My kitten is 12 weeks old. We got him when he was 4 weeks. His mom abandoned him. I bottle fed him KMR, but when we started wet food he wouldn't eat it. I mixed it with the KMR and he was okay with it, but to this day he won't eat wet food or dry food.
We started cooking chicken for him and occasionally giving him tuna. We tried mixing wet with dry, we tried putting tuna juice from can on dry, we tried just dry or just wet. He does not want to eat his food. So he still gets chicken or tuna, but mostly chicken. I know they say to just put some dry out and when he is hungry he will eat, but I'll go 8 hours or more without giving him any chicken and he still doesn't touch the cat food. What should I do.
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If your cat will only eat chicken then I would do this:
I have a list of things I use for picky eaters. Some I have learned from Vets and some I just stumbled on.
Number one is all meat baby food in a jar (beef or chicken). Another is Fancy Feast can cat food. A lot of cats will eat this over any other canned food. Hartz Mountain Delectables Bisque is kind of a tuna slurry (at Wallyworld).
Another good one is b.f.f. tuna and beef babycakes in a pouch (higher end pet stores). If your kitty still will only eat chicken and tuna, that is not so bad. Cats are obligate carnivores. Most of the other stuff in canned and dry food is not doing them much good.
You can get cat vitamins on the internet if you feel meat alone isn't good. My 12-year-old cat has eaten only chicken (raw + some skin and bones and eggs) his entire life. I prepare the food from a recipe from my Vet. He is thriving. Good luck
I would add the food you want him to eat in very small increments. When he starts eating that percentage of food, add a tiny bit more to the chicken.
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