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michaelmurfy

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#2301989 19-Aug-2019 21:38

I'm going to try feeding my 2 panthers this: https://catsanddogs.co.nz/

The guy who does it is local to me - been in the business for quite a while and knows his stuff.

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#2302277 20-Aug-2019 10:37

Look for Addiction dry pet food. Just switched my dogs to it and am very happy. Made here in NZ(not NZ Company). Expensive but grain free.

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#2302368 20-Aug-2019 13:56

mjb: Jellymeat is one of the worst possible things you can feed a cat, as it gives them terrible oral health. You will not appreciate the dental bills you'll get later on.
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So. I have owned numerous cats over a 42 yr period.

They ate jelly,eat, some ate biscuits, some ate cheap food, some expensive some ate Jimbos.

Some ate nothing much except what they caught.

What they eat makes no difference to teetth.

Nor their long term health.

Currently Miss Ate only prey mostly died late last year, 17.

Fit muscular almost all her life. Died from kidney failure, well put down at the end.

Her sister a Jimbos in morning and jellymeat in evening cat, won't touch biccies, has outlived her sister and her brother now. Aged 17 1/2.

No health issues as yet except lumbar arthritis.

Mr about 10, no idea what he ate in his first home, seems to be chips.

When he arrived he was fat, his fur came out in handfuls, he was terrified of everything and has issues with his eyes.

Nearly 3 yrs on, he has lost weight, his fur is good and he still has the eyes issue.

His pupils never fully contract, so he squints in bright sun, and doesn't see as well as the others.

But he's OK.

He doesn't get chips anymore, mostly he lives on Friskies biccies - his choice. He now picks at other stuff - Jimbos, temptations, but won't eat cat food - the stuff in sachets or tins. Any of it.

He does scrounge a bit an nibbles occasionally on chicken scraps from table, but very little of it

He is now fit and healthy. Oh and he eats quite a few beetles, not picky what sort.

The cats I had years and years go, never had one live past 12. Died of various things.

Never vaccinated any of them, most were strays, kittens of strays or Free to a Good Home types and all but Mr 10? had cat flu when very, very young.

Did he? No idea.

None died of cat flu.

Miss 17 1/2 had it bad, nearly lost an eye, but she recovered and her eye came right, no issues. She was about 4 weeks =when she got it.

So like people, it depends. You can't say it's one thing or another.

sleemanj

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#2302442 20-Aug-2019 17:08

FineWine:

But now post the last tooth clean and extractions the vet wont anaesthetise any more due to poor kidney health. Her water drinking has markedly gone up in the last six months and she prefers only mushy gravy wet food along with Hills j/d Mobility dry.

Ok, so a somewhat advanced CKD cat :-(

Ideally to preserve health for as long as possible, as I'm sure the vet has told you, feed a "prescription" renal diet, dry isn't that expensive (wet is though). Hills k/d is rubbish according to my cats while Royal Canin Renal and Renal Select is quite acceptable. You can buy these from pet.co.nz, or your vet.

If you can't or don't wish to feed a renal diet, or maybe while transitioning them, you can get Ipakitine as a phosphate binder and add to normal food as a next-best-measure, of course you should really talk to your vet, but you can buy online it's not too expensive and goes a long way https://myvet.co.nz/ipakitine-180g-size.html

Water intake you know it's good for them to drink as much as you can convince them to, but every time you see them drinking you're reminded how their kidneys are slowly but surely approaching their end state. Just keep filling up the bowls, try not to think about it and cross that hardest of bridges when you come to it.

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#2302459 20-Aug-2019 17:34

Cats prefer Chef

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