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Thank you for that post. My two girls **LOVE** tuna, whether it be the catfood canned version or (preferred) the inexpensive human variety, but I have not yet found anything besides tuna thus far. I have tried trout, chicken, shrimp, crab, salmon -even bits of meat from a roast-beef sandwich and other meats, and they might nibble a bit of whatever but then they lose interest and saunter off... but if I forget any food in the sink or anywhere (even a forgotten unwashed bowl of spaghetti with meat sauce) when I come in the next morning there will be bits of gnawed food all over the floor. It does not look as if they eat much, but I need a better strategy it appears.

They do like small amounts of raw eggs, and milk and cream (very small amounts), but they adore the Purina Indoor Cat dry cat food, and so I keep their bowls full of that plus every evening for dinner they get one-quarter can of Friskies which I vary every day... but with this new scare I now check to make sure nothing canned with gravy gets to them. I am still quite worried about them, but until I can find that combination that tickles their palates I will have continue to have that concern.

If you're leaving dry food out all day, your cats may not be sufficiently hungry to go for the healthy meat meals you're trying to offer them. I found a lot of good information on feline nutrition and recipes through www.catnutition.org and www.catinfo.org.

I'm looking at my calico sleeping contentedly on a pillow. Her sister is sleeping somewhere too - probably on my son's pillow, curled around his head. Although they didn't finish everything I served them, it's obvious they had plenty to eat once they finally dug into the dinner. I've read that meaty home-made meals are more rich than commercially prepared foods. Their contentment certainly supports that idea. I'll need to feed them smaller quantities than I'm used to dishing out. I guess that tells me a lot about the quality of food they've gotten in the past. I'll need to re-calibrate my thinking to "mouse-equivalents".