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Some of you may know that I have recently acquired a cat. One of the things I was most dreading about having a pet was having to feed it. Not the act of feeding per se--I may be lazy, but I am not quite that lazy--but the act of feeding a cat wet food. Wet food looks and smells like it just came out of a human orifice. The cat likes it, but I hate it.

Today I went to Petco and bought the almost-yuppiest cat food I could buy, Wellness cat food. (There were more expensive brands but they probably contained meat from gazelles or rare breeds of buffalo.) I opened it up tonight and... oooh. It smelled so good, I was almost tempted to eat it myself. The food also was thoroughly mashed so that it did not appear pre-digested. 

I have no idea whether the stuff actually prolongs a cat's life. My family's cats have lived a good 16 years on a diet of cheap canned food, cheap kibble, turkey breast, canned tuna, and table scraps. For all I know, my cat may actually prefer Fancy Feast and I am torturing her taste buds. However, I like the expensive brand and am perfectly willing to pay the price if it means that I do not have to have Fancy Feast stinking up my kitchen.

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In reply to my post of yore: Yes, I am using cat kibble as well. 1/4 cup a day, although not today as it wasn't all finished. I have a really small cat, it's still kind of a kitten and it's less than 5 pounds.

Anyway there really doesn't seem to be a wrong thing to feed your cat, at least longevity-wise.* My old roommate had an active 16-year old cat that she fed nothing but kibble, and like I said my mom and dad have done pretty well with feeding cats Fancy Feast, kibble, and table scraps. Feeding my cat raw food would be difficult, time-wise and offending-my-roommates-wise, so I am sticking to manufactured.

* Other than poison. Or garbage. Those are bad.