SOFT NEWS You might be feeding your cats wrong, according to a new study

parocan

parocan

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I keep the dish full, easiest way with 3 cats. which is funny because the old man said no cats 4 years ago.
Then I ended up with mama cat, when my friends kid took in a kitten then was told by the landlord no cats.
we own our house so I said I would take her. And since I am old school and find female cats are much nicer after
a litter of kittens, we ended up with terry her oldest son. Full name terry the toe tackling terror, the old man named
him so we had to keep him. Twerp was from the second litter, he was the runt and always slept in my sweater so I had to keep him lol. Third and last litter is on it's way in the next few days.
 
MinnesotaSmith

MinnesotaSmith

Membership Revoked
Matt said:
My cat gets access to a self serve bag of dry and all the critters he can catch outside......healthy, happy and fit.
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Like all your attractive, desirable songbirds and insectivorous birds that eat mosquitos, no doubt.
 
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Maryh

Maryh

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My 4 , all rescues, eat wet food twice a day. We did the dry but the male whose pic is my avatar was getting crystals and had a bladder stone. Three around 11 and older and one is about 3. I was watching my daughter's two while she deployed and when she came home, we flew with them to Hawaii. What an adventure just to get them to bypass quarrantine. Anyway they know what time they are fed and sit at their bowls. I also feed 6 feral cats, mom, dad, and their 4 kittens. They are adorable two calicos and two ginger and white. Won't let me touch them and hate to see any more born.
 
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willowlady

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Our indoor cat has 24/7 access to a kibble bowl and a small can of cat food in the a.m. She mostly licks the gravy and leaves the rest. She nibbles all day long. If the pup gets to the leftover canned food, it's gone in three seconds. Out outdoor cats also have access to kibble all day, but we take it in at night. There are critters where we live now.
 
BeeMan

BeeMan

Just buzzin along
The wife and I have been trained by our cats that the dry food bowl has a certain amount that the bowl is to never get below. We, the wife and I, call that limit “Cat Empty”, not sure what the cats call it but they will come and find us, and they have a “special meow” that tells us the bowl is at cat empty. Never measured it, but it’s a fairly consistent amount of just under a quarter of a bowl. All four of the cats use the same “Cat Empty” meow so we know exactly what they mean. Often times they will check the bowl level, look at us and give a different, shorter meow as if to say thanks. Well, it could be they are saying something more in line with “Okay, you’ve corrected the problem, you may continue to live for now.
 
Walrus Whisperer

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
BeeMan said:
The wife and I have been trained by our cats that the dry food bowl has a certain amount that the bowl is to never get below. We, the wife and I, call that limit “Cat Empty”, not sure what the cats call it but they will come and find us, and they have a “special meow” that tells us the bowl is at cat empty. Never measured it, but it’s a fairly consistent amount of just under a quarter of a bowl. All four of the cats use the same “Cat Empty” meow so we know exactly what they mean. Often times they will check the bowl level, look at us and give a different, shorter meow as if to say thanks. Well, it could be they are saying something more in line with “Okay, you’ve corrected the problem, you may continue to live for now.
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I've found out that "cat empty" is when the bowl is at a certain point of emptiness, their whiskers touch the bowl more. Therefore there's demands to fill it fuller.
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packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
My cats have access to dry food, two types Royal Canin and Iams, and then they are fed small amounts of wet 4 - 6 times a day. I asked the vet and she said that this schedule was just fine for two elderly cats, one of whom is bordering on ancient. If I feed them too much wet food at any give time they just puke it back up within 30 minutes or so, so why bother giving them huge amounts of food?
 
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