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This is hypothetical to an extent, but I'm curious.
Alright. So. I have a cat who is the pickiest thing ever. She will NOT touch canned food, let alone raw. Of course I want her on raw, but with cats, it has to be their idea. I try all the tricks, hiding it in her food, searing the outside, etc. doesn't matter. It's something we work on every day. I try to get her to eat canned food, but she hates it. I don't think she sees it as food. Someone on a cat forum (actually quite a few people) suggested putting a tiny bit on her paws so she grooms it off, and tastes it and that might get her eating it. We are about three weeks into this and it hasn't made any difference whatsoever. She's even spit out shat she's groomed off before. Brat.
She is a kibble junkie. She'll eat any kibble I put in front of her, but nothing else. We got her to lick canned tuna once. Just once. that's it.
So we were trying to do the kibble to canned to raw route. I've heard several places that cats tend to be partial to cheaper foods because they're addicting like junk food. It was suggested to me to go buy some of the cheaper canned foods, like wiskas or fancy feast, to see if they are more appealing and then get her to the premium stuff. So it would be the kibble to crappy canned to premium canned to raw route. I'm totally willing to do it if that's the way to end up with her on raw, but it got me thinking.
1. would she just end up stuck on the crappy canned food?
2. Which is better... a high quality grain-free kibble diet, or a lower grade grain inclusive all canned diet? Not that I can get her to eat it yet anyway, but if she were to take to the lower grade stuff, would she be better off on just that than the dry food, or not?
Right now she's on Grain Free Felidae Cat and Kitten. This was only because a cat that we had for a brief time was tough to get eating, and felidae grain free was on sale, buy a bag of salmon formula, get a bag of regular ca and kitten free, so we figured more variety for our money while we were just trying to get that cat to eat. We do plan on rotating her kibble until we can get her to eat something else. Evo, Orijen, CORE, and Merrick BG are all things we want to rotate in her diet until then.
We have used just about every premium brand of canned food you can think of. Haven't tried the cheap stuff yet though.
Alright. So. I have a cat who is the pickiest thing ever. She will NOT touch canned food, let alone raw. Of course I want her on raw, but with cats, it has to be their idea. I try all the tricks, hiding it in her food, searing the outside, etc. doesn't matter. It's something we work on every day. I try to get her to eat canned food, but she hates it. I don't think she sees it as food. Someone on a cat forum (actually quite a few people) suggested putting a tiny bit on her paws so she grooms it off, and tastes it and that might get her eating it. We are about three weeks into this and it hasn't made any difference whatsoever. She's even spit out shat she's groomed off before. Brat.
She is a kibble junkie. She'll eat any kibble I put in front of her, but nothing else. We got her to lick canned tuna once. Just once. that's it.
So we were trying to do the kibble to canned to raw route. I've heard several places that cats tend to be partial to cheaper foods because they're addicting like junk food. It was suggested to me to go buy some of the cheaper canned foods, like wiskas or fancy feast, to see if they are more appealing and then get her to the premium stuff. So it would be the kibble to crappy canned to premium canned to raw route. I'm totally willing to do it if that's the way to end up with her on raw, but it got me thinking.
1. would she just end up stuck on the crappy canned food?
2. Which is better... a high quality grain-free kibble diet, or a lower grade grain inclusive all canned diet? Not that I can get her to eat it yet anyway, but if she were to take to the lower grade stuff, would she be better off on just that than the dry food, or not?
Right now she's on Grain Free Felidae Cat and Kitten. This was only because a cat that we had for a brief time was tough to get eating, and felidae grain free was on sale, buy a bag of salmon formula, get a bag of regular ca and kitten free, so we figured more variety for our money while we were just trying to get that cat to eat. We do plan on rotating her kibble until we can get her to eat something else. Evo, Orijen, CORE, and Merrick BG are all things we want to rotate in her diet until then.
We have used just about every premium brand of canned food you can think of. Haven't tried the cheap stuff yet though.
