Food Issues....

Status
Not open for further replies.
BuddyandDillonsMom

BuddyandDillonsMom

Member
Miss Kitty is putting me to the test.....I have tried lots of different foods, but have only found 1 that she really likes so far, and that one is making her BG too high! She likes the FF Ocean Whitefish & Tuna Gravy Lovers, but her BG gets way too high after she eats (I have updated her SS). She did pretty well with the FF Turkey Gravy Lovers, but again, that is not good for every day feedings. She ate/licked quite a bit of the Friskies Chicken & Salmon Dinner in Gravy this morning, but she still has not eaten an entire can of anything for me, except for that Gravy Lovers! :?

We have tried all of the Classic FF flavors, with water added, with FortiFlora (which she doesn't seem to care for :YMSIGH: ).....omg, as I'm sitting here typing this, I started thinking that maybe I should try putting chicken broth on one of those, because I discovered that she likes that broth! ohmygod_smile I'll have to try that and see how it goes..... confused_cat Sometimes she will turn her nose up at food until I put it on my fingers and put some on her paw or nose for her to lick off. Once she licks it, it's like a lightbulb goes off in her head saying, "oh, maybe she's not trying to poison me after all!" :shock:

We have also tried Natural Instincts Lamb, which she turned her nose up to until I poured some chicken broth on top, so she started to lick that, and maybe ate 1/4 can. ;-) We have tried Chicken, Duck, and Shrimp Wellness Healthy Indulgence pouch, but she won't eat that, even w/chicken broth or clam juice on top. She turned her nose up at the Wellness Chicken & Herring in the bowl, but saw the rest of it in the can and started to lick that, so I saved it and will try that again. She also seemed to like the Tuna Recipe Wellness pouch, but really only goes for the gravy in it. :roll:

I still haven't tried parm. cheese-I can't believe I forgot it while I was at the store. I thought I was going crazy standing in Petco w/my Janet & Binky's food list, trying to find the right brands/flavors, while everyone kept walking by me giving me strange looks (oh well!)! :mrgreen:

I have so many other flavors in my bag to try on her, so I'm praying she will end up liking one of those, and, like I said earlier, the thought just came to me to pour some chicken broth on those "already tried" FF Classics. This little girl is high maitenance, but I love her! cat_pet_icon
 
I do that exact thing for my kitty Leo. His treats are pieces of skinless chicken thighs, boiled without salt. I save the broth because anything I mix it into is golden. Even the FF flavors that he completely poo-poohs if offered without it. Might as well give it a try!

Kate & Leo
 
I was a PetsMart today doing the same thing. Diabetic kitty loves any canned. Civilian not so much. She wants her dry. I bought some freeze dried shrimp and tried it. Her no likey!!! cat(2)_steam
 
Whew! What a relief to read somebody else is going through the same thing! I've wasted SO much food trying to find something he likes, which he may like one day, then not the next.

My vet told me that FF is the McDonalds of cat food- okay if that's all you can get them to eat, for a short time, but for long term it's bad. SO, I've been trying to find foods in the higher quality realm, but keep striking out. He used to love Avoderm, but doesn't anymore. I've tried Wilderness- he'll eat the salmon- sometimes, but hates the chicken and turkey. The only food I can pretty much be sure he'll eat is SD C/D, and I know it's high in carbs, but he went into DKA recently from refusing to eat, so just trying to keep food in him. It's so exhausting.
 
Ugh...I tried Friskies Turkey & Giblets Savory Shreds for breakfast this morning, and even put chicken broth on it, but she wouldn't really eat it. confused_cat
I have a harder time in the morning since I am trying to get ready for work, and can't spend as much time coaxing her to eat and/or trying different cans. She had a good BG this morning (can't remember now that I've been at work for a while, but I'll update this evening), so I'm fairly certain she could be a diet controlled diabetic, if she would only eat the right stuff! :YMSIGH: Hoping she will have a good evening for me.... nailbite_smile
 
I was pleasantly surprised this morning. Non fd princess was eating booboo's friskies pate. Yay!!! It would be so nice to have them eating the same thing. :razz:
 
My vet told me that FF is the McDonalds of cat food- okay if that's all you can get them to eat, for a short time, but for long term it's bad. SO, I've been trying to find foods in the higher quality realm, but keep striking out. He used to love Avoderm, but doesn't anymore. I've tried Wilderness- he'll eat the salmon- sometimes, but hates the chicken and turkey. The only food I can pretty much be sure he'll eat is SD C/D, and I know it's high in carbs, but he went into DKA recently from refusing to eat, so just trying to keep food in him. It's so exhausting.
Click to expand...

Sorry but your vet is very wrong there. Let me guess, they tried to tell you Hills and Science Diet were good foods?

Fancy Feast, as long as it is the classics/pate style for a diabetic, is a great food for long term feeding. My Scooter has eaten Fancy Feast every day of the week for the past 9 months. The ingredients for FF classic chicken:

Chicken, chicken broth, liver, meat by-products, fish, poultry by-products
Click to expand...

First ingredient is real chicken muscle meat, whole liver, fish muscle meat, and byproducts that have not been rendered. There are NO grains, not even wheat gluten or any kind of rice.

The ingredients of dry c/d:

Brewers Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken By-Product Meal, Pork Fat
Click to expand...

First 2 ingredients are RICE and CORN. Full of carbs, completely inappropriate for an obligate carnivore. The only meat is a processed byproduct MEAL, meaning it has been boiled down into gunk and dried out to mix in the food.

c/d canned is better but not by much:

Pork By-Products, Water, Pork Liver, Chicken, Rice, Corn Starch, Oat Fiber, Chicken Fat, Fish Meal, Corn Gluten Meal
Click to expand...

First ingredient byproducts. Muscle meat comes later. Not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but pork is not a common prey for cats and it might cause digestion issues. Pork is an expensive meat so all the stuff that would otherwise be thrown away goes in your cats food instead.

And rice, corn starch, oat fiber, corn gluten meal? Do those sound like things a cat would eat in the wild? What about all the carbs?

What is the magic ingredient in this that makes it better than Fancy Feast? There isn't one. But they charge you big $$$$ like there is.

Please try not to spread incorrect information :) We SHOULD be able to trust everything our vets say but unfortunately we just can't. Hills is paying your vet to push their food on you. Don't fall for it.
 
mine are doing well on the Friskies Classic Pate turkey & Giblets. It's been almost a year now. That seems to be the flavor of choice by all of them and that suits me because it isn't as smelly as the others!
 
Remember that sudden food changes tend not to work well - its a process, not an event.
(where's that "eat what I tell you" switch, d*mnit?)

It may be helpful to gradually mix a new food in with a food that has been eaten previously. You might be able to phase out from the gravied to one of the non-gravied if you do it that way.
 
Hi Jennifer,

I'm sending along some PureBites freeze dried chicken treats with Dillon. He is CRAZY for them after refusing to touch them for the first 3 weeks he was here and then all of the sudden he tried one and decided they were food. Now he'll do just about anything for one. Since Miss Kitty likes chicken, maybe you could take one and crumble it up into chicken dust and put that on her food. If you've already tried that, please disregard.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top