Toothless Puss

[Krupp88]

Hi

Does anyone have any experience of having a cat with no teeth. We have been offered a 6 year old male cat for adoption who has no teeth (no idea why this is the case at the moment).

The obvious question is what do you feed him?

Otherwise he looks in amazing condition.

[OriginalFDM]

Our puss is only 7 years old but has already had several teeth out. The vet said some cats are just far more susceptible to problem teeth (sure they mentioned some kind of auto-immune type condition, which there's still quite little known about it amongst vets), and can be perfectly happy with few or even no teeth.

I would presume normal wet food is still fine, if it's mushed up well. Ours still eats dry food too - the one we feed him is very small pellets - but doesn't crunch it much, tends to swallow it whole because he's a fat turd!

[Evoluzione]

Krupp88 said:

Hi

Does anyone have any experience of having a cat with no teeth. We have been offered a 6 year old male cat for adoption who has no teeth (no idea why this is the case at the moment).

The obvious question is what do you feed him?

Otherwise he looks in amazing condition.

Ours hasn't got a lot left, it had them taken out as they (or the gums) went rotten. She copes fine, eats soft food and crunches on biscuits too. I guess her gums have hardened up to cope or she just eats on the remaining ones.
She does have an odd look on her face sometimes when her lip gets curled up and stuck.

[Krupp88]

Thanks everyone, looks like we will go ahead with the adoption, he is a lovely big red longhair.

[Ace-T]

You could try him on this?

https://www.purina.co.uk/cat/felix/cat-food/produc...

We need pics of this awesome sounding kitty of course.

[Krupp88]

Ace-T said:

You could try him on this?

https://www.purina.co.uk/cat/felix/cat-food/produc...

We need pics of this awesome sounding kitty of course.

Thanks that looks a good option, once we have definite confirmation I will pop a picture up. That will make 5 cats in the house, figure that as its a 5 bedroom house its one each!

[Jasandjules]

We rescued one (well, he was basically thrown at us) who had no teeth. After a few months they told us it was because he had FIV they took his teeth out. He was quite happy eating his mince meat - never really moved more than 20ft from our utility room door (the room where food was served) for the few years he was with us.

[Ace-T]

Krupp88 said:

Ace-T said:

You could try him on this?

https://www.purina.co.uk/cat/felix/cat-food/produc...

We need pics of this awesome sounding kitty of course.

Thanks that looks a good option, once we have definite confirmation I will pop a picture up. That will make 5 cats in the house, figure that as its a 5 bedroom house its one each!

Excellent! We have 5 of the furry idiots too.

[garythesign]

Our previous rescue had terrible teeth

He had 14 teeth removed at one go.

Within a few months he was eating wet and dried with no problem.

Good luck

[Krupp88]

Thanks everyone, virtual home visit was successfully completed and we have got the ok so I think time for pictures, as well the red flomp we also decided to adopt this lovely 2 year old girl.

[OriginalFDM]

Both beautiful

[Jasandjules]

Wonderful, Norwegians?

[Evoluzione]

Jasandjules said:

We rescued one (well, he was basically thrown at us) who had no teeth. After a few months they told us it was because he had FIV they took his teeth out. He was quite happy eating his mince meat - never really moved more than 20ft from our utility room door (the room where food was served) for the few years he was with us.

What is FIV?
Why do people write in obscure abbreviations?

[Krupp88]

Jasandjules said:

Wonderful, Norwegians?

I think there may be at least a hint of forest cat in there!

[Emanresu]

Evoluzione said:

What is FIV?
Why do people write in obscure abbreviations?

Feline immunodeficiency virus. FIV. It’s like HIV. But for cats. It’s more common that you would think. Up to 4% of cats have it.

[Magnum 475]

Krupp88 said:

Jasandjules said:

Wonderful, Norwegians?

I think there may be at least a hint of forest cat in there!

Red cat's face a a strong hint of Siberian about it. Brace yourself for a lot of brushing and baths (if you let them go outside). Our male Siberian regularly comes back home with at least 50% of his fur full of river mud and debris. He's clearly been in the river without a problem, but bath time can turn him into a large ball of fur with teeth and claws.

[Krupp88]

Magnum 475 said:

Krupp88 said:

Jasandjules said:

Wonderful, Norwegians?

I think there may be at least a hint of forest cat in there!

Red cat's face a a strong hint of Siberian about it. Brace yourself for a lot of brushing and baths (if you let them go outside). Our male Siberian regularly comes back home with at least 50% of his fur full of river mud and debris. He's clearly been in the river without a problem, but bath time can turn him into a large ball of fur with teeth and claws.

That's interesting, we have two Persians (a red and a lilac colourpoint) already so well used to the grooming, I think thats one of the reasons we were matched with these two. They will have access to our secure reasonable sized garden so hopefully the opportunities for mud will be reduced!!

[Dibble]

Asked my GF (vet, feline specialist) about this yesterday. Even cats with no teeth at all can still eat just about anything. They can still hunt and despatch/consume rodents and birds, as their gums are much tougher than you might think. Kibble might take slightly longer to go down, but not much.

[itcaptainslow]

Quite common for rescue cats (according to the vet my cat visits) to have a gum condition (which a vaccine when they’re kittens prevents, hence a lot of strays/rescues don’t get it) which means a lot of teeth out. One of my parents’ had to have all of its teeth removed-didn’t ever stop it eating rather a lot!

[M22s]

Our little mog had no teeth at all and would eat hard kibble, but we always used to feed her soft kibble - not sure if it was the texture or flavour she preferred, but was called ‘HiLife Tempt Me Cat Food Semi-Moist Kibbles’ The only place we could buy it was Waitrose. Not sure if they still do it as she was put down 2years ago and the other cats now just have normal kibble.

She was also fine with treats hard or soft.