Hello, I am new and we adopted a kitten around a year old from the Humane Society last week. A couple days after we brought him home we noticed tapeworms and he has been treated. He seems hungry but hasn't been eating much and has actually lost weight (he's already skinny and tiny and only weighs 5 pounds). The food I am feeding my adult cat is Purina Proplan and he is not interested in it or their kitten dry food. So, I may have gone a little crazy buying different dry and wet foods trying to find something he actually seemed to like. Last night was the first night he ate well and he ate Friskies canned food, which is what my adult cat also eats. But today at the vet he had runny, smelly poop which they are testing because they said it didn't smell right and honestly hasn't smelled right since we brought him home.
Anyways, I think I've messed up and given him too much variety of foods and the vet says I need to pick one and stay with it and that he's old enough to eat adult food to make it easier on both cats. I currently feed my adult cat Proplan dry and Friskies wet but not opposed to switching to Proplan wet. Would be great to get new kitty to eat the current food but I am worried he won't eat the dry since he doesn't seem to like it and the Friskies is giving him diarrhea. Also, because he is so little at 5 pounds, regular cat food looks kind of big for him to eat. Need suggestions please! Thank you!
Anyways, I think I've messed up and given him too much variety of foods and the vet says I need to pick one and stay with it and that he's old enough to eat adult food to make it easier on both cats. I currently feed my adult cat Proplan dry and Friskies wet but not opposed to switching to Proplan wet. Would be great to get new kitty to eat the current food but I am worried he won't eat the dry since he doesn't seem to like it and the Friskies is giving him diarrhea. Also, because he is so little at 5 pounds, regular cat food looks kind of big for him to eat. Need suggestions please! Thank you!