Our cats love the Sheba, so long as it does not have much fish in it. The only fish they will eat are tuna and salmon, and it must be combined with other meats. They call those tiny tubs of Sheba "Perfect Portions" But I don't think they really know what they are saying. Our cats like meal about twice what is in one tub of Sheba. What we do with the Sheba and other cat food is pop it in the microwave for just a few seconds, long enough to make it warm, not hot. That get the aroma better for their little noses. When I do the feeding time, I mix a bit of dry into it. If I feed Cookie Baby something that has gravy in it, she will suck up the gravy, and leave the actual meat. Right after she does that, a few minutes later she upchucks every time. So I figured a way out to keep the gravy from being easy to suck up. Mixing dry into it after warming it up works well. I know what her problem is when she upchucks like that. She is a constant shedder, shedding cat hair year round. As most cats are always cleaning their fur throughout the day, they need to cough up the hairballs. Cookie Baby's trigger for that is to drink a lot of gravy. Only thing is, after she coughs up a hairball that way, she loses her appetite. She started getting skinny and her ribs were beginning to show through her fur. So I had to come up with a way to get food to stay in her belly until it was digested and absorbed into her system. Warming the wet food and mixing dry into it is working really well, and she is no longer skin and bones. McCartney only upchucks once every few weeks, except in the Spring and Summer months; but even then he doesn't do it as much as Cookie Baby does. I think my girl sheds a whole other cat in hair every year!
Like you, I don't buy what the scientist say about cats. I think if our cats could talk, they would. They certainly have enough intelligence to do so. Both of our cats are always finding ways to communicate with us, and I'm sure your cat does that as well. From what you have posted in our various threads here at FA, I know Mogwai, and when he was living, Tattoo have a good share of intelligence. My cat, Cookie Baby has awesome intelligence, to the point of being an inventor. She never ceases to amaze. As for developing relationships with their humans, you and I both know the scientists don't really know what they think they know. I have to wonder how many cats they have had in their lives! Not many, I suspect, other than just for study. They are distant and aloof, and because of that, not right to be the ones studying the feline species. Cats can sense the demeanor of a human, and will not develop a relationship with a cold and distant person. It makes that type of scientist biased in the wrong direction, and they refuse to give credit to the humans and cats that are happy together. McCartney was an alley cat when I first met him. He was not very big at that time. It only took two encounters with me for him to come to our door and decide we would be his forever family. Now he is the biggest cat in the whole neighborhood; the True Alpha, spreading his progeny all around here. He gets let in by some of our neighbors when they have a female in heat. They want him mating with their females. I think it is because of his true gentle nature. They want to produce kittens that will be as much like him as possible. Many of his offspring come to me for some love when I am out and about.
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