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My cat Murphy (aka. Mr. Fussy-Pants) is getting a combination of wet and dry foods for now while we work on finding foods compatible with his veterinary situation that he’s willing to eat.
While he’s still eating dry, I want to switch him from one dry food to another in hopes that the new dry food (Farmina) with its lower fiber content will be less likely to give him diarrhea.
Sometimes in the past he’s had really easy transitions with dry foods - put a little of the new food out a time when he’ll be hungry and cover his old food. He sniffs the new food, eats it, then I uncover the old food. I increase the amount of the new food over a few days, transition complete.
And sometimes on day 1 he sniffs it and doesn’t eat it. Then I do the thing with mixing the old and new food in different proportions in the same bowl, but he seems to somehow pick out mostly kibbles of his old food. Then he refuses to eat once the proportion of new food is too high, and the transition fails.
He has now done the initial sniff-and-reject with both flavors of Farmina that I got for him, and I’m wondering if it’s worth trying the food-mixing thing again or not.
My question is: Has anyone ever actually seen the transition with mixing two dry foods persuade a cat to like a dry food it was initially not interested in?
If this is a thing that actually sometimes works to get a cat to eat a new food I’ll keep doing it. But so far our success rate has been 0% with this kind of transition, and I’m beginning to wonder if it’s just for avoiding digestive disturbance and doesn’t actually work to convince a cat to like a food… has anyone ever actually seen it work for that?
While he’s still eating dry, I want to switch him from one dry food to another in hopes that the new dry food (Farmina) with its lower fiber content will be less likely to give him diarrhea.
Sometimes in the past he’s had really easy transitions with dry foods - put a little of the new food out a time when he’ll be hungry and cover his old food. He sniffs the new food, eats it, then I uncover the old food. I increase the amount of the new food over a few days, transition complete.
And sometimes on day 1 he sniffs it and doesn’t eat it. Then I do the thing with mixing the old and new food in different proportions in the same bowl, but he seems to somehow pick out mostly kibbles of his old food. Then he refuses to eat once the proportion of new food is too high, and the transition fails.
He has now done the initial sniff-and-reject with both flavors of Farmina that I got for him, and I’m wondering if it’s worth trying the food-mixing thing again or not.
My question is: Has anyone ever actually seen the transition with mixing two dry foods persuade a cat to like a dry food it was initially not interested in?
If this is a thing that actually sometimes works to get a cat to eat a new food I’ll keep doing it. But so far our success rate has been 0% with this kind of transition, and I’m beginning to wonder if it’s just for avoiding digestive disturbance and doesn’t actually work to convince a cat to like a food… has anyone ever actually seen it work for that?
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