I will be so glad when I can transition Butterscotch off of the Friskies Indoor Delight

So I have had my 2 years old female cat Butterscotch for about 24 hours and overall she's doing very well. Anyways, the old owners for the last 2 years have been feeding her Friskies Indoor Delight. I hate feeding her this junk, but was told by the vet that since she was just spayed on Monday and that she's in a new environment getting use to it, one thing at a time. They explained to me how to gradually take her off of the Friskies and onto the grain free food that I feed my other 2 cats.

What I'm going to do however is supplement the Friskies with a wet food and at least this way she will be getting some extra nutrients that she needs.

I'd do the same. I wouldn't feed my kitties Friskies either. She'll probably like the wet food better and you can slowly cut back the Friskies and start mixing in grain free kibble. Good luck!

2kittiesohmy said:

 
I'd do the same. I wouldn't feed my kitties Friskies either. She'll probably like the wet food better and you can slowly cut back the Friskies and start mixing in grain free kibble. Good luck!

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Well she came from a home where they allowed her to have two litters of kittens and then they decided to abandon her, another older kitten from her first litter and five 8 week old kittens from her second litter at a shelter so I'm not completely surprised. It actually says abandoned on her medical paperwork I was given a copy of. I know she will find the living conditions here to be much different (in a very good way). My other two 9 month old siblings were adopted by me under similar circumstances.

I guess I have become the guy who can't see a good cat suffer.

Well today is the first wet food test with Butterscotch. Not wanting to spend .95 a can for her not to eat it, I bought these at Walmart while I was there yesterday. I got 6 chicken and 6 salmon (2 portions per container) which should last 24 feedings or 12 days if I use one portion twice a day on top of the dry food she's currently on. I will keep you guys updated on how it goes.

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Good luck!! Let us know how it goes!!

Its great you'd Walmart carries this. The site said my store did, but I took an hour trip on the bus to get there, and nope. The half portion sizes look like a nice deal for picky cats!

Well it looks like I hit a home run with this. I put the bowl down and she is currently chowing down on it like there's no tomorrow and loves it View media item 292130

I agree that you're doing the right thing, particularly since Butterscotch has had such a difficult life that she probably never had a settled life or diet to begin with. Plus she obviously loved the Sheba--she clearly isn't shy about eating!

We started our rescue cats on new foods pretty fast, too: they'd been severely underfed and had only been in the shelter for a few days when we adopted them anyway so stability had never been part of their lives, either.

Have fun with all your cats! And good for you for taking in Butterscotch!

She is very fortunate that you took her in to love. I just don't get how people can abandon their animals.

You might want to initially put a little of the new food down next to the food she is used to, so she doesn't associate the new food with going hungry (which she will if she avoids the bowl altogether.) I read this online, and it really did help my cat transition. Ironically, it also was Indoor Delights..which I fed him, early on, just because it was the only thing he'd eat for a long long time.

misterwhiskers said:

You might want to initially put a little of the new food down next to the food she is used to, so she doesn't associate the new food with going hungry (which she will if she avoids the bowl altogether.) I read this online, and it really did help my cat transition. Ironically, it also was Indoor Delights..which I fed him, early on, just because it was the only thing he'd eat for a long long time.

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Thanks for the advise. I don't know what it is with people feeding their cats, especially older cats this stuff especially now that Walmart and a few places like that in the same isle has that kind of cat food and then across from it the grain free stuff. Oh well.

2kittiesohmy said:

 
She is very fortunate that you took her in to love. I just don't get how people can abandon their animals.

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You and me both. It just wasn't her it ways one from her first litter and all 5 from her second litter she just had a while ago. Nothing like abandoning one mom and 6 kittens. The great news is that everyone has been adopted expect for 3 kittens.

LisaHE said:

I agree that you're doing the right thing, particularly since Butterscotch has had such a difficult life that she probably never had a settled life or diet to begin with. Plus she obviously loved the Sheba--she clearly isn't shy about eating!

We started our rescue cats on new foods pretty fast, too: they'd been severely underfed and had only been in the shelter for a few days when we adopted them anyway so stability had never been part of their lives, either.

Have fun with all your cats! And good for you for taking in Butterscotch!

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Once I met Butterscotch on Thursday during the meet and great at my house I knew immediately that she was staying.

2Cats4Me said:

 
Excellent , I am glad she likes . Sheba is a good brand too ..

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I wasn't sure about Sheba as it tends to get a bad wrap about it, but when I saw the preselected portions that just break apart I was like why not. Open each portion, dump in bowl, break up the pate and done, plus it was .70 for each pkg of 2 so .35 a serving which I figured wasn't so bad.

Well Butterscotch went to town again on her dinner portion, this time Salmon. With my hit and miss over and over with my two 9 month old kitty siblings, I can't believe that she took to the first stuff I bought.

That's pretty awesome!

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That's pretty awesome!

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I was completely surprised and then thinking back to the fact that her old owners (don't get me started on that one), had been feeding her Friskies Indoor Delight, she probably was happy for something better. While she recovers from her spaying and gets use to her new and much better home life I will still feed her the Friskies, but in a couple weeks I will start weening her off of the Friskies and onto the grain free food I have to my other two cats. 

So I gave Butterscotch 3 very tiny pieces probably the size of this (----) of string cheese because I was having some and then I thought about and I hope it was ok. I knew the grain free cat treats were obviously fine, but I hope the cheese was ok. I don't plan to give it to her much as it was more of a cat + cheese = .

A little bit every now and then is OK but I wouldn't make it a regular thing since they are lactose intolerant. Usually the only people food I give them is plain cooked meat when I have dinner or I cook some plain to use as a topper for their regular meals. Pure Bites freeze dried chicken treats are great and most cats love them. They are pricey though. I buy the big bag for dogs through Amazon's subscribe and save. The treats are exactly the same just bigger but they break easily.