Now that Mango is getting closer to turning one, I'd like to stop free feeding him and try getting him onto a meal schedule, 2 meals/day.
He gets half a can of wet each morning along with 1/2 cup dry for the whole day. The problem is, he never eats the wet food as soon as I put it down -- he waits hours before finishing it and never in one sitting...mostly 3 or 4.
I don't want to leave the wet out for so long because of bacteria. I want to set up a feeding schedule so that I can slowly transition him over to an all wet diet eventually.
For the past few days, I've been taking away his dry food at 10pm so by the time I wake up the next day, 8am, I ASSUME he'd be hungry enough to eat the wet at a quicker pace than a few hours. But no, he doesn't do that. Only when I get home at 5-6 is the bowl ALMOST empty.
Does anyone have any suggestions on an easier transition for him? Do you feed your cats on a schedule?
P.S. Oh yeah, sometimes he holds out just to wait for the dry in the evening. It's quite frustrating.
He gets half a can of wet each morning along with 1/2 cup dry for the whole day. The problem is, he never eats the wet food as soon as I put it down -- he waits hours before finishing it and never in one sitting...mostly 3 or 4.
I don't want to leave the wet out for so long because of bacteria. I want to set up a feeding schedule so that I can slowly transition him over to an all wet diet eventually.
For the past few days, I've been taking away his dry food at 10pm so by the time I wake up the next day, 8am, I ASSUME he'd be hungry enough to eat the wet at a quicker pace than a few hours. But no, he doesn't do that. Only when I get home at 5-6 is the bowl ALMOST empty.
Does anyone have any suggestions on an easier transition for him? Do you feed your cats on a schedule?
P.S. Oh yeah, sometimes he holds out just to wait for the dry in the evening. It's quite frustrating.