Food & dishes: To ensure good health and a long life use only the better quality foods, like “Nutro Max Cat”, Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul, Pro Plan or Purina.  There are a variety of well balanced healthy foods available at the local feed store or PetCo.  Never get the foods with dye, especially red or green dye, these kinds of foods can have an effect on their long term health. Typically feed stores carry the better quality food.  You can have dry food available always or feed per your veterinarian suggestion.  Routine is essential, feed at the same time every day. Usually one tablespoon of wet food is enough as a daily special treat.  Too much is not good for their teeth.

 Serve their food and water in clean non-plastic dishes.  Avoid plastic dishes.  It‘s good to have a set of dishes just for them.  You can pick up some at second hand stores, yard sales or Target just for her.  Avoid broken, cracked or chipped dishes.

 Provide fresh greens such as cat grass if they are indoor only cats. They love it and need the vitamins from fresh greens.  You can grow your own in a window if you like or bring them some of the fresh clean big leaf grass from your yard.   

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