I've been so focussed on Cocheezie that I've been putting off my other cat's issues with food (see avatar). He's turning 14, has been diabetic for almost 3 years, and getting fat which isn't easy for a diabetic cat to do. He went off wet food altogether a few months ago and I'm making an effort to change his mindset and re-introduce it. He likes little bits of Wild Calling beef (but I don't) and Merrick's Thanksgiving Dinner. His His dry food is Purina DM. He will eat cooked human food but only as a polite gesture at mealtimes. He takes over my lap at the dinner table and checks out our plates. Before he went off wet food, he was eating FF pates and a bit of Friskies pate. Like Cocheesie, he will only eat pate. I've tried $$$ worth of pates in recent months on Cocheezie trying to find ones she will devour and Rover has been offered these, but they usually end up being given to our feral. He would not eat the DM wet. I ended up giving half a case to the local shelter.
Mixing dry into with the wet gradually hasn't worked.
He does get dry treats a couple of times a day in a window sill. This is to encourage him to jump up which strengthens his hind legs.
The two-fold problem is the dry food. (1) It's kitty crack. (2) If there is no dry food in his dish, and instead of eating the wet (if it's been in his dish more than 10 minutes), he will eat inedible things off the floor - hair on the bathroom floor is his go-to choice, but he'll eat anything and will usually throw up back up. I've watched him scour the floor for anything he thinks might be edible. Recently, I found tiny white round objects (not pills - more like bits of styrofoam) in his vomit. Possible pica cat?
He was checked at the vet in the early spring and no problems found. He goes back to the vet in early July for shots and fructosamine testing. I'm compiling a list of questions to ask about his eating habits and will be asking for bloodwork to get an idea of where he stands.
I can't devote as much time as I should at the moment to getting his diet just right (Cocheezie's well being is a full-time job), but I need to start somewhere. HIs Purina DM bag of food is just about empty and instead of going to the vet and getting some more, I'm thinking about changing his dry. I want something very low-carb that is not crack. I gave him some Taste of the Wild dry that I have for my feral and he gobbled it up even faster than the DM.
Until I have the chance to change his mindset and get him off dry food altogether, I'm thinking of trying Wellness Core dry. Is this a good idea?
Edit: EVO dry? (mentioned on a few diabetic sites)
Mixing dry into with the wet gradually hasn't worked.
He does get dry treats a couple of times a day in a window sill. This is to encourage him to jump up which strengthens his hind legs.
The two-fold problem is the dry food. (1) It's kitty crack. (2) If there is no dry food in his dish, and instead of eating the wet (if it's been in his dish more than 10 minutes), he will eat inedible things off the floor - hair on the bathroom floor is his go-to choice, but he'll eat anything and will usually throw up back up. I've watched him scour the floor for anything he thinks might be edible. Recently, I found tiny white round objects (not pills - more like bits of styrofoam) in his vomit. Possible pica cat?
He was checked at the vet in the early spring and no problems found. He goes back to the vet in early July for shots and fructosamine testing. I'm compiling a list of questions to ask about his eating habits and will be asking for bloodwork to get an idea of where he stands.
I can't devote as much time as I should at the moment to getting his diet just right (Cocheezie's well being is a full-time job), but I need to start somewhere. HIs Purina DM bag of food is just about empty and instead of going to the vet and getting some more, I'm thinking about changing his dry. I want something very low-carb that is not crack. I gave him some Taste of the Wild dry that I have for my feral and he gobbled it up even faster than the DM.
Until I have the chance to change his mindset and get him off dry food altogether, I'm thinking of trying Wellness Core dry. Is this a good idea?
Edit: EVO dry? (mentioned on a few diabetic sites)
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