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Old 06-03-2009, 06:01 PM
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

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Natures Menu is more of a pate type food, no jelly or gravy and 60% meat. Other than that hi life as has already been suggested, or try zooplus.co.uk for a good range of foods. Only trouble with them is though, most of them are sold in 6s, so if she turns her nose up at them then you will end up being the local cat rescues best friend. That said I have only seen Natures Menu in boxes not sold singly. Sainsburys sell the hi life chicken and turkey as single sachets.

If you have a human food she particularly likes, you could try mixing that with a little bit of a sachet, then gradually increase the sachet proportions.

for reducing her dry intake
keep hearing this where do you get it from as i cannot find it anywhere.
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

if you are asking about Natures Menu then P@H both the shop and on-line
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

Just to let you all know, i have solved Sasha eating problem out,

She is now eating "Tesco Luxury" which is 50% meat and she absolutely "loves it"!!!!!!

And it isnt expensive either which is brilliant. xx
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

hi - our girl wouldnt eat anything but dry food, but finally we have got her to eat coley which she adores. ok so it costs more than cat food but i have not seen her happier
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Just to let you all know, i have solved Sasha eating problem out,

She is now eating "Tesco Luxury" which is 50% meat and she absolutely "loves it"!!!!!!

And it isnt expensive either which is brilliant. xx
Can you believe it!!

She ate it for just over a week or whenever i posted my last message and guess what!!

she wont eat anymore!!! She has gone off it!!!

I am pulling my hair out, i have tried every cat food there is in the shops!!!
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

Hi.

I'm pretty much having the same dilemma with my two. I started them on Nature's Menu last year as I wasn't happy with the lack of meat in other brands. They ate it for a while then went off it. I then tried Hi-Life. Same again. I have now gone back to the cheap and nasty junk food from Asda that they were on before, and they hardly eat this now! I have started giving them turkey breast and white fish, 'human food' which I cook myself, and they love it! They also love salmon and tuna, but not the cat variety

I am getting really fed up as I am at my whits end! All I want is a good quality food they will stick to. My little Rossi is losing weight, she has conjunctivis at the mo and is down in the dumps, so they are being fed 'nice' food.

I think I will just buy a high meat content food and stick with it. Thing is, I can't bear the thought of them not eating as they don't like it, although lots of people advise to keep feeding it, they will eat it eventually. Argh!!! Thank god they still like their dry food!
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

Had the same probem of cats going 'off' Tesco Luxury, Natures Menu and Hi Life.

However they have been eating Bozita (available from Zooplus) for 9 months. Bozita has lots of flavours, so I alternate the flavours each day. They also get Butchers Classic (Sainsbury, Asda, Waitrose) mixed in as this food is cheap (£4 ish for 12 * 400gm tins).
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Hi.

I'm pretty much having the same dilemma with my two. I started them on Nature's Menu last year as I wasn't happy with the lack of meat in other brands. They ate it for a while then went off it. I then tried Hi-Life. Same again. I have now gone back to the cheap and nasty junk food from Asda that they were on before, and they hardly eat this now! I have started giving them turkey breast and white fish, 'human food' which I cook myself, and they love it! They also love salmon and tuna, but not the cat variety

I am getting really fed up as I am at my whits end! All I want is a good quality food they will stick to. My little Rossi is losing weight, she has conjunctivis at the mo and is down in the dumps, so they are being fed 'nice' food.

I think I will just buy a high meat content food and stick with it. Thing is, I can't bear the thought of them not eating as they don't like it, although lots of people advise to keep feeding it, they will eat it eventually. Argh!!! Thank god they still like their dry food!
i was advised that Cass would eventually give in and eat the wet food when we tried it but she stood her ground and would absolutely rather starve than eat it - so now it is white fish (human food) every morning and evening - maybe we shouldn't have given in but they both love it, we have never seen them so happy and healthy looking (although Syd is really prone to cystitus but that is a whole other story)

The only thing i can say is that i will do whatever it takes to make sure they are happy and healthy and if that means they eat 'human food' - ie fish - for the rest of their lives, then i will happily give it to them (they also still like their dry food)

Fussy things aren't they?
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

My two absolutely adore their white fish! I usually buy the frozen basic 'white' fish fillets from the supermarket, but this weekend they had run out so they had the haddock fillets I had in the freezer ready for us humans!

If they could eat white fish ever day they would be over the moon! Do you think there is any harm in them doing this? They would have tuna or salmon every day if they could too, but at least with the white fish there's no preservatives or additives added to keep it fresh in the tin!!

I have spent a large part of this afternoon ringing around local pet shops looking for someone that stocks Nature's Menu in single pouches - but I am having second thoughts now.....
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Re: Still having problems with Sasha eating

I was concerned they might be limited just eating white fish (although we do give them Go Cat indoor as well) so I asked the vet and she didnt seem to think it was an issue. They are getting liquid from it and it is pure, unlike a lot of the manufactured foods, so i just feel comfortable that they are eating pure food.

If I am wrong, I would like to know as I don't want to be giving them anything that harms them
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