Who hear grinds/mills their dry food?

kaylan · May 30, 2015

So one of my babies has oral cancer, and because of her condition and a recent dental surgery, shes eating eat food. The other cats are still on dry food, and sometimes she likes to sneak to their bowl if they didnt finish their meal and she thinks Im not looking.

So to appease her desire for the dry food, but also protect her mouth, I decided to mill it with our NutriBullet. Then I put the finely ground dry food into her wet food, and added a little bit of water to make sure the dry softens up a little more.

This also stopped the others cats from vomiting, as they sometimes did when they chow down to fast. They have a tendency to really gobble up their kibble quickly. By serving a bit of wet food along with grinded dry food, Ive seemed to eliminate this in the other cats.

1. Have you done something similar?

2. Do I have to worry about storing it different now that Ive changed its consistency? Or is keeping it in a plastic tupperware ok. Should it be refrigerated as well?

3. Did this stop your gobblers from vomiting?

laurief · May 30, 2015

Kaylan, while I applaud you for your imaginative solution, there are a couple of important problems with it. First, relative to your cancer cat, it's known that many cancers feed and thrive on carbs. Kibble contains a LOT of carbs, so it really should be eliminated entirely from your cancer girl's diet. If she's happy to eat canned foods, stick with those, and pick up your other cats' leftovers before she has a chance to steal them.

Second, the high carb content of kibble makes it an ideal breeding ground for bacteria, esp. when that kibble has been wetted. Wet carbs are bacterial nirvana. While cats' GI tracts can typically handle a pretty substantial food-borne bacterial load, it's really not advisable to overload them with more bacteria than are natural to a meat-based, more species-appropriate diet.

Instead of milling the kibble and mixing it into "canned food soup" to slow down meal consumption of your other cats, try keeping the kibble whole and putting a few clean golf balls or clean golf ball-sized rocks in the food bowls that the cats will have to eat around. That will slow them down. Better yet, consider switching all of your cats to healthier canned food diets and eliminate kibble from the equation altogether.

Laurie

MowMow · May 30, 2015

^ All that Laurie said. Canned is best all around for all cats, but especially yours.

kaylan · May 30, 2015

What about the other two cats. Is milled dry food along with wet food fine for them?

kaylan · May 30, 2015

I feed them Earthborn Holistic BTW.

MowMow · May 30, 2015

Canned is always best. If they don't have any issues I'm not sure why you'd bother milling their dry food.

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