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Yes, that would be *much* too rapid if the weight loss were to continue.
However, I think you could afford to experiment with putting out only canned
food for a day or two.  You could also spoon a little tuna juice over the
canned food to tempt Koshka.  Incidentally, I assume Koshka is healthy and
has been seen by a vet.  That is very important.
--
MaryL

Yes.  Any more than 1 pound/4 weeks could initiate a sequence of events that
can cause serious liver problems.

..especially if she is overweight or obese.

Phil

I have gone through two cases of the new batch and have not seen any
difference in their stools.

                 ---MIKE---

Smart play.  Who knows whose manufacturing Wellness now or what's in it.
They could even be brokering the contract to the lowest bidder.  Quality
control is major problem with third party manufacturing.

This new batch was giving tem all very soft stools.

Liver & Chicken Entree isn't my favorite but its on my acceptible foods
list.  What happened with the Turkey?

Phil

Jay Jay is a chow hound and will attack food bags (attacked the kitty
litter bag last night), but he will not eat the food on the bathroom
counter.

I have actually used that in my feeding plan for him because he gained
weight whe I got him. He was definitely not used to free feeding. I
also discovered that his favorite choice of kibble was giving him the
runs. But it is also Chase's favorite. So, I leave that one upstairs
on the counter, and he won't touch it. And I keep his kibble down in
my room, and I feed him smaller amounts at a time. He runs out during
the night and sits there patiently in the morning as my snooze alarm
goes off, waiting for me to put some in his bowl. And then it runs out
all day while I am at work and cannot be tempted to refill it.

He has lost over half a pound so far :)

For a hungry cat with physical access to food 24/7, he is stopped by s
simple unwilliness to jump on the counter. Even with two of his
favorite foods up there. And he wouldn't drink the water up there
either. I had to move it to the floor for him. Same with the bowl
downstairs. He just won't drink it if it is up on a counter.

Also, when I got Jenny, the rescued dog, she was outdoor only. So,
coming inside and facing linoleum was a hige challenge for her. She
was scared stiff, literally. Set her down in the kitchen, and her legs
would splay out stiffly, and she would tremble. People told me to just
leave the food in the kitchen, and she would get over it. But she
would have starved., She couldn't even cross a hallway to get to the
water bowl. She paced back and forth at the edge of the rug.

So rather than torture her, we moved the water bowl to the dining room
rug, and we fed her in the dining room for the first 4 months. Then we
slowly worked her into the kitchen, with the use of a small rug. The
bowl was on the rug, so her front feet could be on the rug, and he
view was of the rug. It was probably a full year before she became
comfortable in the kitchen and could eat without the rug, though we
still keep it in there. And there were still times where fear would
keep her from eating. Thunderstorms, fireworks, etc. Sometimes, I
think she heard stuff that we never knew about. I would just take her
found down the basement and she'd usually eat.

So, yes, some animals would  starve  rather than overcome certain
barriers.

I think this I what I will try next. I bought every canned variety the store
stocked and tried a couple this evening. She finally did eat the kibble, but
not the canned or any of the kibble even remotely close to the canned. So
far she has avoided the kibble mixed with "gravy" but I'm going to give her
a few more minutes.

Thanks all for your help. Here is a picture to put a face with a name:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/matthew_venhaus/detail?.dir=db43&.dnm=225b.jpg&.src=ph
or http://tinyurl.com/dj8ln.