Cats!

[Eve]

Well I will try again as my previous thread got zapped :(

Gave HC one of his Aldi pouches earlier and he just licked the gravy off and left the meat. Felt a bit sorry for him just now so scraped the meat into the bin to give him an Asda pouch and he went to the bin to start eating the one I just checked!?!?!?!

Sigh....

[pastafreak]

And there I was,thinking that we could get our cats together so each could finish the other's unwanted food.......;-(

so he ate it all???? lol

[puss_boots]

Oh Jenna1978 I have a constant battle with cat food, some days it gets eaten then the next it's left and ends up in the bin. Mr puss goes mad, so I have to throw away the food when he is not looking, but Boots doesn't bother him for food only me and Boots just sits by his bowl looking at me with love in his eyes. Whiskas and Felix are both out of favour now, so I will stand looking at selections on offer at Tesco and add up what I can afford to chuck away.

[sandmaster]

Even if you buy fresh chicken or fillet steak, if puss fancies something else you've no chance!!

[natalie_1982]

I didn't see your previous thread but Raffy eats ********** anyhing and everything, whether it be in her bowl, our plate, the table, under the high chair (her new favourite spot to catch anything babba might drop). Jez however, is completely fussy and will only eat the yellow biscuits out of the Whiskas complete; we have tried every possible cat food but the only wet food she will eat is that posh one that I can't recall the name of, but it's �5 a box and we can't afford it, plus she's a wuss and so she lets Raff eat it all anyway. Jez would happily lives on scraps from our leftovers, but Raff is a monster who eats anything in her path.

[mccfluff]

murph is being a pain at the mo and won't eat her dried food so i gave her a pouch this morning, which she sniffed then ignored and started eating the dried food. I give up i really do!

[natalie_1982]

I don't know what on earth I put there that could have been starred, I don't think I swore!

[susan1958]

since we have had the cold weather, I have been warming up my cats food in the microwave for 10 seconds. They both absolutely love it!!

[bigmamma]

I didn't realise cats don't just stand there and eat it so it barely touches the sides ...or wait....is that just my puppy .
Do you have to leave food available for cats , or do they get given set meals like dogs ? Do you leave it for a while if they don't eat it ? My dogs meal gets eaten at a fair rate and the puppy even gives a huge burp afterwards in gratification !

[natalie_1982]

Morning bigmamma, I go down to feed my two at about 6am and their bowls are usually empty so I put wet and dry food down. Then at about 5pm Mr Nat will put the remaining wet food down as there are usually still biscuits in there (minus the yellow ones LOL).

[bigmamma]

Awww , minus the yellow ones ....that's so sweet bless them :-D

[mccfluff]

in theory muprhy gets dried food in the morning and wet in the evening and she just eats what she wants, but she's being a fussy sod at the mo and won't eat anything, unless i'm eating it, then of course its of great interesting!

[Barmaid]

One of mine (Cuddles) works on the basis "Just because I liked it a week last Tuesday, it does not mean I like it today". She is fussy beyond words (which is a problem, since she has to have a special diet). We do the "licking off the gravy" thing too.

The other cat will however eat anything and everything. Food, flies, spiders, feathers, mustard (WTF?!), curry, chilli, potato. The only thing he WON'T eat are his own kills. So Cuddles polishes them off.

[sqad617]

LOL LOL tell me about it.
Airborne...will eat anything and does.
Lucy, privately educated, will not eat next to Airborne and has seperate dish. Gourmet Pouch or tin, but only chicken.

We also feed 25 feral cats who will eat anything.

Life is a lottery depending upon where you are born and who your parents are.

[Eve]

Well he ate some of it and the rest ended up scattered over my kitchen floor!

I wish he was as interested in his food as he is with mine, I never see him move so fast as when he sees I have something.

[blackcat77]

When we moved into this house, we got the cat as well as part of the deal! We were given instructions on what she would eat and drink - apparently she loved tuna and they had kindly left us a couple of tins for her and she would drink water, but only out of her special glass! Well she turned her nose up at the tuna, never touched it and the water level never changed at all (and yes, I kept making sure that it was fresh!) I got really worried about her after about 3 days as she hadn't eaten anything, so I tried her on my cat's Felix - she loved it and gobbled it up, and hasn't looked back since apart from due to money getting a bit tight I wondered if she would actually deign to try Tesco's own cat food - she had two meals and then went off it again! Thank god the dogs are easier to feed, they will all eat anything!

[natalie_1982]

Blackcat, talking of water - Raffy drinks from the bowl I put down but Jez will not drink from the bowl and chooses instead to drink from the toilet if someone leaves the lid up and the door open, or the tap (it's digusting I know which is why I try and keep the bathroom door shut) or the dip on the shed roof that causes the rainwater to collect.

[blackcat77]

We bought Tigger my old cat, one of those water fountains - he used to love trying to catch any drips. He used to also curl up either in the basin or if you were taking a bath, he'd lie along the edge of the bath with his tail gently resting on the water, he was fascinated by water. I miss him a lot - he died three years ago at 17.5 and Harry, the cat we got with the house lives mostly in the conservatory and was semi-feral, although she's quite friendly now, she doesn't come into the main house because of the dogs. She's more independent than Tigger and definitely thinks that we are here to wait on her hand and paw!