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So if you don't feel like talking/reading about a cat's digestive system no need to read further - you have been properly warned.
Looking for personal experiences and thoughts on the best dry cat food.
After Christmas I brought one of my cats back down from Maine. They both went up there right after the fire and have lived there since. First because I was couch surfing, and then because my living situation wasn't good for my girls. One snuck outside (indoor city cat versus Maine) and we haven't seen her since. Widget came back with me.
Widget has always had a sensitive stomach and/or eats to fast. I hand raised her from an extremely early age (I might have made another post about this.. can't recall right now). A coworker's brother found her her in a paper bag behind a trashcan. My coworker knew I was thinking of getting a second kitten to keep 3-4 month old kitten entertained. I happily (if worriedly) took and the vet placed her at 3-4 weeks old. No it's not as bad as a child, and the time span is shorter, but there are still four hour feedings, and inducing at that age (don't ask if you don't know). That and my first kitten was to young to know that her mothering instincts meant go for the scruff at the back of the neck not the throat. Anyway, the point of that is that research has shown that hand raised cats have issues with worrying that they won't get enough food, and scarfing whatever food exists down and then being sick, or she could just have a sensitive stomach.
Most of her life she has grown up on Iams. This didn't seem to really be an issue until a couple years ago. Which might correspond with when Iams changed owners and the recipe changed and would get sick 1-4 times a week. When she got up to Maine my dad switched to feeding all the cats very small amounts 4-5 times a day. This mostly fixed Widget's problem. During my recent job change I made due with cheap food for a couple of bags, Whiskas and Friskies. She actually LOVES the stuff and begged for it. The problem with this junk food cat food is that while it might be tasty for her its mostly filler, and cheaper cat food makes for a more quickly full and stinkier cat box. Oddly, she puked MAYBE once through two bags of food. I recently bought a bag of Eukanuba Sensitive stomach cat food. She doesn't like it nearly as much as the cheap stuff and she gets an upset stomach almost every time I feed her, cutting that out right away.
Obviously I'm going to take her to the Vet soon about this (as I have in the past), but my net research has generally shown the opposite problem with more expensive food fixing the problem.
So... anyone have any suggestions on a cat food that would work better for her? I've generally heard bad things about Science Diet and they were near the top of the list back in the dog food scare a year or so ago. She also generally doesn't like wet cat food and most people foods (oddly doesn't seem to think much of tuna). Though there ARE exceptions to that. She loves Altoids and mint gums, have to hide them. She is also a huge fan of butterscotch pudding and some ice creams, not that i let her have either often.
Looking for personal experiences and thoughts on the best dry cat food.
After Christmas I brought one of my cats back down from Maine. They both went up there right after the fire and have lived there since. First because I was couch surfing, and then because my living situation wasn't good for my girls. One snuck outside (indoor city cat versus Maine) and we haven't seen her since. Widget came back with me.
Widget has always had a sensitive stomach and/or eats to fast. I hand raised her from an extremely early age (I might have made another post about this.. can't recall right now). A coworker's brother found her her in a paper bag behind a trashcan. My coworker knew I was thinking of getting a second kitten to keep 3-4 month old kitten entertained. I happily (if worriedly) took and the vet placed her at 3-4 weeks old. No it's not as bad as a child, and the time span is shorter, but there are still four hour feedings, and inducing at that age (don't ask if you don't know). That and my first kitten was to young to know that her mothering instincts meant go for the scruff at the back of the neck not the throat. Anyway, the point of that is that research has shown that hand raised cats have issues with worrying that they won't get enough food, and scarfing whatever food exists down and then being sick, or she could just have a sensitive stomach.
Most of her life she has grown up on Iams. This didn't seem to really be an issue until a couple years ago. Which might correspond with when Iams changed owners and the recipe changed and would get sick 1-4 times a week. When she got up to Maine my dad switched to feeding all the cats very small amounts 4-5 times a day. This mostly fixed Widget's problem. During my recent job change I made due with cheap food for a couple of bags, Whiskas and Friskies. She actually LOVES the stuff and begged for it. The problem with this junk food cat food is that while it might be tasty for her its mostly filler, and cheaper cat food makes for a more quickly full and stinkier cat box. Oddly, she puked MAYBE once through two bags of food. I recently bought a bag of Eukanuba Sensitive stomach cat food. She doesn't like it nearly as much as the cheap stuff and she gets an upset stomach almost every time I feed her, cutting that out right away.
Obviously I'm going to take her to the Vet soon about this (as I have in the past), but my net research has generally shown the opposite problem with more expensive food fixing the problem.
So... anyone have any suggestions on a cat food that would work better for her? I've generally heard bad things about Science Diet and they were near the top of the list back in the dog food scare a year or so ago. She also generally doesn't like wet cat food and most people foods (oddly doesn't seem to think much of tuna). Though there ARE exceptions to that. She loves Altoids and mint gums, have to hide them. She is also a huge fan of butterscotch pudding and some ice creams, not that i let her have either often.
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