I've been driving myself crazy the last few weeks trying to get my 8 cats off of Nutro Complete care. The driver for this was not only Nutro quality concerns, but that my two oldest wouldn't eat it anymore. The oldest get wet food, but I free feed dry food and would like to have 3 out at all times. I found that half of them like Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice, but the others are being very picky. The biggest issue is that I don't have a food to transition from, so I just have to put the new food out and watch closely to see who eats it. I've never had a problem transitioning them before, but I have one kitten in particular that has only liked one of the below foods (Solid Gold). I already have 9 bags of food in the house, so this can't go on forever.
I've tried 9 dry types:
Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice (well received by most)
Blue Buffalo Salmon and Rice (nobody loved it)
Blue Buffalo Turkey and Rice SS (nobody liked it)
By Nature Adult Formula (one cat ate a little)
Avoderm Chicken and Herring (some liked it, but too much corn)
Solid Gold Katz n' Flocken (in testing-most seem to like it)
Natural Balance Ultra (in testing-not well liked)
Wellness Indoor (in testing-not well liked)
Castor and Pollux Indoor (in testing-most seem to like it)
My question is this. If I put out multiple new foods at a time, is it as easy as watching to see which foods they eat the most? I'm afraid they have too many choices because I currently have 4 new foods out and they have had zero interest both the Wellness and Natural Balance foods( I was hoping that they would like these). Does that just mean that they prefer the Katz n' Flocken and Castor and Pollux and don't like the other two? I just don't want to discount good quality foods because my testing method is flawed. I'm not sure how else to go about this and would love to hear any suggestions.
Thanks!
I've tried 9 dry types:
Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice (well received by most)
Blue Buffalo Salmon and Rice (nobody loved it)
Blue Buffalo Turkey and Rice SS (nobody liked it)
By Nature Adult Formula (one cat ate a little)
Avoderm Chicken and Herring (some liked it, but too much corn)
Solid Gold Katz n' Flocken (in testing-most seem to like it)
Natural Balance Ultra (in testing-not well liked)
Wellness Indoor (in testing-not well liked)
Castor and Pollux Indoor (in testing-most seem to like it)
My question is this. If I put out multiple new foods at a time, is it as easy as watching to see which foods they eat the most? I'm afraid they have too many choices because I currently have 4 new foods out and they have had zero interest both the Wellness and Natural Balance foods( I was hoping that they would like these). Does that just mean that they prefer the Katz n' Flocken and Castor and Pollux and don't like the other two? I just don't want to discount good quality foods because my testing method is flawed. I'm not sure how else to go about this and would love to hear any suggestions.
Thanks!