How are you warming the food? If you are using the microwave, try a different approach as some cats despise microwaved food. I think she will get it pretty soon, hang in there! The idea here is to teach her that fresh food comes at mealtimes, so if she wants it fresh she should eat up then. But don't give her more fresh until the next mealtime, just lead her to the food you already put down. Then if she comes crying to you later, try leading her to the dish with the rest of her serving and fluffing it up for her with a fork, scrape any dry bits off to the side. I would put out her entire serving at mealtime and just leave it down. If possible try feeding her three divided servings a day until she is used to meals, then transition her to two a day if you prefer. She is used to free-feeding I assume and needs to get used to eating at mealtimes. Think of it as the final withdrawal stage for a dry food junkie. I can't keep opening cans of wet food just so she can have that fresh-just-opened experience.esp when she only eats a few tablespoons at a time, and several hours apart.ĭon't think of it as tantrums. However, if I refrigerate the leftover wet and serve it to her (warmed to mouse temp), she rejects it. She ate a couple tablespoons of the frest just-opened with gusto. I don't want to cater to these tantrums she is exceptionally adept at displaying her displeasure, as well as vocally expressing it, which she has been doing a lot lately.ĮDITED TO ADD: Okay I just opened a fresh can of the TJ's cat food. She is otherwise healthy and active and feisty. I even put some pieces of the kibble on the slightly warm wet food to entice her. She wants more kibble (I use 'Taste of the Wild'). She loved the wet food last week, but now, no longer. Lately (the past several days) she has started rejecting the current TJ's wet food and is whiny and complaining, walking around looking disgusted and following me around the kitchen when I'm in there. I got her to 80% wet/canned and 20% non-grain kibble. She was sort of accepting it and doing fairly well on the Trader Joe's Turkey/Giblet canned formula, after rejecting Evo 95%, then rejecting Merrick's and before that some other premium wet. I have been transitioning my cat to a wet food-based diet over the past several months.
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