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I have been having an eating issues with my 11 month old kitten for a while. I have posted another post concerning it.
Heres a little history: Two months ago she was eating her Friskies wet food, the indoor cat line, completely fine. She loved it because they mixed rice and veggies into it. Suddenly she stopped eating it and since then we have been trying soo hard to get her to eat wet food.
We recently found a very specific flavour of a specific brand that she will eat: Fancy Feast Salmon and Shrimp. But the problem is that she will only eat a little. We are lucky if she eats a one can in a day and the can is a very small single serving can. We have tried so many different kinds of the Fancy Feast brand and of other brands but she will only eat this flavour. Other than this she is eating her dry food alot. This worries me a little because her main food source used to be wet food, with dry food being given as a treat. It was a good, healthy mix and she was thriving. Now its seems her wet food is the treat and the dry food has become the meal, which isn't good on her health or her kidneys. She has been gaining weight and is a little over weight for her age and I know the dry food isnt making it better. It does give me a little solice knowing her dry food is a prescription dry food given to us by her vet so it is high quality and better for her. Still how can I get her back to being a wet food cat??
Forgot to mention, she is active and hydrated despite the fact that she is mostly eating dry food. I make sure to offer her water every hour so she has been drinking enough water. She is also using her litter regularly. No diarrhea but instead of it being a well formed long-ish poop (awkward to talk about but i have to know), she has been pooping balls of poops which may indicate that she is constipated, i think? I have tried giving her pumpkin in any way I can, by mixing it with wet food, with dry food, treats and on its own but she refused to eat more than a lick. Should I be worried about her having any other serious problem?
Heres a little history: Two months ago she was eating her Friskies wet food, the indoor cat line, completely fine. She loved it because they mixed rice and veggies into it. Suddenly she stopped eating it and since then we have been trying soo hard to get her to eat wet food.
We recently found a very specific flavour of a specific brand that she will eat: Fancy Feast Salmon and Shrimp. But the problem is that she will only eat a little. We are lucky if she eats a one can in a day and the can is a very small single serving can. We have tried so many different kinds of the Fancy Feast brand and of other brands but she will only eat this flavour. Other than this she is eating her dry food alot. This worries me a little because her main food source used to be wet food, with dry food being given as a treat. It was a good, healthy mix and she was thriving. Now its seems her wet food is the treat and the dry food has become the meal, which isn't good on her health or her kidneys. She has been gaining weight and is a little over weight for her age and I know the dry food isnt making it better. It does give me a little solice knowing her dry food is a prescription dry food given to us by her vet so it is high quality and better for her. Still how can I get her back to being a wet food cat??
Forgot to mention, she is active and hydrated despite the fact that she is mostly eating dry food. I make sure to offer her water every hour so she has been drinking enough water. She is also using her litter regularly. No diarrhea but instead of it being a well formed long-ish poop (awkward to talk about but i have to know), she has been pooping balls of poops which may indicate that she is constipated, i think? I have tried giving her pumpkin in any way I can, by mixing it with wet food, with dry food, treats and on its own but she refused to eat more than a lick. Should I be worried about her having any other serious problem?