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Hey everyone, I'm new here.
I'm going completely insane trying to feed my cat. If you think your cat is fussy, you haven't seen anything.
Basically my cat, Jess, won't eat anything except for tuna. I've tried every brand and every flavour possible. I've tried wet food and dry food. I've tried meat in jelly and meat in gravy, I've tried tinned cat food and the food that comes in pouches etc. I've tried gradually introducing new food to her, I've tried leaving her hungry all day and then putting food out for her, I've tried leaving it there for her when she's turned her nose up at it, I've tried taking it away when she walks away to try and get her to understand that it's that food or nothing. I've tried different bowls, different feeding areas, different times. I've emptied MANY full bowls of food before now thinking that it was perhaps stale, even though it smelt and look fine. She just will not eat cat food at all.
I don't have a clue what to do. She will literally starve herself rather than eat cat food. I noticed a few weeks ago that she'd gotten thinner because she wasn't eating enough because she doesn't like the food. I was praying that if I just kept giving her the cat food, eventually she'd eat it out of pure hunger but she wouldn't. I got worried at that point and went out and bought some tuna as a last resort praying she'd eat it and she actually did! So I fed her that for a week and she gained weight and I just figured I'd have to feed her that if she wasn't prepared to eat anything else.
Problem is, I can't really afford to feed her tuna all the time, I'm a disabled student so money is a big issue for me. I'm having to feed her 3-4 cans of tuna a day whereas I'd normally feed her 1 can of cat food because tuna comes in much smaller tins.
I'm at a loss for what to do. I've asked my vet but he didn't really have much advice other than just keep putting the food out day after day and he said that she'd eventually eat it when she was hungry enough, but as I said, when I tried that, she just starved herself and lost weight.
I know there's nothing wrong with her appetite because when I was feeding her cat food, she would constantly come up to me whenever I was eating something and beg for food and she'd eat that no problem, just not cat food.
I've had cats before so I KNOW very well that cats can be fussy because my old cats only ate one brand and wouldn't even sniff at anything else, but this level of fussy is something new.
Does anyone have ANY advice? I don't know what to do with her.
Thanks.
(ps, sorry for the length of this).
I'm going completely insane trying to feed my cat. If you think your cat is fussy, you haven't seen anything.
Basically my cat, Jess, won't eat anything except for tuna. I've tried every brand and every flavour possible. I've tried wet food and dry food. I've tried meat in jelly and meat in gravy, I've tried tinned cat food and the food that comes in pouches etc. I've tried gradually introducing new food to her, I've tried leaving her hungry all day and then putting food out for her, I've tried leaving it there for her when she's turned her nose up at it, I've tried taking it away when she walks away to try and get her to understand that it's that food or nothing. I've tried different bowls, different feeding areas, different times. I've emptied MANY full bowls of food before now thinking that it was perhaps stale, even though it smelt and look fine. She just will not eat cat food at all.
I don't have a clue what to do. She will literally starve herself rather than eat cat food. I noticed a few weeks ago that she'd gotten thinner because she wasn't eating enough because she doesn't like the food. I was praying that if I just kept giving her the cat food, eventually she'd eat it out of pure hunger but she wouldn't. I got worried at that point and went out and bought some tuna as a last resort praying she'd eat it and she actually did! So I fed her that for a week and she gained weight and I just figured I'd have to feed her that if she wasn't prepared to eat anything else.
Problem is, I can't really afford to feed her tuna all the time, I'm a disabled student so money is a big issue for me. I'm having to feed her 3-4 cans of tuna a day whereas I'd normally feed her 1 can of cat food because tuna comes in much smaller tins.
I'm at a loss for what to do. I've asked my vet but he didn't really have much advice other than just keep putting the food out day after day and he said that she'd eventually eat it when she was hungry enough, but as I said, when I tried that, she just starved herself and lost weight.
I know there's nothing wrong with her appetite because when I was feeding her cat food, she would constantly come up to me whenever I was eating something and beg for food and she'd eat that no problem, just not cat food.
I've had cats before so I KNOW very well that cats can be fussy because my old cats only ate one brand and wouldn't even sniff at anything else, but this level of fussy is something new.
Does anyone have ANY advice? I don't know what to do with her.
Thanks.
(ps, sorry for the length of this).