Many cats have problems with new food. Either they will not eat it, or they get diarrhea. This video looks at the problems and offers you tips on how to avoid them.
This video is excellent. I’ll share what I learned. Some wet foods are made to be addicting, salt or flavorings. My cat stopped eating in the middle of a transition, addiction was the problem. The existing food was upsetting her digestive tract. Eating both dry and wet, I stopped the wet food for a month. The pet shop suggested highly digestible and start with best sellers, =cats are liking them. She was right! With the old food out of the way, started with treat size. Every day same. Don’t try another till the can is exhausted because my cat started eating the new when I got a little over half a can in. I slowly added more each day. It was the pet stores #1 seller, agreed with her digestive tract. I was already measuring the dry I put out and take it up before offering wet. If you don’t offer both dry and wet, Goat milk powder might help. It’s a safe healthy flavoring cats supposedly love. It’s a highly digestible probiotic I bought a packet but never had to use it. Some kitten food has milk which kittens can tolerate but adults have to have lactose free. The goat milk powder might help that kind of transition because the milk taste is what they’re looking for.
It took forever to get my older cat to eat wet food. Her previous owners only gave her kibble for the first 12 years of her life, so she developed a preference for it. Then I got her. It's been 8 years and she'll only eat finely ground pate and even then, not much of it. Luckily, she'll eat any kind of food that isn't wet, so I replaced her kibble with freeze-dried raw. She'll eat it if I don't rehydrate it. Thankfully, she drinks a lot of water. With my younger cats, I started giving them wet food early on and added in freeze-dried and frozen raw.
You're an excellent Cat 🐈 Mom! Did l read correctly that she is 20? Bless you all and Francisco too, may we all have good health and happiness.P.S. IDK much about cats but l know that a lot of water makes a BIG DIFFERENCE!😉
Jennie, she's 20? Beautiful! I've got a 21yr old who was neglected for 17yrs, but, also used to dry food only. May I make a suggestion, if she starts to give you trouble again about wanting dry? Maybe take a look at "Young Again" brand cat food. (They have amazing success with CKD cats, for which I was very surprised since it's only dry food) I was concerned with hydration, as you are, so I contacted the company. I realize you didn't say your girl had kidney issues, but sooner or later especially at this age there's a good chance it's going to happen. We were just told Bella is in the 1st stages. I was going to take her off Young Again so I cancelled my order. Since I'd been using YA for many years, I felt they deserved to know why. Their president was kind enough to email me with some interesting information. He wrote (paraphrasing a bit) [Wet food will not help your cat maintain improved hydration over YA dry food. The higher the starch content of any diet, wet or dry the less hydrated your cat will be. I would recommend our LID Zero Mature Health; this diet has less that 1% starch and will therefore not reduce hydration in your cat. Kidney cats already drink an excess of water and are unable to absorb it. Once they can’t absorb what they drink it will make no difference whether they are on a no starch canned food or our food. Both would have no starch and the hydration as related to wet food would be the same. The most important consideration is the phosphorus content of the food. Most all canned foods are very high in phosphorus. Our LID is low in phosphorus and 100% of the protein is hydrolyzed. Our foods also have nucleotides and these can be a great help. This is a great diet for your cat and she will do well if you continue on the LID] Anyway, I know this was long ... but I was relieved & surprised to know that we aren't harming our cats with a dry food if done the right way. Though I believe a diet like what you're giving your girl is an excellent diet, I thought it would be helpful to know there's an option if she gets finicky again, like mine have.😻
@@CaseysJonesMom Thanks for the info. It makes sense. She was just diagnosed with very early stage kidney disease, so I've been looking around. I found Weruva Wx wet food and just received an order today, so I'll see if she likes it. She didn't like the kidney food from the vet, which is fine with me because I didn't like the ingredients. For the past 5 years or so, the kibble I've been giving her is Dr. Elsey's. It's extremely low in carbs but the phosphorous isn't particularly low, so I'll look into the one you mentioned.
Greetings from Indiana.🤗 Great information as always, thank you! We have to order our cat's food online because, as you said, it's difficult to find certain brands in the stores. Happy Thanksgiving to all and God bless.
Very good exposition on a challenging issue! I have very similar approach and it will work with patience. The reserve of preferred foods is a very important piece of advice that I hope people follow. My cats at mostly wet food now (mainly because they are poor water drinkers) but I still give them a very small amount of kibble as a mid-day snack. This is so that they will chew and use their teeth instead of just lapping up mush. I have had to change their kibble multiple times and what I found is that mixing the new introduction into the storage bin of the preferred one several days in advance of the introduction made it much easier. I have my mother's old tupperware container she used to store flour and it is perfect for their crunchies. This gave enough time for all of the scents to combine and the new food wasn't seen as strange. I have auto-feeders that dispense 1-2 grams, and the tanks on those are enough for a couple of weeks. This is plenty of time for the new food to smell more like what they are used to. Hope this is also helpful.
Yes, I do the same. For kibble, I give it to them at night and prefer Hill's Dental Kibble because it is large and they are forced to chew it. Thanks for your comment.
Well thought out useful information. It's obvious that you have a great deal of experience with cats as well as honoring the uniqueness of their species. Thank you.
Thank you for another great informative video. Luckily l plan ahead and don’t wait until l’m out to buy cat food. But you never know how long the store shelf can be empty. These are stressful times and it helps to have a backup plan ❤
Always wonderful advice. We sometimes struggle with picky eaters with different flavors of the wet food. Wonder if you could address this in future additions?
As always, great advice. Thank you. Without warning about +|- 6 months ago we couldn’t get our cats normal food. Luckily we still had about 6 cans at home and were able to do a quick transition. It went fairly smoothly. We’re currently rotating between 3 brands of wet food and expanding our research to learn more about homemade (just in case). We’re also buying a little extra each week to keep a larger supply on hand. And we offer a high quality dry kibble too - just in case. Happy thanksgiving, Fransisco (hope I spelled it correctly). ❤
Same happened with my cats dry food. I got very lucky she took to a suggested replacement right away. They said pick the highest protein, cats are attracted to protein. It helps to know if you’re truly stuck, what you can get away with. The shelters don’t have time to mess with a healthy cat being picky. By the 3rd day they usually cave and start eating. Why we’re not supposed go that route is the cat being stubborn is not doing itself any favors with the liver and kidneys. Stray cats will eat anything put out. If they get hungry enough they’ll eat. What’s impossible is we’re not wired to let that happen and it’s better for the cat to transition. Eat or starve is a last resort. It’s happened to animals and humans alike, circumstances can force them or us to eat what we can get.
Thank you, I got smaller dry food, as that is all the vet had, she had it before, and would not eat it, the vet has not got her regular food, so I am going to do what you said, give it to her gradually, thank you for the information .
Really good video so. Very nicely and thoroughly explained every detail. I came here because my cat refuses to try wet food. I will certainly try using your techniques.
@@9LivesToLive Yanno ... I'm sorry. That comment was better left to myself. I'd been searching youtube & googling for a couple of days and ofttimes a title will seem like the content will be what I'm looking for and I go through several minutes to the end only to find that it's definitely not what I was searching for. In any case, your information is valuable and that you put yourself out there to give it out ... that deserves graciousness and I was remiss, completely. It was a gripe that would serve no purpose. I should NOT have left it. I truly apologize for being thoughtless. 😥
I have a question about cats really addicted to a particular food. My cat was on Wellness signature selects and morsels but then started to refuse other foods previously enjoyed. I ended up getting her off the brand after she started refusing healthier options. She's back eating now but not as much as previous. It's wild how they can go wild over a perticular food and want nothing but that. The detox is a procress. She was offered old favorites which she denied for 2 days. I finally ended up offering a small taste on a spoon before she came back around and understanding that Wellness brand foods is off the menu.
Currently dealing with the no longer available situation unexpectedly and not sure what to do. They'd been eating raw (Smalls) primarily with occasional packets of wet (Feline Natural) and were losing interest in kibble, so I was phasing that out finally. I've tried replacing the raw while it's not available with a different raw brand (neither of them seemed to like that) and now with cans of the wet I'd been giving them. One cat seems to be dealing fine (while obviously not as enthusiastic as the food I'm currently trying), but the other is just not going for it (she'll nibble a bit, but not much). Should I try switching to a different brand? Is it possible that there's something about the packets of wet food that was different from the cans? I don't know how to proceed, because the insight I seem to be finding is all centered around slow transitioning, which isn't an option.
I suggest trying to find something that is as close as possible to the texture and the protein their were eating. That's all you really can do. Good luck!
I took in a weak stray kitten that followed me. It weight was of 1kg weight and on the 1st day, I gave him a lil bit of beef and dry cat food that I borrowed from one of my friend and it ate it without any problem and it kept eating cat food that I bought from the store for the 1st 3 days. Now it won't eat anything besides chicken meat or eggs that I gave him during eating my breakfast or dinner. It starves itself but still won't eat cat food and keeps meowing to me for food. I give it food and it will smell it and then keep meowing. Now I am forced to feed it chicken and my family hates it as meat is much more expensive in my country
Have you tried different brands? How about wet cat food? Because it has been underfed, it might know that the chicken and eggs have much higher nutritional value. Animals are smart about those things.
hi i have a question regarding my kitten. We just adopted a 3 month old kitten and we have been slowly changing her food over the past 12 day. She seems fine. She plays normally, isn’t lethargic, and drinks and eats well. The only thing is, she occasionally has these soft/runny stool. its not everytime she poops but it does happen. She poops after each meal and usually one is soft/runny. Yesterday her stool was completely normal, but today is was softer and more wet. i wanted to maybe try pumpkin since its high in fiber but i’m not sure it’ll work. I just started a new job so im not sure if i’ll be able to afford medication for her, please help
It could be a lot of things from a long adjustment window to a food sensitivity or a stomach virus. Only a vet can really help. But I would give it a little more time before too much worry. I have not tried pumpkin, but have seen many comments recommending it.
Hello, my cat doesn't eat new packs of same brand and same kind of food. We had been using acana for her feeding but somehow she stops eating the new packs. When you put some food from the old pack she eats. But I mix just 1 piece of new food, she refuses to eat. We tried different types of brand, wet food and different proteins. She hasn't eaten almost for 3 days. We don't have enough amount of food for transition period. We consulted our vet but we are hopeless. Do you have any idea that what can we do make her eat? Thank you for the video.
I am not sure what you can do until you get more of her preferred food, but she must eat something or can get seriously sick. 3 days is too long not to eat anything for a cat. Have you tried human baby food? Something simple like puree of chicken. Eating just a little can avoid serious illness until you get the cat food. Any human food that she has shown an interest in, like cold cuts, is okay too. Just get a little food into her.
Struggling to get my cat to eat new dry food (that has better ingredients) as her old one has more fillers than actual protein/meat (first ingredient is corn). The thing is she likes it and will eat it when we hand feed her, but we it’s in her bowl she’ll pick out the old kibble mostly and leave the new one😩😂
Yes, the picking out is a problem. I suggest you keep adding (just a little bit to avoid waste) and in time she will get used to seeing it and smelling it and hopefully start to eat it. At that point you can increase the amount.
I noticed in my most recent purchase of fancy feast gravy type wet foods they are adding corn to every can of cat food i would like to feed my cats better more naturally I just don't know what to do. Any suggestions!!
You could consider feeling raw. I am not a cat nutrition expert, but I have found the videos of Jess Caticles who focuses on feeding cats raw useful. Maybe you can check out her channel. www.youtube.com/@jesscaticles
I just got a 5 months kitten on Friday. He has not acclimated yet, so hadn’t eaten since Friday. I’m concerned. He is drinking water. He’s on the same food.
Sometimes cats don't eat for a couple of days in a new environment. But it should not go on for more than that. Not eating can cause a very serious disease in cats. I hope it is eating by now. Let me know.
I think #4 "dry to wet is harder" is incorrect insofar as he explained it. Maybe he meant for digestive disagreement reasons. At least in the case of cat preference: Cats that are used to both dry (kibble) and wet (canned catfood) will always prefer to eat the wet food. Trying to transition cats from wet only to dry only will be a nightmare.
Maybe it depends on the cat, but most cats are used to dry treats. They are not used to wet treats if they eat dry. That's why that transition is generally harder. But there are always exceptions. Thanks for your comment!
If it happens soon after eating, I think the fast eating is the problem. It is regurgitation of undigested food that has not yet reached the stomach. I suggest two things. If you have more than one cat, feed them in separate rooms, or at least where they cannot see each other. The fast eating might be fear of having their food eaten by the other cat. The other thing I suggest is raising the cat's food dish off the floor by about two inches. This will help the food travel to the stomach horizontally rather than uphill, and will help prevent backup which leads to regurgitation.
@@9LivesToLive Thank You! That makes sense, I will try the rising the dish idea! in Charcoals case it would be a fear He won't get to eat all the Food! Hahaha!!!!
You could also try a slow feeder or a puzzle toy. There are ones for dry or wet food that you can buy (look at dog ones, too) but you can also do things like toss kibble one at a time for the cat to chase or spread wet cat food in a thin layer over a plate. Basically anything that slows down their eating. These have helped my cat who regurgitates easily, although not eliminated it completely.
I made a huge mistake by just change the flavor of their wet food as a treat and my cat started vomiting and diarrhea but now there is a clear jelly coming from her butt I took her to the vet she stopped vomiting but still passing the clear jelly but she still isn't eating after 1 day what should I do
@9LivesToLive we did and it is mucous that comes out after your body purging due to the change of proteins in the food but thankfully she is OK even humans has that but she back to normal eating running around
My 3 month bengal only wants raw.. Dont like kibble Or wet food fish.. A few wet foods she wont eat and only eats the jelly or gravy .. The only thing she wants is minced turkey raw... and raw chicken
The only thing I would suggest is that you make sure to add the extra nutrients cats need to a raw diet. Straight muscle protein lacks ingredients, such as taurine, that cats need. You can get more information on this youtube channel. www.youtube.com/@jesscaticles
i put in 5% of the new, better, more expensive and almost entirely meat based food with 95% of their old, disgusting and unhealthy food. One eats it, the other refuses it...
After I got my cat I fell into listening to the high minded know it alls warning me about commercial food crap,,,,,,wet food dangers......lack of water.....food changing speed.....dry food vs wet food.......versus raw food...... all the ways I uknowingly endangered my cats life by feeding her one way or the other......IT MADE MY HEAD SPIN AND EMPTIED MY WALLET IS ALL IT DID.......One by one I changed my cat food and plates and changed the temp of my food.....(no refrigeraters in the wild...) and used a microwave a few seconds.....(no microwaves in the wild) I slowly added food (no food changing quickly) I went from Friskies supermarket food...to Slows high quality food) ....and all I got is a cat that wont eat anything AT ALL except for Temptations chicken "by products" and water frequently) Is she diabetic?) Al I got was a bunch of answers from the girl answering the phone (Fer sher!) showing me she didnt know anything like I did from all my expert knowledge) I suspect even the vet had an unacceptable storehouse of info to my experts on the net......Then one day I heard someone say....(my parents fed their cat dry food for years and years and it lived a loving and wonderful life.......Then I realized the truth.....if it works.....DONT CHANGE........If you hear a cat owner say "I wanted to change my cat food to this or that......BEWARE......Dont change.... into listening to the high minded know it alls warning me about commercial food crap,,,,,,wet food dangers......lack of water.....food changing speed.....dry food vs wet food.......versus raw food...... all the ways I unknowingly endangered my cats life by feeding her one way or the other......IT MADE MY HEAD SPIN AND EMPTIED MY WALLET IS ALL IT DID.......One by one I changed my cat food and plates and changed the temp of my food.....(no refrigeraters in the wild...) and used a microwave a few seconds.....(no microwaves in the wild) I slowly added food (no food changing quickly) I went from Friskies supermarket food...to Slows high quality food) ....and all I got is a cat that wont eat anything AT ALL except for Temptations chicken "by products" and water frequently) Is she diabetic?) Al I got was a bunch of answers from the girl answering the phone (Fer sher!) showing me she didnt know anything like I did from all my expert knowledge) I suspect even the vet had an unacceptable storehouse of info to my experts on the net......Then one day I heard someone say....(my parents fed their cat dry food for years and years and it lived a loving and wonderful life.......Then I realized the truth.....if it works.....DONT CHANGE........If you hear a cat owner say "I wanted to change my cat food to this or that......BEWARE......Dont change....! After I got my cat I fell into listening to the high minded know it alls warning me about commercial food crap,,,,,,wet food dangers......lack of water.....food changing speed.....dry food vs wet food.......raw versus dry.....My Father passed away smoking the brand of cigs he wanted and he did what he wanted till he passed.,,,,and if it wasnt one thing it wouldve been another.
This video is excellent. I’ll share what I learned. Some wet foods are made to be addicting, salt or flavorings. My cat stopped eating in the middle of a transition, addiction was the problem. The existing food was upsetting her digestive tract. Eating both dry and wet, I stopped the wet food for a month. The pet shop suggested highly digestible and start with best sellers, =cats are liking them. She was right! With the old food out of the way, started with treat size. Every day same. Don’t try another till the can is exhausted because my cat started eating the new when I got a little over half a can in. I slowly added more each day. It was the pet stores #1 seller, agreed with her digestive tract. I was already measuring the dry I put out and take it up before offering wet. If you don’t offer both dry and wet, Goat milk powder might help. It’s a safe healthy flavoring cats supposedly love. It’s a highly digestible probiotic I bought a packet but never had to use it. Some kitten food has milk which kittens can tolerate but adults have to have lactose free. The goat milk powder might help that kind of transition because the milk taste is what they’re looking for.
Thanks for the advice. I'm sure people will find it helpful!
It took forever to get my older cat to eat wet food. Her previous owners only gave her kibble for the first 12 years of her life, so she developed a preference for it. Then I got her. It's been 8 years and she'll only eat finely ground pate and even then, not much of it. Luckily, she'll eat any kind of food that isn't wet, so I replaced her kibble with freeze-dried raw. She'll eat it if I don't rehydrate it. Thankfully, she drinks a lot of water. With my younger cats, I started giving them wet food early on and added in freeze-dried and frozen raw.
Thanks for sharing, Jennie. After 12 years of dry, you did a great job just getting your cat to eat a little bit of wet!
You're an excellent Cat 🐈 Mom! Did l read correctly that she is 20? Bless you all and Francisco too, may we all have good health and happiness.P.S. IDK much about cats but l know that a lot of water makes a BIG DIFFERENCE!😉
Jennie, she's 20? Beautiful! I've got a 21yr old who was neglected for 17yrs, but, also used to dry food only.
May I make a suggestion, if she starts to give you trouble again about wanting dry?
Maybe take a look at "Young Again" brand cat food. (They have amazing success with CKD cats, for which I was very surprised since it's only dry food)
I was concerned with hydration, as you are, so I contacted the company. I realize you didn't say your girl had kidney issues, but sooner or later especially at this age there's a good chance it's going to happen. We were just told Bella is in the 1st stages. I was going to take her off Young Again so I cancelled my order. Since I'd been using YA for many years, I felt they deserved to know why.
Their president was kind enough to email me with some interesting information.
He wrote (paraphrasing a bit)
[Wet food will not help your cat maintain improved hydration over YA dry food. The higher the starch content of any diet, wet or dry the less hydrated your cat will be.
I would recommend our LID Zero Mature Health; this diet has less that 1% starch and will therefore not reduce hydration in your cat.
Kidney cats already drink an excess of water and are unable to absorb it. Once they can’t absorb what they drink it will make no difference whether they are on a no starch canned food or our food. Both would have no starch and the hydration as related to wet food would be the same.
The most important consideration is the phosphorus content of the food.
Most all canned foods are very high in phosphorus. Our LID is low in phosphorus and 100% of the protein is hydrolyzed.
Our foods also have nucleotides and these can be a great help.
This is a great diet for your cat and she will do well if you continue on the LID]
Anyway, I know this was long ... but I was relieved & surprised to know that we aren't harming our cats with a dry food if done the right way. Though I believe a diet like what you're giving your girl is an excellent diet, I thought it would be helpful to know there's an option if she gets finicky again, like mine have.😻
@@CaseysJonesMom Thanks for the info. It makes sense. She was just diagnosed with very early stage kidney disease, so I've been looking around. I found Weruva Wx wet food and just received an order today, so I'll see if she likes it. She didn't like the kidney food from the vet, which is fine with me because I didn't like the ingredients. For the past 5 years or so, the kibble I've been giving her is Dr. Elsey's. It's extremely low in carbs but the phosphorous isn't particularly low, so I'll look into the one you mentioned.
Greetings from Indiana.🤗 Great information as always, thank you! We have to order our cat's food online because, as you said, it's difficult to find certain brands in the stores. Happy Thanksgiving to all and God bless.
Thanks, Diane! I very much appreciate your watching and your comment! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Very good exposition on a challenging issue! I have very similar approach and it will work with patience. The reserve of preferred foods is a very important piece of advice that I hope people follow.
My cats at mostly wet food now (mainly because they are poor water drinkers) but I still give them a very small amount of kibble as a mid-day snack. This is so that they will chew and use their teeth instead of just lapping up mush. I have had to change their kibble multiple times and what I found is that mixing the new introduction into the storage bin of the preferred one several days in advance of the introduction made it much easier. I have my mother's old tupperware container she used to store flour and it is perfect for their crunchies. This gave enough time for all of the scents to combine and the new food wasn't seen as strange. I have auto-feeders that dispense 1-2 grams, and the tanks on those are enough for a couple of weeks. This is plenty of time for the new food to smell more like what they are used to. Hope this is also helpful.
Yes, I do the same. For kibble, I give it to them at night and prefer Hill's Dental Kibble because it is large and they are forced to chew it. Thanks for your comment.
Well thought out useful information. It's obvious that you have a great deal of experience with cats as well as honoring the uniqueness of their species. Thank you.
Thanks for your comment, DH!
Thank you for another great informative video. Luckily l plan ahead and don’t wait until l’m out to buy cat food. But you never know how long the store shelf can be empty. These are stressful times and it helps to have a backup plan ❤
Thanks for your comment, Dianne! It never hurts to plan ahead!
Always wonderful advice. We sometimes struggle with picky eaters with different flavors of the wet food. Wonder if you could address this in future additions?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll think about the topic.
Excellent video thank you so much
So nice of you
As always, great advice. Thank you. Without warning about +|- 6 months ago we couldn’t get our cats normal food. Luckily we still had about 6 cans at home and were able to do a quick transition. It went fairly smoothly. We’re currently rotating between 3 brands of wet food and expanding our research to learn more about homemade (just in case). We’re also buying a little extra each week to keep a larger supply on hand. And we offer a high quality dry kibble too - just in case. Happy thanksgiving, Fransisco (hope I spelled it correctly). ❤
Thanks for your comment, Cyn! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Brand variety is really important these days and rotating them is a very good idea!
Same happened with my cats dry food. I got very lucky she took to a suggested replacement right away. They said pick the highest protein, cats are attracted to protein. It helps to know if you’re truly stuck, what you can get away with. The shelters don’t have time to mess with a healthy cat being picky. By the 3rd day they usually cave and start eating. Why we’re not supposed go that route is the cat being stubborn is not doing itself any favors with the liver and kidneys. Stray cats will eat anything put out. If they get hungry enough they’ll eat. What’s impossible is we’re not wired to let that happen and it’s better for the cat to transition. Eat or starve is a last resort. It’s happened to animals and humans alike, circumstances can force them or us to eat what we can get.
Thank you, I got smaller dry food, as that is all the vet had, she had it before, and would not eat it, the vet has not got her regular food, so I am going to do what you said, give it to her gradually, thank you for the information .
All you can do is try. Hopefully, she will get used to it. Thanks for your comment!
Really good video so. Very nicely and thoroughly explained every detail.
I came here because my cat refuses to try wet food. I will certainly try using your techniques.
I hope they help! Thanks for your comment!
Gosh ... I'm more than halfway through & I'm still listening to everything other than how to help my cat eat a new food.
Ok. I get it. "Get to the point faster." Thanks for the comment!
@@9LivesToLive Yanno ... I'm sorry. That comment was better left to myself.
I'd been searching youtube & googling for a couple of days and ofttimes a title will seem like the content will be what I'm looking for and I go through several minutes to the end only to find that it's definitely not what I was searching for.
In any case, your information is valuable and that you put yourself out there to give it out ... that deserves graciousness and I was remiss, completely.
It was a gripe that would serve no purpose. I should NOT have left it.
I truly apologize for being thoughtless.
😥
I have a question about cats really addicted to a particular food. My cat was on Wellness signature selects and morsels but then started to refuse other foods previously enjoyed. I ended up getting her off the brand after she started refusing healthier options. She's back eating now but not as much as previous. It's wild how they can go wild over a perticular food and want nothing but that. The detox is a procress. She was offered old favorites which she denied for 2 days. I finally ended up offering a small taste on a spoon before she came back around and understanding that Wellness brand foods is off the menu.
Sometimes the only thing you can do is go slow.
Currently dealing with the no longer available situation unexpectedly and not sure what to do. They'd been eating raw (Smalls) primarily with occasional packets of wet (Feline Natural) and were losing interest in kibble, so I was phasing that out finally. I've tried replacing the raw while it's not available with a different raw brand (neither of them seemed to like that) and now with cans of the wet I'd been giving them. One cat seems to be dealing fine (while obviously not as enthusiastic as the food I'm currently trying), but the other is just not going for it (she'll nibble a bit, but not much). Should I try switching to a different brand? Is it possible that there's something about the packets of wet food that was different from the cans? I don't know how to proceed, because the insight I seem to be finding is all centered around slow transitioning, which isn't an option.
I suggest trying to find something that is as close as possible to the texture and the protein their were eating. That's all you really can do. Good luck!
@@9LivesToLive that's what I was hoping for with the combo of different raw and the previous wet. Fingers crossed.
I took in a weak stray kitten that followed me. It weight was of 1kg weight and on the 1st day, I gave him a lil bit of beef and dry cat food that I borrowed from one of my friend and it ate it without any problem and it kept eating cat food that I bought from the store for the 1st 3 days. Now it won't eat anything besides chicken meat or eggs that I gave him during eating my breakfast or dinner. It starves itself but still won't eat cat food and keeps meowing to me for food. I give it food and it will smell it and then keep meowing. Now I am forced to feed it chicken and my family hates it as meat is much more expensive in my country
Have you tried different brands? How about wet cat food? Because it has been underfed, it might know that the chicken and eggs have much higher nutritional value. Animals are smart about those things.
hi i have a question regarding my kitten. We just adopted a 3 month old kitten and we have been slowly changing her food over the past 12 day. She seems fine. She plays normally, isn’t lethargic, and drinks and eats well. The only thing is, she occasionally has these soft/runny stool. its not everytime she poops but it does happen. She poops after each meal and usually one is soft/runny. Yesterday her stool was completely normal, but today is was softer and more wet. i wanted to maybe try pumpkin since its high in fiber but i’m not sure it’ll work. I just started a new job so im not sure if i’ll be able to afford medication for her, please help
It could be a lot of things from a long adjustment window to a food sensitivity or a stomach virus. Only a vet can really help. But I would give it a little more time before too much worry. I have not tried pumpkin, but have seen many comments recommending it.
Hello, my cat doesn't eat new packs of same brand and same kind of food. We had been using acana for her feeding but somehow she stops eating the new packs. When you put some food from the old pack she eats. But I mix just 1 piece of new food, she refuses to eat. We tried different types of brand, wet food and different proteins. She hasn't eaten almost for 3 days. We don't have enough amount of food for transition period. We consulted our vet but we are hopeless. Do you have any idea that what can we do make her eat?
Thank you for the video.
I am not sure what you can do until you get more of her preferred food, but she must eat something or can get seriously sick. 3 days is too long not to eat anything for a cat. Have you tried human baby food? Something simple like puree of chicken. Eating just a little can avoid serious illness until you get the cat food. Any human food that she has shown an interest in, like cold cuts, is okay too. Just get a little food into her.
Struggling to get my cat to eat new dry food (that has better ingredients) as her old one has more fillers than actual protein/meat (first ingredient is corn). The thing is she likes it and will eat it when we hand feed her, but we it’s in her bowl she’ll pick out the old kibble mostly and leave the new one😩😂
Yes, the picking out is a problem. I suggest you keep adding (just a little bit to avoid waste) and in time she will get used to seeing it and smelling it and hopefully start to eat it. At that point you can increase the amount.
I noticed in my most recent purchase of fancy feast gravy type wet foods they are adding corn to every can of cat food i would like to feed my cats better more naturally I just don't know what to do. Any suggestions!!
You could consider feeling raw. I am not a cat nutrition expert, but I have found the videos of Jess Caticles who focuses on feeding cats raw useful. Maybe you can check out her channel. www.youtube.com/@jesscaticles
I just got a 5 months kitten on Friday. He has not acclimated yet, so hadn’t eaten since Friday. I’m concerned. He is drinking water. He’s on the same food.
Sometimes cats don't eat for a couple of days in a new environment. But it should not go on for more than that. Not eating can cause a very serious disease in cats. I hope it is eating by now. Let me know.
I think #4 "dry to wet is harder" is incorrect insofar as he explained it. Maybe he meant for digestive disagreement reasons. At least in the case of cat preference: Cats that are used to both dry (kibble) and wet (canned catfood) will always prefer to eat the wet food. Trying to transition cats from wet only to dry only will be a nightmare.
Maybe it depends on the cat, but most cats are used to dry treats. They are not used to wet treats if they eat dry. That's why that transition is generally harder. But there are always exceptions. Thanks for your comment!
Hi I just adopted a cat from the Shelter and he's doing fine.Except he prefers to eat dry food, Because that's what they gave him.
Yes, that will happen. Just introduce wet food a little at a time. Put is next to his bowl so you don't waste. In time your cat might start liking it.
How long can you keep cat food in the fridge?
I don't know for sure, but I have kept it there at least a week with no problem.
How about if your Cat Vomits after eating (He eats Fast) any advice? great Video!
If it happens soon after eating, I think the fast eating is the problem. It is regurgitation of undigested food that has not yet reached the stomach. I suggest two things. If you have more than one cat, feed them in separate rooms, or at least where they cannot see each other. The fast eating might be fear of having their food eaten by the other cat. The other thing I suggest is raising the cat's food dish off the floor by about two inches. This will help the food travel to the stomach horizontally rather than uphill, and will help prevent backup which leads to regurgitation.
@@9LivesToLive Thank You! That makes sense, I will try the rising the dish idea! in Charcoals case it would be a fear He won't get to eat all the Food! Hahaha!!!!
You could also try a slow feeder or a puzzle toy. There are ones for dry or wet food that you can buy (look at dog ones, too) but you can also do things like toss kibble one at a time for the cat to chase or spread wet cat food in a thin layer over a plate. Basically anything that slows down their eating. These have helped my cat who regurgitates easily, although not eliminated it completely.
I made a huge mistake by just change the flavor of their wet food as a treat and my cat started vomiting and diarrhea but now there is a clear jelly coming from her butt I took her to the vet she stopped vomiting but still passing the clear jelly but she still isn't eating after 1 day what should I do
Never heard of a clear jelly. If it were my cat, I would call the vet back and mention the new development.
@9LivesToLive we did and it is mucous that comes out after your body purging due to the change of proteins in the food but thankfully she is OK even humans has that but she back to normal eating running around
@crystalthomas2767 That's great! Good to know about that because it sounds scary if you've never seen it.
My 3 month bengal only wants raw..
Dont like kibble
Or wet food fish..
A few wet foods she wont eat and only eats the jelly or gravy ..
The only thing she wants is minced turkey raw... and raw chicken
The only thing I would suggest is that you make sure to add the extra nutrients cats need to a raw diet. Straight muscle protein lacks ingredients, such as taurine, that cats need. You can get more information on this youtube channel. www.youtube.com/@jesscaticles
My cat don't eat the new brand of dry food. She would pick the new food out of the bowl just eat the old brand.
Might need to take it slower I guess .
Yes, I know cats do that. Hopefully they will adjust in time. Just use a little so you don't waste a lot. of the new food.
I think my cat don't like the new smell from her new cat chow
It's very possible. Cats are suspicious of new smells. But they get used to them little by little.
My cat started sitting in her food...
Wow, that's odd. I have heard of them sitting in their litterboxes, but not in food.
i put in 5% of the new, better, more expensive and almost entirely meat based food with 95% of their old, disgusting and unhealthy food. One eats it, the other refuses it...
Cats. Sometimes they are a mystery.
8 weeks dont eat nothing :(
That is very bad. What did the vet say?
After I got my cat I fell into listening to the high minded know it alls warning me about commercial food crap,,,,,,wet food dangers......lack of water.....food changing speed.....dry food vs wet food.......versus raw food...... all the ways I uknowingly endangered my cats life by feeding her one way or the other......IT MADE MY HEAD SPIN AND EMPTIED MY WALLET IS ALL IT DID.......One by one I changed my cat food and plates and changed the temp of my food.....(no refrigeraters in the wild...) and used a microwave a few seconds.....(no microwaves in the wild) I slowly added food (no food changing quickly) I went from Friskies supermarket food...to Slows high quality food) ....and all I got is a cat that wont eat anything AT ALL except for Temptations chicken "by products" and water frequently) Is she diabetic?) Al I got was a bunch of answers from the girl answering the phone (Fer sher!) showing me she didnt know anything like I did from all my expert knowledge) I suspect even the vet had an unacceptable storehouse of info to my experts on the net......Then one day I heard someone say....(my parents fed their cat dry food for years and years and it lived a loving and wonderful life.......Then I realized the truth.....if it works.....DONT CHANGE........If you hear a cat owner say "I wanted to change my cat food to this or that......BEWARE......Dont change.... into listening to the high minded know it alls warning me about commercial food crap,,,,,,wet food dangers......lack of water.....food changing speed.....dry food vs wet food.......versus raw food...... all the ways I unknowingly endangered my cats life by feeding her one way or the other......IT MADE MY HEAD SPIN AND EMPTIED MY WALLET IS ALL IT DID.......One by one I changed my cat food and plates and changed the temp of my food.....(no refrigeraters in the wild...) and used a microwave a few seconds.....(no microwaves in the wild) I slowly added food (no food changing quickly) I went from Friskies supermarket food...to Slows high quality food) ....and all I got is a cat that wont eat anything AT ALL except for Temptations chicken "by products" and water frequently) Is she diabetic?) Al I got was a bunch of answers from the girl answering the phone (Fer sher!) showing me she didnt know anything like I did from all my expert knowledge) I suspect even the vet had an unacceptable storehouse of info to my experts on the net......Then one day I heard someone say....(my parents fed their cat dry food for years and years and it lived a loving and wonderful life.......Then I realized the truth.....if it works.....DONT CHANGE........If you hear a cat owner say "I wanted to change my cat food to this or that......BEWARE......Dont change....! After I got my cat I fell into listening to the high minded know it alls warning me about commercial food crap,,,,,,wet food dangers......lack of water.....food changing speed.....dry food vs wet food.......raw versus dry.....My Father passed away smoking the brand of cigs he wanted and he did what he wanted till he passed.,,,,and if it wasnt one thing it wouldve been another.
In the end you do what works best for your situation.
My new cat turns up his nose to wet food, and the great kibble I bought he only eats a little. New sub here. ❤
Thanks for subbing, Linda!
My new cat turns up his nose to wet food, and the great kibble I bought he only eats a little. New sub here. ❤
Some cats don't eat very much. It's weird.