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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow do you serve wet food to your kitteh?
In a dish?
In the original container?
Other?
petronius
(26,580 posts)She recognizes the distinctive clink of these plates being moved, but just to be safe she runs to the kitchen in response to every other sound as well...
csziggy
(34,119 posts)Which is what the cat prefers. He will not eat food out of a bowl. What's annoying is that he really doesn't like the solid parts of wet food, just the gravy. So he pushes the solid bits around, licking up all the gravy until he pushes the solid bits off the plate. He makes a mess.
When we first moved into this house I went to a restaurant supply place and bought a food tray big enough to hold his water dish, wet food and dry food plates. It works great - otherwise I'd have to mop his food area every day.
Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)Ohmigosh, that's funny! Maybe you should contact the cat food company and pitch a gravy only option.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)It wasn't so bad when we still had my husband's old cat. My cat would lick his gravy, then go for the crunchies. Then the old cat would eat the solid bits from the wet food my cat left.
The old cat has been gone for several years now and my cat is now getting old (he's 12 years old) and lost one of his canines, probably fighting with something. He still prefers the crunchies, but when we were gone so much last year while my Dad was sick, the cat sitters gave him wet food every day. Now my cat expects the wet food, even if he only licks up the gravy. Since he will get revenge if he doesn't get what he wants - I have the scars to prove that - we cater to his whims.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I think she enjoyed making me do extra work
csziggy
(34,119 posts)I just don't have the patience for that, though I should do it for my kitty. I might be more willing if I weren't constantly treating vicious kitty slashes on my hands, arms, and ankles!
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Cat whiskers are extremely sensitive, because they use them for things like navigating in the dark. It likely gets really annoying when they get bumped into the sides of bowls.
Most cats I know will lick the gravy away from canned food, and leave the solids. I usually will mash them into the gravy with a fork, if I even feed my cat that kind of canned food. Usually, I just stick to the pate style. She'll usually eat that. She's a really messy eater, too. I keep meaning to get a try on which to place her kibble bowl and canned food plate. I'm always mopping and sweeping.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)Given his druthers, he'd rather drink water from the shower bench or floor. He tries to get me to run the shower every time I'm in the bathroom and licks up the water when I do.
Until recently, if that wasn't enough water, he'd go outside and drink from the fish pond or the shallow horse water trough. But as he's gotten older he's less confident outside - I think he lost a fight or two or maybe there is a big critter hanging around - and he's not going outside as often. So I put a water bowl down to make sure he has fresh water available and he's actually drinking from it regularly.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)My little tabby Zelda hasn't been feeding very well for months now, and I feed her eight or ten small meals a day. Wet food, she can't tolerate dry and pukes it up.
Wet food stinks! One of her favorites is fancy feast fish and shrimp feast. Peeeyooo!
So I thought how cool it would be to have very small paper plates made specifically for wet cat food. About three inches diameter. Recycled paper.
Feed and toss. I wish.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Good luck with Zelda.
How old is she?
840high
(17,196 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)She came from a shelter and has been in the family for about ten years now. The reason I started feeding her wet food is because her gums were terribly inflamed and it hurt her to eat dry food. And the ralphing of the dry food, too. Ech.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)My oldest cat lived to be 18.
I don't know how to treat kitty gum issues. Sorry. Maybe someone in the Pet's group can suggest something.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Plus whatever else she will eat. She will nearly always eat the baby food, though.
The only treatment for the serious gum inflammation (stomatitis) is pulling all the teeth. I'm not ready to put her through that.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)Her gums have improved a fair amount in the last couple of months. The only reason I knew about the inflammation was that she kept digging at her face with her paws. To the google, and found stomatitis. She no longer is digging at her face, and when looking in her mouth I see that it is somewhat better.
I won't let her suffer, if it gets to that. She's a very loving little tabby.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)I think some are actually prettty poisonous for cats
but I can't remember which..
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I just checked. Better to see a vet first.
It's been a long time since I've been lucky enough to have a cat of my own.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I remembered that ibuprofen and Tylenol were toxic to cats but couldn't remember about aspirin (only tiny tiny doses)
http://pets.webmd.com/cats/guide/safe-cat-pain-medications
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I did give my cats baby aspirin. I must have spoken with someone first because none of my cats died from it.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)Here is one though it may not be wide enough:
http://www.genpak.com/product-info/F100S/
You don't want to order online - they'd only sell by the case and there are 5000 in a case!
There are various sizes, depths & widths and online it's hard to gauge whether they would be the right size for your kitty to be comfortable eating from. Most towns have a restaurant supply store and often you can buy smaller quantities of things from them.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)That would work. Very cool, thanks.
politicat
(9,808 posts)Ours is a) a princess, b) spoiled rotten and c) being 23 & frail, milking her pampering to the full extent. She needs the add-ins for digestive and joint health and she prefers drinking food flavored water.
She's my geriatric, so she gets what she wants.
Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)I've had cats live to 20, but never past that. You're a good human for doing all that for your kitteh.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)she's nowhere near as old as yours, but she needs it
politicat
(9,808 posts)I didn't think it would (I tend to be skeptical of supplements) but when Dasequin became hard to find, we skipped a few doses before picking up the petsmart/GNC stuff. I really noticed the difference.
I think mine is surviving on stubbornness and an unwillingness to give up being doted upon. As long as she's content and lively and interested in interaction, I'll do what she needs.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)year old - he also prefers food flavored water. He yells at me when more water's needed in the dinner dish.
mockmonkey
(2,778 posts)I set it on a Rubbermaid bathtub mat which keeps it from moving around and it collects the spillage.
blogslut
(37,955 posts)She's gotten quite fussy in the past couple of years. For her first 14, she was perfectly happy with dry food but no more. Every day it's a challenge to get her to eat at all, but also, not too much because she ralphs. I'm lucky if I can get her to finish a small can before she decides she doesn't like it and wants a different flavor. The only thing I can get her to eat consistently is a a small concoction of canned chicken, slivered cranberries, olive oil and shredded cheddar - heated.
I switched to the plate because I read that cats don't like their whiskers touching the insides of bowls when eating.
MerryBlooms
(11,728 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)I, too, got tired of constantly washing their stainless steel bowls so they get their dry kibbles in that... main meals on paper plates, I throw away. Has saved my sanity.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Silver chafing dish to White House china from a state dinner he says he attended once.
Nothing is too good for him, according to him.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)Monsieur Chat, vous aiment un croute rôti d'en d'alouette cette soirée?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)i wash them before each feeding, a.m. and p.m.
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)With his initial on the side.
Wolf
distantearlywarning
(4,475 posts)They're very cute. They have black and white stripes and polka dots on them. Half of our dishwasher loads consist of little black-and-white bowls.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)I wash dishes by hand. So the yuck factor would still be there.
haele
(12,581 posts)They go from husband's lunchtime sandwich plate that goes over a plastic plate to keep the dishwashing down, to kitty evening moist stinky-food sharing plate, to kitty morning moist stinky-food sharing plate (three cats, one can each time) to the composting trash. By the end of the morning, the plate has begun to bio-degradable and four to six months later, it's ready to be turned into mulch, so it's recycling at it's best.
Haele
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Bombero1956
(3,539 posts)with a high fruit note and brambly nose, but with good mouthfeel and finish.