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Picky eater
How do you best handle a very picky eater. My little buddie was a dry food
eater till his problems of a few weeks ago. Since then have been able to get him to eat can food. Started him on Iams and he only would eat the chicken and turkey. He would have nothing to do with any of the other flavors. Now he just wants the chicken, turns his nose up at the turkey. What to do if and when he decides he doesn't want the chicken anymore? This is getting ridiculous. I'm sitting here this morning with a cat that won't leave me alone cause he is hungry, I assume, and all there is, is turkey till we go to the store this morning. AAARRRRRGGGG! Definitely not a kitty experienced person. -- Paul O. |
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I feel your pain! My two kitties are picky like that as well. My advice is,
just get what he wants. It's not worth the aggro. We've started getting a can or two of different flavours each time we go to the pet store and tracking it on a chart. The brand we get seems to have every variety under the sun. Since neither cat like left overs, it has to be the small tins, three times a day - which they share half each. Keep a chart with which ones he likes... maybe mixing it a bit with one you know he likes and see what happens. By now I'm sure you realized you're no longer the boss, right? Good luck! -- rach "Paul O." wrote in message om... How do you best handle a very picky eater. My little buddie was a dry food eater till his problems of a few weeks ago. Since then have been able to get him to eat can food. Started him on Iams and he only would eat the chicken and turkey. He would have nothing to do with any of the other flavors. Now he just wants the chicken, turns his nose up at the turkey. What to do if and when he decides he doesn't want the chicken anymore? This is getting ridiculous. I'm sitting here this morning with a cat that won't leave me alone cause he is hungry, I assume, and all there is, is turkey till we go to the store this morning. AAARRRRRGGGG! Definitely not a kitty experienced person. -- Paul O. |
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I feel your pain! My two kitties are picky like that as well. My advice is,
just get what he wants. It's not worth the aggro. We've started getting a can or two of different flavours each time we go to the pet store and tracking it on a chart. The brand we get seems to have every variety under the sun. Since neither cat like left overs, it has to be the small tins, three times a day - which they share half each. Keep a chart with which ones he likes... maybe mixing it a bit with one you know he likes and see what happens. By now I'm sure you realized you're no longer the boss, right? Good luck! -- rach "Paul O." wrote in message om... How do you best handle a very picky eater. My little buddie was a dry food eater till his problems of a few weeks ago. Since then have been able to get him to eat can food. Started him on Iams and he only would eat the chicken and turkey. He would have nothing to do with any of the other flavors. Now he just wants the chicken, turns his nose up at the turkey. What to do if and when he decides he doesn't want the chicken anymore? This is getting ridiculous. I'm sitting here this morning with a cat that won't leave me alone cause he is hungry, I assume, and all there is, is turkey till we go to the store this morning. AAARRRRRGGGG! Definitely not a kitty experienced person. -- Paul O. |
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".oO rach Oo." wrote in message ... I feel your pain! My two kitties are picky like that as well. My advice is, just get what he wants. It's not worth the aggro. We've started getting a can or two of different flavours each time we go to the pet store and tracking it on a chart. The brand we get seems to have every variety under the sun. Since neither cat like left overs, it has to be the small tins, three times a day - which they share half each. Keep a chart with which ones he likes... maybe mixing it a bit with one you know he likes and see what happens. By now I'm sure you realized you're no longer the boss, right? Good luck! -- rach OOOHHHHH YEEAH!, my cat is 5 yrs. old. Learned sometime ago who was the boss. LOL -- Paul O. |
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".oO rach Oo." wrote in message ... I feel your pain! My two kitties are picky like that as well. My advice is, just get what he wants. It's not worth the aggro. We've started getting a can or two of different flavours each time we go to the pet store and tracking it on a chart. The brand we get seems to have every variety under the sun. Since neither cat like left overs, it has to be the small tins, three times a day - which they share half each. Keep a chart with which ones he likes... maybe mixing it a bit with one you know he likes and see what happens. By now I'm sure you realized you're no longer the boss, right? Good luck! -- rach OOOHHHHH YEEAH!, my cat is 5 yrs. old. Learned sometime ago who was the boss. LOL -- Paul O. |
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Subject: Picky eater
Path: lobby!ngtf-m01.news.aol.com!ngpeer.news.aol.com!feed2.newsrea der.com!news reader.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfee d.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!pr odigy.com!newsmst01a.new s.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!p ostmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr29.news.prodigy .com.POSTED!aed9806e!not -for-mail From: "Paul O." Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Lines: 16 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.127.101.47 X-Complaints-To: X-Trace: newssvr29.news.prodigy.com 1090064456 ST000 67.127.101.47 (Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:40:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:40:56 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: TSU[@IONZBRKBRTXBJIROFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RSAANVUEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NB FXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_ M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:40:56 GMT How do you best handle a very picky eater. My little buddie was a dry food eater till his problems of a few weeks ago. Since then have been able to get him to eat can food. Started him on Iams and he only would eat the chicken and turkey. He would have nothing to do with any of the other flavors. Now he just wants the chicken, turns his nose up at the turkey. What to do if and when he decides he doesn't want the chicken anymore? This is getting ridiculous. I'm sitting here this morning with a cat that won't leave me alone cause he is hungry, I assume, and all there is, is turkey till we go Your cat is running you when you should be running him. When he gets hungry enough, he'll eat. I've even heard-tell that cats will eat soggy food that has been sitting in water for days. You'll figure it out. IBen Getiner |
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Subject: Picky eater
Path: lobby!ngtf-m01.news.aol.com!ngpeer.news.aol.com!feed2.newsrea der.com!news reader.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfee d.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!pr odigy.com!newsmst01a.new s.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!p ostmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr29.news.prodigy .com.POSTED!aed9806e!not -for-mail From: "Paul O." Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav Lines: 16 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.127.101.47 X-Complaints-To: X-Trace: newssvr29.news.prodigy.com 1090064456 ST000 67.127.101.47 (Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:40:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 07:40:56 EDT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: TSU[@IONZBRKBRTXBJIROFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RSAANVUEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NB FXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_ M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:40:56 GMT How do you best handle a very picky eater. My little buddie was a dry food eater till his problems of a few weeks ago. Since then have been able to get him to eat can food. Started him on Iams and he only would eat the chicken and turkey. He would have nothing to do with any of the other flavors. Now he just wants the chicken, turns his nose up at the turkey. What to do if and when he decides he doesn't want the chicken anymore? This is getting ridiculous. I'm sitting here this morning with a cat that won't leave me alone cause he is hungry, I assume, and all there is, is turkey till we go Your cat is running you when you should be running him. When he gets hungry enough, he'll eat. I've even heard-tell that cats will eat soggy food that has been sitting in water for days. You'll figure it out. IBen Getiner |
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"Paul O." wrote in message . com...
How do you best handle a very picky eater. There is nobody on earth as "pussy" whipped as I am by my four fur-babies, but I have to say this is one area where I put my foot down (as I did with my non-furry kids). I give them the food that is best for them, no junk food at ALL! If they don't eat that, they go hungry, and believe me, they won't voluntarily go hungry for long. When my daughter was very small I used to worry about her being so tiny and not eating, no matter what I offered her. So, I went to my peditrician for help. My peditrician told me, and I quote, "In my 27 years of practice I have never seen a healthy child, when offered food, deliberately starve himself to death. Offer her nutritious food and nothing else and eventually she will eat." I did, she did, and she has never had a health problem or an eating disorder since. The same holds true for cats. They're great actors, will make you think they're starving to death and will only revive if you give them what they like, but, if they're healthy, they will not deliberately starve themselves to death. Determine for yourself the most nutirtionally sound food for your cat, offer that and only that, then just sit back and wait until the cat decides that going hungry is not going to get it what it wants. I once read a story of a cat who was trapped in a house after a family moved and left him and he survived for over a month be eating bird seed!!! If a cat will eat bird seed to survive, I'm sure they'll resign themselves to eating something that's good for them. Hugs, CatNipped CatMom to: Bandit, (a.k.a. "Bitch Cat From Hell"), 14, DLH Tabby Demi, (a.k.a. "Ghost Cat"), 5, DLH Pure White Beauty Jessie, (a.k.a. "Jet Ski"), 4, DSH Tortoiseshell Samantha / Sammy, (a.k.a. "Mini Me"), 2 ½ months, DLH Tabby http://www.gcmensa.org/Cats.html (Jessie, Demi, Bandit) http://www.gcmensa.org/Sammy/ (Sammy) http://www.gcmensa.org/Sammy2/ (All my fur babies) |
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