I mainly wanted to say that if you are thinking about your cat not going outside to eat grass and hunt - I can highly recommend growing your own cat grass and buying mice and day old chicks. My boys get a whole prey item 2-3 times a week as a treat, good for their teeth too![/QUOTE]

i dont know how anyone can feed live animals to a larger animal!! i have pet mice and wouldnt dream of doing such a thing plus what a horrific idea to have a poor little baby bird or mouse ripped apart on your floor. i wish i hadn't read this after dinner.

i decided to go with Grau Gourmet and it got delivered today and Lola absolutely loved it so much so she managed to separate it from the crappy sainsbury's own brand and left it in the bowl! i recommend for sure!!

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Great news on the Grau. Hopefully your kitty still likes it tomorrow and the day after and the day after and that the poop will be good too

Colette meant frozen mice hun, not live ones. One can get them, and other frozen small mammals, from reptile shops.

Yeah i wouldnt trust a vet as far as i could throw him even more so those who work for large chain vets.

definitely read the list that hobbs has made of recommended wet food. he helped me decide to go with Grau Gourmet which my kitten tried for the first time today and liked it so much she left the crappy sainsbury's in the bowl only eating the GG!

I do feed a few kibbles more so as a snack and we got some free dreamies hearties biccies with our order from zooplus which she loves too but generally wet food is the main thing and always will be. as others have said (and as i have learnt) cats need wet food for the moisture as well as better nutrition as they are not natural drinkers.

good luck with your kitten. if you decide to go for a high meat nutritious food buy on zooplus. avoid commercial food like the stuff you find in the supermarket as it only contains about 4% meat. oh and i dont know if anyone answered about just feeding meat from butchers although lots of meat is good there are other things the cat will need that meat alone wont give it... but im a bit rubbish with all the scientific stuff so read the list (you should find a link in one of the first replies) of foods and you will see what i mean :-)

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haha oops there was me getting the wrong end of the stick! yeah i know you can get frozen ones i have a gecko but luckily he eats insects which i find more bareable to feed! i want to rescue a snake one day as i adore them but definitely not while i have mice!

yes i hope she continues liking it too! she has never been fussy so we weren't too worried.

thanks for your help choosing it!

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Haha, no worries. Fingers crossed!

I know some US folk who get crickets, release them in the bath and let the cats hunt and snack.

Oops... I never thought someone might take my post that way!! There is no way I would ever condone live feeding (except invertebrates). I just started like most folk giving raw chicken wings and prawns etc but found whole prey (mice, baby rats, day old chicks etc) to be much more appreciated by the boys.

I love mice - my all time favourite of the small furries and I fully intend to keep them again in the future - but I admit I have no problem buying frozen ones to feed the cats. Each to ones own I guess.

I've done some live feeding of bugs too - locusts and mealworms - but the cats were considerably less excited than I hoped they would be. The spiders, flies and moths that occassionally find their way into the flat though are a different matter!

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ooooh I would never have thought about buying locusts for the cats to catch. I might have to try this.

Like yours, they always go mad for the moths and bugs that find their way in to the flat!