Tiny Fly Eggs In Cat Food?

[Tucker'sMom]

I asked where it was purchased to see...maybe it was a Sam's Club or Costco...maybe there was a reason that they had it. I have shopped at Winn Dixie before, every one of their stores I have been in were clean. I am just really surprised that the food in question was Purina. (BTW...I love these smilies!!!)

[elesli1]

We have an automatic litter box which we fill with a wheat/corn/crystals litter mixture.
The wheat or corn litter will sometimes contain fruit fly eggs which hatch and are annoying.
It just doesn't seem logical that fly eggs could survive a cat's digestive tract

[palehorse]

Originally Posted by elesli1

We have an automatic litter box which we fill with a wheat/corn/crystals litter mixture.
The wheat or corn litter will sometimes contain fruit fly eggs which hatch and are annoying.
It just doesn't seem logical that fly eggs could survive a cat's digestive tract

Yeah you might be right, I have began to notice flies again with iams too. (Your off the hook Purina lol).

OK, so next thing is switch litter brands.

[elesli1]

We use Freshresults from WalMart and Sweetscoop from Petsmart... at least you could stay away from them unless you were already using them

[charbassham]

Hi. This is my first time to see this website. I'm so glad to see others with the same concerns I have about our animals. Some of these questions can be a little embarrassing. I to thought people would think of me as being unfit or not a clean person. But I am. My questions is, I feed and water the neighborhood cats every afternoon outside. I give them dry food (Kit & Kaboodle) and also can food (9 lives) with each feeding. Here is the gross part, GREEN FLIES! They are everywhere!! I clean out the cat dishes everyday, I even spray down my front porch with water and bug spay (not on the cats dishes) helps maybe 1 day. Back to the flies!! Are the eggs yellow and layered looking? If so, I see this everyday, if there is food left over. LOTS of them!!!!! So, if the cats eat them , I would think that they would pass the eggs and found in their liter box later on.??? Help me get rid of green flies and eggs. THANKS... sorry so long...

[Whizzy]

Odd topic, lol. I'd think if the eggs were in the food they'd perish during digestion. But I could be wrong. And most times, fly eggs hatch very quickly, so unless you refrigerate your cat food, you'd be seeing maggots (sorry to be gross) in the bag of food after a few days.

Question. Do you ever purchase fruit in paper bags or cardboard containers? Fruit fly eggs can cling to the paper, hatch out, and seek the nearest source of moisture, which could be your litter box.

Adding baking soda to your litter might help. It would change the pH, making the litter less hospitable to the flies. Maybe.

[Whizzy]

Originally Posted by charbassham

My questions is, I feed and water the neighborhood cats every afternoon outside. I give them dry food (Kit & Kaboodle) and also can food (9 lives) with each feeding. Here is the gross part, GREEN FLIES! They are everywhere!! I clean out the cat dishes everyday, I even spray down my front porch with water and bug spay (not on the cats dishes) helps maybe 1 day. Back to the flies!! Are the eggs yellow and layered looking? If so, I see this everyday, if there is food left over. LOTS of them!!!!! So, if the cats eat them , I would think that they would pass the eggs and found in their liter box later on.??? Help me get rid of green flies and eggs. THANKS... sorry so long...

Yep, You describe fly eggs really well. I don't know for sure, but I don't think the eggs would survive if they were eaten. They'd be digested.

And unfortunately, as long as there's a food source, you're going to see a lot of flies. To get rid of the flies, you're going to have to remove the food leftovers pretty quickly. Or put out less food, so the cats eat it all quickly.

[chrisco23]

I'm wondering about a problem that sounds the same. I googled and found this thread.

Additionally, my cat is catching and eating the flies. Could it be he is perpetuating the problem?

It's starting to drive me crazy!

Let me add some more detail:

I have been feeding the cat dry cat food. The last time I bought a huge bag of one of the most expensive ones from Petco, sorry I forget the name right now. I use Yesterday's News pellets for the litter.

In the last 36 hours or so my cat (male, 3 years) wasn't eating so much. After reading this thread I just dumped all the food, changed all the litter, and broke out my new bag of food I bought yesterday from Costco. I cleaned out his cat bowl, litter box, and the ant-proof plastic container I kept the bulk of the food in. He started eating right away.

The new food is Kirklands (generic). BTW, is that food good for my cat? The only other thing Costco has is Purina and I assumed Kirklands was about the same but just a little cheaper because they don't pay for advertising.


Chris

[lou]

hi there i was reading your problem of wich i had the same especially in the summer we have 5 cats and they all eat in the kitchen were they have there own strip of counter and the problem was very serious 1 the cat pouches that they eat are very expensive so you end up throwing five pound away every day 2 when you throw the food away then your pretty much garanteed maoggots in ya bin ....yuk 3 you worry about the cats most of all when they eat the food.

1 i went and got one of those plastic strip door hanging thing and hung it in front .....a blessing.
2 the kitchen window i PINNED not hung a net curtain infront of it and left the bottom loose so that i can lift it and open the window.
3 hang mint near your cats food flies hate the stuff but your cats will love lol.


well there you go i hope you find these helpfull

good luck from lou