My kitten does not want to drink the dry food we get for her? She is not getting fleshy!...Help!..What should I do?
we have this little kitten, that we have for about a month immediately. We first bought her some dry food. The dry food made for kittens. But she wont eat it! ...She only likes the drizzly food that we get for her.
I have tryed to also get her to similar to the dry food by mixing it up with her wet food. She eats it as you would expect!...Because its mix with the wet food. But she wont still eat the dry food, alone.
She don't come across to be getting any fatter. Plus she is always hungry...but I cant do anything about it. I can't always preserve buying wet food for her all the time. It cost too much. Just 1 can of wet food alone, she eat, then later on I have to undo up another one. I have to buy ALOT of wet food cans for her, so she can put away. But I dont always have the moeny to buy her that. Dry food so much cheaper and it last longer.
Is in that anyway of how I can get her to eat the dry food. She requests to get more fat, so she can grow. I need sustain
what should i do?
yea its expensive, but if specifically all she is going to eat then you enjoy to keep feeding it to her. my kitten had alike problem she refused to eat her dry food until she was going on for 3 or 4 months old. but we did was feed her drizzly food in one bowl and keep dry food in a bowl subsequent to the wet food, and one day she just arranged she wanted the dry food.
sometimes it can also be that they similar to the soft food so much more that they won't eat anything else. If that's the case, then when she get hungry enough, she'll eat the hard food. whether she doesn't though, some kittens mouths are still too sensitive to eat the hard dry food. It depends on how old she is, but sooner or latter she'll be able to handle the dry stuff. Good Luck :)
Maybe try getting different types of cat dry food.
Try alot of different kinds until you find one that she seems to close to.
Kittens need to be allowed to eat adjectives they want, because they need all that nutrition to growth and be healthy. At this time surrounded by her life she may be still too young for dry food, so if you possibly can hang on to getting the wet food for her until she's older. Look for sales at the flea market. Good Luck!
I guess from what you say,you got her straight from the litter.If this be so,later wet food you are going to need(a)least for acouple of months.She should also be wormed,so she can benefit from eating.Dry food not a good answer,ifn they dont bring back some wet,they get antagonistic,want to fight everything,thats how they seize hurt running away,into the roadways etc.She always hungry,cause of worms.Start training her immediately,feed in the morning,leave marine out&little bit of dry food for through the day.Bit of a cuddle when you get home,nurture her when you ready to eat,so she wont annoy you.Have great time together.PS.dry food not real honourable,lot of additives in it & colouring!BUY tinned fish etc from market,lot cheaper than buying named brands of Pet Food.Remember whether you feeding,real food every now & consequently put garlic in it.Small amounts only helps next to Fleas..!!
My cat didn't care too much for dry "cereal," but it was nearby for "emergencies." He loved the canned food better, but when he had one way out: eat or go hungry, he naturally ate the cereal. BTW, don't ever want your cat heavy. You want her healthy.
The cat might never have been exposed to dry food before you. It probably doesn't make out that it's food. Be patient, keep mixing the wet/dry together, and over time she'll learn to chomp through the dry food. It takes time, but patience does pay rotten. The fact that she eats it mixed means you're very well on your way.
I'm not sure how old the cat is...
But, I would let the cat drink what it wants until it's around 3 months old...after three months though, don't allow the cat to have an resort.
The cat is an animal, and eventually it will eat the dry food if that's the only chance. It will just be natural instinct, and eventually the cat will develop a partiality for it.
However, if the cat is younger than 3 months, only 5-6 weeks old, I would follow it's demands, since it doesn't enjoy it's mothers milk to live off of.
Answers: You have a smart little kitten. She knows that the canned food is much better for her than the dry. The dry food you've purchased (I'm guessing it's from the grocery store) really doesn't hold any meat in it, it's probably mostly corn and grains. That does nothing for a kitten's growth or strength, even though it's labeled kitten food. Nature made cats to eat meat, not corn. The food is cheap because it's made with cheap ingredients. After all, what costs more? A can of corn, or a piece of chicken? But it's the chicken that's get the protein in it to fuel her growing body.
Kittens eat a lot. They must so that they can grow. And kittens recurrently come complete with a case of worms, which will rob the body of the nutrition that they entail. If she's not gaining weight, and is always hungry, she may hold a case of worms.
What you need to do is get her to the vet to acquire her vaccines, and wormed. And also feed her properly by feeding her the canned food that's in fact got some meat in it, not the corn-filled cereal that's sold for cat food in most grocery stores.
I have a kitten too, and he is not fat. Fat is not necessarily good. There is glowing weight and unhealthy weight. Have you taken your kitten to the vet nonetheless? You should for a check up and its distemper shot.
About the food, I mixed water up with the dry food for my kitten when I first got him. Now he eat the dry food. I also have canned food for him which I will give him once or twice a week for a feast.
Check your food labels. Does it have preservatives in it? If it does it is not a devout food to buy. Preservatives in animal feed were not permitted in Europe. They cause stomach cancers and other problems. I lost a dog to a quick growing stomach cancer by using Purina Dog Chow. I investigated and found out about the preservative problem.
Does the food contain a lot of fillers like corn and soy? Those don't hold any nutritional value for your kitty and a lot of the popular brands have more fillers contained by them than is healthy for the kitten. Some grocery stores have healthy food for kittens, but your best bet is to shift to a pet store to get healthy food.
