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Hi all,
We have this one yr old cat that we are fostering until she is spayed and then we plan on adopting her. We also have two other cats (her sister who we've adopted and a 9yr old). When we brought them home about a month ago, we switched them from Iams to Now dry food and they both ate it no problem. Then a couple days later we noticed that she would start eating fewer and fewer and if we tried to feed her alone, she would eat may be a few crunchies fearfully and then stop. I have taken them off the dry food and put the sister on Before Grain wet and she absolutely loves to it (and I am pretty sure lives to eat), whereas the other one won't touch any poultry wet food sometimes we can get her to eat our other cats venison or a really fishy food. However, she may eat about the size of a toonie (yes I am Canadian) off her plate and then won't eat anymore of it. Right now we rotate between kitten food, which sometimes she'll eat and sometimes she won't and wet venison mixed with either mackeral or with a chicken and tuna wet. We've tried so many food brands and she either eats two licks or refuses to eat at all. Currently she is 2.2kg (4.8 Ibs), she is extremely active and we were told she was healthy by the vet before we brought her home.
I am starting to wonder if maybe its her teeth or if she's ill. We are going to bring her into the vet next week to talk about it and see what the vet thinks, because if she doesn't put on weight we cannot get her spayed nor can we adopt her and we are desperately trying everything we can think of.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Here is a picture of our babygirl (she is the whiter one)
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We have this one yr old cat that we are fostering until she is spayed and then we plan on adopting her. We also have two other cats (her sister who we've adopted and a 9yr old). When we brought them home about a month ago, we switched them from Iams to Now dry food and they both ate it no problem. Then a couple days later we noticed that she would start eating fewer and fewer and if we tried to feed her alone, she would eat may be a few crunchies fearfully and then stop. I have taken them off the dry food and put the sister on Before Grain wet and she absolutely loves to it (and I am pretty sure lives to eat), whereas the other one won't touch any poultry wet food sometimes we can get her to eat our other cats venison or a really fishy food. However, she may eat about the size of a toonie (yes I am Canadian) off her plate and then won't eat anymore of it. Right now we rotate between kitten food, which sometimes she'll eat and sometimes she won't and wet venison mixed with either mackeral or with a chicken and tuna wet. We've tried so many food brands and she either eats two licks or refuses to eat at all. Currently she is 2.2kg (4.8 Ibs), she is extremely active and we were told she was healthy by the vet before we brought her home.
I am starting to wonder if maybe its her teeth or if she's ill. We are going to bring her into the vet next week to talk about it and see what the vet thinks, because if she doesn't put on weight we cannot get her spayed nor can we adopt her and we are desperately trying everything we can think of.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated
Here is a picture of our babygirl (she is the whiter one)