Cat food - which is best?

Actually you're right .. it was an animal testing controversy rather than deliberate alterations of the food now you come to mention it. I'm getting old. My memory is clearly fading.

Besides, if that were the case surely they'd be hung, drawn and quartered?

Sorry but that's hardly an unbiased opinion on the product - it's full of antivivisectionist propoganda. As a scientist, I take everything that bunch of crackpots produce with a fistfull of salt.

I ffed my cat the whiskas pouches (the ones with the peas and carrots) and Purina one dry food. He hates the beef puches by I get around it by giving him Beef when he firsts come in as he's usually starving (he goes out at 6am and doesn't get home until gone 9pm at night - I'd love to know what he gets up to). He tends to have 4 pouches in quick succession and then he'll eat his biscuits if he can be bothered!

Oh and I talk to him in a baby voice - sorry but I just love to pick him and give him a cuddle (even though he hates it!!!).

Mine just have dry food.

when they used to have wet as well they were fussy, and so it used to go off, so i don't give them wet at all, and have not done for years.

They have supermarket dry food and eat it just fine.

Just to side track the thread, I went on a seminar recently about stress in cats, a few things were mentioned that I thought were interesting;

Double feeding bowls should be a no no, cats in the wild wouldn't eat their prey next to their water source for fear of contaminating or tainting the water with blood etc, therefore we should follow the same with domestic cats and have separate food and water dishes and preferably in different rooms or at least a good distance apart.

Bowls should be stainless steel or ceramic, again plastic bowls could 'taint' the water (apparently).

Water bowls should be shallow and a large surface area, wild cats drink from the edge of a water source so that they can survey for danger at the same time, the same goes for domestic cats, don't use deep dishes were they have to put their head right in to drink from, it makes them feel vunerable.

Just wanted to share, not sure if any of you would find this interesting but I did (sad git icon).

Bernard drinks out of a champagne bucket (he really really does)

He has certain standards donchaknow

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