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Just over a year ago I found a very hungry, maybe 8 week old, Applehead Siamese on my front porch.
I fed him tuna, and then went out for cat food. He was sick while I was gone, vomiting and diarrhea, so I turned around and went back to the store for chicken breasts and sweet potatoes, and I cooked up a big batch. I added some taurine and some powdered calcium and cooked it all in real butter. He thought it was delicious and in a few days he was feeling great.
I gradually transitioned him to canned food, although he would not touch any Fish or Liver or Beef flavored foods.
I was worried he was bored though, and I used my creativity to make him puzzle toys. I used Whiskas Temptations in the puzzle toys. He loved the toys and the treats.
Fast forward, and now I have a cat that will eat nothing but Temptations, and only out of puzzle toys. Oh and grass. I bring him in a handful of fresh grass every day.
I tried putting different crunchies in the toys. He was not fooled. I took all the toys away, and fed him by hand. That worked, he will now eat the treats if they are not in a toy. I have spent a ton of money on different kinds and flavors of food. The only other food he will touch is Dry Purina Kitten Chow, and just barely and only if starving. He has always drunk a lot of water.
He will not eat people food. I made him some more chicken and sweet potato. Turkey, liver, ham. Nothing. I tried crushing the Temptations and mixing it with wet food, but he is not fooled. He will eat Frito's and Bacon, but only a small amount, so I think he is crunch addicted as well as digest addicted and corn addicted.
I am putting out Blue Buffalo crunchies with the Kitten Chow and he very delicately picks the Kitten Chow out of the pile.
We are in a battle of the wills now. It has been 2 days. He seems committed to starvation.
He nibbles three or four Kitten Chow pieces and then gets dramatic and vocal. I broke down today because he vomited up the little bit of Kitten Chow he did eat and gave him his Temptations. (This was before his daily grass nibbles, the grass doesn't make him puke all the time) His litter box habits haven't changed.
I don't think I have the will to go on.
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I fed him tuna, and then went out for cat food. He was sick while I was gone, vomiting and diarrhea, so I turned around and went back to the store for chicken breasts and sweet potatoes, and I cooked up a big batch. I added some taurine and some powdered calcium and cooked it all in real butter. He thought it was delicious and in a few days he was feeling great.
I gradually transitioned him to canned food, although he would not touch any Fish or Liver or Beef flavored foods.
I was worried he was bored though, and I used my creativity to make him puzzle toys. I used Whiskas Temptations in the puzzle toys. He loved the toys and the treats.
Fast forward, and now I have a cat that will eat nothing but Temptations, and only out of puzzle toys. Oh and grass. I bring him in a handful of fresh grass every day.
I tried putting different crunchies in the toys. He was not fooled. I took all the toys away, and fed him by hand. That worked, he will now eat the treats if they are not in a toy. I have spent a ton of money on different kinds and flavors of food. The only other food he will touch is Dry Purina Kitten Chow, and just barely and only if starving. He has always drunk a lot of water.
He will not eat people food. I made him some more chicken and sweet potato. Turkey, liver, ham. Nothing. I tried crushing the Temptations and mixing it with wet food, but he is not fooled. He will eat Frito's and Bacon, but only a small amount, so I think he is crunch addicted as well as digest addicted and corn addicted.
I am putting out Blue Buffalo crunchies with the Kitten Chow and he very delicately picks the Kitten Chow out of the pile.
We are in a battle of the wills now. It has been 2 days. He seems committed to starvation.
He nibbles three or four Kitten Chow pieces and then gets dramatic and vocal. I broke down today because he vomited up the little bit of Kitten Chow he did eat and gave him his Temptations. (This was before his daily grass nibbles, the grass doesn't make him puke all the time) His litter box habits haven't changed.
I don't think I have the will to go on.
.