Kitty Update
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felis_lupusWarning: The following post contains some stuff about my poor puking kittycats... No gory details, but... ew.
So, a month or so ago, I lamented about the lack of availability of catfood-my-cats-won't-throw-up (as much), and what on earth were we going to do about it?
So we switched food, to Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul. Dumb name. Pretty good food, it seems.
We mixed what was left of the Iams with a bag of Purina that I decided to try before the Chicken Soup. They ate it. Still threw up. On the carpeting. Mixed the mixture with the Chicken Soup food. They ate it. Threw up less. But still, 3:30 AM wakeup to a horking cat is not what I want. So tried an experiment. Filled one bowl with Purina (awful, awful stuff, really...) and one with Chicken Soup. Not sure which disappeared faster, but the only shapes that appeared in the next episode (on the &^$%! carpet, again!) were little dots, and squares, and triangles. Purina tossed. There wasn't much left in the bag, and I will not be feeding the boys stuff that they're just going to puke back up again.
We've been on straight Chicken Soup for the last week and a half or so. So far, I have found only one incident (sigh... on the dining room rug...), and it appears to have been just a mouthful that didn't sit quite right. I pin that one on Galahad. Lancelot, our little striped Problem Child, has had trouble-free nights, and I have not been unpleasantly awakened at 3:30 AM in nearly two weeks.
Amazing what some real food will do. Don't feed your cats junkfood! The link, again, for those that may want it: http://www.petfoodratings.net/cattable.html. There's a section on there for dog foods too. A lot of the dogs I know are pickier and have more issues with their foods than the cats!
So, a month or so ago, I lamented about the lack of availability of catfood-my-cats-won't-throw-up (as much), and what on earth were we going to do about it?
So we switched food, to Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul. Dumb name. Pretty good food, it seems.
We mixed what was left of the Iams with a bag of Purina that I decided to try before the Chicken Soup. They ate it. Still threw up. On the carpeting. Mixed the mixture with the Chicken Soup food. They ate it. Threw up less. But still, 3:30 AM wakeup to a horking cat is not what I want. So tried an experiment. Filled one bowl with Purina (awful, awful stuff, really...) and one with Chicken Soup. Not sure which disappeared faster, but the only shapes that appeared in the next episode (on the &^$%! carpet, again!) were little dots, and squares, and triangles. Purina tossed. There wasn't much left in the bag, and I will not be feeding the boys stuff that they're just going to puke back up again.
We've been on straight Chicken Soup for the last week and a half or so. So far, I have found only one incident (sigh... on the dining room rug...), and it appears to have been just a mouthful that didn't sit quite right. I pin that one on Galahad. Lancelot, our little striped Problem Child, has had trouble-free nights, and I have not been unpleasantly awakened at 3:30 AM in nearly two weeks.
Amazing what some real food will do. Don't feed your cats junkfood! The link, again, for those that may want it: http://www.petfoodratings.net/cattable.html. There's a section on there for dog foods too. A lot of the dogs I know are pickier and have more issues with their foods than the cats!
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Date: 2010-12-03 02:41 pm (UTC)Ours usually get the Nutro natural stuff, though I might just look into this chicken soup food. Can you get it at the pet store?
Freya's a puker, and I think it's really because she tends to bolt her food when she hasn't had access in awhile (we put the bowls up while we're at work so the dog doesn't snack), but I'd be interested to try something new anyway.
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Date: 2010-12-03 02:55 pm (UTC)When we first got the guys they tended to bolt their food, so we put great big marbles in their bowl, so they had to slow down while they ate. No problems now, and we took out the marbles months ago. :)
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Date: 2010-12-03 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-03 05:37 pm (UTC)Good food will go a long way.
- K.
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Date: 2010-12-05 08:41 pm (UTC)