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Hey all,
I have posted a few threads about my new kittens Pickles and Pepper and how Pickles seems to be much smaller than her brother and is pretty skinny. Not emaciated, but definitely thin. I figured she wasn't crazy about the kibble I was buying but she was eating it (and her brother steals her food too).
Anyways, I started a plan that I call "Let's Make Pickles Fat" (not really, but she needs to gain weight). So I bought some grain-free canned food and some kitten formula to mix in. She seems to like it.
However, now she won't touch the dry food at all. It's a grain-free kibble so fairly high quality and not cheap. Pepper still eats it even if he prefers wet. I don't mind the fact that Pickles only wants to eat wet and I know many here will say it's better. The reality is, though, that I can not afford to feed exclusively grain-free canned food. Where I am, the starting price is $2 for a 5.5oz can. Most of the big names cost more. Wellness, for instance, charges nearly $3!!!
If I'm going to feed Pickles exclusively canned would it be OK to mix in some Friskies and store brands in? I'd still buy the good stuff, of course. I'd just need to pad it out with the foods with by-products and fillers. Or should I try to encourage her to eat more of the grain-free dry? The high quality kibble is too costly to experiment with different brands and flavours. Pickles is still too skinny for me to "tough love" her into eating the dry.
I have posted a few threads about my new kittens Pickles and Pepper and how Pickles seems to be much smaller than her brother and is pretty skinny. Not emaciated, but definitely thin. I figured she wasn't crazy about the kibble I was buying but she was eating it (and her brother steals her food too).
Anyways, I started a plan that I call "Let's Make Pickles Fat" (not really, but she needs to gain weight). So I bought some grain-free canned food and some kitten formula to mix in. She seems to like it.
However, now she won't touch the dry food at all. It's a grain-free kibble so fairly high quality and not cheap. Pepper still eats it even if he prefers wet. I don't mind the fact that Pickles only wants to eat wet and I know many here will say it's better. The reality is, though, that I can not afford to feed exclusively grain-free canned food. Where I am, the starting price is $2 for a 5.5oz can. Most of the big names cost more. Wellness, for instance, charges nearly $3!!!
If I'm going to feed Pickles exclusively canned would it be OK to mix in some Friskies and store brands in? I'd still buy the good stuff, of course. I'd just need to pad it out with the foods with by-products and fillers. Or should I try to encourage her to eat more of the grain-free dry? The high quality kibble is too costly to experiment with different brands and flavours. Pickles is still too skinny for me to "tough love" her into eating the dry.