Babysitting my mom’s three cats. She left a box of Churu. They like them a lot. I was surprised. I thought it was just a few rare internet videos I have watched. Cats really like this.
My cat weirdly aggressively hates them. She hisses at them and tries to bite me the like two times iv ever offered her one.
She normally doesn’t even purr she makes no noises and gets scared if she catches her self making any. So for her to actively hiss is wild.
Cats are wierd
One of my cats climbed on top of the cabinets and ate an entire box of churu after she tried it once. That stuff is like cat crack I swear
Cats eat by sense of smell before taste. Churu is basically thin tapioca pudding (not dairy but texture-wise i mean) with a shitload of strong scents in it that drive them absolutely wild!
my cats have no interest in it. i was very disappointed with my purchase and had to mix it in with their wet food to get rid of it
I have never heard of Churu and everything here reads like Churu product placement
It’s just meat purée in a tube
I would guess it’s catnip in a bar… but I don’t know shit all about cats
It’s basically just watered-down cat food in a tube. And, honestly, not all cats like it. We have one cat that will eat it, but only if I squirt it out onto a plate. The other cat won’t even touch the stuff.
I’ve heard of it. My cat doesn’t care for it.
Which is funny because he’s fat, and very food motivated. Jumps off the couch when his auto feeder runs.
Like, he’ll eat the tube stuff, but not out of the tube, and he doesn’t go crazy for it. Very odd.
My buddies cats like it though, so 🤷♂️
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Friend of mine who works at a vet gave me some churu once, but my cats were totally uninterested in it. Only way i got them to eat any was to mix it in with their dry food lmao.
Ours love it. Two out of three of my parents’ cats love it. I split a tube onto two plates so that my subservient cat gets some while the piggy is busy with her own plate. The funny thing is that the piggy is underweight and the pushover is borderline a fatty.
Churu is the fucking real deal. I have this cat that has already lost a kidney and the other is very bad, he was very very skinny and I tried all kinds of treats and tasty things for him to eat, he spent three days getting IV fluids in the vet and the vet said he liked Churu so I bought it… anyway, this was three years ago, the last time we did a blood test and his creatinine wouldn’t fall below 5. He is still alive, the motherfucker is even chubby, he is moved by Churu, I think he is only alive so he can have more Churu, we give him from 4 to 7 everyday… I don’t even dare to do a blood test again, how he has no clinical symptoms of his severe kidney failure after so many years and still has shining fur is crazy
This is Dali, he is 15.
Aww! We also learned of Churu because of our elder kitty. She passed last year, 20+yrs old. It ended up becoming her only meals aside from meds/supplements. It made me glad to see her still enjoying things and having energy to get around unlike when we were just using the rx food, which she didn’t like.
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Well how about you shut up right now because I love him
I would literally die for Dali
mf is already making me hostile. Look at his power stance
I would like to apply for a housecat position, I will be happy with just 5 treats a day, plus lunch and dinner. I can also meow at you for seemingly no reason, and run around the house in the middle of the night. I can push things off of surfaces as well, though rarely just to keep things exciting.
Can you do subQ fluids at home? That, plus a low phosphorus diet, can really help! Tanya’s feline CRF page has a lot of good info on it.
I started with subcutaneous but after some time it wasn’t putting a dent on creatinine levels so I went to intravenous once a week, but then he developed phlebitis, so I changed to once every two weeks and alternating between front and back legs (he is not dehydrated btw). He won’t eat anything but Churu now, and I will never introduce another cat to Churu because they go crazy and then you can’t give anything else lol - I tried cheaper local brands, other cats absolutely loved when he didn’t even try so I gave it to them :P
I have another cat with kidney problems and she is on a low phosphorus diet already, but him? He doesn’t even try to taste it
It looks like you’ve got a really good handle on his issues then - I wish all of you long, healthy and happy lives together :)
We ruined it for our cat by putting his medicine into it. Prior to that it was like crack
Same for greenies for me. Used to love them, now sees them and nopes out of the room.
We do this too, but we crush up the pill first. She’s never noticed, and we only use a half tube for it.
Gotta crush it first. And until they get used to it only do a tiny amount in each “serving” so like an eight of the pill in the first quarter of the churu, slowly getting more.
Trust me, we’ve tried it all. Crushed pills, liquid, whatever. Homeboy takes one sniff and nopes out.
you have a drug sniffing cat?
Maybe he could get a job and support this damn household!
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I’ve used churu to end wars between cats. It’s a game changer for earning a good reputation when you’re new to a suspicious cat. Maybe they don’t let you touch them yet, but now they come out to see you in case you brought more of that delicious goo.
My cat will sprint to her bowl when she hears me opening the churu pouch
Hmm, I feel like I’ve been warned by stumbling across this thread. And at first I thought it was stealth marketing.
It totally is.
Stealth marketing on Lemmy? Congratulations everyone, we’ve made it!
No idea if it’s true or not but there was a rumor back in the day, that “natural flavors” was code for just a tiny bit of catnip essence.
Crack. They put crack in it.
Anecdotal data point, my cat hates catnip. Spray it? He flips shit and runs. Drop some flakes? He approaches it slowly and then just walks away. Toys? Won’t touch them.
But he’ll eat the shit out of Churu
Neither of our cats seem to have the catnip liking gene, but they still go out of their mind for churu.
My cats actually prefer Delectables over Churu (they tell me it’s a consistency/texture thing). But I think both brands have some form of bone marrow in them to make them extra umami. Not nip. Could be why your nip-resistant kitties still lose their minds over Churu.
that cat looks BUZZED
The photo was taken mid-licking.
It aint healthy for the cats though
Tell me more?
My cat refuses almost all wet food, but multiple vet demands say we need to provide more moisture. Churu is mostly the only thing we’ve found. The ingredients seem… relatively okay (versus most).
I assume you’ve tried shredded/gravy wet foods? In my experience they’re much more popular than the patés. My understanding is your vet is totally correct: it’s really important for cats to get moisture from their food, so it’s worth it to keep trying to find something your cat will eat!
Out cat used to throw up all wet food so we also supplemented with cat lickies. There are numerous brands available, I have no idea why they have to be called “Churu” now. That brand doesn’t even exist here.
