? I'm not buying pouches of wet food, just something small and tasty. Any ideas?
 
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