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my 12 week old kitten wont touch wet food

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Shadow Education is the- Key     Purred: Tue Nov 10, '09 4:45pm PST  Do they sell natures variety premade Raw at any of the pet stores in your area?? you could try some of that. List of dry food: Evo cat and kitten Taste of the Wild Thats it from us, all I can think of from the top of my head. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Precious- Kit-Kit If it dont- crunch get it- off my food-mat     Purred: Tue Nov 10, '09 7:14pm PST  i'm unsure on the pre-made raw i'm going to try a pet store a bit further away and see what they have that i can try... the vet gave the the science diet... i would think he would give be a good pet food :/ but like i've read other places vets don't have a lot of nutrition training for each animal... She really likes the royal canine kitten is that an okay line? I've read most of the post on this forum and the raw food forum and Evo is mentioned alot so when i got to the store on Saturday after Kit-Kit's vet check up i'm going to get some of that --- I'd like to avoid long term vet cost... i have tried wetting her kibble and she wont touch it... shell drink the water and leave the food tried it with her cat milk too and same thing my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become friends [notify]

Shadow Education is the- Key     Purred: Tue Nov 10, '09 11:04pm PST  Royal Canin is the same as Science diet, its full of grain and corn. Dont wet the kibble with anything, when kibble gets wet bacteria grows on it, and if cats eat it it can make them very sick. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Sylar FOOD?! WHERE?!     Purred: Tue Nov 17, '09 10:36pm PST  Have you tried pouring the cat milk over the canned food? Also, have you tried getting a "chunk" formula of canned food? Maybe even try getting one of those and straining the gravy out so it appears to be kibble? Another thought, she's only 12 weeks old, so you have plenty of time to transition to one of the high quality cans. Why don't you try Science Diet culinary creations beef chunks in gravy? It really looks like kibble in gravy. Not forever, obviously, but if she's so stuck on science diet dry, and royal canin dry, why not try their canned food first? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Precious- Kit-Kit If it dont- crunch get it- off my food-mat     Purred: Thu Nov 19, '09 5:30pm PST  She wont eat science diet wet. I tried Purina pro-plan, bff, tiki, wellness, whiskas, fancy feast, friskies, some cooked chicken and some raw chicken all get the sniff and paw shake and she wont touch it. I've kept trying the chicken cooked (just baked no spices) and raw but she doesn't eat it. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become friends [notify]

Shade My name is not- Kittyfloss!     Purred: Fri Nov 20, '09 4:03am PST  I'm sorry, I haven't re-read the entire thread, but have you tried a non-chicken/poultry food? Maybe she just doesn't like chicken. If you want to stick w/ trying raw, one can usually get stew beef for pretty cheaply. I buy that for my cats. And, if she doesn't like it, you can always make yourself some stew! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Gracie I'm the baby,- gotta love me!     Purred: Fri Nov 20, '09 9:04am PST  Other good ones to try: Merrick's, Weruva, California Natural. My cats love Weruva like nobody's business. They like it so much that I was finally able to have them eat the beef flavors! It's like a miracle happened (and you can now find Weruva on Amazon, though by the case, so it is an investment). Another tip: try getting some bonito flakes and sprinkling them on top of the food. It's basically little tiny bits of tuna flakes. You can find them at some pet stores, though your best bet is to find an asian market (they were and are manufactured to be safe for human consumption) and buy some there. I remember reading that the smell of tuna will entice some cats to eat food when nothing else will. Also, put away the dry food bowl before you feed wet. That is what I had to do at first, though my older cat didn't take as much convincing (he's picky about flavors and texture, but once he likes something, he won't be asked to eat twice ), and the younger one took to it immediately ("They feed wet food here? SWEET" ). Once they start eating the wet food and like it, you don't have to worry so much about taking the dry away (mine get timed feedings anyway, so they technically have a choice to nibble on wet, or hold off on eating for 12 hours ) Edited by author Fri Nov 20, '09 9:14am PST my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Munchie Was that the can- opener?     Purred: Sun Nov 22, '09 10:00am PST  Wellness, Blue Buffalo, Solid Gold I am in the process of switching my kitties to a mostly canned food diet (I have one who can't because of her Cerebral Hypoplasia she has a hard time eating the canned), and my 2 older ones absolutely LOVE canned food so don't have problems there. But here are some suggestions we give to our clients (I work for a vet---my dad who will admit I probably know more about nutrition than he does). If your vet gave you the science diet, it is more than likely that the company supplied him with the free bag to give to you. That's what they used to do when we carried their products (we don't carry them any more). You could try heating up the canned food for a few seconds in the microwave, mixing deli meats (turkey, beef etc) with the food, mixing the Vita Gravy's in with the food, mixing salmon or tuna juice with the food, mixing cheese with the food. Sometimes it can take cats/kittens who aren't used to canned food a while to get used to them, but eventually most will cave. If I am even in the kitchen my cats think it's canned food time and come running/begging. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Precious- Kit-Kit If it dont- crunch get it- off my food-mat     Purred: Sun Nov 29, '09 5:58pm PST  **** almost had success **** with tiki seafood/tuna.... i tried to give Precious wet food she wouldnt have it so i put on a spoon and piece fell on the floor... and she ate it!!!! so i put the plate with the food in the same spot and she wouldnt touch it tried the spoon again and not interested so i put some on the floor again and she ate a small piece then made like she was burying on the floor.... is this a good sign?? or bad?? i'm not sure she is hungry as she has had kibble down for most of the day... i tried to give her about two weeks without seeing/smelling wet food thought it might intrigue her.... anyone see this kind of behavior? only eating it off the floor and trying to bury it? my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become friends [notify]

Gracie I'm the baby,- gotta love me!     Purred: Mon Nov 30, '09 10:56am PST  Trying to bury food means she is full and saving it for later. It could be a good sign. We've only had Tiki once or twice, mom tried it but it was too rich and stinky for our tastes. Do try Weruva if you can, but steer towards the grain free varieties. We can guarantee it tastes better than Tiki. I always eat more of it than the other kitty here, and I'm even pickier about wet food than he is, but the thing I won't touch is food that has brown rice (and some flavors of food do), no matter what the flavor is. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

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