My cats are snobs!

Hi

I have 2 x tabby cats. They have always been fed Whiskas dry cat food.

My vet told me not to feed my cat dried food all the time as it will kill their kidneys and I should feed him wet food once a day.

So I always leave a bowl of dried food down for him to pick at, but evening meal is wet food. He seems pretty happy with this.
 
I had my cats nicely trained on dried food only. Worked really well royal canin or something. Then the ex GF bought them some Felix and that was dried food game over. I am sure they watched a TV programmes about Bobby Sands and went on cat hunger strike.
 
I had my cats nicely trained on dried food only. Worked really well royal canin or something. Then the ex GF bought them some Felix and that was dried food game over. I am sure they watched a TV programmes about Bobby Sands and went on cat hunger strike.

Bobby Sands cat hunger strike :D did they also write on the walls with their own **** :D
 
My family cat when i was a kid (and adult) would eat anything. It lived off of my mothers cooking while i was a kid, with everything hand cooked. Eventually my mother couldn't be bothered and he was happy to eat tinned food but continued to eat anything we gave it. It would go absolutely nuts for chicken kievs!

People use to say that feeding my cat like that was bad but to be honest, everyone made sure not to give him stuff with tons of salt or stuff made with cows milk (since they struggle to digest it). In the end, he lived to be 23 years old and survived cancer.

My current cat is incredibly picky, he eats very specific brands of cat food only, tuna and for some odd reason... Brioch bread. I dont know why, i have to ask any guests who stay over not to give him any if they eat some and he follows them meowing.
 
My three cats dgaf what is put in front of them to be honest as long as its food. Only exception is the oldest male, he will turn his nose up at it, at first but will eventually eat it.

They are always on Whiskas though, they only get the corner shop delights when i dont realise they are running low.
 
When I was a kid, our cats seemed to have a marked preference for rat. They'd pass over their normal food for rat. They used to go out hunting at night and it was almost always partly eaten rats on the doorstep in the morning. Yeah, thanks for the breakfast but no. I'll have cornflakes.

Maybe rat tasted better than ordinary food to them because they'd chased it down and killed it and that suited their instincts.

I don't remember what their standard cat food was. I remember I thought it smelled bad, but they liked it. Had to be the same brand every time, though. They'd know if it wasn't. Smell, I suppose. Cats have a crap sense of taste.
 
Cats have a good sense of smell but are lacking in range as far as taste goes. Their combination of smell and taste is great when it comes to meat and other proteins but terrible with starches/carbs/sugars for the obvious reason that they are carnivores and had never needed to distinguish one from the other.
 
Ours is a fussy bugger too,she used to wolf down hi-life wet cat food but half ignores it now.
Just ran out of her usual dry stuff so got Iams but she turned her nose up !
 
My aunt's cat will only eat the gourmet brand soft food, and it has to be heated. And he must be fed at precisely 8AM and 5PM or he gets very upset. She will also stop watching her shows and put on cat videos for the cat if it joins her on the couch.
The cat used to be mine but she begged for it after her cat passed away and I gave him to her to make her happy. He was eating dry food here with no TV access. He is clearly happier with her. He does not even look at me any more when I come over.
Oh and now she's buying cat music and a wireless speaker for sonic therapy for the cat.
#EyeRoll #SpoiledPet
 
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Was just going to post similar, i feel sorry for cats that get fed whiskas isnt it something like 8% meat.
Ours gets Applaws which is 80% with no added rubbish unlike whiskas.

Its really not, Whiskas should be ashamed of themselves passing it off as food.

If you think this is gourmet i worry.

"Cereals Meat and Animal Derivatives (including 4% Chicken in the Light Brown Kibbles) Vegetable Protein Extracts Oils and Fats (including 0.25% Fish Oil, 0.1% Sunflower Oil) Derivatives of Vegetable Origin Minerals (including 0.2% Sodium Tripolyphosphate) Vegetables (4% Carrots in the Orange Kibbles, 4% Peas in the Green Kibbles) Antioxidants Colourants from Natural Origin"

For comparison this is the applaws.

"Dry Chicken Meal (65%), Chicken Mince (17%), Potato, Brewer‰Ûªs yeast, Beet Pulp, Chicken Gravy, Salmon Oil, Vitamins and Minerals, Dried Egg, Cellulose Plant Fibre (0.03%), Sodium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Seaweed/Kelp, Cranberry, DL-Methionine, Potassium Chloride, Yucca Extract, Citrus Extract, Rosemary Extract."

The difference between dry and wet food is, well, wet food is 80% or more water, meaning if you add enough water to the dry food the numbers for Applaws dry make up 20% of 'normal' cat food. In other words, the 80% meat is 80% of the 20% that isn't water, or 16% meat. Meaning only it's only 8% protein when comparing to similar numbers for wet food.

For the record the Whikas dry food is 32% protein content, which likely puts the meat content at something like 60-65% range. THe ingredients are listed very differently, but they aren't anywhere near as far apart as you think.


In terms of dry food and 'cheap' Felix comes in two varieties, the cheaper one which has the following

protein 8.5 %, fat 4.5 %, fibre 0.5 %, ash 2.5 %, moisture 82.0%

or the more expensive one which is

protein 13 %, fat 3 %, fibre 0.5 %, ash 2.2 %, moisture 80%

Which is absolutely comparable to anything Applaws do in nutritional content.

The dry food is by far the worst thing Applaws do. Dry food numbers are misleading as hell, but when it comes to Applaws their dry food is mostly meat 'derivative' type meats(chicken meal means everything but beak/feet/entrails thrown a mincer and what comes out the other end, bone included, most people just call it meat derivatives, it just means left over junk).

Their wet food is far far better. If you look at their pouches like this one

http://www.applaws.co.uk/product/cat-tin-chicken-breast/

you see that protein is still only 14% but they list specifically chicken breast as 75%, rather than chicken meal or anything else.

Applaws wet food is higher quality, but a lot of it is seeing people wanting something better and putting nicer naming on the derivatives to make it sound higher quality(on SOME but not all their products).


Anyway, when it comes to our cats over the years, they go through fussy periods where they will reject the food they've been eating for years, but buy and large they get used to what you feed them at first then get mouthy when you try to change up on them.
 
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Our cat started throwing up every time she ate dry food, so she gets Whiskas pouches now.If she's not happy she can **** off and find her own food amongst the local wildlife.
 
My dog is the same, she won't eat her own food until she knows she isn't getting what we leave on the plate, she's always fussy if we change her food too.

Heh, thats the truth. My mothers dog always wanted the food from the table first. It was almost with a look of disdain if he didn't get that he resorted to his dog food in the bowl.
 
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