Ideas on how to switch 2 year old cat off of dry kibble?

My significant other and I currently have two cats, River, who is a 9 month old female Russian Blue, and Zoey, who is a 2 year old domestic short hair. River is eating an 80% wet canned food diet (Tiki Cat and Weruva) and just gets about 1/8 cup of dry Orijen over night. I am also working on adding some raw to River's diet. Zoey has been on only dry food for a year but now that we are living together, we want Zoey on a somewhat similar diet to River's. However, Zoey shows no interest in any of the wet canned food we have tried introducing to her, nor the Orijen. Any ideas on how to get her interested in wet food and Orijen? And eventually raw?

Try these tips:

http://catinfo.org/docs/TipsForTransitioning1-14-11.pdf

http://www.thecatsite.com/a/transit...-to-a-new-type-of-food-canned-raw-or-homemade

Are they on scheduled feedings? That will help as well. I had to mix the wet and dry together for my cat. Even if the dry isn't the greatest quality, just use something that the cat eats. Slowly mix the wet into the dry, or use the kibble to sprinkle on top of the wet food. That worked for me! Although there are times when my cat doesn't particularly love the brand I put down for her, so I sprinkle 5-8 kibble bits on top and that usually does the trick

Nora1 said:

Are they on scheduled feedings? That will help as well. I had to mix the wet and dry together for my cat. Even if the dry isn't the greatest quality, just use something that the cat eats. Slowly mix the wet into the dry, or use the kibble to sprinkle on top of the wet food. That worked for me! Although there are times when my cat doesn't particularly love the brand I put down for her, so I sprinkle 5-8 kibble bits on top and that usually does the trick

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Unfortunately, Zoey has not been on scheduled feedings. River is and always has been on scheduled feedings since I had her. Trying to get Zoey to eat when River does has been an issue. We put them in separate rooms to eat but Zoey never seems interested. I will try sprinkling a few dry kibbles on top tonight and see how she takes to that.

Since Zoey hasn't been put in scheduled times yet, maybe this article will be beneficial:  http://www.thecatsite.com/a/transitioning-free-fed-kibble-kitties-to-timed-meals.  Once she is used to a schedules, THEN it should be easier to switch her to wet food.  The real trick is finding a wet food she likes.  Believe me, it CAN be done!  I switched all 3 of mine from being free fed kibble over to wet food, and one of mine had been eating kibble for 12 years when I did it .  I went through hundreds of cans of food trying to find the "right" ones, but I did it. 

Which dry kibbles is Zoey eating? Maybe try wet food from the same brand first?

ankitty said:

Which dry kibbles is Zoey eating? Maybe try wet food from the same brand first?

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Zoey was on Purina Cat Chow Naturals but we have switched her over to Orijen since it is much higher quality and grain-free. Orijen does not have wet food as far as I am aware, unfortunately.

rivertherb said:

Zoey was on Purina Cat Chow Naturals but we have switched her over to Orijen since it is much higher quality and grain-free. Orijen does not have wet food as far as I am aware, unfortunately.

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So, he's eating Orijen, right? 

Orijen has freeze dried treats. Have you tried adding water to those?

ankitty said:

So, he's eating Orijen, right? 
Orijen has freeze dried treats. Have you tried adding water to those?

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I have tried the Orijen freeze dried treats but I have not tried adding water to them. She has not taken to the chicken or lamb freeze dried treats but I will see tonight is she will take to either of those with adding some water. Our other cat loved the Orijen freeze dried treats but prefer the chicken over the lamb, haven't tried any others yet though.