Thread: New maine coon owner

Hello Donnad, please tell me your thoughts about Pure Vita? Is it good for maine coon? Whats is your mc weight after feeding pure vita?
I have fed my scottish folds pure vita, the results very good; silky fur, healty, weight good, etc..
Im about to feed my mcs pure vita to but still no sure..
Please let me know
Chenqe

Chenqe, Hi! I have been feeding Ginger Pure Vita Grain Free Chicken Entree along with Science Diet canned chunky chicken since she was 11 weeks old. She loves them both. I feed her a half can of Science Diet for breakfast and a half can for dinner. She gets a bowl of Pure Vita each night. She is 12 1/2 months old and she weighs 13#. She is a very long cat, her coat is very thick and silky, ginger is a healthy girl. My daughter feeds her tabby Pure Vita also. We like it because it is grain free and packed with protein. I recommend it to all my friends who have cats. It is a little more expensive, but I use a bag every three months or so 6.6 #.

welcome MC001, have a look at the thread "dear cat some house rules"- it will tell you everything you need to know :-D
also, strangely when mine was a baby she ate her weight in anything I could give her - now that she's 3 years old she became more difficult, she has even been known to turn her nose on some chicken lately which is something I never thought would ever happen as chicken were her treat of choice - when she used to gobble up to 6 pouches of the very best and pure food (well, spoilt is spoilt what can I say) I could find, she now has about half a pouch in the morning, although I still give her the whole pouch - and then I change it in the evening so she has another half a pouch through the night - have to turn because sometimes it's sheba, sometimes it's gourmet, sometimes it's felix... Mademoiselle doesn't like repetition. I also have some Royal Canin special for MC dry food in the food maze. I am careful that I only ever feed her Royal Canin if she's had water in the morning - I see her drink because as Jacky said she drinks from the tap - more annoying to her human, therefore more fun that way. So the rule is if she's had water from the tap in the morning then she's alowed a fistful of dry food - this way she has less chance of getting dehydrated and damage her kidneys.
PLEASE post some pics :-)

Welcome!

Our Sidney had cat flu as a baby so we have to be quite careful what we feed him - anything dodgy and we are back to the vet with a ball of snotty yuck instead of a cat.

So, I have become a bit of a cat-food-label-hound.
Just go to a big pet food shop and read the labels. Cats are carnivores and their digestive tracts are not designed to cope with grains or cereals. Most commercial cat food is stuffed with grains and cereal cos it is cheaper than meat. Some of the major brands have ridiculously low levels of protein (which is basically the meat that cats NEED) - even the ones the vets recommend. Read and be prepared to be horrified! I have seen labels of "salmon cat food" which was only 4% fish! The rest was just filler. The packet looked fantastic, it's very confusing.

The best ones are Applaws and Orijen for dry food and Lily's Kitchen and Wainwright's for wet food. It costs about the same to feed the good stuff cos they don't need to eat as much to get the protein they need. Also, the litter tray will be less unpleasant! I will never use Royal Canin or Hills or Iams again. (Also, our last cat lived on Hills/Iams and died of complications from kidney failure - likely linked to not drinking enough whilst on only dry food. Dry food keeps better and smells less, but it just isn't as good for the cat.)

Sidney has mostly wet food, but there is always a bowl of dry available - we need to build him up cos he is a tiny little scrawny scrap of only 5.6 kg. He also has a water fountain of fresh clean filtered water and a manky garden pond full of yucky brown water for when he is thirsty.