Cat food update

[rebeccmeister]

Just because it's hilarious.

So with the wet food, the last time I updated, Emma's rankings had been:

Lamb > Duck > Rabbit


I don't quite know where salmon fits into that picture. It might be on par with duck. I might have to test it again. The salmon is a different brand and I have reservations about feeding her too much seafood.

My system has been to start out by offering her a small portion of the alternate food, sitting next to a larger portion of the lamb. With both duck and rabbit, she avoided that part of the plate. But she would eat the duck and rabbit if they were mixed in with the lamb even up to a 50-50 mixture. She was starting to get reluctant to eat the 50-50 lamb-rabbit mix, though.

So this morning, it was time to try another new food. The local grocery co-op doesn't carry the beef flavor for this brand of cat food, but I had optimistically ordered a case of it online through that one big online pet food store, Masticatory.

She went straight for the beef and gobbled it all up.

Her compliments to the chef, I suppose!

The beef is $5 cheaper per case compared to the lamb and duck, and $10 cheaper than the rabbit.

Comments

[bluepapercup]

I'll have to get brand recommendations from you at some point. Monsieur Cobweb came to us eating chicken dry food and seafood wet food, and I've been hesitant to change things up. However, the wet good gives him terrible breath sometimes and he's eating a cheapass brand, so soon it will be time time to experiment.

[rebeccmeister]

I feel like I should probably send you all the kinds of dry food that I got and tried but that Emma couldn't eat. I would like to do SOMETHING useful with it! (oh hmm, I could also feed it to the hissing cockroaches at work, heh)

All the types I've been trying recently are the "Instinct by Nature" brand, which seems to be pretty good about reporting ingredients. Not cheap, though!

The fish I've tried is "TikiCat" brand.