Hi all, I was wondering if anyone feeds their cat on tinned tuna at all?

To understand why I'm asking, this is my baby's current daily diet:

1 x bowl of Whiskas 100% biscuits with dental plan thing, constantly topped up.

2 x bowls of Felix 'as good as it looks'

and two Webbox sticks as well.

The problem is that she's very much a grazer when it comes to eating her wet food, and I find myself throwing a lot of it away twice a day when it's dried out.

So anyway - it was her birthday yesterday, so she had a tin of tuna (the freshwater one) and she absolutely wolfed it down! What I was wondering is whether, instead of feeding her on Felix, I'd instead switch to feeding her tinned tuna, because then I know she's eating the lot. Would she still get enough vitamins & minerals? I'm thinking that she would, because obviously she eats the dried food too.

Any thoughts?

My mums' started feeding her cat a small tin of tuna for breakfast daily. The cat adores it. She won't eat any other 'human' food. She has the one in spring water. (Sainsburys.) Obviously because of the salt in the brine. She is flourishing on it though. She's about 2 1/2 years old and since starting she's had a good growth spurt. She's very healthy and happy.
I wouldn't feed your cat soley on tuna as wet food as I doubt it does have the full range of vitamins and minerals required. Besides, you know cats. As soon as a food becomes freely available they get bored of it!

growing up, our family cat, would come screaming and running down the stairs as soon as it was opened, love it.

i have 2 cats of my own and was expecting the same reaction, they turned their nose up at it !!!!

they are more your chicken and ham cats

Ah yes, that sounds like the best compromise, thanks!

my vet told me too much tinned tuna isn't good for them because of the mercury and its not good for their teeth either

Tuna is fine as a weekly/twice weekly treat, but not ideal as a daily party of a cat's diet because it is not a 'complete' cat food and lacks vital nutrients.

As a previous poster said you, if you did feed it daily, she would probably treat it with the type of contempt she currently gives her Felix etc.

To avoid throwing food away, dish up less for her.

Okeydokey, what I'm going to do is give her tinned tuna for her breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays; that way, she'll look forward to the weekend as much as me! Thanks for the input all

My three princesses have tinned tuna as a treat, if they have been to the vets, when we go on holiday and they come home from the cattery, Christmas (my mum always buys three separate tins of tuna and wraps them up for the cats) and things like that, they know it is a treat and wolf it down.

The down side is that every time I open a tin, they think it is tuna time and sit in the kitchen looking pathetic at me as if they NEVER get fed and I am a evil mummy!

You could try Whiskas tuna wet food in sachets, 2 of my 3 princesses think it is wonderful, the other one turns her nose up at it and knows it is not the proper stuff!

Sheba do a little blue tub. It's called Prime Cut's Of Tuna. It looks pretty close to human tuna and my boy adores it.

we feed Winnie tuna. she loves it. She loves biscuits, doesn't like eating felix/whiskas meat.