Category: Nutrition for Pets

  • Back to grainfree kibble for the Blondies

    The Blondies still need kibble. Actually, all our females (except Minnie) do. I think it’s because the crunchy texture mimics the crunching of bone, which is what female wild cats do – they hunt. And the Blondies are extremely choosy too, so I have to keep changing the kibble brands. After a long break from…

  • Trying out cooked food for the cats

    I find that as our cats age, they tend to prefer cooked food. Also, as I’ve written before, I want to be prepare for any eventuality in case there is an outbreak or worse, a pandemic of the H5N1 bird flu where raw diets must be avoided, I need to train our cats, especially the…

  • Creamy’s the only one who insists on raw food and nothing else

    Of all the 15 cats (and now, 16, including Kelly) that we are feeding, Creamy is the ONLY one who wants nothing but raw food and refuses to touch canned food, cooked food or kibble. So if ever a pandemic of bird flu strikes (the H5N1 can cross over to other animals as well), he’s…

  • Raw pet food and the H5N1 bird flu, especially in cats

    This article is written by a Ph.D immunologist and microbiologist who works full-time in life sciences biotech and founded ImmunoLogic, a science communication and consulting organization, to help combat health disinformation. The article: https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/raw-pet-food-diet-safety-dogs-cats-h5n1-bird-flu-veterinary-wellness-misinformation/ I know that when it comes to raw food for pets, it is a very sensitive and controversial topic because there…

  • Successful training for the Blondies

    I have successfully trained the Blondies to eat kibble soaked in water. Actually, Samantha, Kai and Indra eat wet food. It’s Akira who is so, so stubborn, preferring crunchy kibble. So now, they have no choice but to eat kibble soaked in water. Luckily they are all willing to eat it. I still need to…

  • What Tabs eats

    Tabs should be on “renal food” but she doesn’t quite like the commercially-available renal food. There’s still Cubgrub’s CKD Chicken, though, and I consider this homemade because it is.  At other times, she likes a mix of everything. Tabs is the only cat in the house who likes Back2Nature’s canned food, and this is considered…

  • Another review of PledgeCare’s freeze-dried treats

    Our cats really like PledgeCare’s freeze-dried Duck Cubes. Here’s Samantha, Kai and Indra eating PledgeCare’s air-dried chicken topped with their freeze-dried Duck Cubes. This way, they get two proteins. Akira, the kibble-queen rushed out to the kitchen to look for kibble. She probably knows Riley and Juno would have left some behind. I quickly added…

  • Training Creamy

    I read from a reliable source that chicken gizzards have a higher amount of phosphorus than chicken breast meat, so I’m trying to train Creamy to eat less gizzards and more chicken breast meat, but… Creamy says, “I only come for raw gizzards.” He was not happy with today’s breakfast. Today, he even wandered off…

  • The eating stories continue

    I’ve been occupied with some personal matters lately but I think those are more or less settled for now, so it’s back to writing about our cats again (my favourite activity!). I also had a persistent cough (oh no, not again!) but my throat had always been the weakest part of my body since I…

  • Juno chooses the bathroom!

    Little Juno wanted a room of her own, so she chose the bathroom! She has been bringing her toys in putting them in the shower area. She even wants to eat in the bathroom and often, she can be found sleeping there too. She has established her own daily schedule where first thing every morning,…

  • Riley, please learn from Juno

    I have totally succeeded in adding water to the Blondies’ kibble now. There’s no turning back from this, I hope! But it remains a huge challenge with Riley. Juno is willing to eat soaked kibble, but not Riley. She walks away when her bowl is wet. Even a wet bowl turns her off, imagine that!…

  • Naughty, naughty Robin!

    Our vet suggested blending Robin’s urinary pouch food for him so that he can lick up the blended food instead of having to pick up the “biji-biji”. So I blended one pouch and guess what? It was a completely failure!! Oh well, we would not have known unless we tried and I did and failed!…

  • Juno eats soaked kibble!

    I had thought it’d be impossible to get the Blondies to eat soaked kibble (it was a few months ago where they would stage a boycott and go on hunger strike), but it’s totally possible now. So that’s one achievement for me! Perseverance and lots of luck! My senior vet who likes to feed kibble…

  • Dinner at Ginger’s Catio

    Everyone insists on separate plates. They have a buffet offering of Cubgrub (raw food), cooked food and Ginger is eating my homecooked soupy meal. He loves soup. The greenish colour is due to the spirulina. Spirulina is of a very dark green so even a little bit will turn the soup very greenish. Robin is…

  • Juno, Riley, Tabs and the Blondies’ eating stories

    As far as possible, I ensure that Tabs, Riley and Juno’s breakfast consists of wet food. This is quite challenging because Riley and Juno are kibble-queens. And both eat very little, so I cannot soak the kibble in water as it will not get eaten up fast enough and it might spoil once it is…