I feed only wet pate style food as dry food and gravies are filled with carbs.
Stuffy won’t eat the pate style foods. So far, about the only commercial thing I’ve had any luck with is 9 Lives dry food. The larger sized kibbles she can’t seem to digest, either can’t chew them adequately or just can’t digest them; in any case she upchucks them. So, she has always hunted fresh meat for herself and I cook her a bit of salmon, fish or chicken fairly often. She will also eat canned tuna from time to time, and a bit of milk also. As for her hunting; she is about 10 yrs. old, and I don’t know how much longer she will continue to hunt. She’s just picky; won’t eat those packaged kitty treats, and in the rare instance that they come out with a canned food that she will eat, they either quit making it, or “improve” it, or the store quits carrying it. - She has been to where she won’t come in the house for about the last two years or so; so she is an outside kitty. We fixed her a room with an insulated bed and a heater; in the summer she insists on sleeping up in the rafters in the garage or camping out in a cool spot under an outbuilding here. - She grooms herself fastidiously. Has been a difficult girl in a way; but in a lot of ways she’s so sweet (yet aloof) and no trouble at all. - Tough as nails; wouldn’t have lasted out here in the wilderness if she wasn’t. If the dogs tried to bug her, she would slap them across the nose; but they, too, are her buddies and they just love on each other a lot.
Oh, and I know this may sound terrible; but we have blue tailed lizards in the garden and Stuffy zaps off their tails and eats those tails. The lizards go on their way most times and grow new tails. Occasionally, she opts for eating a whole, unlucky blue tailed lizard. I think she’s pretty much thinned out their population after 10 yrs. Oh, and birds when she can catch one.