Since I wrote this, our cat’s diet has changed again. I now make my own raw cat food and mix it with a can of Earthborne Hollistic cat food. I still give them dry too but this time it is because Chris will not eat much of the wet food.
I was asked the other day what I feed our cats and I felt like I couldn’t reply without an explanation. I am currently not feeding our cats an ideal diet and I want to change that (and hopefully I will soon), but it is not as easy as it seems. I want to explain how I got to this point, what I learned, and what I may try next to improve our cats’ diet.
Rose and I have had cats since we moved in together a few months before we married in 1999. She had one cat, Sneakers, and fed him Iams dry food. Over the next several years we gained more cats and switched back and forth between several brands of dry food such as Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover’s Soul, Science Diet, Max Cat, Pro Plan and then back to Iams again. All…
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Bad Cat Chris 
You aren’t kidding about the matter of feeding one the right food for one’s cats! I think there are as many ideas on that as there are for people. Everyone has an opinion, and there are more amateur nutritionists than cats to experiment on!
All I know is one of my cats has allergies, and chicken-based wet and dry foods are about all he can eat comfortably. My other cat, the first cat’s brother, can eat anything with out problems, but I feed him the same food as his brother.
I do make an effort to feed them food appropriate for their stage of life since they are neutered males. They are ideal weight for their age and size according to their veterinarian, so I’m doing something right! (Neutered needn’t mean fat if you pay attention to what your pet eats.)
Good luck sorting out your cats’ nutritional needs!
Thanks. Having more than one cat does complicate things.
The more the merrier, though! Right?
it’s like graduating somehow… I oftern need more time to read the backside of the bags than I need for the whole grocerie shopping. We wait now for the new food we ordered after I read 87 product reviews… or more… it’s like buying a lottery ticket… we always hope that we win LOL
I hope you hit the jackpot. 😀
Multiple cats certainly complicate the issue I’m sure…….!
Pam
The mom always tries to feed us the same stuff, but with Wally’s kidney issues now, that has changed. We won’t eat raw, well, ‘cept for Ernie. He likes the Stella & Chewy freeze dried raw food.
I have got so much to say on this subject, but it will have to wait until I’m at a real keyboard. I have been making our two cats raw food for over 3 years now.
Thanks for sharing your experience Charles … I’ll be back to share mine!
I would love to hear it. Maybe you should write a blog post and share that with me.
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at age 19 boomer eatz what ever he wantz; just sew he IZ eatin…..
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tuna haz developed fish allurgeez much two hiz dizz content N iz now on grain free burd flavorz; which pretty much limitz hiz choice…….
noe one in trout towne will eat raw but chowin down on a nice hunk oh cooked pork roast goez over grate……
grain free kibble iz avail a bull 24/7 at tuna’s houz bee coz de food gurl haz crazed werk hourz N noe set schedule two a heer two……
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Sounds like your food service girl needs a raise.;)
My human still gives me and Boodie commercially-prepared raw food (Binga gets a lower phosphorus canned diet) because she can’t get it together to make it herself!
Check out this post. https://badcatchris.com/2016/07/30/making-homemade-raw-cat-food/
I can make the food in about ten minutes now, plus another five to put it into containers.