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Really trying hard to get my cat to eat more wet food. After several trial runs of various wet foods over a long time, recently discovered she loved Weruva's Paw Lickin' Chicken. She ate the first case during the last month or so, and only a couple times turned up her nose, but overall no real problem and I didn't waste too much of it. Yes, she still gets some kibble (non grain), but just 1/4 cup a day.
Now we're on the second case of Weruva. Same flavor.
She's pulling her finicky routine. Doesn't want it or only wants a few bites. Wants her kibble.
She is healthy, eliminating normally, feisty, well hydrated and well nourished.
She is just so friggin' stubborn and oppositional!
when kitties are fed both, its been my experience they'll always prefer the kibble, like us preferring junk food over vegetables....by holding out they know they'll win and get the kibble. If you're going to keep your kitty eating the wet you'll have to permanently d/c the dry or this will be a continuing battle.
Having exact issue. I began it due to a need to fatten her up from Hyperthyroidism & know regret it, as I need to cease dry & go back to ALL wet. It ain't easy.
But I'll do it & she'll be mad but will get over it.
I came home the other day with some cans of Blue Buffalo: grain free, not the pate (we don't do pate). I put a plate of turkey something or another down, and those crazy cats actually fought over it, each one shoving the other's snout away from the bowl. They gobbled up 90 percent of it within minutes.
I thought: Wow! Finally something they like!
Put the same thing down for them the next day, and they didn't touch it.
THAT is what my finicky girl does. She LOVES something one day and then the next... not acceptable. It's got to be some conspiracy to drive us humans crazy. Something CIA-related?
Just the way it works sometimes. Amber is currently eating stuff that I could swear she got less interested in last year. And how long it will last, and what else I can mix in, I don't really know. I tried an additional food in the mix this morning, in fact, we'll see what she does.
The kibble may or may not be a factor. Sometimes it is. I know if it's something Amber really doesn't like, she does let it go, and she does expect a bowl of kibble (1/4 cup) in the evening. But she often has been draining her entire portion of morning wet food even with that so it's not impossible to have a cat eat canned food even when dry is around.
If you can find a bottle of Halo Dinner Party which is a powder to sprinkle on the food, that might be worth trying. This had been an ingredient in Amber's bowl for a month or so. Not sure how much of the effect is this and how much is the food. Certainly if she really doesn't like the food, just adding this powder doesn't get her to eat it.
Jasper was like this...I got him when he was 2, who knows what he ate before? I have been feeding him wet food, and found he likes the type with gravy the best. I add about half again as much warm water to the food, to make a slurry, or more gravy. I was surprised, last night, he ate almost all of the wet food. It has taken about two years for this change. Before, he would just sample it, and blow it off. He likes Soulistic pouches. Chicken with pumpkin is his fav.
Soulistic is made by the Weruva folks and sold to Petco. I have 22 cans of Weruva Paw Lickin' chicken (case #2) and I am not going to waste it. This stubborn cat 'o mine insisted and insisted loudly that she LOVED LOVED LOVED Weruva Paw Lickin Chicken. I even would occasioanlly add some additional water to the already very wet shredded chicken and that was no problemo.
Well...she insisted she loved the food...until a few days ago when she changed her finicky little mind. She'll still take several bites from a freshly opened can IF she's in the right mood.
I also had a can of Evo 95% chicken/turkey so I opened that. Nope. Meow! "Unacceptable!" she said.
well, Henry likes a number of different foods - or I could say he doesn't like them. it depends on the day. From what I can tell, he just doesn't want the same thing too close together in feedings! So we have a big variety and space it out.
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