We have an old cat who eats special prescription food. We are thinking about taking in a friend's old cat who also eats special prescription food. Is there a convenient way to do this?
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posted by PersonAndSalt
on Jan 22, 2013 -
13 answers
Cat food filter: When presented with the same brand and same flavor of wet cat food, my cat will wolf it down at my mother's house and at a friend's house, but not at my house. He used to eat it constantly at my house as well, but suddenly stopped last spring. What gives?
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posted by AthenaPolias
on Aug 30, 2012 -
17 answers
Please share your most brilliant advice on switching cats from free feeding to scheduled feeding in a multiple-cat household
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posted by gilsonal
on Nov 1, 2011 -
8 answers
Should I force my cats to switch to the healthier food or let them continue eating the not-so-great stuff they seem to prefer?
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posted by addelburgh
on Aug 10, 2011 -
19 answers
Overnight is one thing, but how can I make sure my four feline snowflakes get proper nutrition while their humans are off on a three-day cross-country jaunt? Given we've got one cat with food intolerances, one super-picky princess, one food-snatcher, and one with what the vet has described as a "highly efficient colon" (meaning she needs wet food every day), things are going to need a bit more consideration and prep-work than just leaving a big bowl of crunchies out. Please, kittyfolks, share your wisdoms!
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posted by aecorwin
on Aug 9, 2011 -
16 answers
If a baby's eczema was food allergy related - and reacted to the proteins of that food through breast milk - would you expect a flare-up when the food itself was finally introduced directly?
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posted by slightlybewildered
on Jan 17, 2011 -
10 answers
We have two cats, Olive and Leo. Olive is really starting to put on the pounds, and we'd like to start restricting her diet a bit, but we can't figure out how to make it so she doesn't eat Leo's food.
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posted by dubitable
on Dec 21, 2008 -
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I want to make my own homemade, raw meat (chicken and rabbit) cat food. My girlfriend thinks it's a bad idea. Almost everything I can find on the interwebs suggest that feeding a cat a
BARF (biologically appropriate raw food) diet is healthy for the cat.
This wiki suggests that there is no scientific evidence pointing to a clear resolution - in the references section there are some vets arguing one way or the other, but nothing concrete. Has anyone been there, done that, or have any other advice?
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posted by billysumday
on Jun 11, 2008 -
16 answers
How is eating a dog or cat more morally objectionable than eating cow, pig, chicken, etc? It's a crime to eat them in the U.S.A., but why?
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posted by oldlies
on Dec 5, 2007 -
54 answers
How likely is it to switch the eating patterns of a sister pair of 1 year old cats without them becoming overweight?
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posted by sublivious
on May 8, 2007 -
10 answers
CatFilter: We've just taken in a friend's cat for two weeks. Unfortunately, it turns out that this cat is fed dry food twice a day, while our cat just grazes at her dry food all day. The visiting cat has no self-control over food and so we can't just leave our cat's food out, as it'll get eaten and make the visiting cat sick. Can my cat adapt to regulated feeding on such short notice? If she doesn't get enough to eat, until she learns to adapt, will there be side effects? I'm at a total loss here as to what to do.
posted by livii
on Jul 22, 2004 -
7 answers
