Casper, is on the cusp of 15 years old. His appetite the past few months has increasingly been diminishing. I'm pretty concerned about it. He's been through 2 dental procedures in the past year or so, where several teeth had to be removed. We've had him x-rayed (normal), blood tests (normal), have brought him into the vet 3 times already this year and nothing shows up as "wrong" so, I think it's just him aging and perhaps losing his sense of smell/taste and general forgetfulness too. We have been noticing he seems confused about where he is at times and this crosses over to eating too - there are times where I have to pet him and show him the bowl. Or, turn the bowl around. Or empty the bowl and put in new food. You get the drill. I'm sure some of you have experienced this.
Also, over the years we went from feeding a very varied high quality canned diet with some Orijens kibble on the side to mostly only using Fancy Feast Classics, and cutting down on the kibble as much as possible. It got to a point where he wasn't dealing with other food textures other than pates very well (plus, Cocoabean has a preference for pate style too and she also had several teeth pulled recently). It seemed to be causing him too much trouble to eat shredded or diced foods, so we cut it out. I've tried various other pate foods from other brands but none were a hit. The FF was the only thing that he would consistently eat. We also recently decided to try a different kibble because he always had an issue throwing food up now and then but we were coming home nearly daily to piles of kibble around the house. So now, they are getting Blue's kibble for older cats - can't remember the name off hand.
Anyway - we need to get his interest up to eat. He's already lost a pound or so over this past year and while he needed to, it wasn't due to cutting him back, it was due to him not eating well.
Anyone know of canned pate type foods we can try that we may have overlooked previously? I don't think he's even getting more than 100 calories or so at this point. Today, he ate maybe an ounce at breakfast of the FF, about as much at dinner and a few tablespoons of kibble, if that. This in comparison to Cocoa, who has eaten about 4-5 ounces of wet food and also a few tablespoons kibble.
Also, over the years we went from feeding a very varied high quality canned diet with some Orijens kibble on the side to mostly only using Fancy Feast Classics, and cutting down on the kibble as much as possible. It got to a point where he wasn't dealing with other food textures other than pates very well (plus, Cocoabean has a preference for pate style too and she also had several teeth pulled recently). It seemed to be causing him too much trouble to eat shredded or diced foods, so we cut it out. I've tried various other pate foods from other brands but none were a hit. The FF was the only thing that he would consistently eat. We also recently decided to try a different kibble because he always had an issue throwing food up now and then but we were coming home nearly daily to piles of kibble around the house. So now, they are getting Blue's kibble for older cats - can't remember the name off hand.
Anyway - we need to get his interest up to eat. He's already lost a pound or so over this past year and while he needed to, it wasn't due to cutting him back, it was due to him not eating well.
Anyone know of canned pate type foods we can try that we may have overlooked previously? I don't think he's even getting more than 100 calories or so at this point. Today, he ate maybe an ounce at breakfast of the FF, about as much at dinner and a few tablespoons of kibble, if that. This in comparison to Cocoa, who has eaten about 4-5 ounces of wet food and also a few tablespoons kibble.