We have a 4-year old cat, and he's not eating his food. He is hungry - he goes to the bowl and just turns his nose up at the stuff in it. If he's really hungry, he'll eat a few bits, but he does it in a way that says "I don't really like this stuff".
When we adopted him from a friend 4 months ago, she sent him home with some Purina Cat Chow Naturals. When he got through that bag, we bought him Friskies Indoor, because the Purina was out of stock at the supermarket. He simply hoovered up the Friskies. Then a co-worker of my wife's said she had changed her cat's food, did we want 5 huge bags of dry food? Being on a tight budget, we said yes. At fist he hoovered that up as well, but over the last week he's just not eating it. We got another bag of Friskies, which he eats 2 or 3 bits of before he wanders off dejectedly.
He does have some cat treats, that we have to use to lure him indoors at night. He will positively jump on those, even if the bits fall all over the place when he's trying to crunch them up. We certainly don't give him these treats all the time, but do you think these are taking his appetite away from the everyday food?
Is it some other factor? Do cats, like us, lose their appetite, and weight, in the hot summer months? It is summer, and the weather is hot (90+ every day). He seems to be acting normally, maybe sleeps longer in the daytime, and is perhaps a little more irritable than he used to be. He's certainly lost some weight.
We'd like to be able to try different foods for him, try and find something he'll actually eat, but, as I said, being on a budget we really have to get through a bag before we can try something new (and it's so annoying the smallest bags are so big!)
Any suggestions? I am worrying myself sick, as we had to have a cat put to sleep last year because he stopped eating (but that was for other reasons). Do you think I'm worrying too much?
Any advice would be VERY much appreciated!
When we adopted him from a friend 4 months ago, she sent him home with some Purina Cat Chow Naturals. When he got through that bag, we bought him Friskies Indoor, because the Purina was out of stock at the supermarket. He simply hoovered up the Friskies. Then a co-worker of my wife's said she had changed her cat's food, did we want 5 huge bags of dry food? Being on a tight budget, we said yes. At fist he hoovered that up as well, but over the last week he's just not eating it. We got another bag of Friskies, which he eats 2 or 3 bits of before he wanders off dejectedly.
He does have some cat treats, that we have to use to lure him indoors at night. He will positively jump on those, even if the bits fall all over the place when he's trying to crunch them up. We certainly don't give him these treats all the time, but do you think these are taking his appetite away from the everyday food?
Is it some other factor? Do cats, like us, lose their appetite, and weight, in the hot summer months? It is summer, and the weather is hot (90+ every day). He seems to be acting normally, maybe sleeps longer in the daytime, and is perhaps a little more irritable than he used to be. He's certainly lost some weight.
We'd like to be able to try different foods for him, try and find something he'll actually eat, but, as I said, being on a budget we really have to get through a bag before we can try something new (and it's so annoying the smallest bags are so big!)
Any suggestions? I am worrying myself sick, as we had to have a cat put to sleep last year because he stopped eating (but that was for other reasons). Do you think I'm worrying too much?
Any advice would be VERY much appreciated!
