Cat don't want dry food anymore

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Paul O. - 03 Jul 2004 01:33 GMT

At least not at this time after his difficulties of the last couple a
weeks.He has always eaten dry food. As I mentioned in an earlier post the
vet had given us something to stimulate his appetite. It doesn't seem to
need to be stimulated however as he will readily eat canned food. Not sure
if going to canned food now will mess up his system or not as he hasn't
eaten but a few nibbles of dry food in a couple weeks. The last week he was
force fed baby food and nutrical with whatever canned food he would eat. So
now his preference is definitely canned food. So what should I do, go ahead
and stay with the canned food? If you haven't already guessed, I know
absolutely nothing about cats as I have always had dogs. Oh yeh, should I
use a food that has hairball treatment in it or get the stuff in the tube?
My not so little buddy seems to be doing real well. Thanks again for any of
your thoughts on this.

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Karen Chuplis - 03 Jul 2004 01:46 GMT

> At least not at this time after his difficulties of the last couple a
> weeks.He has always eaten dry food. As I mentioned in an earlier post the
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> My not so little buddy seems to be doing real well. Thanks again for any of
> your thoughts on this.

I would just stay with canned. A good canned food is healthier, especially
for boys anyway. Helps keep them "flushed".

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Cathy Friedmann - 03 Jul 2004 01:53 GMT

I'd say to go ahead w/ the canned food, then. As long as he wants to eat it
& his system tolerates the change fine, good.

Cathy

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Cheryl - 03 Jul 2004 02:53 GMT

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav", "Paul O."
<oplholik@hotmail.com> artfully composed this message within
<news:C9nFc.86128$0t4.24246@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com> on 02 Jul
2004:

> So
> now his preference is definitely canned food. So what should I
> do, go ahead and stay with the canned food?

Personally, I would stay with the canned. That happened to my Shadow
after he was ill, and he wouldn't touch dry food, and he'd always
been a dry-food-junkie. After a few months, he started eating dry
again, and now it's hard to keep him away from it. Dry food may be
convenient, but it isn't preferable health-wise over canned if you
can get away with it. Now they even make a food bowl that I'm going
to get that has a timer on it, and a cool-pack to keep canned food
fresh so you can split meals up if your cat prefers to eat several
smaller meals thoughout the day.

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-L. : - 03 Jul 2004 20:51 GMT

>Now they even make a food bowl that I'm going
> to get that has a timer on it, and a cool-pack to keep canned food
> fresh so you can split meals up if your cat prefers to eat several
> smaller meals thoughout the day.

Oh, the gadgets they make for our pampered felines are amazing, aren't
they?!? I'm afraid my cats wouldn't eat from it because they'd say
"You want me to eat THAT?!? It's too cold!"

-L.

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Cheryl - 03 Jul 2004 21:52 GMT

In the fine newsgroup "rec.pets.cats.health+behav",
2004:

> Oh, the gadgets they make for our pampered felines are amazing,
> aren't they?!? I'm afraid my cats wouldn't eat from it because
> they'd say "You want me to eat THAT?!? It's too cold!"

LOL Spoiled brats. :) Shadow used to eat canned right out of the
fridge when he wouldn't eat dry food, but now he won't so he'd
probably sniff it and come back when it had a chance to come to room
temperature. I hope that won't encourage too much bacteria if he did
do that.

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Laura R. - 03 Jul 2004 05:18 GMT

circa Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:33:38 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Paul O. (oplholik@hotmail.com) said,

Definitely stick with the wet food. It is better for the cat. As far
as hairball remedy, whichever you prefer. :-)

Laura

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