I have a practical problem and would like some advice.
We’re currently fostering a mother cat and 5 kittens for a rescue charity in our spare room. Mum is lovely but too skinny (admittedly my own cats are a bit porky so my judgement is skewed) so I’m keen to feed her up. However she is really
A) fussy and prefers posh food, especially kitten food, and lots of variety (if it were my cats I’d shrug and say “like it or lump it” but I’m more paranoid about making sure this one eats enough)
B) given to bouts of diarrhoea when she eats a variety of rich food, especially wet kitten food.
We’ve had her on a diet of plain ready cooked chicken and turkey and dry kitten food for the past couple of days which has sorted out her stomach but she’s getting bored of it and starting to go on hunger strike again. We can put her back on a diet of Sheba and hope for the best, but the kittens want to start eating solid food and if we put any wet food down for them she will scarf it.
Any advice? We can’t feed any of them in different rooms because they have to be kept separate from our own cats.
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Underweight fussy mum cat with sensitive stomach, weaning kittens, how to organise
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AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 16/06/2018 09:34
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