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I have an adult foster who refuses to eat cat food. She came into foster already not eating and with elevated liver enzymes. They are improving as she starts eating more, but so far what she will eat is:
steak
tuna
pot roast
chicken
my turkey sandwich
She will react to tuna flavored cat food - she acts interested, and walks away. I can get KMR into her by making a gravy mixed with whatever meat I am giving her so at least that is giving her a few more calories.
Today she did finally eat 2 bites of Rad Cat. She didn't seem well pleased, but she ate it. Then left the rest to sit. I have tried expensive grain free brands, cheap grocery store brands and everything in between. I don't feed dry, but I tried that as well - no interest. I tried sprinkling bonita flakes over the cat food, but she has no interest.
We have not been able to find any medical or dental issues. She just won't eat cat food. She is due tomorrow for a recheck on the blood work and I will ask then if it is time to try some sort of appetite stimulant. It's taking a great deal of time (in addition to refusing cat food, she doesn't even eat the people food well if I'm not sitting there with her) and effort to get any food into her at all and while her liver enzymes have improved she continues to drop weight.
As a foster, I don't have much history on her. She was an owner surrender roughly 2 months back with very little history given. After a month she was noticeably depressed and looking "off" and the past 2 weeks she has been here with me.
She will (sometimes) eat temptations. Something else I wouldn't normally keep in the house, but at this point I'm desperate to get her to eat anything.
I'm hoping somebody here has something different to try to get her to eat, or a similar experience with a happy outcome?
steak
tuna
pot roast
chicken
my turkey sandwich
She will react to tuna flavored cat food - she acts interested, and walks away. I can get KMR into her by making a gravy mixed with whatever meat I am giving her so at least that is giving her a few more calories.
Today she did finally eat 2 bites of Rad Cat. She didn't seem well pleased, but she ate it. Then left the rest to sit. I have tried expensive grain free brands, cheap grocery store brands and everything in between. I don't feed dry, but I tried that as well - no interest. I tried sprinkling bonita flakes over the cat food, but she has no interest.
We have not been able to find any medical or dental issues. She just won't eat cat food. She is due tomorrow for a recheck on the blood work and I will ask then if it is time to try some sort of appetite stimulant. It's taking a great deal of time (in addition to refusing cat food, she doesn't even eat the people food well if I'm not sitting there with her) and effort to get any food into her at all and while her liver enzymes have improved she continues to drop weight.
As a foster, I don't have much history on her. She was an owner surrender roughly 2 months back with very little history given. After a month she was noticeably depressed and looking "off" and the past 2 weeks she has been here with me.
She will (sometimes) eat temptations. Something else I wouldn't normally keep in the house, but at this point I'm desperate to get her to eat anything.
I'm hoping somebody here has something different to try to get her to eat, or a similar experience with a happy outcome?