Cat Food / cat food ingredients / cat food labelling / dry cat food / wet cat food
September 4, 2023
I am happy with this infographic which I hope explains in a clear way how to compare the protein content of wet and dry cat foods. It can be puzzling. The protein content is...
Cat Behavior / Cat Food / cost of cat caregiving / feeding behavior / feeding characteristics / feeding domestic cats / Human to cat relationship / wet cat food
August 20, 2023
Do you aspire to that cat caregiving utopian ideal of no wet food waste left in the bowl after a feeding or even after five feedings? Well, I’ve achieved it. I’m boasting but I’ve...
cat food / Cat Health / diet / human health / nutrients / pet food / taurine / wet cat food
June 9, 2023
Taurine has been discussed a lot on the internet in the context of the domestic cat’s diet as it is an essential nutrient. For cats a diet lacking in sufficient quantities of taurine can...
Cat Food / cat food / cat food ingredients / Cat Health / pet food / wet cat food
June 5, 2023
I don’t believe that we can entirely trust the cat and dog food we buy in the UK to be safe for our companion animals. I have just watched a BBC programme about ultra-processed...
diet / dry cat food / environmental impact / global warming / wet cat food
May 26, 2023
The New Scientist website tells us that wet pet food has seven times the carbon emissions of dry cat food. They refer to a study which I can’t access which tells us that an...
Cat Food / Cat Products / dry cat food / feeding domestic cats / human behavior / human personality / human stress / wet cat food
April 23, 2023
There is an interesting discussion on cat food on social media. It’s about how much you store in your kitchen or to use an old-fashioned word, pantry. Does this picture reflect your attitude to...
cat eating behaviour / Cat Food / Exotic Shorthair / feeding domestic cats / Persian cat / wet cat food
April 5, 2023
Well, this video is about people who are scared of cats or who don’t like them. They find out over the course of a week that cats can be charming and great companions. All...
Cat Food / cat food ingredients / dry cat food / feeding domestic cats / nutrients / protein / water / wet cat food
March 10, 2023
The experts at the Clinical Nutrition Service say that “The yearly costs ranged from $86 to over $2,100” when assessing the price range of wet and dry cat foods in the United States. The...
July 24, 2022
Wet cat food contains around 80 calories per 100 grams of food. Dry cat food contains around 300-400 calories per 100 grams of food. Therefore, dry cat food contains around four times the number...
November 6, 2020
There can be only two possible reasons why domestic cats like to eat watermelon and I don’t think that we can say that all domestic cats like watermelon. So it’s wrong to ask, “Why...
July 1, 2020
I have become a fan of wet cat food in small pouches (sachets). I am convinced that the standard size wet cat food pouches are too large. Do you have the same thoughts? Domestic...
February 5, 2019
In a recent post I described how I got rid of waste wet cat food by using aluminium foil and letting it go into landfill. That’s obviously a big compromise. It looks wasteful but...
February 3, 2019
From me, and I might not be entirely typical (an understatement!), one of the great problems of getting rid of uneaten cat food is that if you put it in a plastic bag and...
December 26, 2018
Why don’t cats ever eat all of their food? Well, firstly, it’s not true that cats never eat all of their food in the bowl. However, often they do leave some food. The two...
December 17, 2016
I genuinely have difficulty in deciding for sure when my cat is hungry enough to eat the entire contents of a sachet of high quality wet cat food. Too much wet cat food is...
