Glad to hear the little... darling is on the hard stuff.... IAMs is a very good food, but to be honest, has not a great deal in it that they can't get from other, less expensive sources. After all, they evolved to eat small rodents, birds etc...

You may find it necessary, if on an exclusive prepared cat food diet, to supplement it with some real raw dead animal - meat scraps from your Sunday roast, trimmings from stewing beef, fish heads, bacon rinds, the odd meaty bone... Their teeth and tongues are designed for getting raw meat off a bone and for scrunching those bones up. If your kitty was removed from his mother fairly early, he may not have learnt to eat 'real' prey. This may be to your liking if you don't want half eaten mice in your shoes. Same will occur if your kitty came from an 'indoor' cat. But sure as eggs is ovoid objects containing embryos, something in his dim kitty brain will make him want to chase small furry or feathered critters and eat them.

We had a cat who lived exclusively on prepared cat food but was quite dull and listless. When she had her kittens she didn't know what to do with the cords or placenta. Usually animals instinctively eat the placenta and bite the cords. I came home from school to find 4 6hr old kittens still attached to the afterbirth.

She was forever tired and the kittens weren't getting enough milk so I started sneaking her scraps of raw meat and bones and she perked up almost immediately. She started to hunt for the kittens and they all turned out mostly OK. She was very sleek and energetic afterwards. It may be a nutrition thing, it may be a boredom thing... I never did find out, but when I left home and she stopped getting the scraps, she reverted to her old self.

LTS