Fuzzies feel?

[Sourek]

Echo is an sbt. I guess f5 or beyond. She isn't as big as the earlier generations. She is about 6 pounds at 4.5 months. Tall and long. Follow their recommendations on socializing them. They eat a ton. Constant, really, like they have a tape worm! We feed them a combination of wet and dry foods that are grain free. A1 has them on Iams. We switched as soon as the recommendations would allow. Do your research on pet foods. We found that the cat's really like a combination of Acana and Taste of the Wild. They are high protein. We also feed them Raw chicken wings a couple times per week. We give them a large variety of wet foods, all grain free.
Echo is a HUGE beggar. She let's us know when she wants food (always) and where it is. She is a scavenger. We have a daycare and she wants to scavenge the floor after the kids eat. It keeps us on our toes cleaning up, fast.
A1 is good with questions, but you have to reach out to them. The haven't checked in to see how Echo is doing or anything. The cattery we got our bengal from checked in after a few times.

Thanks for the response. Yea what you just said is pretty inline with the care sheet they had sent me. Honestly I was just planning on sticking with the Zupreme, but I'll take a look at the others that you've mentioned. Thanks a lot.

 

[NikkiA]

Hey, was just wondering what Generation you have from A1. I'm actually waiting on an F2 and F4 from them. Would love to know about your kitty's progress and maybe anything I should expect before I receive them.

We have an F3 boy, an F4 boy, and an F5 boy from A1. Our F3 boy, Jarvis, is 10 months old (Friday!), our F4 boy, Mickey Blue Eyes, is 6 months old, and our F5 boy, Diablo, is almost a year and a half.
We got our boys at three different times, Diablo arrived in November 2011, Jarvis in May 2012 and Mickey in September 2012.

 

[Carrie-n-Mike]

Thanks for the response. Yea what you just said is pretty inline with the care sheet they had sent me. Honestly I was just planning on sticking with the Zupreme, but I'll take a look at the others that you've mentioned. Thanks a lot.

Zupreme is great, but you have to order it online in the twin cities mn. Amazon is great, but we like to use the local pet store here "Chuck and Don's". They sell many good brands of wet food. Our two cat's just get tired of the Zupreme and we'd rather them get something they will like to keep them growing big and strong. We typically mix it with stuff like Earthborn or Merrick.
We've learned a lot about pet foods since our last cat passed and we got the new cats. Iams, Science Diet, anything Purina or the brands that Walmart or Target sell (except Newman's at WM) have many more bad ingredients than good. Corn, cornmeal, animal byproducts, any grains except brown rice are all so bad.

Hope this helps.

 

[Sourek]

Zupreme is great, but you have to order it online in the twin cities mn. Amazon is great, but we like to use the local pet store here "Chuck and Don's". They sell many good brands of wet food. Our two cat's just get tired of the Zupreme and we'd rather them get something they will like to keep them growing big and strong. We typically mix it with stuff like Earthborn or Merrick.
We've learned a lot about pet foods since our last cat passed and we got the new cats. Iams, Science Diet, anything Purina or the brands that Walmart or Target sell (except Newman's at WM) have many more bad ingredients than good. Corn, cornmeal, animal byproducts, any grains except brown rice are all so bad.

Hope this helps.

Awesome, Really appreciate the advice. Yea I was planning on keeping along the recommendations. The Zupreme mixed in with 9 Lives and the Iams dry food option out all day. But i'll switch out to these more natural choices. Do you think its possible to switch it out earlier than the month is up?

 

[Carrie-n-Mike]

Awesome, Really appreciate the advice. Yea I was planning on keeping along the recommendations. The Zupreme mixed in with 9 Lives and the Iams dry food option out all day. But i'll switch out to these more natural choices. Do you think its possible to switch it out earlier than the month is up?

We did it after 3 weeks. A little early, but Echo didn't seem to mind. She likes getting a variety. She was like an addict to the Iams though. She wasn't happy when we took her "McDonalds" away.

 

[admin]

Thanks for the response. Yea what you just said is pretty inline with the care sheet they had sent me. Honestly I was just planning on sticking with the Zupreme, but I'll take a look at the others that you've mentioned. Thanks a lot.

Daniel, I HATE Zupreem...just keep your kittens on it for a short while, mix with whatever food you decide to feed them and make the switch.

 

[Sourek]

Daniel, I HATE Zupreem...just keep your kittens on it for a short while, mix with whatever food you decide to feed them and make the switch.

I Just assumed it was a good choice because it was in the recommendations. Is there any specific reason you dislike it that much? I'll look more into Carrie-N-Mike's recommendations, any other ready to mix options you might suggest in addition.

Also Really sorry about hijacking this thread.

 

[admin]

I Just assumed it was a good choice because it was in the recommendations. Is there any specific reason you dislike it that much? I'll look more into Carrie-N-Mike's recommendations, any other ready to mix options you might suggest in addition.

Also Really sorry about hijacking this thread.

No worries about hijacking the thread...Zuri would not eat it, it is expensive and I just don't think it is very good, to be honest. If you look under the Savannah Cat Diet, you will see lots of good info.

 

[Jacq]

Hi, we have a 5 month old sbt from A1. She just went into her fuzzies again (we think) last week. Is this common for them to alternate? She was light gray with a little brown when we got her, but getting dark gray now. She looks really nappy. Two weeks ago, she had soft short fur/pelt which was super sleek and smooth.Now she looks like an alley cat. (Still cute though) Avatar shows her light two weeks ago. Wondering if she will continue to darken.

Any thoughts? She is growing really tall, really fast. Just had her dewormed over three weeks since our bengal had worms from the breeder.

Thanks

Looks to me like she grew in a winter coat.