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@aol.comnolitter enlightened us with... From: kaeli You know, why is it the higher-quality wet looks like paste and the lower- quality wet is all full of gravy and looks almost good enough for me to eat? Well, not really, but you know what I mean. *heh* If you get the canned Wellness, you will see it doesn't have that icky cat food smell like Fancy Feast or Scie Die. It doesn't look bad either. I'm pretty sure we tried that and it was a paws down. We got a can of anything Whole Foods had. They didn't eat any of it. And I know we got samples from the people at the cat show that no one would eat. *sigh* I feel like I have toddlers. Oh, wait, I do, they just have permanent fur suits. -- -- ~kaeli~ I love God. It's His fanclub that I can't stand. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
In article , darnit7
@aol.comnolitter enlightened us with... From: kaeli You know, why is it the higher-quality wet looks like paste and the lower- quality wet is all full of gravy and looks almost good enough for me to eat? Well, not really, but you know what I mean. *heh* If you get the canned Wellness, you will see it doesn't have that icky cat food smell like Fancy Feast or Scie Die. It doesn't look bad either. I'm pretty sure we tried that and it was a paws down. We got a can of anything Whole Foods had. They didn't eat any of it. And I know we got samples from the people at the cat show that no one would eat. *sigh* I feel like I have toddlers. Oh, wait, I do, they just have permanent fur suits. -- -- ~kaeli~ I love God. It's His fanclub that I can't stand. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
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enlightened us with... From: If you haven't tried Wellness yet, you might want to as most cats I know of that have tried it like it, it's excellent quality with no grains, and the Fancy Feast, SD, etc. are not good quality foods. More lies, Megan?? Science Diet IS a good, quality food and it's certainly worlds better than Fancy Feast. But since you are a Hill's Hater, you'll never admit it! LOL I don't care if SD is hand-made by God, the cats won't touch it, so how about recommending another brand they'll actually eat? :) Of the following, please pick one that you think is best for my cats: 1. Higher-quality dry[*] only 2. Lower-quality wet primary with HQ dry as a snack overnight 3. HQ dry primary with LQ wet as a snack in the evening 4. LQ wet only * higher-quality dry my cats will eat include Pro Plan, Royal Canin, Chicken Soup Cat Lovers, Nutro Natural Choice, Nutro Max Cat, Purina One -- -- ~kaeli~ I love God. It's His fanclub that I can't stand. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
In article ,
enlightened us with... From: If you haven't tried Wellness yet, you might want to as most cats I know of that have tried it like it, it's excellent quality with no grains, and the Fancy Feast, SD, etc. are not good quality foods. More lies, Megan?? Science Diet IS a good, quality food and it's certainly worlds better than Fancy Feast. But since you are a Hill's Hater, you'll never admit it! LOL I don't care if SD is hand-made by God, the cats won't touch it, so how about recommending another brand they'll actually eat? :) Of the following, please pick one that you think is best for my cats: 1. Higher-quality dry[*] only 2. Lower-quality wet primary with HQ dry as a snack overnight 3. HQ dry primary with LQ wet as a snack in the evening 4. LQ wet only * higher-quality dry my cats will eat include Pro Plan, Royal Canin, Chicken Soup Cat Lovers, Nutro Natural Choice, Nutro Max Cat, Purina One -- -- ~kaeli~ I love God. It's His fanclub that I can't stand. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace |
We got a can of anything Whole Foods
had. Whole Foods doesn't carry Wellness, so it's likely you haven't tried it. Megan "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke Learn The TRUTH About Declawing http://www.stopdeclaw.com Zuzu's Cats Photo Album: http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22 "Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way." - W.H. Murray |
We got a can of anything Whole Foods
had. Whole Foods doesn't carry Wellness, so it's likely you haven't tried it. Megan "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke Learn The TRUTH About Declawing http://www.stopdeclaw.com Zuzu's Cats Photo Album: http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22 "Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way." - W.H. Murray |
Kaeli,
Have faith. Just because it's not happening quickly doesn't mean you won't succeed. I have dealt with this too and the article you read also has very good tips for transitioning from dry to wet. I have a cat I rescued early this year and I could not get her to eat any wet food so I had to start out giving her high quality dry. I just kept trying and finally I got her to eat one flavor and over the next few months I just kept adding little bits of this and that and we're at the point now that she's eating 6 different premium canned foods. If you have to do more dry and less canned right now, then that's what you have to do. Just keep sneaking in a little more canned and a little less dry and changing the flavors so they get used to *not* eating the exact same thing every day. It's difficult to undo things sometimes, but it is not impossible! :-) Megan "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke Learn The TRUTH About Declawing http://www.stopdeclaw.com Zuzu's Cats Photo Album: http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22 "Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way." - W.H. Murray |
Kaeli,
Have faith. Just because it's not happening quickly doesn't mean you won't succeed. I have dealt with this too and the article you read also has very good tips for transitioning from dry to wet. I have a cat I rescued early this year and I could not get her to eat any wet food so I had to start out giving her high quality dry. I just kept trying and finally I got her to eat one flavor and over the next few months I just kept adding little bits of this and that and we're at the point now that she's eating 6 different premium canned foods. If you have to do more dry and less canned right now, then that's what you have to do. Just keep sneaking in a little more canned and a little less dry and changing the flavors so they get used to *not* eating the exact same thing every day. It's difficult to undo things sometimes, but it is not impossible! :-) Megan "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke Learn The TRUTH About Declawing http://www.stopdeclaw.com Zuzu's Cats Photo Album: http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22 "Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way." - W.H. Murray |
Steve Crane wrote:
Here's the decision you must make. Do I feed a food with excesses of phosphorus in order to justify some other emotional need/desire/preference I have, even when that need/desire/preference cannot be proven to show any benefit? According to the lists at http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/canfood.html http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/dryfood.html The chicken, turkey, chicken & herring, and turkey & salmon flavors of Wellness don't have significantly more phosphorus than most of the varieties of Science Diet. The mixed seafood flavors have more, but so do a few of the Science Diet dry varieties. My cats (now 13 and 17) were on Science Diet dry most of their lives, until LeMieux was diagnosed diabetic in January. They ate Adult Maintenance for many years, and then Sensitive Stomach. (a 20 lb bag's worth of Lite and Senior at different periods caused them both to get noticably fatter, and develop large amounts of dander.) LeMieux (13) maintains normal bg (80 to 115) on Wellness canned. I tried Science Diet and Iams canned kitten food for several weeks (recommended by the vet as low-carb) when LeMieux was first diagnosed, but while they enjoyed both as a new treat for the first week or so, after that they both sniffed it when I put it out, and then avoided eating it for several hours until they were too hungry not to. I haven't had that reaction to the Wellness, which also smells a LOT better than the Science Diet and Iams, and has less carb content. BTW, Hills prescription M/D canned is higher in carb than Science Diet canned kitten food. Why? Gideon developed a bladder full of struvite crystals on the Science Diet dry. Fortunately, he never developed a blockage, but because his developing hyperthyroid caused him to drink and urinate more, he didn't have any obvious symptoms of bloody or concentrated urine, and he never broke litterbox training. His only obvious symptom was walking stiffly, and he was misdiagnosed as arthritic by my previous vet. The new vet took an X-ray to check, and found no sign of arthritis, but his bladder on the X-ray looked like it was *full* of fishtank gravel. Between the extra drinking from the hyperthyroid, and the Wellness diet, he managed to dissolve or excrete all but a marble-sized cluster of crystals before his pre-op X-ray (the vet was really surprised) so we cancelled the bladder surgery that was to be done along with the thyroid and dental. -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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