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My seven-year-old cat, Reggie, tends to get somewhat dehydrated, which can lead to symptoms like constipation. I've tried a lot of different things to get him to drink more liquids, and it's been a real challenge.
Some things I've tried:
Some things I've tried:
- Adding an extra meal of wet food per day. He is a notoriously picky eater but he enjoys eating one specific flavor of one specific brand of wet food, for dinner. I tried giving the same brand at breakfast and he wouldn't even so much as look at it. So right now, he's probably eating 3/4 dry, 1/4 wet food.
- Changing up his water bowls for water fountains. This seemed to work at first but after a while he gets disinterested again. It again works for a time to switch to a new style of fountain, but it's expensive and annoying to try to swap to new fountains all the time. I had wondered if the fountains were picking up any kind of off flavor after a while (even with regular cleaning), but even fountains made of stainless steel or ceramic, which shouldn't retain odors, tend to get less used over time.
- Adding some extra moisture through things like Tiki Cats broths. He won't do more than sniff it, and he won't eat any food that's been "touched" by the broth.
- Made a homemade no-sodium chicken broth. He took two or three laps from a bowl and left the rest.
- Increasing the size of his wet meal dinner. He only eats about half a can, no matter how much I put in his bowl.