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Rafiki
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Shimmer, you may need to experiment with the litter a bit. SVs are cats so they can be fussy! I use the clumping clay litter from Petco as I have found that it is fragrance free and relatively low dust as compared to most of the others I have tried. I started with pine pellets because that is what my breeder used (and did not want to change litter types for at least a month after I got her) and Rafiki had a bad habit of tasting absolutely everything when she was a kitten. My breeder used pine pellets that are used as horse bedding so he could buy it in large quantities really cheap but I never seemed to be able to find that. When my girl stopped munching on litter, I switched to clumping clay for convenience and because my other cat prefers it.
shimmeringsoul
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ty all and i am wondering is there a thread on foods that are ok and not ok for savannahs? i want to cook for freddy rather then buying moist food because i dont trust the ingredients
shimmeringsoul
Savannah Super Cat
ok dose anyone have a moist food(s) they trust?
Carykd7kau
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I have been feeding Royal Canin Adult Instinctive. But some don't care for that. But my girls like it, where they will not eat "better" foods. Kiki ate Kitten Instictive when she was younger.
SlugMaster
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I've been feeding By Nature to my one cat that refuses to eat raw. He has been fine on it for the last year.
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Rafiki
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Shimmer, what was your breeder feeding him? What is he eating now?
I did not mean talk you out of cooking your own. It really isn't overly complicated you just have to add supplements and the type/amount of supplements depends on the food. For instance, many folks here make their own raw. The raw would be a mixture of muscle meat (thighs instead of breasts), organ meat and bone. There are readily made supplements to add to this. On the other hand, if you don't add bone, you would add a different supplement that also contains nutrients normally obtained from bone like calcium. [Important - bone is only allowable in raw as it will splinter if it is cooked.] It would be very similar for cooked - you would add the supplement for meat without bone.
If you choose to go with a commercial diet, choose high quality with meat (and not meat byproducts) as the first ingredient. The better ones tend to have very few ingredients. Avoid grain as cats do not digest this. One thing you will notice is that with the high quality food, the poops will be much smaller and less smelly as the cat's digestive system absorbs more so the cat poops less.
And bottom line, your cat may not like the food that you choose regardless of the quality so it will become a grand experiment finding something that both you and Freddy will agree upon.
I did not mean talk you out of cooking your own. It really isn't overly complicated you just have to add supplements and the type/amount of supplements depends on the food. For instance, many folks here make their own raw. The raw would be a mixture of muscle meat (thighs instead of breasts), organ meat and bone. There are readily made supplements to add to this. On the other hand, if you don't add bone, you would add a different supplement that also contains nutrients normally obtained from bone like calcium. [Important - bone is only allowable in raw as it will splinter if it is cooked.] It would be very similar for cooked - you would add the supplement for meat without bone.
If you choose to go with a commercial diet, choose high quality with meat (and not meat byproducts) as the first ingredient. The better ones tend to have very few ingredients. Avoid grain as cats do not digest this. One thing you will notice is that with the high quality food, the poops will be much smaller and less smelly as the cat's digestive system absorbs more so the cat poops less.
And bottom line, your cat may not like the food that you choose regardless of the quality so it will become a grand experiment finding something that both you and Freddy will agree upon.
I feed Wellness canned to my cats, and Authority Kitten canned to my little ones. I usually recommend that you find a food that lists proteins as it's first 4-5 ingredients, and try to avoid grains (the Authority kitten has brewers rice as its fifth ingredient but kittens seem to love it so it works well to help wean them off mom).
