Cautiously optimistic ref. transition to wet!

auntie crazy

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Well, I think I've done it. Successfully transitioned my four kittens to an all wet diet, that is.


Yesterday and today, they ate only Nutro Chicken & Liver Kitten pouches. One three ounce pouch per kitty per meal. No dry for two whole days! I don't want to be premature, however, so I'll give it a week before I celebrate a definite victory. *grin*

I have to admit it's a bit expensive, though. *sigh* That's eight pouches (or $4) a day, whew!

Anything for our little furbabies though, right?


Here's the gratuitious group pic. *smile* They're just about four months old now.


And one more of Allen, 'cause he's just so darn cute.
 

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Congratulations on your "victory"!!
I know how hard it is to convince a cat that the new food is a good thing.

Your babies are beautiful.
 

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Hey well done YOU !! and look at those furries, certainly well fed happy little kits
just one question from me..............

ummm.............any more photos of the cuties
aww please
 

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I think it's wonderful that you have them eating canned. Personally, I don't think it is a bad idea to also give them some dry just in case you ever can't be around for some reason to serve them their wet food, i.e., maybe having to be away overnight.

We feed wet morning and night with about 1/3-1/2 cup dry per day shared between the 2 cats for munching on while we are at work.
 
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Thanks, Jean44, mooficat, Yosemite, and heidinyny. : )

Mooficat, I've got literally thousands of pics on my computer, so beware what you ask for! *laugh* Actually, if you'd really like to see more, I have a couple of photobucket accounts you can browse at your leisure:
http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p139/AuntieCrazy/ http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...immy/MomsPics/

Yosemite, I share your concern. I'm actually still a bit on the fence about feeding just a little dry. I really want these guys to eat the maximum wet, and giving them any amount of dry food will reduce that; but, of course, I don't want them starving either. I'll have to watch it carefully day by day. If they seem too frantic to be fed when I get up in the morning and come home in the evening, maybe I'll go ahead and add just a cup of dry before I leave every day. They don't finish all their wet food right away as it is, so I'm hesitant to give them too much more of that. Hmmm, I wonder how others who feed strictly wet manage this issue?
 

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