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Old 22-10-2011, 11:39 AM
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Re: Plans for new kittens food and meds

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I am not a native English speaker, sorry for any misunderstanding or if I express myself differently or with errors here and there.
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thats a good idea and definitely worth thinking about. i would not ebay them as that way I feel really bad earning money for things I will pass onto someone else when it is not good quality lol
I don't know what "to ebay" means, but I only can guess (I don't find the word in the dictionary, it may be a neologism) - do you mean "to sell things online"? Anyway, what I can say is that in rescue centres, people will not give the most expensive (and of highest quality) food to the cats they are trying to put for adoption, they will also feed the cats with Whiskas, Kittekat, Darling, Gourmet, etc (I mention here the commercial bad product people find in Romania, but some exist in your country as well). You don't have to feel bad for the quality of the food you pass to them, because that's what they get there anyway. For instance, I won a Whiskas promotional package at a cat competition here, of course I didn't offer it to my cats, but I did offer them to the cats outside my block of flats, who have no owners and I am sure that was better for them than eating a day or two in the garbage bins.

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good thing that you were able to remain strong and resist giving dry. i have started to ween my cats off the dry and already I notice an increased appetite in wet food - i see that as a good thing. we have a neighbor who we looked to for lots of advice, she is the one who recommend us the good litter, however she is all about the dry food lol. I will prepare my evidence from here and try my luck with her.
Thank you, yes it's been hard, especially with one of them, who had gradually passed by herself totally on dry, she is the one that made me totally stop the dry, she would just have starved herself until she got her dry stuff I am on raw for a longer time, maybe for about a year or so, but it was only at times before I made the big change, and only my boy would have it mostly. Fussy creatures Things go pretty well now, they must have realized I am not joking.

EDIT: As for your neighbour, you can try, maybe she will listen or try to understand, but don't expect too much and don't ask her to do what you are doing, some are not that open to the new ideas. Believe me, I have tried that myself, all I got was stange eyes looking at me lol (it works only about 5 percent)
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I am definitely intrigued regarding raw diet and I prefer to go natural with my own food intake of natural foods (apart from the kitkat i am just eating) so wish to pass that into my babies also.
In Romania, as far as I am aware of, there's no apparatus to detect the real content of additives in products (human and veterinary), therefore the manufacturers will specify (or not) that the product contains "E"'s (additives), but the percentage cannot be detected, so they may lie as much as they want. "We are what we eat" is my obsession, so our food in the fridge is always prepared by me, from raw products, just like our cat's meals. It's the least step we can do for our health. BUT, I must admit, we buy a treat or two sometimes.

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Old 23-10-2011, 11:23 AM
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Re: Plans for new kittens food and meds

memmarmite - thanks for the good idea re chicken wing. Tesco is down the stairs so dead easy to get something from their chilled section. But I do like the idea - a pack that both I and the kittens can share lol.

Demaya - congratulations on the new additions - and a result getting one free - at least they will have each other for company. thats why we got two siblings, they were used to each other and we didnt want to break them up. glad to hear you will change their diets - raw mince??? yuk lol What will you be putting your babies onto???

Anca - thanks for your message. You should not apologise for not being an english speaker - until you mentioned it I woul dnot have been able to tell that you were from Romania.Yes e-bay is online auction site where I could seel the food, but I wont. Both my OH and I were just talking about wet food and will order in the next week or so. their still a strong advokate of dry because our vet and other say so. told them to read this forum then to tell me what they think. I do like your aproach of 'are what you eat' I am still trying to get my own diet down so at least I know what I will be giving to my kittens when prepared by me.
I still need to read Hobb's raw diet guide. may even work out more cost effective at cheaper if I can get certian things locally
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