My Cat Won’t Eat His Wet Food, Only When Treats Are In It. Advice?

Kflowers said:

Adult food that he will eat is better than kitten food he won't eat.

Perhaps he doesn't like the bowl and does like the plate. Some cats don't like bowls because they brush their whiskers on the side. At his age he might not like the bowl because he can't see over the edge while he's eating.

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Awesome he's eating. When my cat Maggie was 3 months she had no trouble eating but when she was adult she kept walking away from her oval bowl so I got a whisker free bowl at a small pet store $20 and she started eating. She does have long whiskers. I also bought online 3 big ceramic bowls whisker free for water. They are big and they tilt. Now my my cats drink more.

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The Camp Fire out here in Northern California did a real number on the air quality. It got so bad I had to shelter in my home for a couple of weeks because a lot of buildings, including my work’s office, could not filter out the finer particles and was just concentrating it. That’s when I bought my first Dyson air purifier. It was enlightening and alarming to see how bad the air quality was even inside. And then Krista and I got to watch as the air quality slowly improved over the next several hours. The other things I like about the Dyson was that you had to register it to use the app so no more forgetting to send in a warranty card and the device itself will remind me when the filters need to be changed.

Bowls are easy to pick up even though they are heavy. Put them under books with a towel over it. I fill up water with a measuring cup and tilt the bowl when poring it in. That I got at chewy. Odd to be teething at that age

maggie101 said:

Awesome he's eating. When my cat Maggie was 3 months she had no trouble eating but when she was adult she kept walking away from her oval bowl so I got a whisker free bowl at a small pet store $20 and she started eating. She does have long whiskers. I also bought online 3 big ceramic bowls whisker free for water. They are big and they tilt. Now my my cats drink more.

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Il try the whisker free bowls. As far as water I got my cat a water fountain. Ever since then he loves to drink. I was just at the supermarket and I bought my cat some baby food beef and beef gravy stage one. Wanted to have some on hand just in case. After he ate his wet food which he almost finished I treated him with the baby food just cause he hasn’t been eating that much this week and I wanted to give him a lot to eat today. He destroyed it. Ate the whole jar with just a little left on the plate. Good to know just Incase your cat doesn’t eat at all one day.

maggie101 said:

Hasn't happened to my cats yet but what baby food did you use?

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Beech Nut Beef and beef gravy Stage 1. Has to be meat based with nothing else in it. No vegetables whatsoever.

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Bowls are easy to pick up even though they are heavy. Put them under books with a towel over it. I fill up water with a measuring cup and tilt the bowl when poring it in. That I got at chewy. Odd to be teething at that age

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Yeah but I read some cats can be teething at a later age. Two different vets told he was teething so it must be that. Finding his baby teeth confirms it

So im not sure if anyone would know but it seems my cat rather eat off the floor. When i put it in the dish he will eat some or nothing. But when i dropped his wet food he ate all of it

Dave8014 said:

So im not sure if anyone would know but it seems my cat rather eat off the floor. When i put it in the dish he will eat some or nothing. But when i dropped his wet food he ate all of it

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Maybe he finds it easier to eat off a flat surface than from a bowl? Some cats do, as it seems to avert “whisker fatigue.” You could try serving his food on a plate and see if he eats more of it.

Dave8014 said:

So im not sure if anyone would know but it seems my cat rather eat off the floor. When i put it in the dish he will eat some or nothing. But when i dropped his wet food he ate all of it

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LadyLondonderry said:

Maybe he finds it easier to eat off a flat surface than from a bowl? Some cats do, as it seems to avert “whisker fatigue.” You could try serving his food on a plate and see if he eats more of it.

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Flat plates are always a good idea, though I have to wonder if perhaps Michael has Dirty Floor and Fingers Syndrome, something that Ireland has. Cats suffering from DiFFS prefer being hand-fed (requires more guardian time, attention, and nerves) or eating their food off carpeting, rugs, and other absorbent surfaces (requires more guardian time, attention, nerves, and cleaning time). There is no cure for DiFFS but flat dishes can be helpful and I seem to recall that some people "plate" their cats' food on plastic place mats.

lisahe said:

Flat plates are always a good idea, though I have to wonder if perhaps Michael has Dirty Floor and Fingers Syndrome, something that Ireland has. Cats suffering from DiFFS prefer being hand-fed (requires more guardian time, attention, and nerves) or eating their food off carpeting, rugs, and other absorbent surfaces (requires more guardian time, attention, nerves, and cleaning time). There is no cure for DiFFS but flat dishes can be helpful and I seem to recall that some people "plate" their cats' food on plastic place mats.

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I’m gonna clean my foor today squeaky clean with a natural cleaner and put his wet food on the floor and see what happens

Dave8014 said:

I’m gonna clean my foor today squeaky clean with a natural cleaner and put his wet food on the floor and see what happens

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I hope you are joking, too!

I suppose if the floor makes you uncomfortable, and I can see where it might, you could get him a nice plastic place mat to eat on. Our dog has a cut one that is a large round fish, of colors never seen in Nature. Doggie did drag her bowl with soup in it to the edge of the mat and turned it over on the rug, but that was her choice. I think she likes the perfume of spinach/lima bean soup when she's napping.

Dave8014 said:

I’m gonna clean my foor today squeaky clean with a natural cleaner and put his wet food on the floor and see what happens

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Luckily the ants are hibernating

Those teeny tiny meat eating ants that turn up 2 then 3 then 200... hate them. They do go for cat food. hate them.

Kflowers said:

I suppose if the floor makes you uncomfortable, and I can see where it might, you could get him a nice plastic place mat to eat on. Our dog has a cut one that is a large round fish, of colors never seen in Nature. Doggie did drag her bowl with soup in it to the edge of the mat and turned it over on the rug, but that was her choice. I think she likes the perfume of spinach/lima bean soup when she's napping.

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Already ordered it and a whisker free bowl. Gave him his food this morning the same fancy feast he gobbled up twice yesterday. Didn’t touch it. I feel like he’s just not hungry in the morning. He prefers to eat more at 3 o’clock to 2 am. This might be because when I first got him I was up till 3 am a lot and also going to work from 1 pm to 11 pm had a factor in all this. Even tho before work I would feed him some food and he would eat it. Or he is getting tired of his food every two days.

Dave8014 said:

Already ordered it and a whisker free bowl. Gave him his food this morning the same fancy feast he gobbled up twice yesterday. Didn’t touch it. I feel like he’s just not hungry in the morning. He prefers to eat more at 3 o’clock to 2 am. This might be because when I first got him I was up till 3 am a lot and also going to work from 1 pm to 11 pm had a factor in all this. Even tho before work I would feed him some food and he would eat it. Or he is getting tired of his food every two days.

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He may, indeed, get bored with his food. This is a very common problem! And switching feeding schedules can be a serious problem, too: we tried that in recent weeks with our cats and nope. (I'd wanted to cut their five meals a day back to four but failed!) It is not easy feeding cats well!

i think you may have something about the timing problem. Can you move his meals slowly, 15 minutes at a time, one move a week, toward the time you want them? He'll probably complain, cats can tell time.

Ours never cared because schedule wasn't part of our world. They got breakfast when we got up there was a range of several hours, and dinner 8 hours after that. A decade and a half later we added dry food and that was considered a good idea, but not breakfast and not dinner.

I dint think it was possible for a cat to refuse wet food lol - I can send my three over ... they'll gobble any leftovers ... I promise ;-)
I have no advice regarding food except to keep on trying and warming up the food or trying different plates - mine like flat plates that won't kink their whiskers ... however ... with the asthma ... I would switch the cat litter and try something else. I myself ( and my daughter as well) are highly allergic against clay litter ... When we got our kittens I thought they gave me serious asthma but ... it was the clay litter. We switched to a walnut shell litter and ... my allergies/ asthma are completely gone ... Cats can react to corn, clay and even wheat. If your cat is wheezing from kibble - grain would be the first thing I would try to eliminate ...