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Hello everyone, I am new to this site and and recently adopted my first cat, a two year old ginger tabby.
She’s a sweet lap cat, but I can never get her to eat enough food—she typically eats a couple bites, leaves and comes back to eat over the course of an hour or two, and only if I happen to be next to her when she is eating (If I go to the bathroom after giving her food in the morning, she abandons her food dish and meows at me until I come out of the bathroom). Since she’s such a slow eater and regularly walks away from her food half-eaten, her wet food has been attracting fruit flies, at which point I have to throw out her food before she has eaten the entire portion. I want to encourage her to eat more quickly, but how do I do so with this fly problem? (I’ve been setting up traps and have successfully dealt with fruit flies before, but this was before I had a wet-food eating cat.)
I’ve been feeding her wet (Sheba) and free-feeding dry (Crave). She only eats about 50% of what is recommended (the vet says her weight is fine, but that she should eat more) so I try to make food available to her in case she gets hungry while I am at work. Should I just switch to only feeding her dry until the fly issue is resolved? Should I take away her dry food and risk that she eats even less than she does now?
Appreciate any advice that you might have.
She’s a sweet lap cat, but I can never get her to eat enough food—she typically eats a couple bites, leaves and comes back to eat over the course of an hour or two, and only if I happen to be next to her when she is eating (If I go to the bathroom after giving her food in the morning, she abandons her food dish and meows at me until I come out of the bathroom). Since she’s such a slow eater and regularly walks away from her food half-eaten, her wet food has been attracting fruit flies, at which point I have to throw out her food before she has eaten the entire portion. I want to encourage her to eat more quickly, but how do I do so with this fly problem? (I’ve been setting up traps and have successfully dealt with fruit flies before, but this was before I had a wet-food eating cat.)
I’ve been feeding her wet (Sheba) and free-feeding dry (Crave). She only eats about 50% of what is recommended (the vet says her weight is fine, but that she should eat more) so I try to make food available to her in case she gets hungry while I am at work. Should I just switch to only feeding her dry until the fly issue is resolved? Should I take away her dry food and risk that she eats even less than she does now?
Appreciate any advice that you might have.