Hi!
New to the site. Read many threads on here over the years for various things. We have two cats. We’ve been feeding them Grau wet food for the last number of years from Zooplus Germany. We’ve tried many others but this was the only one they would consistently eat! There are times though, when they eat very little and it has to be thrown out.
One of our cats is a bit overweight while the other is underweight (vet visit coming up). The under weight cat tends to eat a small bit when the food is put out and then wander off and go back later, while the bigger fella eats quite a bit when it’s put out. So we’ve invested in a Surefeed microchip feeder for the underweight cat. He’s a nervous cat so I was unsure if it would work. Initially he was jumpy and ran away from it. But after a week with the odd treat and the training mode he uses it no problem! It’s great. I’ve actually ordered a second now for the other cat.
So that’s the background. I’m thinking of switching to a half dry and half wet food diet for them. I initially avoided dry food, apart from as a treat, as I’d believed wet was better. However after more reading I see that dry can be as good, if not better, in some cases. Our cats don’t have much problems with drinking water. They’ll drink out of the bowl or the fountains they have. They love most dry food. I was thinking of maybe a day of dry food then a day of wet, or dry in the morning and wet at night. Whatever suits best. It would probably work out cheaper in the long run too with less waste.
So I’m trying to find a good dry food with good ingredients which is available in UK/Ireland. Zooplus would be good but amazon or the like would work too. Any recommendations?
Apologies for the long first post!!
Chris
New to the site. Read many threads on here over the years for various things. We have two cats. We’ve been feeding them Grau wet food for the last number of years from Zooplus Germany. We’ve tried many others but this was the only one they would consistently eat! There are times though, when they eat very little and it has to be thrown out.
One of our cats is a bit overweight while the other is underweight (vet visit coming up). The under weight cat tends to eat a small bit when the food is put out and then wander off and go back later, while the bigger fella eats quite a bit when it’s put out. So we’ve invested in a Surefeed microchip feeder for the underweight cat. He’s a nervous cat so I was unsure if it would work. Initially he was jumpy and ran away from it. But after a week with the odd treat and the training mode he uses it no problem! It’s great. I’ve actually ordered a second now for the other cat.
So that’s the background. I’m thinking of switching to a half dry and half wet food diet for them. I initially avoided dry food, apart from as a treat, as I’d believed wet was better. However after more reading I see that dry can be as good, if not better, in some cases. Our cats don’t have much problems with drinking water. They’ll drink out of the bowl or the fountains they have. They love most dry food. I was thinking of maybe a day of dry food then a day of wet, or dry in the morning and wet at night. Whatever suits best. It would probably work out cheaper in the long run too with less waste.
So I’m trying to find a good dry food with good ingredients which is available in UK/Ireland. Zooplus would be good but amazon or the like would work too. Any recommendations?
Apologies for the long first post!!
Chris
