Our 15 yr old indoor tuxedo cat Manny has trained us well but we're at a crossroads and we need to assert ourselves.
Ten months or so ago we were convinced by a Dr. Marty's video that his food and his food only would solve cat hunger and nutritional needs with his all-natural cat food product. The trouble is, Manny hates it. He'll grudgingly eat it if we mix in some chicken stock but even then he'll turn walk away sometimes. In the past when his sister Beemish was alive we'd give them both some deli turkey meat as a midday snack so we started mixing that in with the Dr. Marty food. Of course, now, he won't eat it without the turkey and in his passive-aggressive way, he demands it with every meal. We could almost live with that if it wasn't for the fact that over the course of most of this year the quality of the Dr. Marty food has gone way down to where maybe one out of three (very expensive) bags had stale food in it. We could always get our money back or a replacement bag sent but we don't trust the brand anymore. Plus, Manny has discovered his voice when it comes to wanting to be fed more deli turkey and while it's comical the range of attitude his voice seems to achieve it's not very funny at quarter-to-six in the morning! We've also tried Rawz, another meal-free brand, and while at first he was interested and would nibble at it in between meals he no longer wants anything to do with it. We also bought one of those timed feeders with the ice paks that opens up to his food early in the morning and that worked at first but more often than not we wake up to untouched food and a cat demanding his turkey.
Ok, so to net it out, here's my question. Can anyone recommend a good quality low or no meal cat food, preferably dry that we can add water to, that would meet Manny's nutritional cat-needs and that he'll enthusiastically consume, or are the two mutually exclusive? Thank-you
Ten months or so ago we were convinced by a Dr. Marty's video that his food and his food only would solve cat hunger and nutritional needs with his all-natural cat food product. The trouble is, Manny hates it. He'll grudgingly eat it if we mix in some chicken stock but even then he'll turn walk away sometimes. In the past when his sister Beemish was alive we'd give them both some deli turkey meat as a midday snack so we started mixing that in with the Dr. Marty food. Of course, now, he won't eat it without the turkey and in his passive-aggressive way, he demands it with every meal. We could almost live with that if it wasn't for the fact that over the course of most of this year the quality of the Dr. Marty food has gone way down to where maybe one out of three (very expensive) bags had stale food in it. We could always get our money back or a replacement bag sent but we don't trust the brand anymore. Plus, Manny has discovered his voice when it comes to wanting to be fed more deli turkey and while it's comical the range of attitude his voice seems to achieve it's not very funny at quarter-to-six in the morning! We've also tried Rawz, another meal-free brand, and while at first he was interested and would nibble at it in between meals he no longer wants anything to do with it. We also bought one of those timed feeders with the ice paks that opens up to his food early in the morning and that worked at first but more often than not we wake up to untouched food and a cat demanding his turkey.
Ok, so to net it out, here's my question. Can anyone recommend a good quality low or no meal cat food, preferably dry that we can add water to, that would meet Manny's nutritional cat-needs and that he'll enthusiastically consume, or are the two mutually exclusive? Thank-you