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[omega3000]

2 cats .. one 6 one 2 , one eats meat and nibbles biscuits
                               one eats biscuits and nibbles meat

Both very healthy with good thick coats 

They only eat Felix meaty variety 

[Varche]

My memory plays tricks on me (it is an age thing) but I am fairly certain that I knew a bloke when I was in my early twenties who was a taster at Pedigree Petfoods near Melton Mowbray and that the food then was perfectly fit for human consumption.

I suspect nowadays the pouches and the tins are combination of soya, tasty gravy and various addictive additives.

Just had a look at the contents of Spanish Felix(Purina parent company) Beef pouch food.

82% water
8.5% Proteins
4.5% oil and fats
2.5% ash
0.5% fibre
Omega6 0.06%
2.0% approx not accounted for. Could that be the beef!!!! 

[Lagondanet]

My memory plays tricks on me (it is an age thing) but I am fairly certain that I knew a bloke when I was in my early twenties who was a taster at Pedigree Petfoods near Melton Mowbray and that the food then was perfectly fit for human consumption.

I suspect nowadays the pouches and the tins are combination of soya, tasty gravy and various addictive additives.

Just had a look at the contents of Spanish Felix(Purina parent company) Beef pouch food.

82% water
8.5% Proteins
4.5% oil and fats
2.5% ash
0.5% fibre
Omega6 0.06%
2.0% approx not accounted for. Could that be the beef!!!! 

Yummy! No, I think horse surely? 

[Marks DTM Calib]

My mother always used to buy frozen turkey mince, cook it and add rice for one of her dogs and it lived happy, healthy and very lively to a ripe old age 

Plus frozen turkey mince is cheap and mostly meat with other bits of turkey in it but, nothing a wild animal would not consume anyway. 

[Taxi_Driver]

HD, apart from when she was a puppy, has always had dry food.....she's 13 now and slowing down a bit now.....but thats not a bad age for a lab.....tho she does get cod liver oil on her food in the evenings....to help with her joints 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I looked after my mates Lab last year and she had dry food, but when it went in the dish she'd give me a look that said "Is that it you bastard!"   

So I felt sorry for her one evening and gave her a dish of chicken scraps with gravy, which got wolfed down with relish and gave her the shits for 2 days!!!   

Needless to say I didn't tell my mate! 

[cem_devecioglu]

I don't buy the dry food good for teeth theory anymore, as half of Hers are now missing.


Which brings me on to age, and life expectancy. In my yoof, we always had cats and dogs at one time or another. My memory is, rightly or wrongly, that cats lived to between 18 and 20odd if they didn't encounter any obvious illness.

 But during the problems we had with our two last year, it was mentioned by a few vets that 12-14 was considered old, and the implication was that that was a good innings. Well frankly I didn't believe a word of it.
 But why say that? Trying to appease grieving owners maybe? Or hiding the lack of diagnosis? Or some other conspiracy going on ( )  or are they right?

 I don't expect a cat to die if old age until 20years old. Is that reasonable?

18-20 is normal for a healthy well looked cat.. this year we have lost a one from cancer 11 years old..  and for numerous reasons at several ages..

[ozzycat]

we allways feed ozzy wet food with a few bickies on the side plus cat treats and at 9yrs old is still like a kitten

[TheBoy]

Mrs TB's pussy usually eats proper meat

Joking aside, she's over 21, although now starting to show signs of her age. When we got her, she was the runt of the litter, and showed signs of mistreatment  . Those that have seen her knows she's always been petit, and never looked like a big, healthy moggie, with oddities like twisted paws/wrists.

She mostly liked on tinned catfood for a few years, before moving onto pouches when they became more available. Up until fatbloyslim died 7yrs ago, I'm not sure she ate much, as he was a pig, would gobble his side of the cat bowl, then paw the bowl over so her side was by him. Pickle would then just look confused (as said, she's not the brightest spark in the fire), and go off and lay down.

Now she mostly has chicken that Mrs TB slow cooks for her, and those bland food pouches from the vet, occasionally with mainstream pouches.

Since she lost most of her teeth when she was only a few years old, vet said due to wet food, she hasn't had too many dried food meals, although she often has just a few in a bowl.  Without many teeth, we think she mostly swallows them whole, and if she has too many, chunders them back up 20 mins later.


Obviously we're doing something right, fatboy lived to nearly 20, Pickle is over 21.

[chrisgixer]

Ah yes that's a good point I'd forgotten. Both ours where continually throwing up on biscuits. As said, I'm quite certain they swell up in the stomach and there's nowhere for it to go but up and out. The biscuits swell up to twice their size with water.

She is asking for food a lot more now she's off biscuits. He never ate his kitten biscuits I'm told.

[LFF64]

I bought a cat drinking fountain for our cat , basically it a reservoir 3 liter with a small pump that circulates the water around and around it apparently keeps it fresher and cooler , the cat actually is drinking a lot more than she used to ( about half a liter a day ) she also appears to have lost weight since she has been drinking more

[the alarming man]

you go to any vet and they will say dry food is best..BUT...cats and dogs have ate meat from a can for many years and tbh every cat my family have owned have all lived to a ripe old age 21-24

[cem_devecioglu]

I bought a cat drinking fountain for our cat , basically it a reservoir 3 liter with a small pump that circulates the water around and around it apparently keeps it fresher and cooler , the cat actually is drinking a lot more than she used to ( about half a liter a day ) she also appears to have lost weight since she has been drinking more

    phew..  any piccies ? 

[Webby the Bear]

How come you put her/them on a dry food only diet in the first place, Chris? To lower the BP?

Our first cat, Mogs, lived to 17. Properly fast, active cat. He ate anything 'n' everything..... curry, Bombay duck, jam sandwiches lol He then was off his food for a few days and died pretty suddenly.

Alf also lived to 17. He was the exact opposite of Mogs.... long haired fat barsteward  but ironically didn't eat much above what he got for dinner. And didn't like anything other than cat food (apart from ham slices).

[aaronjb]

I bought a cat drinking fountain for our cat , basically it a reservoir 3 liter with a small pump that circulates the water around and around it apparently keeps it fresher and cooler ,

I have one of those for the same reason - about the same size but it takes our two about a week or so to get it down to "low"; then again they're only small cats with relatively small appetites for everything.

Ours is this one: http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/cat_bowls_feeders/cat_fountains/catit/277485