Fishy dinners.

As Mary is such a fussy eater, she's not keen on beef or other meat flavour wet food.She will eat chicken sometimes. She will only eat tuna or salmon flavoured, I have now started giving her go cat fish variety pouches, they have vegs added, which she loves, also wafer thin ham as a treat. Is there enough nourishment in giving her these fish varieties or should she be getting the other meat varieties, Beef chicken etc? She does get a handful of dry at night also. I was told that if I give to much fish it can cause urinary infections, and was suggested to add a small amount of chicken to the fish and mix together. She also likes the small tins of hilife fish varieties and the gourmet ones. Is this to much fish to give her on a daily basis?

I just had a lookise on the back of one of BG and Poks pouches, as they are basically in the same situation.

Only cat food they will eat is Tescos own branded pouched food with fish flavour in jelly. They also eat fish and shrimps, and always have dry food out.

As the ingredients on the fish flavoured pouches say... "meat and animal derivatives"... which is listed first - before any fish is listed... lol! Ok, so there's only 4% fish in the pouch, but atleast I know there's more then 4% of meat in it then.

I wouldn't worry, as long as she eats either wet or dry food, she shoudl be getting the nutrients she need... she certain looks it - she's such a stunning and healthy princess!

The pouches are suppossed to be a balabnce diet, so if she's getting that and dry and a little chicken she's doing fine. Sophie very rarely eats wet at all now, and even tins of tuna aren't attacked as they once were, so she's more or less on dry all the time and a healthier bundle of enegy I've yet to see. Don't worry, they both look so healthy.

As pokbg and Kath have said, I wouldn't worry too much as long as they are healthy. A lot of fish can't be considered a natural diet for a cat, but these pouches contain other ingredients, usually in much greater amounts at that.

It's the added vegetables that get me, I'm sure I've read somewhere that cats can't produce the enzymes needed to break veg down, and if that's true it seems a tad pointless in adding them in the first place.

There's a lot of gubbins about the *correct* way to feed cats, 20/30 years ago there was nowhere near the choice of foods available compared to today, but a lot of cats still lived to ripe old ages.

Ian

pokbg wrote:I just had a lookise on the back of one of BG and Poks pouches, as they are basically in the same situation.

Only cat food they will eat is Tescos own branded pouched food with fish flavour in jelly. They also eat fish and shrimps, and always have dry food out.

As the ingredients on the fish flavoured pouches say... "meat and animal derivatives"... which is listed first - before any fish is listed... lol! Ok, so there's only 4% fish in the pouch, but atleast I know there's more then 4% of meat in it then.

I wouldn't worry, as long as she eats either wet or dry food, she shoudl be getting the nutrients she need... she certain looks it - she's such a stunning and healthy princess!

Thanks for the replies, guys. Much appreciated.

Glad mine aren't the only ones that prefer fish flavour. I'm happy to give her what she wants/likes as long as she doesn't get sick. She is healthy and happy enough, so I'll continue to feed her fish, she may get fed up of it eventually anyway, for as long as she wants it.

Aye, I can't add to what the others have said, except to say from the looks of things, being a fussy little bugger with cat food seems to be a normal thing for our cats! lol! The only thing my two are garenteed of eating is each others food!