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Hi,
For the last few days my cat hasn't been purring as much as he usually does. He will at night, but during the day he hasn't been purring. He is acting completely normal. He is acting how he always does without the purring though. We are in the process of switching his food so maybe that's why? He eats all his new food though.
Please help!
Thanks!
Well, we are trying to help him lose weight. We switched to Wellness canned food. Maybe he is feeling better because the food is so good for him, and it makes him feel better.
I gave him like 6 kibbels of dry food and what do you know! He is purring when I pet him and he is more affectionate now! We will have to slowly lean him off dry food
Yes - slow transitioning is definitely called for. Cats are creatures of habit and routine, so dietary "disruption" would definitely affect the mood of yours. It should go just fine. When younger, Weasie was given dry food as a rule and canned food as a treat. Now it's completely reversed. She no longer comes running upon hearing the sound of the silverware drawer or can opener, but one shake of a dry-food box and ZOOM!
I can also vouch for all-purpose purring. Once, after having gone missing for two days, Weasie materialized at the far end of a neighbor's property and slowly made her way to the wood fence alongside the sidewalk. She then demonstrated that she was in no condition to scrunch underneath it the way she usually does. I carried her home, trying to see what was the matter, and placed her on the living-room floor when we got inside. She stayed there and cried rather than jump onto the couch. But when I lifted her up there, she was rumbling to beat the band. There were no visible marks on her despite her obvious discomfort. Had it not been for her inability to scrunch or jump I'd've never known anything was the matter. Her purring implied that everything was copacetic. I only found out differently when the emergency vet trimmed a layer of fur and we discovered a deep scratch and an abrasion running parallel most of the way up Weeze's midsection. She'd tried to hold onto the trunk of a tree to slow her descent after a branch snapped under her as she climbed, as best as we could surmise. The pain had to have been terrible - that was my lesson that purrs could have a tranquilizing effect as well as be an expression of contentment.
And nowadays when Weasie's motor is running, I have to wonder. We celebrated her nineteenth birthday several weeks ago and she's in excellent health. But she's living with arthritis (helped by Dasuquin), enough that I've yet to see her take the luxuriating rolls on the sidewalk that cats normally revel in during hot weather. Are her purrs out of happiness, a way to mitigate the "rheumatism," or both?
I gave him like 6 kibbels of dry food and what do you know! He is purring when I pet him and he is more affectionate now! We will have to slowly lean him off dry food
Did you read the link I posted? Do you disagree with it?
For all you know, dry food irritates his digestive system and he purrs because he's uncomfortable after eating it.
I am glad you are taking steps and using decent food to help him lose weright; good for you. Absolutely you don't want to do a drastic weight-loss regimen. But I do find it odd that you asked a question, got answers with links, and appear not to have read or comprehended them....
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She'd tried to hold onto the trunk of a tree to slow her descent after a branch snapped under her as she climbed, as best as we could surmise. The pain had to have been terrible - that was my lesson that purrs could have a tranquilizing effect as well as be an expression of contentment. 
