Hi Everyone,
We have an almost 11 year old cat who has never been a fan of wet food. Having read how much better it is for her, we were keen to try transitioning to a more wet food diet and bought GranataPet. I've read the posts about transitioning and the tricks to get her eating even just a small amount and building up, but she is quite a picky cat. We have found that if the bowl has wet food in it (we do timed feedings) she will more or less just leave it (sometimes completely, sometimes after one bite).
I am finding the fine line balance between not enough food and letting her get hungry a little tricky, especially as she has never been a very hungry cat to begin with. I also don't want to stress her out as she is a cat that easily gets stressed.
We have more flavours to try and sometimes shredding the freeze dried chicken on top helps, but Is it better at this time to stop trying the transitioning? Is there a better dry food that we could try? Any other tips, tricks, suggestions, advice? We would love to get her on a wet food diet or even more wet food in the mix, but we equally don't want to cause too much stress. She is currently on Perfect Fit 8+ Senior dry food and we are based in the Netherlands, so have those limits when it comes to selection.
Many thanks in advance!!
Heather
We have an almost 11 year old cat who has never been a fan of wet food. Having read how much better it is for her, we were keen to try transitioning to a more wet food diet and bought GranataPet. I've read the posts about transitioning and the tricks to get her eating even just a small amount and building up, but she is quite a picky cat. We have found that if the bowl has wet food in it (we do timed feedings) she will more or less just leave it (sometimes completely, sometimes after one bite).
I am finding the fine line balance between not enough food and letting her get hungry a little tricky, especially as she has never been a very hungry cat to begin with. I also don't want to stress her out as she is a cat that easily gets stressed.
We have more flavours to try and sometimes shredding the freeze dried chicken on top helps, but Is it better at this time to stop trying the transitioning? Is there a better dry food that we could try? Any other tips, tricks, suggestions, advice? We would love to get her on a wet food diet or even more wet food in the mix, but we equally don't want to cause too much stress. She is currently on Perfect Fit 8+ Senior dry food and we are based in the Netherlands, so have those limits when it comes to selection.
Many thanks in advance!!
Heather