Any Good Tips To Get Your Cats To Eat? Share Them Here!

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You can't overfeed a kitten? That's kinda the same thing the rescue told me when I was concerned that Houdini was gaining a lot of weight. I got him in August 2015 and that is him in Pic 1. Pic 2 is 3 months later in November. He's still quite the tubbo. I should've named him Hoover BTW, my profile pic is not Houdini. He was Houdini's seeing eye brother Sambo, RIP.

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You can't overfeed a kitten? That's kinda the same thing the rescue told me when I was concerned that Houdini was gaining a lot of weight. I got him in August 2015 and that is him in Pic 1. Pic 2 is 3 months later in November. He's still quite the tubbo. I should've named him Hoover BTW, my profile pic is not Houdini. He was Houdini's seeing eye brother Sambo, RIP.

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Very unique coat is he part Lykoi?
 

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Cats are strange little creatures. I wish we understood them better so we could solve "problems" with them more easily. Ailish hates change - "You're putting this food bowl down here? This is not where I eat!" But the one area where she has to have change is in food - "You know, I've eaten this Paw Lickin' Chickin' for three meals now, this is the last time I'm eating it for at least two weeks. Don't even try it, I won't touch it!" But then - "What is this ? People turkey??? I don't eat people food, no way no how." And this is from a cat that is very food driven and not a problem eater. Until some seemingly irrational idea gets into her fuzzy black head. "Nutro Chicken Liver? Yes, I used to love it, but that was then, this is now, and I'm not touching that stuff." I know in my heart there is a rhyme or reason to cat behavior, we just don't know them well enough.

Right there. Story of my life.

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A little catnip sometimes works too. Not always.. but sometimes LOL

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Wet food is a love over here. I've not had Puddles long, but she adores Friskies, either shredded or Paté. The dry food has to be mixed in with wet or she ignores it all night. Silly beastie, LOL!
 

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Right there. Story of my life.

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A little catnip sometimes works too. Not always.. but sometimes LOL

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It's funny that you mention catnip! I just used it for the first time a few days ago to get one of our cats to eat when she was (apparently) a little constipated... and it worked fairly well. (Meaning that it was helpful "sometimes" but "not always" just as you said!) I'm not sure how much is too much so sprinkled lightly and then added a little more after she'd eaten some and then pushed the food around.
 

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Sometimes I have a hard time getting Sadie to eat... She gets upset tummy easily with her daily medicine, and if I miss her feeding time by half hour or so the tummy acid builds up which is no bueno. So then eat, puke, tummy meds, and food aversion. And I mean, ANY of the 10 varieties.🤦🏼‍♀️🤣
But - she loves her treats!! So I usually end up making a pile of her wet food, then shoving 5-6 crunchy treats deep into it. Then I tell her "find your treats!!" Works every time, and the food aversion is conquered. 😼
 

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I’ve tried Weruva brand….looked decent and like real food when I opened the can BUT my cats wouldn’t eat it….I wish they would
Try the formulas without tricalcium phosphate in them. My cat loves some Weruva and not interested in others. I found six she loves and I rotate them. She loves Selfie Cam, Check Please, Shazaam, Booya, Meowiss Bueller and Tubular. Try these
And rotate them.
 
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