Wet food is a lot richer and more filling because it's so moist. Our first cat worried me because he drank so little water, but the vet said that was because of the wet food.
If he's not losing weight, I wouldn't worry yet.
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
'Smile Time'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Oct 31, 2008 4:58:55 pm PDT #7791 of 10001
Because books.
sarameg - Oct 31, 2008 5:02:49 pm PDT #7792 of 10001
Thanks. I've has cats all but the 4 years in college (that's 29 years!) but we've always used wetfood as supplements.
Of course, now I'm reading that many vets are saying that wetfood is now better! Oy.
I'm so damned paranoid now. Again.
aurelia - Oct 31, 2008 5:03:52 pm PDT #7793 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Since he has dry food available I wouldn't worry. He'll eat if he's hungry.
When I was feeding wet and dry at the same time, Rosie would eat all the dry and Gilda would eat all the wet. Both cats were active and healthy but Rosie started getting a little chunky while Gilda stayed skinny. I adjusted to giving them the dry only after the wet was gone and their weights have evened out. Dry food just causes more weight gain than wet food.
sarameg - Oct 31, 2008 5:07:16 pm PDT #7794 of 10001
Well, with MK, we just want him maintaining because of his diabetes: losing weight=bad. Gaining weight=bad. So when he's dropped because he's sick, no idea what is the norm. As it is now, he's dropped from 4 units insulin twice daily to 1 unit twice daily and we'll see.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 31, 2008 5:11:32 pm PDT #7795 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Taz needed to eat wet food all the time because of his bladder thing, but we were finally able to get permission from the vet to get the corresponding C/D dry food, which he loooooves, because for so long it was forbidden fruit.
I just remember when we were at the shelter he would be wandering about cadging dry food from the other cats, heh.
bon bon - Oct 31, 2008 5:25:29 pm PDT #7796 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Ooooh! As I write this, wedding pictures from bon bon are going up on her flickr page!
Ha! Those are the pictures that I found on my camera.
Tonight: faculty party and fancy-dress comedy show (?!). Because of the latter we're going to pretend we're "Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac" for the former.
Kat - Oct 31, 2008 5:25:55 pm PDT #7797 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In CA, the Secretary of State runs a statewide high school mock student election on the presidential races and on the propositions. The results are trickling in. [link]
If students ran things, Obama would kick ass and Prop 8 would be a no.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2008 5:27:17 pm PDT #7798 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Somebody at work asked if I was dressing up tonight -- I said I was already in costume, as Pam Beesly. I felt kind of frumpy today.
I swear, one of these years, I'm just going to put a band-aid on my face and say I'm going as Nelly.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2008 5:29:10 pm PDT #7799 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
An organization I know did a mock election with girls last week, and Obama won in a landslide! [link]
Kat - Oct 31, 2008 5:30:34 pm PDT #7800 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
[link] our Barack O' Lantern. Better pic here [link]
Also, Grace will wear a wig, if made to do so. Noah? NSM.
Crabby Crabby Thing 1, Snuggly Thing 2.
ita, those costumes were just for you.
At trick or treating, we saw two kids in Wall-E costumes that I ADORED. They even had on goggles. So cute.