Feeding cat food...

[SarahandRich]

I hope this doesn't sound crazy - but - I have been told that some people feed their axies on tinned/moist cat food! The 'chunky' kind. Dog food is lacking in nutrients but cat food has all sorts of vitamins and minerals added.

So, I just wondered what other people thought.

Do you know if there are ingredients that may be poisonous to axies, or would it be a good food (even though its cooked), and would they even accept it?

Seems to me that if it's OK, a LOT of feeding problems would be solved straight off...

 

[Abrahm]

I would recommend against it. Cat foods are high in proteins and often fortified with vitamins and minerals (as are dog foods) formulated for mammalian predators. I can't find nutritional analysis online but I would imagine you might have difficulty with hyper- or hypovitaminosis or improper calcium:phosphorus ratio. There's also the fact that these foods tend to be covered in oils/gravies that will really make your tank water go bad quickly.

 

[Bellabelloo]

I wouldn't even give my pesky cats most tinned cat food as it tends to have a minute amount of meat in it...having said that they are not in my good books once again so who knows what i might end up feeding them!!

 

[Jacquie]

I wouldn't even give my pesky cats most tinned cat food as it tends to have a minute amount of meat in it...having said that they are not in my good books once again so who knows what i might end up feeding them!!

My full sympathies Bellabelloo. I think my cats are up to volume 7, chapter 38 of my bad books - the good book is collecting dust somewhere and has never got past page 1.

Hi SarahandRich,

- The axies may not mind eating it (My greedy little axies will eat anything smaller than their maw that happens by ), but it would have an adverse effect on your water quality as Abrahm has stated which they certainly would mind. I don't feed my cats tinned cat food any more as it smells so terrible.

By the time you trove through the can looking for edible bits for the axies - you might as well have bought fresh produce.

More trouble than it's worth I think.