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Hi, I am new to this forum. I have had my cat Sango for nearly 9 months. She is a 3 years black tuxedo that came from the county shelter. At the time of adoption, she was in an isolation room being treated for an upper respiratory infection and had just finished up her antibiotics. I don’t know much about her history, only that she was in the shelter for a month and came from a hoarding situation. There were at least 10 cats in the isolation room.
The shelter didn’t tell me much about her history, but suffice to say I‘m pretty confident she was only on a dry diet. The shelter recommended 1 cup of Purina Cat Chow Dry Food and 3 oz of wet food - they never specified which brand of wet but I think they were giving her Friskies pate of some sort. At the time of adoption, I noticed she ate next to nothing of her wet food in her shelter cage.
I have been trying for months to get her to eat wet food. I’ve tried American Journey minced (chewy.com brand), Wellness Complete, Wellness Core, Purina Beyond, Sheba, Fancy Feast Natural, Fancy Feast Classic, and Fancy Feast Creamy Delights. She takes a few bites of the food and scratches and walks away. I’ve tried encouraging with play time, mixing with treats/dry food/nutritional yeast. For the most part, she might take a few bites and then scratch and waste the rest. I tried splitting into 2-3 meals with a 3 oz. can, but she hates leftovers even when reheated in a microwave.
I gave up on the wet food and switched her to NV Instinct Ultimate Protein Chicken dry food. I had her on American Journey Turkey & Chicken, but I wanted to reduce the carbs and the amount of plant protein. I bought a cat fountain and she does drink a least a cup of water a day from that plus drinks a little bit from 2 water bowls that are around the house. Her dry food is fed from an automatic feeder. She kind of sticks to the morning feeds but she’s really all over the place in the afternoon and picks at food. I think the picking part is one of the problems of why I can’t get her eating wet food. However, since she gets stressed so easily, I really don’t want to take her food away completely. She’s a super timid, shy cat and it took her several months to stop hiding . . any change in the house stresses her out a ton and she‘ll hide.
Is there any hope that I might be able to get her to eat some wet food? Or am I overthinking this? Is dry food fine since she does drink water? She pees about 4 times a day now with the fountain which is good improvement from the 2-3 she used to do without the fountain. She had occasional constipation before, but she doesn’t have this anymore.
I’m mostly curious of what others have tried for the difficult cats. I noted that she tends to like foods with Salmon a bit better than the rest (but she hated the Sheba Salmon Pate with a passion). She dislikes tuna. She really hates Chicken and Turkey plain anything but was okay for a time with Turkey & Chicken minced by American Journey.
The shelter didn’t tell me much about her history, but suffice to say I‘m pretty confident she was only on a dry diet. The shelter recommended 1 cup of Purina Cat Chow Dry Food and 3 oz of wet food - they never specified which brand of wet but I think they were giving her Friskies pate of some sort. At the time of adoption, I noticed she ate next to nothing of her wet food in her shelter cage.
I have been trying for months to get her to eat wet food. I’ve tried American Journey minced (chewy.com brand), Wellness Complete, Wellness Core, Purina Beyond, Sheba, Fancy Feast Natural, Fancy Feast Classic, and Fancy Feast Creamy Delights. She takes a few bites of the food and scratches and walks away. I’ve tried encouraging with play time, mixing with treats/dry food/nutritional yeast. For the most part, she might take a few bites and then scratch and waste the rest. I tried splitting into 2-3 meals with a 3 oz. can, but she hates leftovers even when reheated in a microwave.
I gave up on the wet food and switched her to NV Instinct Ultimate Protein Chicken dry food. I had her on American Journey Turkey & Chicken, but I wanted to reduce the carbs and the amount of plant protein. I bought a cat fountain and she does drink a least a cup of water a day from that plus drinks a little bit from 2 water bowls that are around the house. Her dry food is fed from an automatic feeder. She kind of sticks to the morning feeds but she’s really all over the place in the afternoon and picks at food. I think the picking part is one of the problems of why I can’t get her eating wet food. However, since she gets stressed so easily, I really don’t want to take her food away completely. She’s a super timid, shy cat and it took her several months to stop hiding . . any change in the house stresses her out a ton and she‘ll hide.
Is there any hope that I might be able to get her to eat some wet food? Or am I overthinking this? Is dry food fine since she does drink water? She pees about 4 times a day now with the fountain which is good improvement from the 2-3 she used to do without the fountain. She had occasional constipation before, but she doesn’t have this anymore.
I’m mostly curious of what others have tried for the difficult cats. I noted that she tends to like foods with Salmon a bit better than the rest (but she hated the Sheba Salmon Pate with a passion). She dislikes tuna. She really hates Chicken and Turkey plain anything but was okay for a time with Turkey & Chicken minced by American Journey.