I’m very much struggling with my cats and food. I have them on a half wet food, half dry food diet. Wet food currently consists of Applaus and American Journey—basically whatever they’ll eat that I can find on sale. I don’t think that’s causing any issues—of course, Pepper (my skinnier cat) doesn’t touch the wet food most of the time, so I think Salt eats the majority of it. I give them either two 3-oz cans to share, or one 5.5 oz can to share. Desperate bowls and all, of course.
And now for dry food.. they’re fed a certain amount per day with my automatic feeder, not sure how much since that’s measured oddly on that device. Either way, they usually don’t finish it all, so I don’t think overeating is a problem. Both cats are very active and not overweight, despite being around 13 pounds each. Pepper’s a little taller but slimmer than Salt, who is maybe a bit pudgy but not fat.
Recently it’s come to my attention that Pepper’s been throwing up quite a bit. Usually it’s just a lot of the dry food, so I figured I probably need to change what I’m feeding him. I had quite recently (well, like, a month ago) put them on Solid Gold Indigo Moon High Protein cat food, before which they were on Purina LiveClear (which they loved, but I’m not sure how healthy that one is for them; it’s got some filler ingredients, I believe, which concerned me a bit). Pepper occasionally threw up on the Purina, but he’s gotten worse on the Solid Gold (almost every night—always happens at night/evenings, which is not when they get fed their dry food. So that’s odd). Also, Salt has been a liiittle bit more gassy on this food, although not terrible so.
So I went off to Petco in search of a different awesome food, and bought Merrick Backcountry dry food. Started transitioning them to that food last night, and today Salt’s very gassy (although still very active and cheerful). Obviously it’s not fun to be around a cat who smells bad all the time.
So I’m feeling a little stuck. I’ve got one cat that needs a diet that won’t make him sick, but when I switch to a better one for him, Salt gets a bit gassy. Is this just trial and error, or is there a tried-and-tested response to this? Is there anything I’m doing wrong? I’m thinking a vet checkup may be in order just to check that nothing is going on there... should I maybe treat them for worms or something in the meantime, just in case? Help!
Thank you guys!!
And now for dry food.. they’re fed a certain amount per day with my automatic feeder, not sure how much since that’s measured oddly on that device. Either way, they usually don’t finish it all, so I don’t think overeating is a problem. Both cats are very active and not overweight, despite being around 13 pounds each. Pepper’s a little taller but slimmer than Salt, who is maybe a bit pudgy but not fat.
Recently it’s come to my attention that Pepper’s been throwing up quite a bit. Usually it’s just a lot of the dry food, so I figured I probably need to change what I’m feeding him. I had quite recently (well, like, a month ago) put them on Solid Gold Indigo Moon High Protein cat food, before which they were on Purina LiveClear (which they loved, but I’m not sure how healthy that one is for them; it’s got some filler ingredients, I believe, which concerned me a bit). Pepper occasionally threw up on the Purina, but he’s gotten worse on the Solid Gold (almost every night—always happens at night/evenings, which is not when they get fed their dry food. So that’s odd). Also, Salt has been a liiittle bit more gassy on this food, although not terrible so.
So I went off to Petco in search of a different awesome food, and bought Merrick Backcountry dry food. Started transitioning them to that food last night, and today Salt’s very gassy (although still very active and cheerful). Obviously it’s not fun to be around a cat who smells bad all the time.
So I’m feeling a little stuck. I’ve got one cat that needs a diet that won’t make him sick, but when I switch to a better one for him, Salt gets a bit gassy. Is this just trial and error, or is there a tried-and-tested response to this? Is there anything I’m doing wrong? I’m thinking a vet checkup may be in order just to check that nothing is going on there... should I maybe treat them for worms or something in the meantime, just in case? Help!
Thank you guys!!
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