I'm pretty sure this is the right place for this...
Anyway, my cat Felicia does not touch moist food. She will only eat dry food. I have spent a lot of good money on many different brands of moist cat food, even the expensive ones. I have offered her fresh fish, chicken, and cat treats. She won't even taste it. But when I set her bowl of dry food down, she eats like a madman. I was confused by this behavior, so I asked the breeder whom I got Felicia from, and she didn't really know why. The only thing she could tell me was that she was the runt of the litter she was born in. Oh, and that her original name was Newbie.
At first, I though this didn't mean anything, but I began to dwell on it, and formed a theory that seems to be the only possible explanation why she won't even taste moist food.
Picture if you will, a look back into the kittenhood of Felicia, a tiny Persian kitten living in a home with many other persian cats. Felicia was the smallest, and the weakest, so when that large bowl of moist food was set down, and she would scamper adoreably to taste it, her larger siblings would push her aside or knock her away from the bowl, only allowing her to eat the dry food. Little Felicia would be overpowered if she tried to take even a little moist food while her larger siblings greedily hoarded it for themselves.
It is my theory that this is how her childhood happened, and she associates moist food with pain, even though she knows she is the only cat in my home, the only animal period! (aside from myself)
Every now and then, I'll pick up moist food, and offer it, just in case she wants to try it. So far I've had no luck whatsoever.
Poor little Felicia. Excuse me, I have to go give her a hug
Anyway, my cat Felicia does not touch moist food. She will only eat dry food. I have spent a lot of good money on many different brands of moist cat food, even the expensive ones. I have offered her fresh fish, chicken, and cat treats. She won't even taste it. But when I set her bowl of dry food down, she eats like a madman. I was confused by this behavior, so I asked the breeder whom I got Felicia from, and she didn't really know why. The only thing she could tell me was that she was the runt of the litter she was born in. Oh, and that her original name was Newbie.
At first, I though this didn't mean anything, but I began to dwell on it, and formed a theory that seems to be the only possible explanation why she won't even taste moist food.
Picture if you will, a look back into the kittenhood of Felicia, a tiny Persian kitten living in a home with many other persian cats. Felicia was the smallest, and the weakest, so when that large bowl of moist food was set down, and she would scamper adoreably to taste it, her larger siblings would push her aside or knock her away from the bowl, only allowing her to eat the dry food. Little Felicia would be overpowered if she tried to take even a little moist food while her larger siblings greedily hoarded it for themselves.
It is my theory that this is how her childhood happened, and she associates moist food with pain, even though she knows she is the only cat in my home, the only animal period! (aside from myself)
Every now and then, I'll pick up moist food, and offer it, just in case she wants to try it. So far I've had no luck whatsoever.
Poor little Felicia. Excuse me, I have to go give her a hug