Hello,
This is my first post but I'm ooking for some advice on older cats. I've had these two since they were kittens and over the years we tried many foods, but we settled on Science Diet dry food mainly because they are so picky. This worked for many years..
Well recently the older one Isie (17 yrs) has stopped eating dry food completely. When I first noticed this the first thing I did was give her a can of tuna (in water) because it was what I had and because she had lost some weight. I felt like a bad mommy because I didn't notice it sooner. Since then I've been trying to find wet canned food she will eat, and haven't been too successful. Most of the time I have to mix it with canned tuna to get her to eat it. If its not shredded (like tuna) she wont touch it also. This was true when she was a kitten too so we ended up settling for dry food because she wont eat 90% of canned wet food.
I'm just looking on suggestions on brands, or perhaps human food I can try to give her. I read that canned pumpkin is good for cats so maybe a little bit of that (teaspoon?) would help. I'm looking for a longer term solution then tuna. Obviously that got her eating again but I need to transition into something more healthy now. She's got a vet appointment tomorrow as well.
I'm also slowly transitioning the EG (12 yrs) off the dry food, but he seems to be taking that fine. Which is amazing because he will only eat certain brands of dry food. It seems he likes the wet food so much he doesn't seem to care much about the brand(?). Once I run out of the dry food I wont buy it again for sure..
Any suggestions on what to feed Isie would be great.
I do realize shes super old now but she still enjoys her life so I'm just trying to find something for her to eat that is nutritious.
This is my first post but I'm ooking for some advice on older cats. I've had these two since they were kittens and over the years we tried many foods, but we settled on Science Diet dry food mainly because they are so picky. This worked for many years..
Well recently the older one Isie (17 yrs) has stopped eating dry food completely. When I first noticed this the first thing I did was give her a can of tuna (in water) because it was what I had and because she had lost some weight. I felt like a bad mommy because I didn't notice it sooner. Since then I've been trying to find wet canned food she will eat, and haven't been too successful. Most of the time I have to mix it with canned tuna to get her to eat it. If its not shredded (like tuna) she wont touch it also. This was true when she was a kitten too so we ended up settling for dry food because she wont eat 90% of canned wet food.
I'm just looking on suggestions on brands, or perhaps human food I can try to give her. I read that canned pumpkin is good for cats so maybe a little bit of that (teaspoon?) would help. I'm looking for a longer term solution then tuna. Obviously that got her eating again but I need to transition into something more healthy now. She's got a vet appointment tomorrow as well.
I'm also slowly transitioning the EG (12 yrs) off the dry food, but he seems to be taking that fine. Which is amazing because he will only eat certain brands of dry food. It seems he likes the wet food so much he doesn't seem to care much about the brand(?). Once I run out of the dry food I wont buy it again for sure..
Any suggestions on what to feed Isie would be great.