Thread: Food Questions

We feed mainly Fancy Feast as our wet foods, including (but not limited to) those that are free of wheat gluten. I went through in another thread and showed how I figured out about how much wheat gluten was in some flavors, and it is darn little, Think about how much flour it would take to make the amount of gravy in a 3oz can of cat food. It is not at all significant as a food (i.e., if you are trying to avoid grains). Obviously because of the Chinese wheat gluten contamination fiasco there is that reason to avoid it, but Purina pledged to test all such ingredients. Good luck avoiding all Chinese-sourced ingredients.

I do feel that wet foods lead to more tooth problems, however. Our girl that eats mainly dry has the best teeth, while the girl that eats mainly wet has the worst (though we are able to keep her in check with a nightly brushing). So if you are already having problems with one cat's teeth you might want to consider whether wet will be OK.

Thank you so much for the info!!! I'm thinking maybe we can try it for a bit and see how the teeth issues go.

Well day 4 of feeding 1 can of fancy feast each cat as well as their free fed dry food. Both my cats just seem happier. Darcy is so extra snuggly. She seems very pleased

Originally Posted by candes

Most cats, even finicky ones will eat Fancy Feast.

Right--I have told people that if they intend to feed an expensive cat food they had better not feed Fancy Feast first, because their cats probably won't eat the expensive stuff then. I speak from experience: a couple of hundred dollars of expensive food in the trash.

Originally Posted by MyNewbabyDarcy

Well day 4 of feeding 1 can of fancy feast each cat as well as their free fed dry food. Both my cats just seem happier. Darcy is so extra snuggly. She seems very pleased

Sounds good! They are probably happier than eating all dry, and probably happier just to have something different in their lives. The wet can also supply a significant amount of water, which some cats certainly need.

Originally Posted by NCarver

Sounds good! They are probably happier than eating all dry, and probably happier just to have something different in their lives. The wet can also supply a significant amount of water, which some cats certainly need.

Yeah they do seem a lot happier. We bought a variety of types to try and see which ones they like best but so far they both seem to like it all lol.

My moggy after he chows down the fancy feast comes around for snuggles like he's saying thank you

Originally Posted by candes

And if you start off with the expensive stuff.... My baby won't eat grains and by-products. He likes his meat a lot! In fact his Wellness kitten has turned him into an outright poultry addict! He would do cartwheels for poultry! He stands on my tummy and I hand feed him home cooked turkey snacks I have frozen.

Since human Turkey is a treat, he just gets some here and there though. Otherwise he would go off his Wellness like he did on the Holidays. I wasn't kidding when I called him a turkey gobbler. He was staking out my fridge and charmed anyone walking past. Finally, I chopped it and froze it, so we wouldn't keep giving in to him. And he couldn't smell it.

My furry kids get human Turkey as a treat and we had the same issue on the holidays!! It was like they were just waiting for one of my kids to drop a piece so they could run to it

Originally Posted by MyNewbabyDarcy

Yeah they do seem a lot happier. We bought a variety of types to try and see which ones they like best but so far they both seem to like it all lol.

My moggy after he chows down the fancy feast comes around for snuggles like he's saying thank you

We started feeding a neighbor's cat that started living on our porch last March. At first she would eat any wet food we put out for her (leftovers and unwanted food from our guys) and seemed thrilled. Not sure she had ever been fed canned food. However, six months later she was becoming like our guys, where she liked only certain things and wanted particular flavors each day. So enjoy the lack of fussiness while you can!

Day 13 of FF. It's going wonderful. The kitties know when 'their' lunch time is. As soon as I go for the cans and go 'kitties!' they come running