Eighteen year old female DSH has.. opted? to change her diet.
I'm a Canadian so I'll put measurements in both grams and ounces.
For the last couple of days, she's only eating about 75g (2.5oz) of wet food a day, instead of 100-115g (~3.5-4oz) plus 2-3 oz of dry food a day. The dry food bowl was always topped up (with a scoop) if the bottom of the bowl was visible, we never gave it much thought so no idea how much she was eating.
About a year ago, I started feeding her wet food during my breakfast in lieu of giving her milk. She nagged, cajoled and otherwise annoyed me into feeding her around 25g (0.9 oz) of wet food four times a day. She's lost some weight over the last few months, which I attributed to higher quality food. She weighs just over 10 pounds as of now.
Saturday morning I noticed there wasn't much poop in the litter box, and then found that she hadn't eaten any dry food for at least a few days. Now the most she's eating out of a serving of wet food is 20g (about 3/4 oz) - more often less than 14g (half an ounce). I've been weighing the dry food as well, and she hasn't touched it at all.
She's drinking less, but perhaps without dry food that's normal.
The reason I have these measurements is because I had to "dial in" an amount that she wouldn't scarf'n'barf. I was ok with her doing that with the dry food but she wouldn't clean up the wet food and its expensive
Because it was supposed to be fed as snacks, I have several different brands of grain-free pâté-style wet food on hand, and she won't really eat much of any of them - warmed, room temperature or cold.
She pooped while I was watching this morning. She didn't strain and it was normal, if a bit small.
She's pretty sedentary, she is after all 18 and has some arthritis-like symptoms. We just got a new bedroom chair, which she has claimed as hers.
Do I need to hustle her to a vet, or should I keep trying different foods while I try to find a good vet? Her original vet retired, and the interim vet we tried was more like a hippie kindergarten teacher than a doctor.
I'm a Canadian so I'll put measurements in both grams and ounces.
For the last couple of days, she's only eating about 75g (2.5oz) of wet food a day, instead of 100-115g (~3.5-4oz) plus 2-3 oz of dry food a day. The dry food bowl was always topped up (with a scoop) if the bottom of the bowl was visible, we never gave it much thought so no idea how much she was eating.
About a year ago, I started feeding her wet food during my breakfast in lieu of giving her milk. She nagged, cajoled and otherwise annoyed me into feeding her around 25g (0.9 oz) of wet food four times a day. She's lost some weight over the last few months, which I attributed to higher quality food. She weighs just over 10 pounds as of now.
Saturday morning I noticed there wasn't much poop in the litter box, and then found that she hadn't eaten any dry food for at least a few days. Now the most she's eating out of a serving of wet food is 20g (about 3/4 oz) - more often less than 14g (half an ounce). I've been weighing the dry food as well, and she hasn't touched it at all.
She's drinking less, but perhaps without dry food that's normal.
The reason I have these measurements is because I had to "dial in" an amount that she wouldn't scarf'n'barf. I was ok with her doing that with the dry food but she wouldn't clean up the wet food and its expensive
Because it was supposed to be fed as snacks, I have several different brands of grain-free pâté-style wet food on hand, and she won't really eat much of any of them - warmed, room temperature or cold.
She pooped while I was watching this morning. She didn't strain and it was normal, if a bit small.
She's pretty sedentary, she is after all 18 and has some arthritis-like symptoms. We just got a new bedroom chair, which she has claimed as hers.
Do I need to hustle her to a vet, or should I keep trying different foods while I try to find a good vet? Her original vet retired, and the interim vet we tried was more like a hippie kindergarten teacher than a doctor.
