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Ah that's good. So £30-40 a month for one cat ought to be more then enough then :) That's not so bad as I was thinking.
 
I've gone for Butchers Really... range, cheap, not too much jelly (unlike Classic), no added nonsense and Oscar won't gorge on it, so doesn't throw up anymore.

I used to feed them Natures:Menu, but the recipe changed - 1% more broth - and they both stopped eating it.

This probably sounds daft, but I prefer cat foods where the cats on the tins look like people's pets rather than being photoshopped (like the whiskas cat) or entirely cartoon-style like Felix. The creature they have on the Felix kitten tins is quite hideous.
 
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I really want a pair of Russian Blues but they seem super hard to get and rather expensive to boot. I assume that there is no real alternative to waiting or reserving kittens from a litter and paying the money.
 
AFK_Matrix said:
FoxEye - I have 2 Maine Cooon boys of 9months and they eat a lot!! So I spend around £80 a month but that can go down a bit if I don't get the raw meat as it is quite expensive. But then they eat around 400-500g of food a day each!! I would think which ever breed you go for would be far less than this. And my boys are still growing and will do for 4 more years gulp!!

Captain Planet - Yes you can do your own raw diet but you have to read up on all the nutrients etc to add. Giving just raw chicken or meat on its own is not good, they need the extra nutrients etc. There are some great sites though on the different levels of raw meat you can do.
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Aye, I add liver and hearts to my mix. Nom nom nom.
 
FoxEye said:
Ah that's good. So £30-40 a month for one cat ought to be more then enough then :) That's not so bad as I was thinking.
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I get a bag of off cuts of chicken breast from the butcher, over 8kg IIRC for about £10. I then get a bag of hearts and livers for around £8. This all lasts me a month or longer. It feeds two young cats.
 
Does anyone compost their kitty litter? I haven't seen anything black and white that you can or can't. Lots of people against, and a few for. Just wondering what the heck to do with all that poop :p
 
FoxEye said:
Oh I see. No, I was talking about pedigree Burmese, Tonkinese, Snowshoe, Singapura, etc. I can get a moggy from the same town I live in :)

With a breeder you know your kitty will have been socialised during the critical 2-7 week period. They will have been handled from a very early age, and view people as cats :p They are more likely to be people cats. They will know exactly how much inbreeding there has been. They hopefully will have had health checks, been wormed, litter trained, etc, etc.

That's why you pay £500 and not £10 :p You average Joe whose cat has just had kittens probably didn't even intend to have kittens! They could have any number of health problems, FeLV, etc. Huge risk.
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When I was looking for a Burmese I looked on the Burmese Society website and got in touch with the person who maintains the breeding register. A couple of calls later and I had a lead on a kitten available, and a few weeks later she had taken over our lives. I think most of the societies keep similar registers, so that might be the best way to find what you are after. You might have to travel a bit, but it's worth it for the right cat. I ended up going from Newcastle to Doncaster to get mine.
 
FoxEye said:
Does anyone compost their kitty litter? I haven't seen anything black and white that you can or can't. Lots of people against, and a few for. Just wondering what the heck to do with all that poop :p
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Poo gets thrown down the loo, litter goes in the dustbin. Mine barely use their tray now they go outside, so it's not worth me worrying about if i'm honest :)
 
FoxEye said:
Does anyone compost their kitty litter? I haven't seen anything black and white that you can or can't. Lots of people against, and a few for. Just wondering what the heck to do with all that poop :p
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If you've got somewhere to put it all then it's fine.

My parents used to buy compost from the garden centre instead of cat litter then just dump the whole tray on the garden and dig it in.
 
Thanks for all the help :) Now, more questions! :p

I've been looking at litter and litter trays. Clumping, non-clumping, crystal, clay, corn based, you name it.

There are two things that would result in me being thrown out (of my house) immediately:
1. Kitty not going in litter tray (on bed, on floor, anywhere else would be disaster).
2. Tracking litter through the house (someone is obsessed with cleaning).

From what I read, World's Best and Cat's Best are both really good, but track everywhere. Also some cats like to eat them instead of use them as litter :p

Crystals don't track but don't clump, so I'm not sure how you deal with pee, or how you know when to change it.

What does look interesting is a sieving litter tray, like Oz-Pet:

http://www.spellboundcats.com/oz-pet-cat-litter/

Sold here:
http://www.brit-pet.com/

The wooden pellets remain intact until peed on, then they break up into dust, which drops through to the under tray. Unspoiled litter remains in the top tray. Poop gets scooped out.

Apparently a number of breeders use them with good results. The litter itself is a kind of wooden pellet, which I hope doesn't track.

Anyone used this system?
 
I have litter all over my house, it just gets caught up in their paws then tracks through the house. I have tried everything but it still happens. If anyone has a solution then I am all ears but I have Googled my rear end off and tried all possible solutions to no avail.

It is clean litter, but it is still litter and I would rather not have to vacuum every single day :P
 
Captain Planet said:
What are people finding to be the best flea treatment? We spotted a flea on Barry a while back, treated him, treated her, treated the entire house but now they're back. I'm using Acclaim spray on carpets, beds and rugs. Just need a decent cat pill/drops and break this damn cycle!
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advocate flea treatment is supposed to be the best at the moment.

forget frontline its been way overused and fleas have built up tolerances to it. bob martin again forget it, although it has most of the same ingredients as FL it didnt dent the fleas.

currently ours are on stronghold which seems better although its coming to the end of its cycle and we've noticed flea dirt is back. going to try the advocate next.
 
Red_knight said:
re: Litter - put some sort of rug in front of the box?
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A plain rug wouldn't do much. There are mats designed to reduce tracking, but they aren't all that effective, and worse, they can cause the cats to stop using the litter tray if they don't like the feel of the mat.
 
we've tried all sorts with our litter trays. we've just ended up sweeping/hoovering more often to stop the place looking like a gravelpit.
 
FoxEye said:
A plain rug wouldn't do much. There are mats designed to reduce tracking, but they aren't all that effective, and worse, they can cause the cats to stop using the litter tray if they don't like the feel of the mat.
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I have a bath matt in front of mine and it does work, if I didn't have it I would have so much more litter tracked.
 
Well I've already agreed to have the litter tray in my bedroom, as it was deemed unacceptable to have the smell anywhere else :p More incentive for me to make sure it's clean at night :p

If I have to hoover my room each day that's a price I can live with, but if it started tracking outside of my room that would be a deal breaker.

As you can probably tell, only one of us in the house is looking forward to the cat's arrival :p
 
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