Dry Food

How old is Sophie?

If she is a kitten then I think it may be best to let her have dry available during the day but still offer as much canned as she wants at least twice a day. Also wet food can be left out for 12 hours and it really isn’t a problem. Just pour a little bit of water on top of the wet and let her free fed wet.

If she is an adult she is not going to starve. Free feeding adults is really not a good idea. it is best for them to get just 2-3 meals a day. I feed all mine just one meal a day and they are just fine.

If you can feed both morning and night because else some cats will eat to fast and throw up.

It doesn’t really have to be exactly twelve ours apart. Just quick put out a bit of wet before you leave in the morning and then give her some when you get home that night.

if you want to feed dry as well try ask for samples and see what she chooses. some stores will give you samples, some won’t but it doesn’t hurt to ask.

there are some timed feeders that you can put canned food in as their is a place inside of them for icepacks.

Else when I was trying to switch a cat from purina ONE to a high quality dry food I set out lots of bowls. Out of all the choices (5 I think) she went for Taste of the Wild.

My aunt who was feeding friskies dry did the same method as I had used and her cat picked Wellness CORE.

Both Taste of the Wild and Wellness CORE are stonger smelling dry foods so I don’t know if that is why they picked them.

here is one of them: http://www.petguys.com/-035368002120.html

maybe look for reviews to see what others thought of it.

Best not to feed your cat dry food. Many people have an incredibly hard time getting their dry-addicted cats off the kitty crack! Sounds like your Sophie knows what’s best for her!

Here’s why: http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html

Mine are off the doom nuggets nearly 3 weeks now, and already I am seeing health benefits in them.

Try mixing a little of treat-like dry kibble in the dry of your choice…my sister’s cat was picky until she started that little trick of the food trade!

I vote for leaving a bowl of dry food out. Most of the cats in my life have been fed wet food in the evening with dry always available. It sounds like Sophie knows dry food is edible, but it’s not her first choice. This is actually a fairly good situation – it means you can leave out the dry and she won’t overeat (or starve). My kitties adore their wet food, and will meow insistantly for it, but are able to make do on dry.

The funniest cat I ever knew loved the smell of wet cat food (and human food) but would never eat it. She had to pick up each piece of crunchy kibble and eat it out of her paw, and the wet food didn’t “work” that way. We’d offer her wet food, but she couldn’t figure out how to eat it. It was sad. Kinda hilarious, too. She lived to be a great old cat of 20 years, so it didn’t harm her any.

Iliketea –

Are you going to have someone coming over to feed Sophie while you are gone? If you are, I’d suggest keeping things simple. Have that person give Sophie a big serving of wet food when they come, and make sure she has plenty of kibble and water. It’s not forever, just for vacation. Sophie will be a little pissed off about the menu, but I promise she won’t starve.

My kitties adore their wet food, and don’t eat much of the dry. But I’ve left them with the dry food, and a cat sitter to visit every day (or every other day in a pinch), and they manage really well. No weight loss, normal levels and types of poop, etc.

I worry about the automatic feeders – what if there is a power outage? What if it tries to open and the cat is already there?