Looks like one of those medieval cats
Paint me like one of your French cats
Diva
“Feed me peasant”
mandy says “gib feesh”
Such a sweetie/cold blooded killer.
But there is something wrong with our cat food in the US and UK at least. The majority of our cats are overweight, that wasn’t a thing before recently-ish. Just saying.
For their health they should be fit obviously. What changed that allowed this weight gain? I think corn was added but who knows, they don’t give a care about what is in people food, let alone pet food.
But I do, on both accounts, can we look into this?
ehh, for mandy she’s old and has health issues 😔 she’s nauseous a lot and when she’s nauseous her pica acts up (btw - her pica ONLY acts up when she’s nauseous. if she’s not nauseous she won’t randomly eat things) and she refuses to eat her food and instead will try to eat literally everything else for hours. she’s about 13 but she’s had this issue since i adopted her about 11 years ago (she was a stray so they didn’t have a medical history on her). she’s been on countless different foods and supplements over the years.
last year a vet was FINALLY willing to prescribe something for her after SHE listed everything we tried and i listed more. so mandy’s on omeprazole now… it only helps a little bit but it’s better than nothing. we tried cerenia and it makes her super depressed and tired even at less than the recommended dose.
eating helps her nausea (hence the pica ig? plus the omeprazole working; nausea from acid reflux? yes i’ve tried cat grass too; she’ll eat it once and then wont for months) but she’s extremely picky. i will have six different foods out and she’ll find tape somewhere or a piece of carpet or anything. she SCREAMS at the top of her lungs for hours on end if i put her in a cage (and it makes her pica/nausea worse because of stress ig?). i live in an apartment building and you can hear her all the way down the hall. i do my best to keep her distracted too with playing + she likes to watch tv lol
so at this point… she just gets whatever she’ll eat. she’s only gotten fat this year. she doesn’t look fat to me most of the time, just fluffier/primordial pouch + funny angles but a lot of people keep pointing it out so i think im wrong.
if anyone knows any effective meds for cat nausea besides cerenia and omeprazole lmk. i read most cats get pepcid and my vet “never heard of cats taking pepcid for nausea” and i think pepcid is supposed to be weaker than omeprazole anyway so idk. we’ve tried everything - elimination diets, chicken free, gluten free, grain free, soy free, probiotics, digestive enzymes, the mineral oil laxative things for cats… well one thing we still haven’t tried is the hydrolyzed protein but the vet didn’t want to prescribe it and honestly if she doesn’t like or want it then she will not eat it, even if there’s nothing else.
i do want to add that in spite of this she is the happiest girl. always social and affectionate and talkative and purring and tail up and playful. vets have also said her labs show her as healthy too.
and on the topic of food quality… yeah because of everything like i said at this point she gets what she wants, but for most of her life her diet was expensive top tier food with few fillers. the standard stuff seems to be garbo. they dye a lot of that food… when i had to give her meow mix once in an emergency she threw up and it stained my carpet. like. mandy doesn’t gaf if her food is fancy colors. why are we dying CAT FOOD 😭😭😭
I always see cat food with labels like “sweet potato” and “fish and rice”.
Motherfucker since when did cats hunt sweet potatoes or rice???
They add a shit ton of filler they probably shouldn’t be having.
Also it is pretty new for cats to be “indoor only”, isn’t it? That probably has a lot to do with their weight issues. People used to just let them go buck wild but now it’s a known ecosystem issue and also dangerous with cars.
