is there a differant dry food that you could feed then besides any light food? light cat food cuts back on the protein and fat which may work for people but not cats. it is the complete opposite actually of what a cat needs to be on a diet. light foods increase the carbs making a cat fat. a good dry food to help cats lose wieght is not going to be light, but grain free or another high quality food. you have to be careful though with foods that have lots of meat like that because of all the calories which means you should feed measured amounts even if it is left out all day.
mikey, one of my house cats, was a non wet food eater. he wouldn't even look at any wet food. i finally just found one type of wet food he will eat - fancy feast gourmet chicken. not even any other fancy feast flavors, just that one.
marty, another one of my housecats, wouldn't eat wet food either until i started to do differant things to the wet food to make him think of it as food. tricks that worked for him to make him start eating wet:
1) mix up the wet with hot water and make it wet food soup.
2) crush up some dry and sprinkle it on top
3) put some freeze dried chicken (marty's favorite) in the middle of the wet food (has to be pate wet food) so he had to eat wet food to get to it
4) mix a tiny bit of catnip into it
5) try all differant types of wet food, cats can be picky (such as mikey is) but any wet is better than no wet. some cats will only eat the meat chuncks, others only the loaf style, others loaf with meat chuncks, and others just gravy. some cats won't eat any with fish in it.
6) cats that are obsessed with the gravy in wet food, make the whole thing gravy consistency by mixing it very well with some warm water.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
