She only eats treats

My cat only eats treats. I feed her meow mix or friskies sensations . I do have her food out all day. She looks great. Not over weight. She also wakes me up for her snacks in the middle of. The night. What can I do to. Make her eat her food. Is there a better food out. There she should be. Eating.

Originally Posted by linda carella

My cat only eats treats. I feed her meow mix or friskies sensations . I do have her food out all day. She looks great. Not over weight. She also wakes me up for her snacks in the middle of. The night. What can I do to. Make her eat her food. Is there a better food out. There she should be. Eating.

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Originally Posted by linda carella

My cat only eats treats. I feed her meow mix or friskies sensations . I do have her food out all day. She looks great. Not over weight.

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Panda my DLH was just like your cat. For the first five or so months of her life all she ate was Whiskas Temptation cat treats. As a veterinarian technician, I was not thrilled by her diet . But due to her terminal illness I figured something was better then nothing .

Originally Posted by linda carella

She also wakes me up for her snacks in the middle of. The night. What can I do to. Make her eat her food. Is there a better food out. There she should be. Eating.

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The way I got Panda to eat a "proper" diet was giving her a different dry food per night. The way this was accomplished was by getting different sample bags of food, from pet stores and work. I also give her some wet food mixed with some dry food every night. I open one can for about four or five nights and mix that with a different type of dry food every night. I also rotate the cans of cat food she is fed.

Please note the following, I do not do this for any other cat. She is terminally ill despite being two years old and still going strong. I also would not due this if it caused her G.I. upset either. These are just my personal experiences.

As far as a "better diet", you have opened up a can of worms . I am not touching it .

My first though was 'hmm, this is going to be tricky', but technically this is just like any other food transition. I assume you just pour some treats in a bowl and set it out for her to eat, yes? What you need to do is add in a few pieces of real cat food (3-4), and slowly increase the amount of real food and decrease the amount of treat food. (Or if you can afford it, add wet food instead and slowly decrease treats.) Eventually she will be eating real cat food; this is important because treats are not complete diets and over time she will get sick if that's all she eats.