r/catfood

So I've been making my cats' wet food for a couple of months now. They get kibble in the morning and the homemade and store bought wet food for dinner.

It's a pretty simple recipe. Slow cooked chicken leg quarters deboned once the meat falls off (8lb bag from walmart). dozen Eggs (added while it's still hot), beef gelatin, 3-4 tins of sardines in water, water. Puree it all together. I've tried doing it not so pureed, but they didn't seem to like the chunks.

My cats definitely prefer canned food, but with 8 cats, it would be too expensive, which is one of the reasons for the homemade stuff. Some of them like it, but it's obvious that the canned food is still preferred.

I've tried mixing canned food with the homemade but none of them liked that.

What could I add to their homemade stuff to make it more like the canned food?

Looking for some food advice because we’ve been dealing with a weird GI saga with both cats.

Male (6) started having diarrhea in early June, followed by Female (5). our older guy went to the vet first. X-ray was normal, stool sample negative, and he was put on Flagyl. Since both cats had it, the vet thought maybe a stomach bug. Things improved and we started getting solid poops again, but it’s been back and forth.

Our girl recently had diarrhea again with a lot of mucus and possibly a tiny speck of blood. Her stool sample was also negative. Vet said the mucus points to colon irritation/inflammation and recommended another 6 day round of Flagyl. If this round doesn’t work, we’re bringing them back to the vet and he’ll most likely start looking at a diet change.

Both cats are otherwise totally normal; eating, drinking, peeing, playing, acting like themselves.

They’ve eaten the same food for years:

• Wet: Wellness Complete Health
• Dry: Blue Buffalo Wilderness Chicken

Has anyone had cats randomly stop tolerating food they’ve eaten basically their entire lives? Especially around 5-6 years old? Any food recommendations for sensitive stomachs/recurring diarrhea or mucus? im getting nervous lol

Hi! My cat recently turned 1 and I'm transitioning her off her kitten food. She normally eats 2 wet meals and 1 dry meal a day. After much trial and error we landed on an adult wet food that she likes, Ziwi, but I still don't have a suitable replacement for her kitten dry food, ORIJEN Kitten Grain-Free High-Protein. I also keep her dry food in a Petlibro Granary feeder; so it has to fit the size rules for the feeder. I'd love to know if anyone has any suggestions for dry food options.

Ik heb 3 katten, en ze krijgen 's ochtends en 's avonds allemaal een hapje natvoer omdat 1 van hen 2x per dag medicatie krijgt (en dan kan de rest niet achterblijven natuurlijk).

Momenteel krijgen ze gewoon blikken vd supermarkt omdat ik er nogal snel doorheen ga met 6 lepels per dag (ze hebben voerpuzzels en snackballen met hun brokjes, nee ze komen niet om vd honger). Omdat het ook maar een hapje is om de medicatie te kunnen geven, boeide de kwaliteit van het natvoer me niet zo maar ik wil nu toch overstappen op iets beters, ook ivm hun gezondheid etc.

Wat geven jullie voor natvoer, waar halen/bestellen jullie dat en hoe doen jullie katten het erop? Als ik online kijk zie ik vooral trayen en dozen met allerlei losse blikjes/zakjes die in verhouding behoorlijk prijzig zijn. Ik wil best wat meer betalen, maar ik heb eerlijk gezegd ook niet zo'n zin om 2x per dag allerlei kuipjes of zakjes open te moeten gaan trekken :p. Dus, help a sister and her kitties out please?

So I have a 13.5 year old female cat who I've had for almost her whole life. She has always been extremely picky, will only eat dry food and specifically purina fancy feast. She goes to the vet regularly and they have always said that as long as she's eating something then purina is fine. But recently (the past two weeks) she has been gradually eating and drinking less. She has always been very healthy, so when this happened and did not subside I took her to the vet. They said that everything looked good during the physical examination. They did blood work as well which came back fine. I have tried giving her different brands of dry and wet food with no success. The only thing she will even pick at is greenies cat treats.

I know she's old and it could just be related to that but it's starting to worry me because this is progressing quickly. Any advice on what I can feed her or do for her would be appreciated.

Also I am fairly new to reddit and have never posted before so please keep that in mind!

hi everyone! my bf and i are new cat parents to 2 adorable 11-week old kittens.

i’ve been going absolutely crazy with research and recommendations about the best cat foods, no matter the price, but just always end up finding something negative about an option that starts looking good.

i know fancy feast and other brands are considered low quality, but they’re also highly recommended by SO many people?

i just want to know some genuinely good recommendations that won’t end up messing up their entire system, etc. price tag isn’t a problem thankfully, so i don’t mind paying more for better food! thank you so much :)

TLDR; 2 adult males have started throwing up stomach bile overnight sometimes. (Could be the same cat throwing up, we’re not sure) Both are close to being overweight so I’m looking for a low calorie but filling treat/food option to give them around 8pm to hopefully keep their bellies full overnight until breakfast!

I have 2 adult male littermates (turn 5 next month) who have eaten on the same schedule their whole adult life: breakfast around 7-8am and dinner around 5:30-6:30pm. In the last month or so, occasionally one of them (we’re honestly not sure who) has thrown up stomach bile sometime overnight, between dinner and breakfast. It’s not every morning, and not even dependent on whether they have an earlier dinner and a later breakfast. It only happens some days, but consistent enough for me to want to change something for them.

They each eat 1/4 cup of dry food in the morning and 1/2 a 5.5 ounce can of wet food at night, with some Greenies on top of each meal.

My dog used to have the same issue and her vet said she should have an extra snack around bedtime, so she gets an extra treat at 8pm and that has helped her. She’s always been a healthy weight.

The issue is my cats are on the line of being considered overweight, so I don’t want them eating a ton of extra calories because they’re having trouble staying full between dinner and breakfast, but of course I also don’t want them so hungry they’re throwing up. We’ve tried putting a few extra treats in with their dinner (either Temptations or Open Farm Kitty Cubes) but it only helps sometimes.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a low calorie but filling treat that I could try giving them around 8pm, when my dog gets her bedtime snack too?

my kitten Pixie is currently 13 weeks old. i’ve been feeding her 3 servings of Sheba wet food a day and constant access to dry food. once she’s an adult, i plan on doing 2 wet food meals a day and dry food for lunch.

she’s recently started not eating very much of her wet food and eating more dry food. she used to clear the plate every time. right now, she finishes her night time wet food but only picks at her morning and mid day wet food, which is confusing to me 😭

she’s still very active and playful, and doesn’t seem to be losing any weight (i don’t have a scale so i can’t be completely sure, but she doesn’t look/feel lighter)

she has a vet appointment for vaccines in 5 days, so i’m planning on bringing it up then, but i’m not sure if this warrants an earlier visit or not. any advice is appreciated!

12.3 pound indoor cat - active cat as my cat and dog chase each other a lot during the day (playing)

Wellness Chicken Gravies- 4:45am half can 35 calories
Reveal Cat Entree Pate - 9am half can added water 30 calories
Tiki Cat Broth (1.3 ounce packet)- 12-2pm one packet 13 calories
Reveal Cat Entree Pate- 6pm-7pm half can added water 30 calories
Iams indoor cat dry food- 10pm half of 1/3 cup 53 calories

=161 total calories

Hi all, hoping for some suggestions. My kitty is starting to hit an age where she's struggling to keep weight on and despite being on pred is a bit of a fussy/fickle eater who often goes "on" and "off" foods at unpredictable intervals.

She seems to really like wet foods that are a bit loose and have almost more like the texture of cooked ground beef, a little bit coarse/crumbly. She does not do well with ones that are like shreds of actual meat, either she doesn't eat them or eats them too fast without chewing properly and throws them up. Nature's Variety Instinct canned foods have been the closest I've found/her most consistent favourite and the chicken version is pretty high calorie as well which I appreciate but lately she's sticking her nose up at it/wants something different.

Any suggestions on wet foods that have this sort of texture? Bonus points if they're also high-calorie. I'm in Canada fwiw as far as brand availability goes. Thanks!

So my cat has been struggling with overgrooming and itching for years now, he's been in a cone for about 2 years. a while ago the vet (after giving our cat diabetes from steriod shots) recommended trying hydrolized food. From how I understand it the way the diet works is he eats exclusively the hydrolized food for a couple months and if we don't see results then we know his itching isn't a food allergy. shortly after starting the hydrolized food diet I moved away to college and assumed my parents would continue the diet to see if it was the food allergies. I found out that they were giving him churu treats with his benadryl, which ruins the effects of the hydrolized food. I told them that and they agreed to only feed him the dry food and water. He doesn't like dry food generally, so I encouraged them to get a hydrolized wet food.

I'm back from college they have the cat on "the wet version of his dry food" which i have been feeding him. This wet food has recently been out of stock so I've been trying to find a suitable replacement so I looked up his wet food and found out it was not "the wet version of his dry food" but a novel protein style wet food made from duck meat. I never bothered to look up the food before because I took my parents at their word and I thought he was still on the hydrolized diet, but he wasn't. He was on the novel protein long enough that we know it hasn't changed his overgrooming and itching, which is nice, but also we still don't know if the hydrolized protein is effective or not because we never successfully did the diet. My dad said he and my mother talked and they're deciding to stop entirely with perscription diets and just let the cat live in the cone for the rest of his life, but I was trying to explain that we never gave the hydrolized food a proper chance and we should try a hydrolized wet food.

I don't have the money or the space to take the cat with me when I go back to college and I also don't have the money to pay for the hydrolized wet food myself, but making the cat live in discomfort for the rest of his life seems cruel. Rehoming is a possibility, but I don't know if I could convince my parents to do that (and honestly I don't know if I could do that either). I thought it might also be environmental allergies, as 2 years ago we found out a blocked off section in our attic was completely overgrown with mold and it was leaking into specifically my bedroom, where the cat spends most of his time. We hired contractors to replace that part of the house but the mold had been there the entire time the cat's lived here and he's 13 now. I know long time mold exposure messes up your body so we got air purifiers for all of the rooms he goes into, but as far as I can tell the itching isn't any better. Please, I'm so desperate for any ideas on the itching and overgrooming or advice about hydrolized food or literally anything. My cat has been miserable for so long, I hate that he has to live like this. I hate that he has to wear that stupid cone, that he's always scratching and licking himself bald and bloody. I hate that we've spent so much time and money on a bunch of dead ends.

My 3-year-old Persian is the pickiest eater, it's driving me crazy! 😭 Wet food is a nightmare; she gets bored so fast. I've tried everything—broth, warming, even homemade food—nothing works! The only consistent hit is Temptations Lickable Chicken and kibble.

Any of the scents and flavors they recommend for picky cats such as fishy, krill or salmon... nope not her, she will shake her head like hell naw and walk away. But if she hears the whipped cream can, she'll be behind me staring at me like she was teleported.

Right now I'm having a hard time giving her glandex for anal gland health (tuna flavor). She refuses. I'd buy the chicken flavor for dogs but it's too expensive, just for her to hate that, too! Other than giving it to her in a syringe, is there anything I can use to mask the fish flavors? That even my cat, Captain of the picky eaters will tolerate?

Does anyone else deal with this? What are your tricks? 😩 PickiestCatProblems.