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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: KennyR on April 17, 2004, 01:41:22 AM
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My cat loves a certain brand of dry cat biscuits. When they're put out, she'll eat them ravenously. Give her anything else, and she'll look bored and eat nothing at all, even going hungry a full day - or until we put out her favourite food.
And I'm worried, because eating the same thing all the time can't be good for any animal, even if the dried food she likes has (or at least the manufacturer claims it has) all the vitamins and minerals a cat needs. Human beings can't possibly know everything a cat needs when they're not even sure what they themselves need.
I've almost convinced myself that the manufacturer has put something in this food to make it irresistable to cats in the way catnip and human earwax (eow) are, and that my cat doesn't just like them, she's addicted to them (to sell more biscuits, obviously).
I'm worried about the long term health of my cat. Cats are usually very fussy about what they eat, but is it usual for them only to accept one brand of food and not ever eat anything else?
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Hum,
not unusual...
Perhaps it`s the smell of kangaroo?
you could always add a `hint` of another type of food...
And gradually increase the amount.
But if the cat isn`t bothered , then don`t worry... :-)
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A friend of mine's cat exhibited this sort of behavior once, but she lived to be 19 "human years" old. If they get hungry they will eat I suppose. Cats are smart enough to separate a mixture of two kinds of food.. you may be surprised lol
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this is completely normal for cats.
they are luny anyway. :lol:
just keep your cat away from Ashcroft!
:roflmao:
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Cat's.
Dogs will eat anything you give them, and they'll be THANKFULL for it!
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Kangaroo is an excellent quality meat. We often eat it. Mind you it is prepared for human consumption... not pussy tats. It is very lean with little fat. Tastes good!
Generally cats are selfish in nature and will do whatever they want and dogs are the opposite ( as someone already noted ).
Grab kitty by the scruff of neck and toss outside. It will find some food, no problem.
In Oz many cats have gone ferrile and people go around shooting them. They are said to murder many endangered birds and small marsupials. However, recent research disputes this. Selfish spoiled critters!!!!
Get a dog. and a Mac. [I have 1 Amstrad, ! Amega, 2 Macs]
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A dog and a mac?
I dont have the room for one or the patience for the other... :-D
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We gave her other food to try and she knocked it over and turned her dish upside down, scattering it everywhere. There's a message there, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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There's a message there, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
:lol:
i'm thinking it's the cat version of "F You, buddy, for thinking i'm eating this crap"
cats are so subtle, NOT!
:roflmao:
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KennyR wrote:
We gave her other food to try and she knocked it over and turned her dish upside down, scattering it everywhere. There's a message there, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
It is pussycat for "KILL ME"..... :-D
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Hum,
like they almost `own` the owners....
(http://www.hdw-inc.com/sabertoothedcatextinct.jpg)
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Blobrana wrote:
Hum,
like they almost `own` the owners....
You don't know how right you are.
(http://immolation.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/evilcat3.jpg)
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T_Bone wrote:
Cat's.
Dogs will eat anything you give them, and they'll be THANKFULL for it!
Not my fathers old dog.
'Jake "the Snake" (the dog)' would eat 'PAL' canned dog food, until my fathers other dog died (they would both eat it). When that happpened Jake stopped eating that particular brand of dog food. However, he would eat most others!
My father just started to cook nice chops from the supermarket for him. He loved those, however he would try to pick them up while they were still hot, and he would sit there and wait for them to cool down before he started to eat them. :)
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KennyR wrote:
My cat loves a certain brand of dry cat biscuits. When they're put out, she'll eat them ravenously. Give her anything else, and she'll look bored and eat nothing at all, even going hungry a full day - or until we put out her favourite food.
And I'm worried, because eating the same thing all the time can't be good for any animal, even if the dried food she likes has (or at least the manufacturer claims it has) all the vitamins and minerals a cat needs. Human beings can't possibly know everything a cat needs when they're not even sure what they themselves need.
I've almost convinced myself that the manufacturer has put something in this food to make it irresistable to cats in the way catnip and human earwax (eow) are, and that my cat doesn't just like them, she's addicted to them (to sell more biscuits, obviously).
I'm worried about the long term health of my cat. Cats are usually very fussy about what they eat, but is it usual for them only to accept one brand of food and not ever eat anything else?
Sounds not good. I would suggest that the manuafactures have probably packed the food full of sugar, given the poor thing a massive sugar hit when it eats that food. The best thing you can do if ween it oof with some fish. and then introduce other types of food.
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KennyR wrote:
We gave her other food to try and she knocked it over and turned her dish upside down, scattering it everywhere. There's a message there, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
If your cat had a middle finger...
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Sounds not good. I would suggest that the manuafactures have probably packed the food full of sugar, given the poor thing a massive sugar hit when it eats that food. The best thing you can do if ween it oof with some fish. and then introduce other types of food.
Try it, to see if it contains lots of sugar.
You might like it too.
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mikeymike wrote:
Sounds not good. I would suggest that the manuafactures have probably packed the food full of sugar, given the poor thing a massive sugar hit when it eats that food. The best thing you can do if ween it oof with some fish. and then introduce other types of food.
Try it, to see if it contains lots of sugar.
You might like it too.
I stick to Diet Cat food, I prefer the "bite" :-)
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Cats aren't even supposed to be able to taste sugar. However they do go nuts for fat (hence many will go nuts for plain doughnut, potato chips, or cheese).
Chances are kitty's favorite is high in fat, and while the engineered food is probably a hell of a lot more nutritious than a scrawny mouse and the occasional earthworm or sparrow, that's also the problem -- watch out for the 'balloon' effect and things'll probably be okay.
(Whiskas with the 'savory nuggets' is a particularly bad offender, since guess what's making the filled bits so 'savory?' I've seen multiple folks' cats get halfway to Tubcat (http://tubcat.com/) on the stuff; unless you're willing to feed only once a day -- and show willpower as kitty whines and moans in hunger -- moving to the 'cheap stuff' with more roughage and less fat often works better. Or wet food, if you can stand the reek; that's mostly water, and the fat in the dry food may be substituting for moisture, same as we butter toast or slap mayo on a sandwich so it 'won't be dry.')
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It's true, cats don't taste sugar at all. Carnivores have no need for taste buds that detect 'sweetness', so they don't have them. That's why a cat will turn its nose up at chocolate.
Floid, yes, my cat is getting fat on these biscuits (but not quite Tubcat yet ;-)). But she simply won't eat anything else. You don't know how annoying - not to mention destructive - a cat can be when it doesn't get its own way. Short of locking her up in a wooden chest and burying her in the garden for three days, I'm not sure what actions I can take which won't result in frayed tempers, carpets, and wallpaper. I could give her less of the biscuits, of course - but I want to vary her diet. She doesn't, apparently.
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The Cat won't taste the sugar, but the sugar will still be absorbed into the cats blood stream, which will cause the cat to experience a "sugar high" which the cat will associate that food with the "good feelings".
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hash cakes? stop the cat eating for quite a while, then when she's really hungry, steadily ween her off? :-)
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Changing a cat's food all of a sudden can make them sick and hork up on your rug. Letting them eat the same type of food every day for twenty years is just fine. That's what they like. If you find something they'll eat, feed that to them and everyone's happy.
By "biscuits", do you mean like regular dry cat food or are you hand feeding your cat some fun treats by hand to make it do tricks? I'm sure biscuits are the same as cookies (UK vs. USA), but I've never heard of cat food (those little hard bits someties shaped like little plus signs) being called biscuits.
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weirdami wrote:
By "biscuits", do you mean like regular dry cat food or are you hand feeding your cat some fun treats by hand to make it do tricks?
No, it's just dry cat food. We (or just me?) call them biscuits because they come as little dry biscuit like things.
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Back in Arizona I used to eat Jack in the Box tacos like crazy and one day someone told me Purina owned Jack and they were the biggest importer of kangaroo meat but none of the purina dog or cat chow listed kangaroo meat so maybe I was eating kangaroo. My response was "Yummy kangaroo tacos!" My cat Furlinghetti will eat dry food until it comes out of her ears. She will attempt to bury wet food. Oona will slurp up very wet food in tablespoon amounts(no teeth) but will not look at dry food. Starr will look at any food as if it were wiggling worm vomit and then stalk off. We aren't sure what she eats or when. Cat eating habits are determined by who is watching them. They will try to affect the reaction of the people watching by various complicated ritualistic behavior, and then I think they go and order pizza with anchovies.
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Well Kenny, Cats only live for around 10 to 15 years (mine is 14 :-D ) so don't panic about it getting ill due to poor diet, it won't live long enough for that to matter.
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KennyR wrote:
weirdami wrote:
By "biscuits", do you mean like regular dry cat food or are you hand feeding your cat some fun treats by hand to make it do tricks?
No, it's just dry cat food. We (or just me?) call them biscuits because they come as little dry biscuit like things.
We call that biscuits aswell, but I suppose, technically they're not biscuits.
Our cat has a picky taste in cat food. He only likes one type of tinned food ("Classic"), and he only likes two out of the four they make. He used to like Kit-e-Kat and Whiskas, but they "improved" their recipies and he hasn't liked them since. Occasionally he'll get bored of the Classic and want something else, so we give him a different tinned food instead (anything but Whiskas and Kit-e-Kat) and he eats that for one meal, never even sniffs it again so we go back to giving him Classic and he's happy again.
He's usually got a bowl of food and another bowl of biscuits along with some water (in 7 years Sioux has only seen him drink once) and he's happy most of the time with that. If he moans about it then it's his own fault for being a picky little bugger :-P
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@vince
heh heh, picky {bleep} :-D
@tubcat
ROTFLMAO!!! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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Ba5tard is a rood word? :-?
they showed it on fawlty towers b4 9:00
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My cat, Seiya, will eat just about anything and I mean anything.
Suprisingly, he does indeed like chocolate.
He will never, EVER grace the pages of Tubcat.com, if I have anything to say about it.
I think it all started a few years ago, when I found him eating my stash. I don't smoke anymore, but ever since then, he's had nothing but the munchies. :-x
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@Kenny
How about you pulverise the biscuits into a finish grain and mix them in with other food? Start with mostly biscuit and gradually introduce whatever meat / fish you feel is best.
Over a few weeks, just gradually invert the ratio.
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@ KennyR
I hear that cats love the taste of humans. :lol:
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You don't read "Garfield" do ya ? :lol: