You can find fish food flakes in any pet store or grocery store. Just read the labels on it. I have fed mine that as well at times.
In a message dated 1/4/2005 2:22:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you Tamara. Where can I find fish food flakes?
Nina
tamara stickler wrote:
> Have either of you tried either mixing the suppliments in baby food
> (make certain it doesn't contain onion or onion powder)...heat the
> food 20 sec. in the microwave first and feed on a spoon....(its one of
> the only ways Quintapus, my CRF cat, will take suppliments)
>
> The others are: Cream of Wheat made with goat or "cat milk"...and a
> bit of sugar (if not diabetic....Qu has a sweet tooth).
>
> OR Fish food flakes...anything low in phosphorus & corn and high in
> protein, made with real fish....take a tablespoon of flakes, mix a
> tiny bit of flour (or corn meal -but this doesn't work quite as
> well...just makes for a sweeter mixture, I suppose) and egg white so
> you have a Elmer's school glue consitancy & look -paste, gently fold
> in the fish flakes and any suppliments (note mixture should be more
> flakes than paste..you may have to experiment here...I never
> measure-sorry)....bake in oven at 325 for about 20 minutes or until
> crispy on tin foil. Sometimes, depending on the fish flakes, it turns
> blackish and it does stink! But most times it is agreeable, esp. if
> served warm. You can fool around with the mixture, add a bit of
> oyster juice or tuna fish or salmon to make a fish cake like
> item....you know your cats and what they like best.
>
> Good luck, I hope it works for some of you.
>
>
> */Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
> Hi Kerry,
> Have you tried giving them supplements in some special treat,
> something
> they especially like but don't often get? How about tuna, or tuna
> water? Some of my kids are crazy about chicken liver and the strong
> scent overpowers just about anything. Maybe if you cut the dose
> down to
> next to nothing at first and then build up again?
>
> I'm having a food dilemma myself. My "feral turned house cat", Gypsy,
> who we suspect has Inflammatory Bowel Disease, is suppose to be on a
> restricted diet of proteins she hasn't experienced before, (just
> in case
> it's caused by allergies). This has not been so easy to do because
> she's quite spoiled when it comes to food, there are very few
> proteins
> that she hasn't been given the opportunity to sample. I've spent
> weeks
> looking for something that she'll eat. I finally found California
> Natural v! enison and rice canned food (69 cents for a 3 ounce
> can, thank
> you very much), and a Solid Gold lamb dry food. Now she won't eat any
> dry, and won't touch anything that has "been tampered with". If I try
> to put something in front of her with even one supplement she
> turns her
> nose up and walks away. I'm scared to death because she's just
> skin and
> bones. I've been seriously contemplating getting her a slab of salmon
> and letting her just eat! I'm afraid I'm going to lose her
> (everything
> I've tried has failed to work), and the thought of her not being
> able to
> enjoy the time she has left eating whatever she pleases is so
> upsetting. Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by all the illness around
> here, I wish there was a way to be certain that what I'm doing is
> right. Time to focus on my mantra, "All I can do, is All I can do.
>
> Kerry, I would also like you to know how much I appreciate you and
> your
> contributions to the list. You always have something loving and
> supportive to add to any situation. It's apparent that you're a warm,
> genuine and caring person, we need more humans like you! Thank you.
>
> Much love,
> Nina
>
>
> >
> >
> > */"MacKenzie, Kerry N." /* wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I'm laughing now too Barb. One of my negs, Tiger, weighs 17lb.
> > Eats everything I put in front of him like there was no tomorrow.
> > I've tried weaning all 3 negs off the dry Wellness (too many carbs
> > says the vet, altho it was the very same vet that had me change
> > them to the dry a few years ago in tune with the thinking then,
> > grrr) to Wellness wet food but no go. Trixie, neg 2, who doesn't
> > need to lose weight, lost 2 lb, because she wasn't eating the wet
> > food. Not good!
> > Here's a Q I've been pondering on the subject of my FeLV positives
> > and food.
> > For 11 months, until we lost Caramel, they all had! an ok appetite.
> > There were 6 then, eating 3 x 14 oz cans a day between them, plus
> > some dry food as a treat at "lights out" time. I added between
> > 10-13 supplements to the wet food morning and night, for 11 months.
> > After we lost Caramel, the appetite of the remaining 5
> > significantly diminished. They were now eating 2 x 14 oz cans per
> > day total. (Caramel is not a factor, as his appetite was very poor
> > towards the end.)
> > I got worried, because I know from experience with Trixie that
> > cats don't necessarily eat as much as they should. If they don't
> > like it, they don't eat it.
> > So, I stopped all the supps, to see what happened. Appetite went
> > back up to 3 cans.
> > After a couple of weeks, I began adding the Prozyme. Just one
> > little supplement, nothing like the cocktail they were getting
> > before. I hoped I could get them weaned slowly back on to all of
> > them again.
> &g! t; No dice. Back to 2 cans' consumption.
> > I don't like the idea of them not getting their supps. But I
> > equally don't like them not eating enough.
> > I'm a bit stumped for where to proceed from here.
> > Would welcome any ideas or input.
> > Thanks, Kerry
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