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Hi folks!
I adopted an overweight (13lbs) ten year old cat from a shelter about three weeks ago. She had been free-fed wet and dry Science Diet in the shelter, but didn't eat much of anything when she got home for a few days. I took her to the vet and she got one dose of an appetite stimulant and has been fine with food since then, but she has only been eating dry up until a few days ago. I now feed her about 1/2 cup Nature's Variety Instinct Chicken flavor kibble a day.
I switched her to meal times (7am and 8pm) to try to stimulate her to eat wet food, since she turned her nose up at it when dry was available. I then started trying to transition her to wet food by placing a tiny amount of wet food in the middle of the kibble, then doubling the amount each day over a few days. Today, I tried giving her 1/2 of a 3oz can of Fancy Feast Chicken and Liver in gravy on its own and she ate about half in one sitting and half an hour or so later. After eating the second half, she proceeded to hack up the whole meal on my bureau. She has vomited once before (last week) but that was a hairball and not food.
So I have a few questions on what to do here.
1) Should I continue mixing small amounts of the wet food with the dry and increasing the amounts slowly? I'm really not sure how to be doing this, my last cat ate everything and anything with no issue haha.
2) Should I stick to one type of canned food when making the transition, or try different flavors and textures? She ate two different types so far, both with a flaky sort of texture. I'm just using "kitty crack" types like Fancy Feast to get her used to eating the wet food.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I adopted an overweight (13lbs) ten year old cat from a shelter about three weeks ago. She had been free-fed wet and dry Science Diet in the shelter, but didn't eat much of anything when she got home for a few days. I took her to the vet and she got one dose of an appetite stimulant and has been fine with food since then, but she has only been eating dry up until a few days ago. I now feed her about 1/2 cup Nature's Variety Instinct Chicken flavor kibble a day.
I switched her to meal times (7am and 8pm) to try to stimulate her to eat wet food, since she turned her nose up at it when dry was available. I then started trying to transition her to wet food by placing a tiny amount of wet food in the middle of the kibble, then doubling the amount each day over a few days. Today, I tried giving her 1/2 of a 3oz can of Fancy Feast Chicken and Liver in gravy on its own and she ate about half in one sitting and half an hour or so later. After eating the second half, she proceeded to hack up the whole meal on my bureau. She has vomited once before (last week) but that was a hairball and not food.
So I have a few questions on what to do here.
1) Should I continue mixing small amounts of the wet food with the dry and increasing the amounts slowly? I'm really not sure how to be doing this, my last cat ate everything and anything with no issue haha.
2) Should I stick to one type of canned food when making the transition, or try different flavors and textures? She ate two different types so far, both with a flaky sort of texture. I'm just using "kitty crack" types like Fancy Feast to get her used to eating the wet food.
Thanks in advance for any help!