Kitten wont eat kibble

As many of you know, my one kitten refused to eat canned unless I add cat milk. I finally got him eating canned without any milk added. Now the issue is he will not touch kibble. He will go a whole 1.5 days without eating a thing until he gets canned. I have spent $30 alone just on him this week on canned and mine are on a kibble diet with canned once a day thats what I can afford. He needs to learn to eat kibble. Any suggestions how to do that?

He's still pretty young, isn't he? His teeth may not be big/strong enough for him to eat kibble. Can you manage to feed him only canned for a few weeks longer? Maybe get a cheaper brand or a brand that comes in larger cans? (it definitely shouldn't cost $30 a week to feed one cat canned food!!!). After a while, you can start mixing kibble into his canned food to get him used to it. You can also try soaking the kibble to make it softer, but don't leave it out for long because soaked kibble goes bad quickly.

Please don't let him go a day and a half without eating! That's very dangerous for a kitten.

I am in Canada, prices here are really bad. The cheapest big can is 59 cents a can. He would need 2 of those a day. I have been buying $1.50-$2.50 cans of a decent canned. He will munch the kibble I do mix into the canned but if theres a lot he wont. How much kibble to water to I need to soak?

What kind of canned are you feeding? Just trying to figure out how to help you reduce costs.

Im feeding Great choice from petsmart for 50 cents a can (think its a 5 ounce can) and the friskies cans are 69 cents a can they to are about 5 ounces. Then anything else I can only find in 3 ounce cans for $1.50 or so. Canada has really high food prices, even the pro plan small cans are over $1 here a can. Go to petsmarts website, click Canada (your on the Canadian site when the flag is Canadian) and you can see out prices. Petsmart is cheapest anywhere else add 10-20 cents per can

Sheesh, that stinks! Well, if he eats kibble wet with milk in one sitting, what about adding a little water?

l get my Fancy Feasts when they go on sale at Canadian Tire. Once in a blue moon they'll be 55c, but usually they're around 60c on sale.

l posted a pic on here a long time ago with my cat food cupboard filled with a month's supply of cans for 3 cats. Some high-end, some, mid, and a few low end/Friskies. The supply cost me about $300 and was enough for a month. That was part of the reason l switched to homemade raw, cat food costs a fortune up here.

If you stick with different flavors of Grreat Choice, even if he eats 2 cans a day that would only be $7 a week . Slowly introduce the kibble and it shouldn't be too long. The best flavors are Poultry Platter, Country Dinner, Mixed Grill, and Turkey and Giblets. That should be enough variety.

The two adults will only eat Friskies indoor chicken and Weruva Chicken/duck. So it costs me to feed them a small meal of canned food a day about $20 a month for both. So $10 each cat. 1 can of friskies lasts my 2 adults and 6 month old kitten two days.

Now my question is, if I were to switch the two adults over to 100% canned food and fed the two brands above how many cans of the friskies daily would they need? Ones 12lbs a bit chunky the other is 9lbs healthy weight. The can says they would need 2 cans a day but something tells me thats wrong? If I needed 2 cans a day, it would cost me $85 before tax to feed only 2 adult cats a day. What I have been doing is giving the kittens mainly canned, the 6 month old two meals of canned a day and the adults 1/8 can a day with water.

Most spayed/neutered indoor adult cats will eat about 5-6 ounces of most brands of canned food a day (depending on calorie content---Weruva is lower-calorie than most so they'd need more of that). Kittens need more as they're still growing.

Sofen up the food to texture of csn food. Add cat milk then slowly decrese it. Do that with sofining it too.also what does this refusing to eat dry kibble look like? Seems to me he is stubborn and determined to get his way with food. Hope he learns to like it!

Also can food is not goof for cats to be fed all the time. Most cats I know get terrible diarris from can food. You need to soften the food instead. Can food for life is almost like mcdonslds for life. The kitten when an sdult would become obese. Can food should be used ad a reward, not bankrupcy from buying can food that will most likely make your cat obese and give them diarrhea! Hope that kitten likes thier food! Sometimrs they grow into it and end up loving it. Also when they are fixed you do not need to feed them alot. They will get obese if you overfeed them!

Willowy said:

Most spayed/neutered indoor adult cats will eat about 5-6 ounces of most brands of canned food a day (depending on calorie content---Weruva is lower-calorie than most so they'd need more of that). Kittens need more as they're still growing.

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Friskies is 143 per can of what mine will eat. So if I do 1 can a day for the 12lb chunky guy and the same for the 9lb would that be enough? I have no issues doing half a can a day for each cat instead of 1/8th. I would need 1 can a day so my cost per month for two adult cats would be $27. Thats 3/4 canned 1/4 kibble. Thats better then 1/4 canned and 3/4 kibble they are on now. I am lucky if I can get the kittens to eat more then 1/2 small can of canned food each mixed with some kibble a day

Big name food brands like friskies are terrable for your cat. I would not get that brand. I know I'ts cheap but stuff like that is terrable for them.

I cannot afford to feed premium canned food. I was reading a cheaper brand of canned is better then just feed a higher quality kibble

As long ad it is hesthy and thirr coats are shining and not dull.

kittycatlovemew said:

Also can food is not goof for cats to be fed all the time. Most cats I know get terrible diarris from can food. You need to soften the food instead. Can food for life is almost like mcdonslds for life. The kitten when an sdult would become obese.

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I'm sorry, but you are terribly misinformed. Whether a cat food is equivalent to McDonalds or not depends entirely on the ingredients, and canned foods are far more likely to be made from animal-based proteins. Cats are obligate carnivores, and need high protein, low carb foods to thrive, not just "survive." Dry food enables us to provide lower cost food, but it is entirely a budget or lifestyle choice, as it is simple not species-appropriate. Because of the moisture content and our ability to control portions (though I advocate feeding even dry food in timed meals, not free-feeding), cats eating wet food are less likely to get fat if we don't overfeed them.

Can food should be used ad a reward, not bankrupcy from buying can food that will most likely make your cat obese and give them diarrhea! Hope that kitten likes thier food! Sometimrs they grow into it and end up loving it. Also when they are fixed you do not need to feed them alot. They will get obese if you overfeed them!

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No, we shouldn't go bankrupt trying to feed our cats. But Friskie's pate style foods are one of the best options for feeding canned food on a budget. They are high protein, low carb. I'd feed Friskies pate foods over any dry food if that were an affordable option.

This site is written by a vet, and explains why any canned food is better than dry: http://www.catinfo.org

Sorry! Some times you do pay too much if you buy it all the time and it a higher quality food. They shoulf make organic cat food. They are carnivores but do decide to have some grass or catnip once in a while. Some one told me that friskies isn't good. If the brand is avritised alot, it may not be thst good for your cat. Sorry!

I am new also. I just know that you would't want to be eating by prodect meal either.

By Products may not be all a bad thing either. By products are liver, kidney, heart, intestines etc everything one cat would eat in the wild on a raw diet. This is my opinion anyway. When a cat eats in the wild it doesnt eat just the chicken breasts....or just thighs or deboned chicken...