Today the cats and Sadie officially start their new diet. The cats are being transitioned to a prey-model diet, and Sadie will be getting “frankenprey” or as close to prey as I can get. The rats will stick on their HT and Suebees, but depending on how well the transition goes with the cats, they may be getting some Welness and Felidea as a treat.
As I type, Sadie is enjoying a turkey neck. She was apprehensive at first when I gave her one last night, but it was frozen still. After it’s thawed more and closer to room temp, she started chewing on it and now she’s eating it happily.
The cats are having a bit more trouble, which is to be expected. Last night they had no interest in the Nature’s Variety raw food I bought to try. I don’t know if they will get excited by the prey-model I will use more than the ground up stuff I started with. They didn’t eat it when I put it in their bowls, so I added a few pieces of dry in each chunk to get them to try it. They didn’t eat that either. So I mashed it up a lot, pour dry on top, and pushed the dry into the ground. They got about 1oz of raw, 1 oz of dry each. They started to eat the dry.
Felix apparently found the raw and liked it. When he jumped down from his breakfast, only dry food was left in the bowl. Bear on the other hand was much more picky and I think he got a few bits of raw, but still liked his dry better. I dumped what was left and cleaned the bowls really well. They still need to eat dinner so I’ll try 1oz raw each first, and if they still are not interested, add the dry. It won’t hurt Bear to lose a bit of weight but Felix is underweight still. Luckily Felix seems interested.
It’s funny because Bear will eat almost anything he isn’t supposed to, but gets picky about his “food”. What goes in the bowl apparently doesn’t have the anything-goes rule. Bear has eaten all kinds of paper and cardboard, he ate drywall, carpet, he’ll eat screws if you let him. Any human food of course he wants it. However, Felix’s favorite snack is one thing Bear will not eat - Jalapeno Cheddar Cheetos - Felix steals them from his dad.
Later today Lizzie’s mom is taking us to a grocer where we can get good meat for Sadie and maybe the cats. I will need to find a source for the cat’s food. I found some online sites but of course they are expensive plus shipping! So we’ll keep looking, and I’ll keep offering them new foods.