In general higher protein and less carbohydrates is better for cats. they are carnivores. However, higher fiber is also good. Mostly, though it is just good for them to get lots of water and not gain to much weight. keeps the kidneys working and diabetes prevention. And if you are talking kittens - you have a pretty good chance they will eat what you give them.

you have a pretty good chance they will eat what you give them.

Perkins the cat actually won't, He throws up most of the brands I've tried from the supermarket, but refuses to eat any Science diet and most of the Iams I've tried.

He likes Trader Joes though, and most of them don't make him throw up.

We give Jack the Purina One Naturals.

But then again, Jack will eat anything, including power cords, so clearly, not a discriminating palate.

Isn't this mostly the "dead-enders" who still think Bush is/was doing a good job?

Actually, it was someone that went to my high school on Facebook. I really need to unfriend some of those people. I specifically state in my info that I am a bed-wetting liberal crybaby and yet, they still get offended when they read something in my status that reflects my political views.

But cats in kidney failure are supposed to have lower protein diets. Because protein is tough on the kidneys.

Yes, Teddy was on one of those for a while. We still have a few cans left.

True and percy was on lower protein at the end, because his kidneys were getting such a work out -- but the idea is that starting them on higher protein diets -- with a lot of water might prevent some of these diseases.

I'll be getting an adult cat, so kitten indoctrination's off the table. I expect that after a month or so in the pound, anything I feed them will look like manna. Still, I'll keep in mind checking the ash content and so forth. I'm trying to walk the line between abattoir sweepings and feeding my cat the pet equivalent of kobe beef.

My cat lived happily on Meow Mix for years, but he apparently gained a couple of pounds over the past year (although I'm skeptical, since that was weighing him by drastically different methods), so I've put him on the Halo (Ellen Degeneres cat food!) + Iams or something that I bought in an emergency.

When I was a kid, the barn cats got fed milk mixed with water, bread and whatever table scraps were left over that day. Of course, they were free to eat as many mice, birds, etc. as they caught.

Oh, and sometimes my dad would squirt milk straight from a cow's udder onto a cat's face. They loved that.

For billytea: Scientists unlock secrets of Australia's giant 30kg koalas

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, giant versions of Australia's unique wildlife stalked the continent. There were kangaroos up to 3m tall and enormous wallabies, wombats and echidnas. There were also koalas: larger and weightier than the creatures sometimes seen today in eucalyptus trees.

Giant koalas died out about 50,000 years ago, along with most of Australia's "megafauna". For a long time, modern koalas were assumed to be dwarf descendants of those prehistoric animals. But now an Australian palaeontologist has established that the two koalas lived side by side – a finding that may throw new light on why the megafauna disappeared.