Good question! Kay, my mother had Collies and pressure cooked whole chickens for them. We'd come home do School and smell that, thinking, yum!! Chicken and dumplings!!! Uh-uh! Nope! Chicken for the dogs! Lol, I ended up just like my Mom(-: except of course, now I don't eat the meat.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 1, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Kat Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been vegetarian a few years, but I often buy and cook chichen for the > cats. I boil it, then shred it, and almost always have a bowl of it in my > fridge and/or freezer for them. My friends think I am whacko because of > that. I don't ever eat it, but I know cats have different needs, and they > need meat. I , naturally have the option, being omnivorous, but they don't > have the same choice in their diet, as you all well know. About once a > month, I am a chicken cooking fool, on a fairly large scale. (I always > apologize to the birds. haha) > I've also heard that cats cannot taste "sweet", Kathryn... I am baffled by > this. I know that they love the taste of Karo syrup, and even concentrated > SUGAR WATER is often used on the gums of kits to stimulate a little appetite, > especially the wee ones who need to take a bottle. Also, though I have never > tasted it, I heard anti-freeze is "sweet", and that is why so many cats are > poisoned by it. This sounds like such a contradiction to me, and I wonder, > if it's not the "sweet" they taste in the syrup, what is it? And in sugar > water, there is only sugar...and water. What else could it be? > > Kat > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 02:55:28 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FELV+, Struvite Crystals, and Nutrition > I've been vegan for almost 20 years (vegetarian for some some before that), > so it's always funny when people see me buying so much meat for the cats. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:38:11 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FELV+, Struvite Crystals, and Nutrition > Some of my cats adore veggies. Cats can't taste sweet, did you know? No > receptors for it. > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Beth <[email protected]> wrote: > They might just like veggies, plus corn is sweet. My cats are obsessed with > lettuce. > > Beth > > Don't Litter, Fix Your Critter! www.Furkids.org > > > From: Lee Evans <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 6:46 AM > > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FELV+, Struvite Crystals, and Nutrition > > There's so much corn in cat food that when I opened a can of corn for myself > recently, one of my cats ran over and began gobbling it. Sheesh! Since I'm > a vegetarian, they don't get leftovers like hamburger and chicken. So they > eat my corn and tofu. Weird world. > > > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty > neighbors too! > > > From: Kathryn Hargreaves <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:11 AM > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] FELV+, Struvite Crystals, and Nutrition > > Not only are corn, wheat, and soy not cat food (they can't digest veggies > very well, much less grains, which can give them diabetes and IBD), but > unless the corn and soy are organic, they are most likely GMO, and soy can > give cats Hyperthyroidism (I learned this the hard way on a 7-month-old who > died). > > Yes, fish dries the system (ours, too), and is a mercury risk. > > I've already said what I think about dry food. > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > My Homey has had several bouts of crystals. She liked the Hill's SD canned > food, but not the dry. I had taken my guys off Hills because they ahve corn, > wheat and soy and they are allergic to those ingredients. I now feed Blue > buffalo dry DUCK. We love that and also the duck canned food. We hate > chicken and fish which is okay because the vet said fish can be part of the > problem. I have tried to get them off the dry, but not too much luck. Right > now, Homey is okay. I got water fountains and everyone loves them. It > recirculates the water thre a filter. The plastic ones are okay, but need to > be cleaned out more often. I got one on line that is stainless steel. Much > better, lower profile so I can open cabinet doors without hitting it and it > does not need to be cleaned as often. With the fountains, the water is > always moving, makes noise and they do drink more water. You might try them. > > > ---- Emma Beauchamp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > My cat Gertrude Penelope Pennyapple is a one year old baby and she has had > FELV probably since she was born. She has always been very healthy despite > the FELV and a chronic upper respiratory infection, but recently (Sunday > night) she contracted a UTI. She had a urinalysis at the vet and 130 dollars > later she was diagnosed with an UTI, and Struvite Crystals were present in > her bladder. I was given an Antibiotic called Orbax and given Hill's Science > Prescription diet S/D. I bought a bag of Dry Food and a couple of cans of > wet. > > My picky/anorexic cat hates both of them! She ate 1/3 of a can of the wet > food yesterday, but hasn't touched it today, and she just kind of giggled at > the dry food and turned away. > > > After reading a few articles online, I'm kind of mad they sold me the dry > food in the first place, since a big part of the struvite crystals is water > intake! > > I was wondering if anybody has dealt with this issue before, and if so what > kind of food/diet did you switch to? > > Before the prescription food I was feeding Gertie Whiskas brand meaty > selections dry food, and occasionally their wet food as well. I used to feed > her exclusively Blue Buffalo Wet Food, but this summer funds were tight so I > switched to the Whiskas, and she seemed to like it more anyway! > > So any suggestions/experiences would be welcome and helpful!! > > Emma Beauchamp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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