Hello! One of my three cats, Trixie, is my pickiest eater of the bunch, and she is also the smallest in weight. She's a tiny four to five pounds. She's a fluffy Ragdoll, so it's a bit hard to see how skinny she is, but every time I pet her or rub her belly I always feel her ribs and spine. She isn't starving, but I'd like to put a little more weight on her. I'm also trying to transition her to wet, but she turns her nose up at what I've tried so far (I'll list them later). Up until about a month ago all three of my cats, including her, were eating EVO Herring and Salmon dry food. With the recalls recently I took them off EVO and switched two of them to Taste Of The Wild with Trout and Smoked Salmon dry and the other one (Diana) to wet. Diana now eats a mixture of wet food: Wellness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Fancy Feast (not as often), and Tiki Cat. I plan on adding a couple more brands to her eating routine when I next go to the store.
For the two eating the dry (Honey and Trixie), I figured because they liked to fish EVO that they'd also like the fish TOTW. They love it, but I'm going to try to get them on the other TOTW dry cat food, the one with the venison, because I've heard too much fish isn't good for them. I normally add Gerber chicken or turkey baby food, which they LOVE.
Anyway, hope that all made sense! Now, on to my real question: How can I get Trixie to gain a little more weight? Should I feed her a little bit of kitten food? Increase the number of meals she gets a day? I have yet to find a wet food she'll even sniff. I've tried the ones listed above that Diana has along with Weruva and Fussie Cat. I've tried different flavors for each of the brands, and she refuses to sniff them. I'd love to get her to eat wet food (along with Honey, but she seems to only like anything with tuna, which I know isn't the best for her to be having all the time), and would transitioning her to wet also help her gain a little weight? My other two are at an ideal weight (Diana is around 8-9 pounds and Honey's at 10. I have little Ragdolls, haha!).
Thank you so much for reading! I hope everything made sense.
For the two eating the dry (Honey and Trixie), I figured because they liked to fish EVO that they'd also like the fish TOTW. They love it, but I'm going to try to get them on the other TOTW dry cat food, the one with the venison, because I've heard too much fish isn't good for them. I normally add Gerber chicken or turkey baby food, which they LOVE.
Anyway, hope that all made sense! Now, on to my real question: How can I get Trixie to gain a little more weight? Should I feed her a little bit of kitten food? Increase the number of meals she gets a day? I have yet to find a wet food she'll even sniff. I've tried the ones listed above that Diana has along with Weruva and Fussie Cat. I've tried different flavors for each of the brands, and she refuses to sniff them. I'd love to get her to eat wet food (along with Honey, but she seems to only like anything with tuna, which I know isn't the best for her to be having all the time), and would transitioning her to wet also help her gain a little weight? My other two are at an ideal weight (Diana is around 8-9 pounds and Honey's at 10. I have little Ragdolls, haha!).
Thank you so much for reading! I hope everything made sense.