My 3rd cat, Jumbo, has kidney disease and refuses to eat any of the canned k/d foods. I bought several cans of Merrick's limited ingredient foods in turkey, duck and chicken and a few salmon from Petco just to see how he or my 2 seniors would like it. He loved all of them so I bought a bunch more cans and he's been eating that for the last month or so. I mostly give him the turkey, duck, chicken. I let the other 2 have the salmon because my girl loves salmon. Those 2 eat other foods as well.
Merrick LID is the only food I've found that Jumbo will eat all of, no scraps left in the bowl! He hasn't seemed to throw it up like other regular foods I've given him. I was struggling to get him to eat a quarter to half can/day with k/d and other foods. The last 2 weeks, he was up to 3 quarters/day with Merrick LID. His belly was feeling firmer to me a well. So when there was a sale on chewy.com a couple weeks ago, I ordered a case of turkey and duck.
I still had a few cans from the store to finish up so I didn't open the case until last Thursday night. I started with the duck case because he'd been going crazy for it from the cans from the store. I opened a badly dented can and fed him a quarter of the can. He refused to eat it. Stuck his nose in it briefly and walked away, like he does with all the canned k/d food. Then Friday I opened a non-dented can thinking maybe he knows that 1st can was dented or something. But he wouldn't eat the 2nd can either. I kept trying to get him to eat those 2 cans all weekend with no luck. Instead, he sneaked into the Merrick Surf and Turf and Wellness Turkey that I'd given the other 2 on Saturday and Sunday. This morning I gave him a quarter can of the turkey from the case. He ate on that a little. We'll see if he finished it when I get home and if he'll eat more for dinner. So I'm not sure yet if the turkey case is a problem as well.
I'm not sure why the dislike of the duck now. He'd eaten cans from the store of turkey, chicken and duck earlier that week and finished up a can of chicken that Thursday morning. I know Merrick was bought by Purina recently, but I don't think that's the issue. The cans from the duck case have expiration dates for June 2017. The most recent ones from the store have expiration dates for August 2017. I don't think it's a formula change either since the case was produced before the recent ones from the store. I'm wondering if there's a difference between what's sold in cases and what's sold in single cans. Or maybe I got a bad batch of the duck formula (and possibly turkey).
I plan to contact Merrick after I know if it's both cases or just the duck that's different. I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed a change in the duck formula (or any of them) recently.
Merrick LID is the only food I've found that Jumbo will eat all of, no scraps left in the bowl! He hasn't seemed to throw it up like other regular foods I've given him. I was struggling to get him to eat a quarter to half can/day with k/d and other foods. The last 2 weeks, he was up to 3 quarters/day with Merrick LID. His belly was feeling firmer to me a well. So when there was a sale on chewy.com a couple weeks ago, I ordered a case of turkey and duck.
I still had a few cans from the store to finish up so I didn't open the case until last Thursday night. I started with the duck case because he'd been going crazy for it from the cans from the store. I opened a badly dented can and fed him a quarter of the can. He refused to eat it. Stuck his nose in it briefly and walked away, like he does with all the canned k/d food. Then Friday I opened a non-dented can thinking maybe he knows that 1st can was dented or something. But he wouldn't eat the 2nd can either. I kept trying to get him to eat those 2 cans all weekend with no luck. Instead, he sneaked into the Merrick Surf and Turf and Wellness Turkey that I'd given the other 2 on Saturday and Sunday. This morning I gave him a quarter can of the turkey from the case. He ate on that a little. We'll see if he finished it when I get home and if he'll eat more for dinner. So I'm not sure yet if the turkey case is a problem as well.
I'm not sure why the dislike of the duck now. He'd eaten cans from the store of turkey, chicken and duck earlier that week and finished up a can of chicken that Thursday morning. I know Merrick was bought by Purina recently, but I don't think that's the issue. The cans from the duck case have expiration dates for June 2017. The most recent ones from the store have expiration dates for August 2017. I don't think it's a formula change either since the case was produced before the recent ones from the store. I'm wondering if there's a difference between what's sold in cases and what's sold in single cans. Or maybe I got a bad batch of the duck formula (and possibly turkey).
I plan to contact Merrick after I know if it's both cases or just the duck that's different. I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed a change in the duck formula (or any of them) recently.