ArticleJournal of feline medicine and surgery2024
How and why pet cats are fed the way they are: a self-reported owner survey.
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- Gaps and Controversies in Feline Food Palatability.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Consuming treats with amino acids, osmolytes and sodium increased total water intake and decreased urine specific gravity of healthy cats.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Palatability assessment of a commercial wet renal diet in healthy cats: an open-label in-home exploratory trial.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Concentrations of Maillard reaction products and advanced glycation end-products in commercially available extruded dry, retorted wet, and mildly cooked (fresh) cat foods from the United Kingdom and United States.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
- Diet format, protein, amino acids, salt, and osmolytes, as well as water viscosity, affect water consumption in domestic cats: a scoping review of 32 publications (published from 1975 to 2025) on water intake, hydration status, and related health outcomes.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
- Does the definition of human ultra-processed foods apply to dog and cat foods? A review of pet food processing techniques, their impact on health, and a call for pet food processing classification.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Consumer Acceptance of Sustainable Cat Diets: A Survey of 1380 Cat Guardians.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Current Perspectives and Practices of Pet Owners in Türkiye on Animal Care, Nutrition, and Welfare.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- Understanding the level of animal welfare and associated factors among cat owners in Banyuwangi, Indonesia.Veterinary world · 2024Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectivesThis study used an owner-directed online questionnaire to collect data regarding their food and water provision for their pet cats. The survey was conducted in 2019.
methodsThe anonymous online 30-question survey was available via vetprofessionals.com.
resultsA total of 1172 cat owners fully completed the questionnaire. The respondents each owned a median of two cats (range 1-6). They reported being most strongly motivated to feed a particular ration because of palatability, observed and/or expected health benefits, or that the diet was/is perceived as 'natural'. The majority of owners (n = 946, 80.7%) fed their cats exclusively a commercially purchased complete wet food, dry kibble diet or mixture of both. Compared with a previous (unpublished) survey conducted by the same authors in 2013,1 there were substantial increases in the number of owners feeding therapeutic diets (26.6% vs 0.7%) and the inclusion of raw meat in cats' rations (15.6% vs 3.7%). The proportion of respondents providing at least one feeding station per cat was 83.1%, with significant use of enrichment feeding methods (29.1%). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Veterinarians need to be aware of changing trends in cat feeding to provide owners with appropriate support. Veterinary advice was frequently sought by owners and can be used as an opportunity to improve cat health and welfare, particularly in multi-cat households, but was not often influential to client decision making.
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