Canned food experiment

I read all the posts about wet food and went to the various web pages
cited a month or two ago. Thought about it and decided it made some
sense so I would try my guys on a wet food only diet to see what
happened to water consumption and general health.

I have been feeding wet food since the middle of November. My guys
normally go through a gallon of water a week for three of them. Since I
started them on wet food only, they've gone through less than half a
gallon total. That was a real eye opener for me.

I've been very careful to read the labels and get only the stuff that
has meat in the first three ingredients and not meat by products up
there real high or at all. I've tried to stay away from a lot of fish.
And because of the kinds of food they will eat, it has to be ground up,
no pieces to chomp on or they will just lick the gravy and not eat.
Buying food for them has become as time consuming as buying for me!

Tony, my 13.5 year old cat has become more active and playful and
doesn't sleep as much. My two younger cats also play more - especially
chasing each other around the apartment. One of my cats has a spot that
he licks to excess, that is healing up. I have to admit that I was
dubious, but I'm becoming a believer. It is more expensive and I don't

jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt...

LOL. Well, when I first read "chemist shop", I was thinking, "Oooo, you
can go to a chemist?" I was picturing a laboratory. :) Strange, the
associations that come up with different words.

have a great budget for this in the first place, but they do seem to be
happier and healthier.

My next step is to try a homemade diet that I know has very high quality
ingredients in it. I think it almost has to be cheaper than canned cat
food pound per pound. I will report back which diet I chose and how it
worked out and where I got the things like the taurine to add in to make
it complete so I know I'm not hurting them while I try this experiment.

Pat...

If you use organ meat you don't have to add taurine.

ingold1234nospam...

May I ask what kind of canned food you are buying now?

I have often thought of feeding Kenzie canned food, but reading
ingredients in the pet stores has been disappointing, to say the least.

TIA

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"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier.
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