For several months now, my cats have been on all dry food since the three year old male cat barely touches wet food and the kitten will eat it for a while but then loses interest and starts to ignore the wet food. We adopted the older cat in March of this year and the kitten was adopted in June.
I really would like them both to get wet food in their diet (probably a can a day), especially since I am trying to help my three year old male lose weight. He is currently 13 pounds, down from 14 (probably should go down to 12 at least, but its winter so I don't expect that weight drop now).
Currently both the three year old male (Carrot) and the 8 month old (Angua) are eating a half cup each of Nutrisca chicken flavor all life stages food. There are often kibbles left over in the bowl so these roll over into the next day if they aren't all eaten. I also don't have a clear idea of who is eating how much since the food is given to them in two bowls at specific meal times and they will trade bowls back and forth until all food is eaten. Neither seem hungry after though.
I am only even bringing the idea of wet food into play at all since I gave them a Thanksgiving can of turkey and potato cat food yesterday. Angua ate half of the 3.5 oz can. Carrot ate three bites of it (much more than normal), then let Angua finish the rest of his can. I am assuming that any amount of wet food that I can get into Carrot would be a benefit to him since it would add moisture that he might need even more as a male cat.
I cannot switch to an all wet food diet because my fiance and I are gone at work for 12 hours or more during the day. I wouldn't want to leave the cats without food that amount of time. Also my fiance is not a fan of the extra cost associated with wet food and hates the smell of it so feeding the cats a can a day would already be a major compromise. Getting them on the healthier grain free food was already a jump for him since the cats he grew up with were fed on extremely low quality cat food.
I would like to find a couple of brands and flavors of canned cat food that would be relatively cheap. Does anyone have suggestions for canned food to use (keeping in mine money)? Is it better to use low quality wet food then no wet food at all? I would like to make it so that with two cats we wouldn't raise the price too significantly to feed them each month. Are certain types or flavors worse for cats to eat?
Considering past problems with wet food is there a way to get them interested in eating it more? How should I change up flavors/brands to keep the kitten from losing interest again?
Also how would the amount of wet food effect the amount of dry food they should be getting each day?
Lots of questions. Thank you ahead of time for any answers.
Carrot and Angua thank you too.
I really would like them both to get wet food in their diet (probably a can a day), especially since I am trying to help my three year old male lose weight. He is currently 13 pounds, down from 14 (probably should go down to 12 at least, but its winter so I don't expect that weight drop now).
Currently both the three year old male (Carrot) and the 8 month old (Angua) are eating a half cup each of Nutrisca chicken flavor all life stages food. There are often kibbles left over in the bowl so these roll over into the next day if they aren't all eaten. I also don't have a clear idea of who is eating how much since the food is given to them in two bowls at specific meal times and they will trade bowls back and forth until all food is eaten. Neither seem hungry after though.
I am only even bringing the idea of wet food into play at all since I gave them a Thanksgiving can of turkey and potato cat food yesterday. Angua ate half of the 3.5 oz can. Carrot ate three bites of it (much more than normal), then let Angua finish the rest of his can. I am assuming that any amount of wet food that I can get into Carrot would be a benefit to him since it would add moisture that he might need even more as a male cat.
I cannot switch to an all wet food diet because my fiance and I are gone at work for 12 hours or more during the day. I wouldn't want to leave the cats without food that amount of time. Also my fiance is not a fan of the extra cost associated with wet food and hates the smell of it so feeding the cats a can a day would already be a major compromise. Getting them on the healthier grain free food was already a jump for him since the cats he grew up with were fed on extremely low quality cat food.
I would like to find a couple of brands and flavors of canned cat food that would be relatively cheap. Does anyone have suggestions for canned food to use (keeping in mine money)? Is it better to use low quality wet food then no wet food at all? I would like to make it so that with two cats we wouldn't raise the price too significantly to feed them each month. Are certain types or flavors worse for cats to eat?
Considering past problems with wet food is there a way to get them interested in eating it more? How should I change up flavors/brands to keep the kitten from losing interest again?
Also how would the amount of wet food effect the amount of dry food they should be getting each day?
Lots of questions. Thank you ahead of time for any answers.
Carrot and Angua thank you too.