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I feel like I have a new cat food problem every week lol
So, my goals with cat food are to have it be complete/balanced, to not contribute to urinary/kidney diseases, for it to be digestible (because one of my cats has some issues with diarrhea) and for it to be reasonably affordable. And I am not having a good time finding an option that works for my cats...
The biggest problem is that they won't eat anything if they can't chew it. So, all canned and mushy food is refused, no matter what it's made out of. I thought, okay no problem, I can try to do prey model raw since that involves lots of chewing... but, I can't source beef kidney or any other secondary organ affordably. And they eat around supplement mixes, so I can't supplement the missing vitamins, which means that option isn't balanced.
I tried Young Again for a little while, but it gave one of my cats horrifyingly stinky liquid stool and she stopped using the litterbox for awhile, so let's just say that one isn't digestible.
I had them on Orijen, but the carb content is still high compared to the other foods, so I'm worried it may contribute to diseases down the line.
And I tried freeze dried raw, but they refuse it sometimes, and I also need to pay rent... so it isn't affordable.
I've also tried every texture of canned food you can think of, plus frozen raw foods, and it seems like my cats would rather starve than eat them. And now? Well, I'm tired
What I really want to be able to do is give them a chub of raw 80/10/10 with some chunked muscle meat, and supplement accordingly with Alnutrin. But I have a good feeling if I make that investment my cats will still refuse it like the other frozen raw, and they'll go on a hunger strike, which accomplishes nothing but making me feel like a bad cat mom. So... The main point of this rant is, has anyone had success getting their cats to actually eat mushy foods if they were initially very resistant? How long did it take? And if not, is there some cat food option that I'm not thinking of?
Thanks everyone
So, my goals with cat food are to have it be complete/balanced, to not contribute to urinary/kidney diseases, for it to be digestible (because one of my cats has some issues with diarrhea) and for it to be reasonably affordable. And I am not having a good time finding an option that works for my cats...
The biggest problem is that they won't eat anything if they can't chew it. So, all canned and mushy food is refused, no matter what it's made out of. I thought, okay no problem, I can try to do prey model raw since that involves lots of chewing... but, I can't source beef kidney or any other secondary organ affordably. And they eat around supplement mixes, so I can't supplement the missing vitamins, which means that option isn't balanced.
I tried Young Again for a little while, but it gave one of my cats horrifyingly stinky liquid stool and she stopped using the litterbox for awhile, so let's just say that one isn't digestible.
I had them on Orijen, but the carb content is still high compared to the other foods, so I'm worried it may contribute to diseases down the line.
And I tried freeze dried raw, but they refuse it sometimes, and I also need to pay rent... so it isn't affordable.
I've also tried every texture of canned food you can think of, plus frozen raw foods, and it seems like my cats would rather starve than eat them. And now? Well, I'm tired
What I really want to be able to do is give them a chub of raw 80/10/10 with some chunked muscle meat, and supplement accordingly with Alnutrin. But I have a good feeling if I make that investment my cats will still refuse it like the other frozen raw, and they'll go on a hunger strike, which accomplishes nothing but making me feel like a bad cat mom. So... The main point of this rant is, has anyone had success getting their cats to actually eat mushy foods if they were initially very resistant? How long did it take? And if not, is there some cat food option that I'm not thinking of?
Thanks everyone