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I have a problem that is annoying to me, since I'm trying to keep my cats super-healthy. I have two cats, both indoor spayed females. One is a 4-year-old Balinese (Kitty) with stomatitis and no teeth, who is always skinny and rough-looking. The other is a 10-month-old Siberian (Ruby) who is giant and appears to be very healthy. For both, I free-feed Blue Buffalo dry kitten food, and give wet food twice a day.
Kitty tends to be really into food, and will usually eat lots of wet food as soon as she gets it, and also finishes Ruby's food if she has the chance...Ruby pretty much doesn't finish hers, ever. This is because Ruby only likes wet food if it's a "new" brand or flavor. A while back, I was like, "Okay, fine, because there are one hundred kinds of cat food at the pet supply shop...I'll just keep changing it for her". So I always got different kinds. The result was stomachaches and loose stools, especially in Ruby. The dry food, I did keep consistent...I thought it was only dry food you weren't meant to switch up.
Anyway, now that I've been sticking to basically two kinds of wet food, Ruby won't even touch it. She kind of backs away and runs off as though she's afraid. I've also taken to just giving them a tiny bit per feeding (like, 2 or 3 tablespoons), since Kitty usually tries to eat both, and I don't want her to have too much. I have to stand there watching so I can take the food away from Ruby. It's getting to be such a pain. I would love to just quit even trying to feed wet food to Ruby, she seems quite healthy and strong and I know she will drink water to counterbalance the dry food. There's no way I'm going to try and switch up her wet food all the time, it's bad for her system. And I feel like I'm wasting my time trying to constantly monitor her food-mood.
Advice? Can't I just stop trying?
I have a problem that is annoying to me, since I'm trying to keep my cats super-healthy. I have two cats, both indoor spayed females. One is a 4-year-old Balinese (Kitty) with stomatitis and no teeth, who is always skinny and rough-looking. The other is a 10-month-old Siberian (Ruby) who is giant and appears to be very healthy. For both, I free-feed Blue Buffalo dry kitten food, and give wet food twice a day.
Kitty tends to be really into food, and will usually eat lots of wet food as soon as she gets it, and also finishes Ruby's food if she has the chance...Ruby pretty much doesn't finish hers, ever. This is because Ruby only likes wet food if it's a "new" brand or flavor. A while back, I was like, "Okay, fine, because there are one hundred kinds of cat food at the pet supply shop...I'll just keep changing it for her". So I always got different kinds. The result was stomachaches and loose stools, especially in Ruby. The dry food, I did keep consistent...I thought it was only dry food you weren't meant to switch up.
Anyway, now that I've been sticking to basically two kinds of wet food, Ruby won't even touch it. She kind of backs away and runs off as though she's afraid. I've also taken to just giving them a tiny bit per feeding (like, 2 or 3 tablespoons), since Kitty usually tries to eat both, and I don't want her to have too much. I have to stand there watching so I can take the food away from Ruby. It's getting to be such a pain. I would love to just quit even trying to feed wet food to Ruby, she seems quite healthy and strong and I know she will drink water to counterbalance the dry food. There's no way I'm going to try and switch up her wet food all the time, it's bad for her system. And I feel like I'm wasting my time trying to constantly monitor her food-mood.
Advice? Can't I just stop trying?