WOW! I just looked up what the 6oz Pounce container I have cost. Walmart says $51.76 for TWO. Really? I figured my friends cost when I fill it up with his cat food is 13 cents.
My last cat subsisted pretty much on just treats the last year or so of her life. Her favorite was Hartz Squeeze Ups. I told her vet that she was eating very little real cat food, and a lot of treats. Vet said that at her age we should give her whatever she’d actually eat.
I put a pork loin in the crockpot to shred up and make tacos. A variety of ingredients are added depending on what I have. The cat sometimes likes it and sometimes doesn’t. It turns out when the cat likes it, it is better.
Was it Churu? I watch several rescue cat-cams, and in addition to supplementing pregnant and nursing momcats with it, it’s also the first solid food offered to the kittens.
I’ve never offered it to my cat; she gets a fraction of a jar of chicken baby food, with a fish oil capsule mixed in, each day as a hairball preventive.
Dog treats are the same concept.
p.s. The cat I have now isn’t otherwise a treat fan.
He would sit on the floor in front of me and eat Pounce from my fingers one at a time as quickly as I could pull them from the container. He could keep going as long as I could (and had a supply of Pounce.) Fortunately, he understood when I showed him my empty hands that it was over.