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Originally Posted by NanoBot
Fuck kinda shit is this? I get a new puppy, the male cat gets jealous and wont eat anything else but the puppy's food. The only way I get him to eat the cat food is by mixing it with the puppy food. Family and friends said he was loosing weight... I didn't notice but now I just realized why. I did notice the cat food was finishing a lot slower lately... but didn't connect the dots until my cat came and smacked my pup out of his own bowl and started chowing down.
The world is ending.
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Sorry, just saw this one, so now here we go!
If you cat does not eat enough cat food it will suffer from lack of certain nutrients, most importantly taurine and will die.
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm
Your idea to mix cat food with dog food is not really a good one as so much dog food is made from crap and the dog food doesn't have the good stuff that the kitty needs. Add meat to your cat's diet in the form of canned tuna; in fact, if you mis a little tuna with the cat food the cat will chow down big time!
Kitty NEEDS meat:
"Taurine
Cats also require a dietary source of the B-amino acid taurine which is present only in animal tissues. Cats cannot synthesize enough taurine from dietary precursors to meet obligate intestinal loss. The cat uses only taurine for bile salt synthesis (in comparison to dogs, that can substitute glycine), causing an ongoing obligate loss of taurine with excreted bile salts. Most animals produce both glycine and taurine conjugates of cholesterol for secretion as bile acids, but cats can only use taurine. Intestinal reabsorption of bile acids is not 100 percent efficient, so some taurine is continually lost in the feces. Although not incorporated into protein, taurine is required for normal cardiovascular (taurine deficiency has been proved to cause dilated cardiomyopathy in cats), reproductive, and visual function (taurine deficiency has also been proved to cause retinal degeneration). AAFCO Nutrient Profiles for Cats require that canned cat food contain a minimum of 2000 mg of taurine/kg diet and that foods contain a minimum of 1000 mg/kg."
