Do you cut food into small pieces?

Hi

I feed my cats canned wet food but they will not eat it unless i cut it into small pieces. I was just wondering if this was normal, or how many others do it?

Thanks!

The loaf kind or the shredded/chunks kind? What brand? The loaf kind just sort of mushes when I spread it around the plate, so I can't imagine having to "cut up" the loaf kind. But some of the chunky kinds I do have to mash with the back of the fork before the cats will eat it.

I feed only the loaf and just mash it down and add water to the mix. I have in past fed shredded/chunks but they left to much behind IMO.

I feed Autumn Friskies Meaty Bits and the food is in small bits so no need to cut them at all. I don't give her any type of pate since I don't like the smell of that type of food. Hope you find something that works so you won't have to cut the pieces.

I use the edge of a spoon to break pate type cat food (small can) into several chunks. No idea if it is necessary or if they can just lick it. Works for the cats, fine by me.

I give my cats saithe fish fillets (that is what translator told it to be), I cook them in microwave with water, this is mostly to avoid worms, but it also helps to make food more tasty to cats as they are crazy about it this way. When I serve I make fish small pieces, it is really easy because fish gets quite soft when boiled, There is around 50% of liquid and rest is fish.

When prepared that way it disappears in seconds.

They do eat food in any form actually, except if it has a tail, so whole fish is not suitable food for these two.

It is rare that I would give bigger chunks, but those disappear too, they just tend to lick that quite a bit before eating.

Translator gave me pig / beef mince when I typed one meat type which I give them, it has 40% of pig and 60% of cow, also has 23% of fat content, I'm not giving this too often as it does build up into body quite quickly, but for cat fat is important, also real proper meat is important as that is what cat eats, but this I just take from box size of two meatballs and give it to them as such, I did once make it to meatball, but they did not understand that it is possible to eat that ball, they just swabbed it with their paw until there was big mess.

I don't give wet cat food as most sold here are really bad quality, some are 70% of corn and meat like substances, which is not what cat should eat in my opinion.

When I'm away they eat dry food only, exception is of course if mouse makes a mistake and enters their room.

These cats are indoor only ferals, so as they are ferals they are perhaps not so picky, if it moves they taste it and if not moving they first sniff it, then most likely taste it by licking, never mind the fact that object might be alarm lock.

It is not yet a week that I have had them here, so this is mostly what I have planned, but they have been eating at warehouse for several months, so this information is with that kind of background.

Yep - the canned food gets mashed up with some small chunks. The raw beef or chicken is cut up into bite size pieces.

My cats have tins and dry, the tins they have chunks in jelly and I still mash them down into chunks.x

All of my piggies just go to town on their wet food, the loaf kind.... Although I mash it up a little with a small amount of dry kibble mixed in.

By loaf kind you mean like pate? My cats will only eat the pate type. I tried once with the chunky kind and they only licked the sauce and left the solids.

My cats eat pate (loaf?) and chunky canned cat food (dry kibble also, at other meals). All the canned food I mix with water so that they consume more liquid that way. The pate becomes soft mush, and the chunky kind gets more "gravy." I use warm water and mix it in well. My 5 cats like it that way now.


Robin

My cats prefer pate over chunky gravy varieties, so I would just try that instead. And for that, I just squish it flat onto a plate with a fork.