C at food smell is giving me nausea

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Misty&Bast

Misty&Bast

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i hat to be a bad momy but i am having problems with the smell of the canned food. The more it smells the more the cat loves it but I get sick. I tried adding water and that helps but please tell me this will get better?

i can deal with the bandage smell of he insulin (the drop of insulin that I squeeze out getting rid of bubbles smells like band aids to me)
 
Try different foods? Any fishy food is going to smell pretty strong, but I find that the others aren't so bad. Wellness chicken and turkey flavors have a very neutral odor to me. I also feed Merrick Cowboy Cookout which is ok. My George loves Evo Chicken and Turkey and that stuff reeks!

I think you may have an overly developed sense of smell though. I don't smell the insulin at all.
 
For me, the smell was really overpowering at first (I avoid fish flavors at all costs), but I've gotten pretty used it it now.
We have a really small house, so their bowls are never very far from me.

Every now and then I'll get a strong whiff of it, but for the most part it doesn't phase me anymore. They've been on canned for about 10 months. I would say it took about a month or so to get used to it.
 
I used to think it akin to baby poop smell :lol: and gag- now it doesn't bother me.

Helps- cold canned food smells less than warm food. But mine like the warmed food so that brings the smell back in again :roll:
 
I do work at an aromatherapy store and one of m jobs is blending oils so I probably do have a sensitive nose- LOL
 
Try using a painter's mask with activated charcoal in it. The charcoal adsorbs - ie chemical bonds with - the odor molecules so you don't inhale it.

Also be sure not to locate food near a heat vent or the refrigerator exhaust, as that may warm the food, and definitely circulates the odors.
 
I have a pretty sensitive sense of smell and agree, some of the foods make me want to gag. Looking at your profile I think you are feeding some of the stinkiest - Friskies (smells like they ground in cat poop to me), Special Kitty, and Sophisticat were the 3 worst offenders to my nose. The higher quality of meat in them (and the higher price of course) the less offensive the smell IMO. The poultry flavors of Wellness, Before Grain, and Avoderm all smell like chicken broth to me. Fancy Feast, Whiskas and ProPlan were middle of the road, not too stinky but didn't smell like real food either.
 
I feed all Merrick flavors, and they really don't smell bad. I also keep about a dozen cans in the refrigerator, and feed cold food, which helps a lot with the smell. I have a couple of freezable ice blocks (shaped like baseballs, for kids) that I put in a tupperware, and then put a cheap plastic dish of food on top of that. I thought it would help keep the food good if it's out all day, and Linus seems to like the cold food, so it's a win/win.
 
I agree with the Merrick's smell. The Cowboy Cookout smells (to me) like Campbell's Chunky Soup. The guy that sits next to me at work has that for lunch a lot, so that's how I made the connection. I also feed the Surf n Turf which has a fishy smell to it that I don't care for but it's not overwhelming.
 
I also find that feeding the stinky flavours makes my CATS smell. When they eat Whiskas, they smell like they have poo on them, (apologies). I give them a bit of chicken mince sometimes, or beef mince, or I get some fish and microwave it for them (then let it cool). They absolutely love these foods when they don't have them all the time, and they don't smell - the foods or the cats - as much as tinned stuff. But they don't have the mineral additives, and I don't have the energy or time or freezer space to make my own.
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SabrinaFaire said:
I agree with the Merrick's smell. The Cowboy Cookout smells (to me) like Campbell's Chunky Soup. The guy that sits next to me at work has that for lunch a lot, so that's how I made the connection. I also feed the Surf n Turf which has a fishy smell to it that I don't care for but it's not overwhelming.
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I realize this is a serious topic, so I hate to derail, but I agree with this. I was pretty embarrassed once when I opened up a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew for dinner and the cats came running and wouldn't leave me alone. I quickly realized that the stuff looked and smelled like Cowboy Cookout, and I had put it in the same kind of plate I use for their food. I thought, "What am I eating here?!" :lol:
 
Jennifer - that's pretty funny! While it's confession time, sometimes when I feed Merrick's in the morning my stomach growls. Some of those flavors smell pretty good, especially the Turducken!
 
The one I've thought about tasting is a chicken variety that smells like chicken soup... and those blasted cats don't seem to think much of it. They must like stink.
 
If your cats will eat it cold, refrigerate it. There's practically no smell when it's cold. And I agree with the others that the better quality the food, the less the smell is offensive--Bandit now eats Merricks, which doesn't really have a smell, but I've fed tons of different kinds of cat foods, and the more byproducts a food had, the worst it seemed to smell to me. The ones without byproducts were far less smelly.

Also, it just takes some time to get used to it. When my boyfriend and I moved in together he always complained about the smell of Fancy Feast (but not the EVO or Merricks), but a month or so later of him feeding the cats lunch on weekdays while I was at work, it didn't bother him anymore. It's funny, because even though he hated the smell of the Fancy Feast far worse than the other foods, he would always pick it to feed because he was lazy and didn't want to portion the meals out of the big cans. :roll:
 
we got rid of the special kitty and save the TJ tuna for special times. We have worked with the petsmart food and that seems to be better. Right now he will eat anything I put dehidrated chicken on- LOL

I started adding more water and freezing the food.
Thanks for all the help!
 
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