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Hello all! This is my first time posting so please forgive me if I've missed a thread already detailing how to do this.
Long story short: I'm adopting a 2 1/2 y/o female American shorthair from a cat rescue with a great reputation. However, the foster owner who has been caring for her for the past year or so has been feeding her canned Friskies (two cans a day), table scraps, and leaves dry cat chow out throughout the day. This was super disappointing considering I was hoping a transition to a healthy diet was going to be relatively simple - now I'm not so sure!
I was hoping to gradually transition her to an all wet Natural Balance or similar canned diet (there are better brands I know, but they're unfortunately out of my price range). I know that I need to incorporate some Natural Balance into the Friskies in greater and greater amounts until its ALL Natural Balance but my question is this: how to wean her off the dry food? And how to wean her off of SO much food throughout the day to half a 5 oz. can in the morning and half at night? The foster tells me she eats a lot, but that could be due to the low nutritional content of the food she's being given. Any advice on this would be super helpful!
Long story short: I'm adopting a 2 1/2 y/o female American shorthair from a cat rescue with a great reputation. However, the foster owner who has been caring for her for the past year or so has been feeding her canned Friskies (two cans a day), table scraps, and leaves dry cat chow out throughout the day. This was super disappointing considering I was hoping a transition to a healthy diet was going to be relatively simple - now I'm not so sure!
I was hoping to gradually transition her to an all wet Natural Balance or similar canned diet (there are better brands I know, but they're unfortunately out of my price range). I know that I need to incorporate some Natural Balance into the Friskies in greater and greater amounts until its ALL Natural Balance but my question is this: how to wean her off the dry food? And how to wean her off of SO much food throughout the day to half a 5 oz. can in the morning and half at night? The foster tells me she eats a lot, but that could be due to the low nutritional content of the food she's being given. Any advice on this would be super helpful!