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I give up.
I've spent the past seven months trying to get my 13 month old girl to eat wet food. Every time I find something she'll eat she stops eating it after a few days to a week. I've tried everything: cans, poches, toppers, adding treats, adding dry food, and cooking fresh chicken. She won't even eat tuna anymore. She used to devour it. I've become familiar with her reaction to food I put down from her: if she nibbles a little or licks up some juice there's a good chance she'll eat maybe half of it eventually, but if she immediately backs away from it, it will sit there.
I've tried withholding her dry food until she eats the wet but she'll just go without eating. I've tried tricking her and begging her. I've followed directions from articles designed specifically to get them to eat wet but after every small step forward it's two steps back. She just won't eat it.
People tell me the best food is whatever they'll eat but does this extend to dry food? I feed her dry Blue WIlderness chicken and she loves it. At least she likes a premium brand and not something like Meow Mix.
She appears to be getting enough fluids because her pee clumps have remained constant. Is this a good indicator? She has two water sources plus a fountain and I see her drinking at least once a day. I give her Churu every couple of days just to assure she's getting liquids.
I haven't tried Tiki Cat yet and due to my experience I don't have high hopes but I will try it anyway. The problem is I'm disabled and it's not easy to get to Petco often, which is the only place they sell it. I can no longer just order a case from Chewy and hope for the best because I'm one major expense away from homelessness.
I know, I shouldn't even have a cat if I can't afford to feed her. After fifteen years in a tree cat household ( i could afford it because they all ate whatever I gave them) I figured one cat would be cheaper. But with this little one, I might as well open cans and scrape them directly into the trash. I can afford to feed her dry food, but I hear nothing but bad things about a dry food diet. What can I do? She. Will. Not. Eat. Wet. Food.
Right now I have 2 questions: is there anything I can do to mitigate the harm of feeding an almost exclusively dry diet? What conditions should I have her doctor regularly look for?
I'm also curious about the carb content of Churu. It's hard to find carbohydrate levels on the nutrition charts for cat food in general. If Churu is very high in carbs, which I understand to be the biggest drawback of dry food, then I will have to stop giving it to her.
I've spent the past seven months trying to get my 13 month old girl to eat wet food. Every time I find something she'll eat she stops eating it after a few days to a week. I've tried everything: cans, poches, toppers, adding treats, adding dry food, and cooking fresh chicken. She won't even eat tuna anymore. She used to devour it. I've become familiar with her reaction to food I put down from her: if she nibbles a little or licks up some juice there's a good chance she'll eat maybe half of it eventually, but if she immediately backs away from it, it will sit there.
I've tried withholding her dry food until she eats the wet but she'll just go without eating. I've tried tricking her and begging her. I've followed directions from articles designed specifically to get them to eat wet but after every small step forward it's two steps back. She just won't eat it.
People tell me the best food is whatever they'll eat but does this extend to dry food? I feed her dry Blue WIlderness chicken and she loves it. At least she likes a premium brand and not something like Meow Mix.
She appears to be getting enough fluids because her pee clumps have remained constant. Is this a good indicator? She has two water sources plus a fountain and I see her drinking at least once a day. I give her Churu every couple of days just to assure she's getting liquids.
I haven't tried Tiki Cat yet and due to my experience I don't have high hopes but I will try it anyway. The problem is I'm disabled and it's not easy to get to Petco often, which is the only place they sell it. I can no longer just order a case from Chewy and hope for the best because I'm one major expense away from homelessness.
I know, I shouldn't even have a cat if I can't afford to feed her. After fifteen years in a tree cat household ( i could afford it because they all ate whatever I gave them) I figured one cat would be cheaper. But with this little one, I might as well open cans and scrape them directly into the trash. I can afford to feed her dry food, but I hear nothing but bad things about a dry food diet. What can I do? She. Will. Not. Eat. Wet. Food.
Right now I have 2 questions: is there anything I can do to mitigate the harm of feeding an almost exclusively dry diet? What conditions should I have her doctor regularly look for?
I'm also curious about the carb content of Churu. It's hard to find carbohydrate levels on the nutrition charts for cat food in general. If Churu is very high in carbs, which I understand to be the biggest drawback of dry food, then I will have to stop giving it to her.