New Adult Siamese Cat Not Eating Wet Food

kamikaze007 · Sep 13, 2015

Hello all! I just a had an adult siamese cat and she has been handed down from owner to another until i got her under my care. She's been with me for 9 days now and still very skittish, though she's is now going out from her hiding place and i can touch her for a few seconds before she'll go running back to her hiding place.

Anyway, my concern right now is her food choices. She won't eat the wet food i have been preparing for her, for the past 8 days she refused to eat any wet food i gave her. I tried mixing it with her current dry food (whiskas), i also tried giving 1/2 dry food and 1/2 wet food on her food bowl, and serving each food separately. She won't touch the wet food and in the case of the mixed wet and dry food she wouldn't even touch it.

newmamaof3 · Sep 13, 2015

We had a cat like this. She wouldn't touch wet food after we adopted her. I can only guess hat she was on a dry diet at the shelter. Try mixing a tiny tiny bit of the wet with her kibble. Not half and half only about a ratio of 1:10. This will get her accustomed to the taste of the wet food. Do this for several days and gradually increase the wet to dry ratio. Go slowly and be patient. There are taste and texture issues that the cat will have to adjust to. This worked for us and at the end of the transition we just sprinkled the top of her wet food with kibble. Just enough to give her that crunch she was looking for.

kamikaze007 · Sep 13, 2015

newmamaof3 said:
We had a cat like this. She wouldn't touch wet food after we adopted her. I can only guess hat she was on a dry diet at the shelter. Try mixing a tiny tiny bit of the wet with her kibble. Not half and half only about a ratio of 1:10. This will get her accustomed to the taste of the wet food. Do this for several days and gradually increase the wet to dry ratio. Go slowly and be patient. There are taste and texture issues that the cat will have to adjust to. This worked for us and at the end of the transition we just sprinkled the top of her wet food with kibble. Just enough to give her that crunch she was looking for.

I will try that technique. Thanks for the advice.

Anyway i am planning to cook her fish. Can i steam the fish and drizzle it with margarine? I noticed she'll just lick off the oil and gravy from the wet food I've been serving her.

newmamaof3 · Sep 13, 2015

Someone else can chime in on this one. However I don't think I would feed margarine to her. Perhaps some chicken broth to add moisture when you do serve fish but I wouldnt reccommend feeding fish on a daily basis due to Mercury contamination in most fish now days. Fish occasionally is fine though. You can boil her some chicken or turkey with broth as well. I would recommend using a high quality grain free canned food as this will have added nutrients necessary for her growth and maintenance.

kamikaze007 · Sep 13, 2015

Really? I thought she needs some fat so her skin won't dry. I was considering buying her fish oil, but our local sellers has ran out of stock so I was thinking margarine could do the trick. Anyway, I will try chicken.

newmamaof3 · Sep 13, 2015

There are a lot of good sources of appropriate fats, omegas and oils in any good quality canned food. Neither chicken nor fish alone would be an adequate source of all the nutrients she will need. I would look into quality grain free canned food. These will also contain the necessary fats and omegas for healthy skin and coat

LTS3 · Sep 14, 2015

Your cat is likely still acclimating to her new home. Some cats just don't eat under such stress. My rescue wouldn't eat anything for a few days: dry, canned, even raw but that was a long shot. Give your time time to settle in. Keep her in one room for now and put her food bowl in that room. Don't watch her eat because that may stress her out even more. Leave and check back on her in an hour or so.

I wouldn't feed margarine. Feed a high quality food instead and / or use fish oil from the pet store.

kamikaze007 · Sep 14, 2015

Thank you all for the tips!

Anyway, I only have few choices of quality dry food in my country. We have Halo, Acana, Taste of the Wild and Royal canin, which dry food should i choose?

lisahe · Sep 14, 2015

LTS3 said:
Your cat is likely still acclimating to her new home. Some cats just don't eat under such stress. My rescue wouldn't eat anything for a few days: dry, canned, even raw but that was a long shot. Give your time time to settle in. Keep her in one room for now and put her food bowl in that room. Don't watch her eat because that may stress her out even more. Leave and check back on her in an hour or so.

We had a similar situation with our two cats: they also didn't eat much when we first brought them home. The shelter had sent us off with a little bag of their mix of dry food plus some cans of Friskies, so they'd get what they'd been fed at the shelter but the cats initially ate very little, despite being scrawny and very underfed. We (kind of by mistake) let them choose their own room to hang out in for their first week or two: it turned out to be the bedroom, which worked out well for everybody, though we barely knew they were there. The cats hid in the duvet cover and between laundry baskets. There were lots of warm, hiding places (it was a very cold winter) and they would sometimes come out to sniff us if we'd sit on the floor. They seemed to eat most at night, when we weren't watching. One morning I woke up early and they were swarming around the food dishes.

I don't know much about dry foods but might pass on the advice our cat vet gave us when we adopted our two, who are Siamese mixes. She told us Siamese cats have a tendency toward digestive issues so strongly suggested feeding them grain-free, high-protein wet foods, with no dry foods. Your cat is obviously pretty resistant to wet food right now but I'm glad you're working on getting her to like it! What brands of wet foods are available where you live? And for dry food, whatever seems to have the least grains and carbohydrate-heavy fillers like potato and peas is probably best.

Good luck!

2cats4me · Sep 14, 2015

kamikaze007 said:
Thank you all for the tips!

Anyway, I only have few choices of quality dry food in my country. We have Halo, Acana, Taste of the Wild and Royal canin, which dry food should i choose?

If you can get the Acana . Can I ask in which country you live ? ..

kamikaze007 · Sep 14, 2015

2Cats4Me said:
If you can get the Acana . Can I ask in which country you live ? ..

I live in the Philippines. I have a friend who suggested to use Orijen, would you also advise this. I have already bought Acana, but it is almost running out of srock in our local store here
here.

2cats4me · Sep 14, 2015

kamikaze007 said:
I live in the Philippines. I have a friend who suggested to use Orijen, would you also advise this. I have already bought Acana, but it is almost running out of srock in our local store here
here.

Thank you , it is nice to meet you . I am in the US . Oh yes Orijen is very good too .. Acana & Orijen are made by the same company ..

crazy4strays · Sep 14, 2015

As a gateway to trying other wet foods (not as a daily food choice) you might try one of the fish heavy cat foods to start with, since most cats love fish and the smell of it.

Or you could try drizzling tuna juice over the cat's regular food.

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