Is this right? I don’t rate my vet anyway but it’s the only one locally I have any chance of getting to in an emergency so I stick with them.
Vet said my cat is addicted to wet food and I need to cut down their consumption. He said to give 2x wet food meals a day, 1x dried food, and if possible swap 1 wet food meal to something like fresh roasted chicken or fresh fish.
My cat seems so hungry. She’s become aggressive since I’ve done this, but not sure if I need to wait it out. She’s never touched dried biscuits, I’m giving the Royal Canin ones the vet recommended (available in pets at home and similar) but she won’t eat them, she just whinges for food and scratches me and my furniture. She won’t eat fresh chicken, and has never liked any kind of fish. The chicken or whatever I give (sometimes pork, beef, even turkey or duck if I have it) with gravy sits in the bowl and she just meows for wet food. She only eats gravy cat food so I’ve been putting gravy I make on the food when I make hers. She licks the gravy off but leaves the meat.
So she’s living off 1 wet food meal a day as that is literally all she will eat.
Vet said not to give in and she’ll have to get used to the new diet.
She was overweight on just wet food and is indoor only so can see why the vets suggested a new diet but I feel guilty she’s only eating once per day, I wouldn’t like it.
Anything I can do? And is a wet food addiction even a thing in cats?
Will add here vet hasn’t physically seen my cat since March, I contacted him because cat was constantly asking for food even with wet food and he’s basing her being overweight on the last time he saw her. She’s flead and wormed regularly as in none covid times my job involves vulnerable people who may not keep their pets up to date and I could bring them home.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Join our community of cat lovers on the Mumsnet Cat forum for kitten advice and help with cat behaviour.
The litter tray
Wet food addiction?
33 replies
WetFoodCatLover · 28/10/2020 10:46
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.