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[Hime]

Our cat is kinda weird as she sometimes asks for wet food(circling around in the kitchen or sitting in the middle of the floor there), but like said sometimes she just gluttons with the dry stuff. Not to mention she usual needs to have her wet food mixed with tuna or she won't eat it, well one brand she sometimes eats without tuna. >_< Yet another thing my mom has caused among other spoiling things... *sigh* She just won't stop doing that even when the vet said it's not really healthy for our cat to eat so much tuna. Also our cat eats very little in general and has never been much of a eater. Though she never refuses a treat. : P Urgh, I really need to talk to my mom about this, though she hasn't listened so far... When I move out and get my own cat it will eat what's given or starve... XD

[Saracirce]

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Anyone got tips how to get our cat to be not so picky eater? Since currently if she doesn't like the wet food we give for for somereason, she just goes and eats lot of dry food... I've tried taking the dry food away from her, but my mom always puts it back...

XD Probably not going to work if she keeps putting it back, but dry food isn't very good for cat so you should give her as little as possible. Ideally none. Try gradually increasing the amount of wet and decreasing the amount of dry, until there's no dry at all. Kitty will eat or stave. :I Be strong. XD

Luckily Jack isn't picky at all and will eat anything. XD Doesn't even need to be food.

Actually, if you're going to feed your cat commercial food, both dry and wet is better. Especially if you don't regularly brush their teeth. Dry keeps their gums massaged and helps keep their teeth cleaned. Wet can be very fattening but gives them the moisture they need.

The best diet to feed your cat is raw, if you can.

[.Middy.]

So feeding them dry is ok if you brush their teeth often? We don't feed wet often, because Fatty gets fat enough on dry.

[Lonin]

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Anyone got tips how to get our cat to be not so picky eater? Since currently if she doesn't like the wet food we give for for somereason, she just goes and eats lot of dry food... I've tried taking the dry food away from her, but my mom always puts it back...

XD Probably not going to work if she keeps putting it back, but dry food isn't very good for cat so you should give her as little as possible. Ideally none. Try gradually increasing the amount of wet and decreasing the amount of dry, until there's no dry at all. Kitty will eat or stave. :I Be strong. XD

Luckily Jack isn't picky at all and will eat anything. XD Doesn't even need to be food.

Actually, if you're going to feed your cat commercial food, both dry and wet is better. Especially if you don't regularly brush their teeth. Dry keeps their gums massaged and helps keep their teeth cleaned. Wet can be very fattening but gives them the moisture they need.

The best diet to feed your cat is raw, if you can.

Regular dry food does nothing for teeth, especially if the cat doesn't crunch them. c: With all the grains and carbohydrates and lack of water etc in dry food (unless you're feeding something like orjien or acana or equivalent, and if you're doing that you'd be better feeding similar quality wet) it's not worth it for at best a debatable effect on teeth.

http://www.catinfo.org/#Dental_Disease
http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html
http://www.littlebigcat.com/health/does ... the-teeth/
http://www.examiner.com/article/5-myths ... y-cat-food
http://consciouscat.net/2010/04/05/the- ... -cat-food/

[Hime]

Well she won't eat raw either... XD When she was little she did eat some small bits of pork/pig when we gave her some, but not anymore. I got this sample of this fancy all natural wet food from our nearby pet supply store. I think she barely touched it... She's 10 already so I'm not sure if it's even possible to get her eat anything new. Though she has been very healthy so far, only problem has been her teeth that get that... that.. what ever that thing is called that cats and dogs commonly get on their teeth. XD
I did get a small bag of applaws, which is one of those better quality stuffs from what I've understood, and our cat loved that stuff. Like if you had that and some bad stuff next to each other for her to eat, she would eat Applaws stuff first. Though it didn't have the same crunch as some other dry foods we've fed her. And now she has some worse dry food, that my mom got when I told her not to get it, and she does glutton that instead eating her wet food...

[Lonin]

Tartar and/or plaque? c:
If she's healthy enough it's probably not going to do her any harm to stay as she is. c: As long as she's eating some wet then she'll probably be fine. Don't worry about it. XD
XD Lulz, it's hard convincing my mum to stop buying Felix and Whiskas and to buy her better quality food. She thinks it's too 'fancy' for Jack and too expensive.

[Hime]

Tartar I think, since she needed to have it removed at the vet's place and also needed to be put to sleep... I'm not too good with english medical terms. lol
I checked out the dry food she bought to our cat last time and it wasn't actually too bad, if it was the same stuff since we don't have the bag anymore. We've fed our cat wide variety of dry food brands in the past several years, with Whiskas she picked out those veggie bits and dropped them outside her bowl. XD Smart cat I must say.

[Fascai]

++; Hello there, everyone. I haven't posted here in the longest. My indoor cat Houdini got out of the house this morning somehow. Apparently a few stray dogs ran her up a tree, [note this happened around 10:45 am] and she still hasn't been able to find a way down, and it's almost 10 pm. The tree is two yards away, on the street behind us. I'm really worried about her. We called the fire department, though they told us they no longer respond to calls like this. I also called our SPCA, and they told us there wasn't much they would do, either. I'm quiet sure she'll get down eventually, I'm just afraid she won't know where to go afterwards beings she's never actually had to come back, or find home before. I always used to think the whole "cat stuck in a tree" was just some crazy superhero thing, but apparantly not.

[daisyheart 303]

I have 2 kitties! Midnight is my halloween baby! He is a British Bombay, a black cat with green eyes. My cat Bluebell is a purebred Snowshoe(hybrid breed of a Short-hair and a Siamese) with such pretty blue eyes.

[Pi.]

Is it a good sign that my kitten lets me hold her tail? Cuz i heard most cats dont let you hold their tails