Transitioning from low grade to high grade wet: Tips please.

Anyone have tips on transitioning from a low grade wet to a higher grade? Psycho has been on Sd d/d duck wet for a while but when I try G & H or Wild Calling he won t touch it. He does eat some Primal raw turkey but the better canned food he won t touch. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

To answer your question - you could try mixing the new food with the food he currently likes, and gradually increase the propionate of new food to old until he's switched over. You could also try toppers - fortiflora (though not at anything like the therapeutic rate), crumbled freeze dried treats, tuna water - anything he really likes.

If he enjoys the Primal raw, why not give him that. All cats have likes and dislikes - so long as he's happy and healthy I wouldn't get too hung up about food. The best food in the world is useless if the cat won't eat it!

psychomama said:

Anyone have tips on transitioning from a low grade wet to a higher grade? Psycho has been on Sd d/d duck wet for a while but when I try G & H or Wild Calling he won t touch it. He does eat some Primal raw turkey but the better canned food he won t touch. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Maybe your cat just doesn't like those two brands As Columbine suggsted, try toppers first. Crushed up freeze dried treats, FortiFlora, canned food gravy, etc. Here are additional toppers: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/293890/i-give-up-broke-buying-all-this-food/30 (in a few posts within that page)

If toppers won't work and neither does mixing the old food into the new food, try a different brand. There are many good brands of high quality food. You can do a search here on TCs for threads about high quality foods. And here's a thread outside of TC: http://www.catster.com/forums/Food_and_Nutrition/thread/774137

I find if a cat does not care for a food, try another. When I went through trying brands if the fussy one did not like it the other one or the feral cats ate it. I finally settled on accepted flavors, some top grade some middle grade. I now rotate 10 to 12 different ones. If she acts fussy I sprinkle some purebites chicken (dog size) on top and she eats. I don't feed dry due to prior vomiting issues. I also feed on a timed schedule.

bonepicker said:

I find if a cat does not care for a food, try another. When I went through trying brands if the fussy one did not like it the other one or the feral cats ate it. I finally settled on accepted flavors, some top grade some middle grade. I now rotate 10 to 12 different ones. If she acts fussy I sprinkle some purebites chicken (dog size) on top and she eats. I don't feed dry due to prior vomiting issues. I also feed on a timed schedule.

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I agree with using toppers and you can't go wrong with Purebites. The chicken ones are loved by all of my furkids. You can get an 11 oz bag (with a dog on it) from Amazon through subscribe and save for about $18.00. A 1.09 oz bag with a cat on it at Petco is about $5.50. You might have to break the treat up but there are usually a lot of small ones in there too. I usually go for the dust at the bottom of the bag for toppers and break up the treats to use as treats. 

It's funny, @psychomama: our cats also love Primal turkey but won't eat Wild Calling or Hound & Gatos flavors other than lamb! Maybe Psycho doesn't like such smooth pates? Our cats have a preference for chunkier, shreddier foods, like Tiki, Nutro Natural Choice, and Weruva Cats in the Kitchen. A lot of their diet is Primal, in mixtures of various flavors. Like @bonepicker, we feed them a lot of different foods--raw/canned, smoother/chunkier, various proteins--because they're easily bored.

Good luck!

Thank you for all the suggestions. He already gets the FortiFlora and likes it. I ll try mixing new and old as some have suggested. I appreciate all the feed back.