Thread: Food allergy

here is what my breeder advised, when I brought mine home:
don't give any dry food in the first 12 months - it is much tougher on the stomach and too rich for them
don't give gravy pouches, gravy is very rich and also bad, especially (strangely enough) kitten gravy pouches, they are even richer than adult ones.
so, only wet food pouches, in jelly. Felix works absolutely, but we did try to find some that has a larger meat content - I found some with 70% meat for example but unfortunately I forget the name. The higher the meat content the better, as really cats eat meat, not all the other stuff they put in the pouches to make it look like they are having a balanced meal. For example, if you see something that has carrots and green beans for a more balanced diet, keep away as it's just marketing...
out of principle, I especially boycot Iams - their advert makes it sound like pouches of wet food are bad because they have water, when in fact it's the reverse, cats need water but don't drink enough as they don't really feel the thirst like we do. They also don't tell you of all the crap they put in the kibbles to make them stick together, and chances are that might be what your kitty is reacting to. They put ash in there, they put rice and gluten to make it stick....
Now mine is 3 years old - I started feeding her gravy pouches when she was one and a half - and indeed at first it kind of made for a rather stinky litter. Then when I started seeing her drink out of the tap (that's our routine, every morning we leave the tap trickling a bit for her to drink from) THEN I was reassured, I know she does drink, so she's allowed Royal Canin MC dry food as a complement - but only as a complement - I still give her 3 pouches of wet food per day, of which the little brat only eats half because after it's been in her plate for more than 5 minutes it's not good any more (she says) - I feed her the one she likes right now, Sheba duet... don't know if it's the best for her, but that's pretty much the only one she'll eat at the moment.
Also she loves cooked chicken and salmon - always has, even when she was little - so you may want to try that with your Baby (not from our plate, she gets her own, because we like oinions and garlic in ours and that is extremely bad for cats - so whenever I make chicken or salmon I have to keep a piece aside for her that I cook separately. I have to. she won't leave me alone until I give her a piece and gets extremely crabby if I try to hog the chicken for myself, going as far as stealing it from my plate while I'm eating. Hence her Pirate reputation.)