Subj : Re: best food
To   : Robert Richards
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Wed Jul 26 2000 11:33 am

*** Quoting Robert Richards from a message to Susan Cook ***

RR> I think that if the Cat was from a linage that lived in a Seaport, the
RR> it could handle the Fish.. any that could not would not have made it f
RR> long there.  Always sad to see a Hungry kitty though.  I tend to at le
RR> try to feed the Wild pack under the place across the street from here.

Dead on track there.  But recall it's more the special processing that is done 
to pet food that causes the problem.

Your average cat will be delighted with a fresh chopped up whole trout (they 
like the entrails too so dont clean too much).  I just fix too much sometimes 
so I fork the extra meat off the bone and let them have the 'gizzards' on a 
separate plate.  They are happy <g>.

Grin, now Bobby?  Bobby just flat out didnt like fish.  I figured that was 
nature. He liked a little trout or salmon but mostly he wanted chicken or pork. 
 I'd fix up a pork roast (long slow heat baked kind) and he'd go nuts over the 
rind and the slice of meat that was 'his share'. (He'd also get the bone as I 
figured out early on at his size, it was natural to knarf on bones and I was 
right).  He'd take his share and neatly eat it in the kitchen then drag that 
poor bone all over the apartment <g>.

Bobby also liked a TB of veggies on the side (no onions!  Onions and cats do 
not mix!  Deadly). A chopped up green bean or a dab of cabbage <g>.No, not a 
vegetarian by any means but nature has cats get a little greenery when eating 
and he'd chow down on a touch of it.  Thats how i found out Cats like Rice. No, 
don't serve them a bowl of rice, but if you have cooked some (without onions or 
onion powder) they like a little added to their food.
                                       xxcarol

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