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Feeling pretty crappy ...
You know how cats are picky eaters?
Well, when Oscar started refusing her wet food, I figured it was because I'd given her dry food while we went on several overnight trips. I know that she loves kibble, so I figured she was just holding out for the dry stuff. Except she was losing weight. Well, a lot of cats lose some weight in the spring time ... I monitored her behavior carefully, and while she was eating only a few bites of her food, she was still energetic, clear-eyed, got the zoomies, etc. She didn't seem like a cat who was suffering from starvation or any other illness, except that she was getting pretty skinny. I even tried poking a few kibble into her wet food to stimulate her appetite; not much luck. Well, this weekend, I finally went and bought some other flavors of wet food, to see if maybe it was just this flavor. As soon as I served up something other than the cans I'd been feeding her, she fell to like a lumberjack eating a hearty meal of pancakes before a long day's work. Or maybe like a starving cat. Now I feel really sh*tty because I should have realized that something was wrong. Oscar's an indoor kitty, so it's not like she can go hunting if she doesn't like the meals. I had thought she'd eaten this flavor she's rejecting before, but now I'm thinking I misremembered. I got it because it's not seafood -- she much prefers the seafood, and I worry about mercury. She's pretty impressed with a pheasant food (I would never have guessed that, but the lady at my pet store gave me a free can to try), but that has rice in it, and I try to stay away from carb-y foods for her ... Sigh. Monique, cat-starver =/ |
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