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Worried about my cat
« on: April 17, 2004, 01:41:22 AM »
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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Re: Worried about my cat
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2004, 06:45:47 PM »
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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Re: Worried about my cat
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2004, 07:27:58 PM »
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Blobrana wrote:
Hum,
like they almost `own` the owners....


You don't know how right you are.

 

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Re: Worried about my cat
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2004, 03:49:36 PM »
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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Re: Worried about my cat
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2004, 05:15:15 PM »
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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.