Cat food in a rabbit household

Living with a rabbit can quietly skew what ends up in the shopping basket — grain-heavy, plant-based, or 'natural' foods that suit herbivores are everywhere, and they're genuinely the wrong thing for a cat. Cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they can't synthesise key nutrients like taurine and arachidonic acid from plant sources — they have to get them from animal tissue. Wet food is also far better than dry for cats, since they have a low thirst drive and depend on food moisture to protect their kidneys over time. So I want to make sure we get yours sorted properly. What age and type of cat do you have, do they have any health issues, and what have they been eating recently — including anything that might have been more rabbit-friendly than cat-appropriate?

One month of occasionally eating the wrong thing won't have caused lasting damage, but it's worth getting her onto something consistently right going forward. At four she's in her prime adult years, so the goal is straightforward: high animal-protein wet food, minimal plant filler, and ideally phasing out most of the dry kibble in favour of wet for that hydration benefit. What was the veggie food you picked up — do you remember the brand or what it said on the label?

That's a really common trap — 'grain free' has become shorthand for healthy, but pea protein and chickpea are just cheap plant protein substitutes that do nothing useful for a cat. Your cat needs named meat or fish as the primary ingredient, not legumes. For a healthy four-year-old with no special needs, I'd go with Animonda Carny Adult wet cat food. It's a German brand, genuinely high in real meat — typically 70% or more animal content — with no grain, no plant protein substitutes, and good variety in the pouches so she won't get bored. It's available in mixed packs on Amazon UK, which also makes it easier to keep a consistent stock rather than grabbing whatever's on the shelf. The price is reasonable for the quality, and the ingredients list is one of the cleanest you'll find at that level.

A small amount of dry food isn't going to harm her, but I'd treat it as an occasional thing rather than a daily staple — maybe a tablespoon as a top-up if she seems hungry, not as a meal in itself. The issue with relying on kibble is that no matter how much water she drinks alongside it, she's still getting far less moisture than a cat eating wet food, and that deficit adds up over years in terms of kidney strain. If you can get her to 80–90% wet food, you're in a genuinely good place. The Animonda Carny pouches are filling enough that most cats don't push hard for kibble once they're on them regularly.

Set up a recurring order for the Animonda Carny on Amazon so it just arrives — removes the shelf-browsing moment entirely. And when you do pick anything up in a shop, the quick check is: first ingredient should be a named meat or fish, and if you see pea protein, chickpea, lentil, potato, or 'vegetable protein' anywhere prominent, put it back. Those are the giveaways that it's been formulated cheaply or for a different animal entirely. Your rabbit's food is fine on the other side of the cupboard — just keep the cat's separate and labelled if it helps.