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  • Betrayal
    Betrayal Member Posts: 1,374
    edited May 2021

    Love the "planted" cats.

  • Rah2464
    Rah2464 Member Posts: 1,647
    edited May 2021

    Petite check with your vet. My vet indicated that some of the fancy feast cans were low glycemic, not the gravy lovers or the pate but the other one sorry name escapes me.

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    Petite, Wellness has cans of pate that are very very low carb. Squeakers loves the salmon and turkey. Our independent pet store carries it. I don't know if the big box stores do. Fancy Feast pate is pretty low carb. The gravy and sauce adds lots of carbs. Poor Ms Felix. Website catinfo.org has a chart of carb content of various cat foods.

  • petite1
    petite1 Member Posts: 1,791
    edited May 2021
  • petite1
    petite1 Member Posts: 1,791
    edited May 2021

    I checked on the internet and could not find anything in a local store. All was to be ordered. Hopefully Tuesday it will be in. All cats are behaving themselves this morning. Miss Felix has a new favorite place to take a nap, in front of the refrigerator. Maybe she is saying, if I can't get what I want to eat, neither can you. LOL

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2021

    Can you call her vet see if they have anything in office you could get?

  • petite1
    petite1 Member Posts: 1,791
    edited May 2021

    Diabetic cat food should be here today.

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  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 2,076
    edited May 2021

    Oh good--bet you all will be glad of that.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2021

    imagehe has discovered kitty tv.

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    Petite, Poor Ms Felix just looks miserable. I hope the good food helps right away.

    Spookie, Pyewacket is adorable. Looks like your window sill is just the right size.

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 2,076
    edited May 2021

    Agree re Pyewacket, what a cutie.

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited May 2021

    Good news re the food! Hopefully it has arrived and is already being devoured.

    Spookie he is so right, Kitty TV is the BEST!

  • petite1
    petite1 Member Posts: 1,791
    edited May 2021

    Miss Felix is happily eating her correct food. It may take a couple of days for her system to correct and the cat pot flooding might continue for a couple of days.

    Spookiesmom, love the cat TV.

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    I woke up to a real mess. Squeakers evidently overturned his litter box last night leaving litter and product everywhere. The rug under it was clearly a great idea. I put it down to reduce tracking, but it more or less kept the mess contained. Maybe I'll look for a couple of bricks to put on the side to kept it from tipping. Poor guy. He's a very tidy cat and must have been really distressed.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2021

    I ordered this from Amazon because Spookie found his poo and ate it. The idea makes me gag. Maybe this would help your boy?image

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 2,076
    edited May 2021

    Hahaha that reminds me of when my husband and I had first started living together--he had a sweet Cocker/Basset hound mix named Max, and I had my Chloe cat. I told him we needed a way to have the door to the litterbox open just enough for my cat but not his dog to get in there as his dog would eat the poop. He told me very seriously "Oh Max would never do that."

    And right then, Max came trotting down the hall with litter all over his muzzle. Yeah right, he will never eat cat poop. LOL!

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,664
    edited May 2021

    Yep. for a dog that cat poop is pure chocolate!

  • kathindc
    kathindc Member Posts: 2,042
    edited May 2021

    Feline, laughed out loud on your comment! Thank goodness I’m the only one in the house

  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited May 2021

    Nugget has tried to eat the kitty poo. Found a quick solution to that. Got doggy waste bags and I scoop the litter box when he is distracted by his dog food first thing in the morning.

  • santabarbarian
    santabarbarian Member Posts: 3,085
    edited May 2021

    I have to scoop the 4 boxes I have (for 2 cats) at least 2 x a day, because they don't like using them if they are not immaculate...

  • petite1
    petite1 Member Posts: 1,791
    edited May 2021

    LOL. I have to do Miss Felix box 2 or 3 times a day, but Louie's is one time a day.

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    Squeaker's box is in my study so it gets cleaned very often. He'll wait for me to clean it before using it.

  • M0mmyof3
    M0mmyof3 Member Posts: 9,696
    edited May 2021

    Wren, my girls wait until after I clean their box from the day before and overnight before they use it in the morning.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2021

    Feeding questions. How much, how often, and what.

    The foster was feeding Rachel Ray kibble. I wouldn’t feed her brand to my dogs, so bought Science Diet kitten kibble. My dogs have done well with that over 40 years. He eats it well. Just free feed that?

    Wet food. She was using Fancy Feast kitten. Hard to find!!!! He won’t eat the turkey flavor. Prefers the beef. Is the fish flavors ok for him? Idk if he likes them. Pate or gravy? Any brand better? I don’t give dogs fancy over priced high end foods, think that’s over hyped. So not for him either.

    He’s eating what he gets, cute cat tree coming today to keep dogs out of his dish. Just not too sure about the food. image

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 2,076
    edited May 2021

    We use Fancy Feast gravy lover's for the adult cats as it's got more moisture, and the kitten pate for the girls--we order it from Chewy's. We also put in a 1 to 1 ratio of canned pumpkin in the boys' food, again for added moisture. I put a tiny bit in the kittens' food, otherwise they go looking for it in the boys' bowls.

    I also have a water fountain for the cats, again to encourage more water consumption. Male cats are prone to crystals in their urine and to kidney disease so we're doing what we can to head that off.

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    Kitten food is probably best. It's higher calorie. We have fed IAMS to both dogs and cats. We're using Beyond grain free kibble with Squeaker's diabetes. Pyewacket will probably like fish. I've heard not to feed fish exclusively because fish has some mercury.

  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2021

    The canned kitten food is almost impossible to find around here. Have tried 3 different stores. Kitten season shortage? He had kibble around 7 am, 1/2 can wet about 1 and licked the plate clean. He will want dinner and a bedtime snack. Is that too much? Normal? He seems like a bottomless pit.

  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    I don't think you can over feed a kitten. They just run it off. i wouldn't worry since regular wet food is lower calorie than kitten food.

  • edj3
    edj3 Member Posts: 2,076
    edited May 2021

    Yeah they are pure energy burning machines.


  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited May 2021

    I had a hyperactive son. Feeding him was like putting coal in a locamotive. Just made him go faster.

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