My family used to feed our dog Pedigree and the cats Purina cat chow, they had no interest in what was best they just went with what other people they knew fed. We've come a long way, I choose what we feed the animals. I had so much trouble convincing them to switch dry food and even more trouble getting them to allow me to feed wet food to the cats. I prevailed though, they now let me make decisions on food. The other day my brother's girlfriend was talking about how her cat was getting fat and had to go on a diet but that he's always hungry so she does not want to cut back on hie food. I told her that she should feed less dry and more wet because dry food had grains or starches in them that made cats fat. I left it at that.
When we got home mom wondered if I should have told her to feed a better quality wet, i said that it could help, a can of wet full of grains, fruits and veggies is going to pack on the weight without filling the cat up, he poops most of the nutritional part out after all. She agreed, she said that when she eats cereal in the morning she is hungry way before lunch but when she eats a hard boiled egg she's full through lunch time. She later explained the nutritional value of meat over carbs to my grandmother, mom now understand why meat is good and other stuff is not.
Then when we were going away over night I had to have my brother (one who really wants nothing to do with the cats, he enjoys them the least) feed the cats, He only had to feed them two meals and I was just going to have him feed them kibbles for both meals, I didn't really trust him to do anything more involved. My mom then tells me to make sure I take out the meat I want Danny to feed Willie so it will be easy for him to do. I thought this was so funny, she is really liking the idea of me feeding Willie meat, it's just so different from even a few months ago and drastically different from two years ago when we fed Purina and I had to fight her to switch to Felidae. I'm proud of my mom
When we got home mom wondered if I should have told her to feed a better quality wet, i said that it could help, a can of wet full of grains, fruits and veggies is going to pack on the weight without filling the cat up, he poops most of the nutritional part out after all. She agreed, she said that when she eats cereal in the morning she is hungry way before lunch but when she eats a hard boiled egg she's full through lunch time. She later explained the nutritional value of meat over carbs to my grandmother, mom now understand why meat is good and other stuff is not.
Then when we were going away over night I had to have my brother (one who really wants nothing to do with the cats, he enjoys them the least) feed the cats, He only had to feed them two meals and I was just going to have him feed them kibbles for both meals, I didn't really trust him to do anything more involved. My mom then tells me to make sure I take out the meat I want Danny to feed Willie so it will be easy for him to do. I thought this was so funny, she is really liking the idea of me feeding Willie meat, it's just so different from even a few months ago and drastically different from two years ago when we fed Purina and I had to fight her to switch to Felidae. I'm proud of my mom