Variation in catfood.

[Snoof]

Do you provide lots of variation in your cats' food? I mean flavour-wise. I just spent a few minutes arranging Ninja's food so, if I work from the front of the box backwards, he'll never eat the same flavour wetfood twice in a row. I also obsessively make sure I never buy the same flavour dryfood twice in a row.

It's just occurred to me that I might just be anthropomorphising again

[Donna]

I have always wondered whether they need variation. I read somewhere that cats cant live on fish food alone, so buy the meat pouches which they are not so keen on...just so they have variety.

I have two cats and buy a box of 12 pouches - three of each flavours. I always give them the same food but always have one pouch left over!!!

Oh its all so confusing!!!

[logoes]

I'm still tryi ng to find something that India will eat twice in a row. The birds are delighted with their varied diet . All the things our other cats would shout for - roast chicken- beef- stews- fish, all competely ignored by India, strictly cat food only. My son's siamese used to love chinese takeaway, I haven't tried India on that yet !!! Some days I think I've finally cracked the problem, but no, another lot goes out for the birds - Expensive bird food !!! Logoes

[Donna]

I always have to chuck half of the food away. They never eat a whole bowl. Nothing seems to entice them greatly!

Dont mind it with Misty as she wont go hungry as she is a bit of a gannet, but Chloe is so small and thin - keep trying to fatten her up, but to no avail...

[candyshandy]

The boys have the same dried food each day. Foofoo has whichever pouch comes to hand in the morning - the only one she doesn't think much of is Salmon. Oscar (Mums cat) also doesn't like that flavour, so we now have quite a few which we are giving to Dawn. I'm sure she'll have one cat that likes that flavour

[CJK]

I am SOOOOO glad I am not the only "nutter" as my ryan callsme.
This week alone i ahve got the cats:

lamb n beef falvour food
chicken and turkey
ocean fish n rice

(that's just dry)
and a variation of wet foods, all lined up ready to pick the right can out of the cupboard on the right day of the week.

Also mentally I cant have less than 4 cans of cat food in the cupbaord. Dont ask me why, could be something to do with the OCD i used to have ( huby says still have touch of).
All cat food cans are stacked according to flavour and Best before date.
All biscuits are in seal tight containers and I never have less than 3 falvours of that.

well, would YOU like the same dinner everyday forever? ok you could live off it, but i think variety is the spice of life, Or does that motto only work with regards to men???

[Fran]

Mine are not majorly fussy and I often give them the same flavour several days in a row. There are certain varieties and types they do not like though and I avoid buying those....

[Snoof]

Originally Posted by Donna

I have always wondered whether they need variation. I read somewhere that cats cant live on fish food alone, so buy the meat pouches which they are not so keen on...just so they have variety.

Actually, I buy maybe one box of the fish for every 2 or 3 boxes of meat I buy. I do buy them, but Ninja doesn't really like them. He likes the meat ones much more. So I compromise by buying them every 2 or 3 boxes, so he does get the nutrients from the fish, but most of the time he gets meat. I think it's a matter of texture - the meat ones are always the moistest, loosest ones. The fish ones tend to clump more, and even if you break it up with a fork there's still going to be a difference in texture.

He does finish his entire pouch every time, twice a day. Not always in the same go - but within 3 hours or so of getting it every single scrap will be gone, and usually it'll be within 20 minutes or so of being fed.

I guess it's ok given he's obviously healthy and happy, but when I stopped and thought about the fact that I've devised a system to make absolutely sure he never gets the same thing twice in a row, I did think "Er, hang on, what?" for a minute

[smudgley]

Mine have a bowl of good quality dry food.
They eat it or go without
Luckily they love it

[Mags]

Originally Posted by smudgley

Mine have a bowl of good quality dry food.
They eat it or go without
Luckily they love it

Ooh you're a hard woman Smudgley!!!