| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 12:38:08 PM | i have 4 cats, drive me round the twist  any decent vet will tell you tinned cat meat is no good for them, stick to dried biscuits,all tinned cat food is liquidised/chopped up horse. never give a cat milk either unless watered down. | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 1:42:15 PM |
stick to dried biscuits
Only good if the feline in question will drink enough fluids. Really damned expensive when they have a prolapsed rectum three times and then need major surgery. 
Amother of my felines was seriously ill with kidney problems, she now self-medicates with her fluid intake.
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 1:54:47 PM | I have a lovely **** !!!
A couple of weeks ago, we came back to the boat and my daughter found a kitten in the ditch next to the canal under a hedge. She managed to coax it out with her friend on to the towpath and gave it a bit of tuna and milk as it was skin and bone. after dropping the kids off later at her mums house, I returned in monsoon conditions and found the poor kitten on the boat (under the cratch- tarpaulin covered area at front). I couldn't evict her in those conditions so gave ger a cushion and some more tuna.The next two days rain would have finished her off so she stayed on the boat.
To cut a long story short,I managed to trace the farm she came from, mother cat had died, and farmers wife said I could keep her. I am allergic to cats , but love my daughter...............................so kept the bloomin thing, and am experimenting with anti-allergic tablets.
She eats whatever I eat or tesco pouches,IAMS dry and cat milk, she can't read the packets or read the Indipendants latest investigation so she isn't too worried.
She has had a swim in the canal so now knows that ducks aren't really suitable prey, and has thoroughly taken over the front and main cabin. | |
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bev51
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Joined: 1/27/2009
Msg: 30 | |
| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 2:05:33 PM | | just read iams cruelty thats disgusting didnt realise that went on,as only had dog 2 years will be changing her food pronto ,thanks for bringing this to light | |
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HenXX
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Joined: 6/16/2009
Msg: 31 | |
| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 2:24:38 PM | | matty.......you will probably build an immunity to her.I think what people are bringing out here is what is best for your cat.What we feed them now could have an effect on their future health,so in turn can save you future health bills.I would love my cat to survive on what nature intended but she seems to be a bit "chicken" and on the one occasion she did try it,scared the crap out of me!.....left her to it when she brought it home as a gift but found she left it and didnt have a clue what to do with it?.......maybe I should let her go hungry for a day or two?.......then again,that mum she has in her mouth may have babies who depend on her.Maybe im too much of a "toonie folk'.......too much is put on the commercialism of pets.They are animals and would fare better if we allowed them to be in their natural environment.That is one thing I do love about cats,they take out of us what they need and turn their backs when they dont need us,no fancy falsehoods about it. | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 3:45:28 PM | Ok, it can get complicated. Some cats cannot take a lot of protein(persians), other cats mainly females should not live on dried biscuits alone because of urinary tract.
Ordinary milk is also not good for cats, they are generally lactose intolerant.
I give my cats tap water, but Scottish water I think is a bit different than down south.
I wouldn't go near Iams for a number of different reasons. If you have concerns about your cats diet, a vet is the best person to speak to.
My mum has a persian cat and it is on a special diet from the vet. | |
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OKRob
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Joined: 6/4/2009
Msg: 33 | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 4:26:08 PM | Had a cat that lived until he was 20 years old..Had to have him put down when he developed a inoperable tumor on his lung  ..
Two weeks ago I got myself a ginger tom.. Mad as a hatter!.. He eats wet food, and cat biscuit..and the occasionally tin of tuna..Injected, wormed, flea free..and having his balls chopped when he is 5 and half months..
I never knew about Iams, So thanks for bringing that to light.. I never used that stuff, it did not seem natural to me anyway... | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 4:29:53 PM | | I did not know about the "iams thing' either but I do know that my cat did not like their food so I switcher her off it a long time ago. | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 4:38:08 PM | No need to hail me, im just a mere mortel teaching the way of badge lol
o.t what i read is that cats are allergic to the fluride in the water, as were in severn trent where its ment to be quite high. What you could do is check on the net as to if your company adds it in.
of cause certain cats need diets, think of all the cross breeding and the side effects, hence i carnt stand breeders, and would rather have a farm cat as there working cats and mongerals like moi | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/6/2009 4:41:57 PM | All of my cats were rescues, 3 from the SSPCA and one a stray. If people want to throw the pampering card out there, they need to realise they might get it very wrong.
Every single other cat my mum has is either a rescue or a stray cat and she has done every single one of them a favour by taking them in and giving them a good life.
Whether their food comes from Lidl which some of it does or the vets, is irrelevant. | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/7/2009 12:20:53 AM | If you women cared about your cats- you would go to the farm Shop and get a cage of Fresh Live Mice!
all you have to do is release one a day into the house. Cat gets exercise, a fresh nutritious meal, and most of all, the whole family has a great time watching the antics as your loving pet does what he /she does best! | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/7/2009 12:28:18 AM | Modern day cat food is nothing but poison.
I fed my cats raw food.
http://www.catnutrition.org/ | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/7/2009 12:28:33 AM | | not sure about not giving them tap water, my cat odviously doesnt know this as he has a habit of slurping from the toilet bowl. he hates the main brand cat foods but loves the lidls variety. | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/7/2009 1:25:12 AM | I have just let georgy boy read this (my cat) ...and he says your all a bunch of tossers for arguing over a tin of fecking cat food.....
Tap water ...ffs...what you going to give it ??? its a moggy ..if tap water is good enough for us then its good enough for a cat !!!
Cats catch mice and play with them till they die , then walk away ..not eat them (well george just told me thats what happens)
what else we arguing about
if anyone comes on and says they named their cat blackie or snowdrop we are in the crap huh  | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 11:32:09 AM | My mate named her cat cooking fat, she rarely fed it, it had charmed all the neighbours, it would only come home to her to sleep and have a good c r*p in his litter tray.
Maybe the feline male is not so far removed from the human male... | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 11:43:04 AM | Pants, just to add to your comment, it isnt just Iams you need to avoid if you are a real animal lover, it is anything owned by the company Proctor and Gamble.
If you actually want pet foods that are manufactured by BUAV standards (which is no longer across the board) you want to go for Arden Grange, Burns, Nature Diet and a few others (google and you will find).
Hills is another rotten one, it is owned by Colgate Palmolive.
Also watch out for foods that are supposedly for certain breeds. These are virtually all the same foods (although some breeds need more oil in their foods to make their coats shine) but cut up smaller or larger, its all a con unless you have a very tiny dog and wish to feed them on smaller bite food.
The best food to feed most animals is a dry diet, they get more nutrients absorbed from this type as it takes far longer to digest as opposed to a wet food only diet which tends to pass through them far quicker.
I do know this as i work for the major pet food distribution company in the country.
8% is quite high for a percentage of meat in a food. It isnt just meat that the animals need, they need lots of weird stuff such as ash (presumably not ciggie ash  ) | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 11:54:47 AM |
I always thought plenty of meat was the best thing for a pússy.
Yeah but it has to be decent meat, not any slimy old chipolata. | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 12:02:10 PM | My cat will only eat dry food, if he has meat he is sick.
He refuses tap water and will only drink water from the water butt in the garden, he also pinches cheese if he can, loves the froth on cappaccinos and white wine and hates fish.
He is a strange cat but i love him :) | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 12:15:16 PM | My cat has GoCat dry stuff............it says that it is 'meat and other animal derivatives = 25% minimum'......................she drinks tap water and is a contented pu55y.
My year old Labrador nutter last week ate a lighter, 2 pens, the end of a hose, the middle of a hose, 5 tennis balls, 3 sections of my lawn, about 30000000 green plums, 65 tons of cat food, any human food dropped on the floor or heading for the floor via my children, the grapes of a small child in the park who he knocked flying, several lumps of horse poo, some sand, 2 potatoes that he dug up from my veg patch, a clematis, electronic Bob the Builder's arm, half a trainer....................oh and 2 bowls of Wagg a day............Wagg, now that sounds like a right manly dog food doesn't it!!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 1:30:24 PM | | Msg 6 Hen, my daughter once fed her brother's friend a cat food sandwich - amazingly he ate it and asked if there was any more! | |
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sjxx
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Joined: 4/9/2009
Msg: 49 | |
| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 1:43:19 PM | My cats will only drink fresh water out of a pint glass, never out of a cat bowl. They prefer to drink dirty rain water out of an old litter tray in the garden or the fish flavoured water from my pond. Crazy b astards  One of the little treasures was sick in my best flip flops the other night after having dry cat food. She cant eat that but she can eat banana yogurt.  " If cats could speak, they would lie to you" Truest words I ever heard. About cats.  | |
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| For those of you with cats!!
Posted: 8/11/2009 1:51:25 PM | My ex feeds our cats Hills food - both dry and wet. About a third of a pouch each with a bit of dry food.
When I come for arranged visits I bring the treats - they love Felix fish sticks and Whiskas treats.
Cat, the older one, hardly ever drinks out of a bowl - we reckon he prefers rusty old tins with weeks old rain water. Kitty likes her Whiskas milk, but her water straight from the tap - as in she licks the tap for moisture. | |
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