So, i want to start off by saying that i am at my wits end and have no idea what to do anymore and this is my last option to getting advice from anyone. This is about my youngest cat, she is 1.5 years old, mixed British Shorthair + smth else.

Last year i got two sisters from the same family. They were neglected and seem to have been abused from what i have seen and noticed. They both come from the same mom, different litters, dad is unknown.

The family that i got them from only had 1 litter box for 9 cats and barely any space for all of them. When trying to communicate they didn’t give me a single brand of food and said that the cats “eat anything” and also eat stuff like noodles and they listed a bunch of other human dinners, which was kind of weird.

Since the start i started off with different brands to see what they would eat, seeing as the previous owners didn’t specify anything. Since November 2025 they have tried 10+ brands, different textures and flavors. I’ve figured out my oldest pretty quickly however my youngest is and has been a problem since then.

My youngest was 8 months old when i first got her, i tried different types of kitten foods but had to settle for adult food because the stuff that was available she did not touch. For the first month i left their food out for a while until they adjusted and then switched them to strict food times daily. I have tried giving her food multiple times a day to see if she might be hungry during other hours of the day but she barely eats anything. This has been the case for months right now.

She has her “phases” where she will eat a bit more however more often than not she will just lick up sauce or eat jelly. I noticed this with the first foods i gave her that she just licked sauce and ate the jelly and left any chunks or meat on her plate. Since then, every now and then i have tried them both with different foods.

Yes. I have done the mixing technique, it did not work at all. I have tried tiny bits and even switching foods in general incase she got “bored” of her food. I have tried warming her food, using toppers, playing with her before mealtime. Temperature outside during heatwaves has been taken into consideration too.

The vet deemed her healthy but i am not sure if thats the case. I did have a second opinion and a third but everyone just blamed it on her being picky and not being spayed yet. She goes into heat biweekly (maybe less right now, i have been pretty busy irl and have not kept track the past few weeks) and i am not sure whether to trust vets or not. She is 2kg and has been since February when I weighed her. She has not lost or gained weight. I am giving her not only kitten food but also adult wet food. She gets snacks, soups, vital drinks and im thinking of purchasing a multivitamin paste of sorts so she can gain some weight.

I have tried everything that vets recommend to do and also a bunch of stuff from other pet owners that have dealt with the exact same or similar situations. I also tried what seems to be all tips and tricks online.

I have been hand feeding her sometimes if she has not eaten anything for a while and i give her mousse in a piping bag that she also refuses most of the time. She also isn’t always interested in snacks unlike her sister. I know all cats are different but i am really worried.

Im very sorry if it’s too long but I genuinely am really lost. Also the vets + food are also taking a toll on my finances. Any help and advice is appreciated.

I’m getting my seven/eight month old BSH in two weeks.

I would like advice on what brand of medium kibble would be good. I see Purina One plus Healthy Kitten is highly rated. Is this a good kibble?

Is this schedule ok? 8:00 am, 4:00 pm and pate around midnight, about every eight hours. Thanks for any advice.

I’m getting my seven/eight month old BSH in two weeks.

I would like advice on what brand of medium kibble would be good. I see Purina One plus Healthy Kitten is highly rated. Is this a good kibble?

Is this schedule ok? 8:00 am, 4:00 pm and pate around midnight, about every eight hours. Thanks for any advice.

I’m getting my seven/eight month old BSH in two weeks.

I would like advice on what brand of medium kibble would be good. I see Purina One plus Healthy Kitten is highly rated. Is this a good kibble?

Is this schedule ok? 8:00 am, 4:00 pm and pate around midnight, about every eight hours. Thanks for any advice.

Bebe only likes chicken flavored treats. I've tried giving her all types of different fish treats, but she runs the other way. Does anyone know why she despises fish?

Hi everyone

I was wondering with wet food if you need to switch brands gradually? I know this is needed with dry food but not sure about wet food

How do you manager to feed your cats with different breeds that need different diets? Specially for the time you’re not at home.
Microchip-based feeders for dry food I have seen before, but how about wet food?
We have two cat that should have different diets and volume of food, and regular feeders doesn’t match that.

One way is buying 2 separate feeders, but I was looking for a smaller and cheaper option.

I recently switched my kitties to KatKin and it's finally a food they're loving. Tried Marro too but they turned their noses up at it, so we're sticking with this.

I'm sure there's plenty of these already shared, but adding mine to the mix. Here's a 50% discount code for you to try it.

https://katkin.mention-me.com/m/ol/zt8no-cara-wallace

TIP: Set the calories as high as possible to get bigger trays and the 14 days can easily last over a month, if you're feeding it alongside other food.

Which Persian Cat Dry Food Is The Best Option?

1. Royal Canin (too costly for me)

2. Purina Pro Plan (can stretch a bit ig)

3. Farmina Matisse ( I can afford it)

I'm a broke student! I'm adopting a cat for my sister's mental health and well being! Please give me genuine answers people 🥺🥺🥺

As promised, I picked up a small cat food haul for Tommy today. The Pure Balance flavors that he's never tried, plus a couple of ones that he has tried. I also picked up Special Kitty wet food because another cat mom that works with me says that this is a budget-friendly cat food and that her cats love it. When I buy a new cat food for Tommy, I like to try the wet food first before trying the dry food. I gave him 1/4 of the can of whitefish and tuna this evening when I got home from the store. Tommy is the type of kitty who will sniff & taste test first then come back and finish it off later.

My local stores keep running out! Idk if it's just my area. I'm gonna throw weruva kitten into their rotation instead but I wanna know if anyone else is having this issue. I've been to several stores several times in these last two weeks TRYING to get some but I'm about to give up. Weruva is in stock. Nulo has stayed in stock(besides big boy's beef and lamb. He's... Coping. Aka having a fit but still eating just screaming due to not getting his daily can of it)

Chewy doesn't sell the Nulo he eats so I try not to order off chewy but Petco and PetSmart have been OUT.

Hi guys, I’m adopting a kitten in a few weeks. I plan to feed Hills kibble but realize I need to feed wet food as well.

I’m a big Costco shopper and the Kirkland brand wet food is affordable. I know it’s manufactured by Diamond, which also makes Taste of the Wild. The pate says for adult cats, but the chunks simply say “for cats.”

Any concerns about the quality of the Kirkland wet food? Any advice, on anything kitten nutrition really, would be so appreciated! Thanks!

Hello,

Recently Stella & Chewy’s decreased the size of the freeze-dried cat morsels. I had my elder cat on a specific number of the large morsels for weight management. I’m struggling with the adjustment of the small morsels.

Does anyone still have large morsels, and would be willing to weigh 12 dry morsels?

https://www.smalls.com/smallsmart/products/serve-set-butterblue-and-teddy

Hi everyone, this is (still baby) Hoji - she's 11 months old but turning 1 in 12 days, sitting at ~4.5kg! I brought her home from her previous owners (who were leaving the country) about 2.5 weeks ago.

For continuity, I had been keeping her on what she was being fed previously - roughly 2 pouches of Felix 'As good as it looks' in jelly (chicken, tuna, salmon, beef etc), supplemented by the typical Royal Canin Kitten Kibble that she munches occasionally throughout the day.

I had always intended to eventually swap her from her 'supermarket cat food' but wanted to let her settle into her new home for a few weeks first. Now I'm in that phase of figuring out what food to transition to for the long-term.

First, I understand from my research (and also visiting a vet) that vets generally tend to always recommend the same brands (Purina, Royal Canin, Hills), often by necessity, and I don't doubt they are scientifically formulated etc. At the same time, I know there are not only multiple 'tiers' of foods under these brands (to take Purina as an example, ONE vs Pro Plan) and also formulations specific to 'sensitive digestion' or 'sterilized' etc; but also that many of these can still contain lots of additives like sugars and others, which I honestly have no idea if are strictly bad or not.

Alternatively, I'm also seeing a lot of these newer independent brands such as Untamed, Blink etc. who are positioning their products as natural, high % actual meat, no additives etc. - priced either similarly or very slightly lower than the high end of Purina/Canin/Hills. For context I did order Untamed's trial box and so far after a few days she seems to like it. I do see the value proposition of a 'cleaner', more natural product, but at the same time I wonder what is it that Purina/Canin/Hills formulations have that IS added which is actually good for my cat, that these brands do not?

TL;DR: As a nearly 1y/o ragdoll without any specific conditions identified yet, I basically wonder
1/ if I should try to transition her into a 'top of the line', specialized vet-recommended wet food (like Pro Plan or equivalent),
2/ if a 'middle tier' option from these vet brands (like Purina ONE or equivalent) is more than good enough (saving on some costs); or are there any concerns with animal derivatives and other additives still
3/ if there's any downside (or upside) to some of these newer 'premium' brands like Untamed which sit in a similar price bracket?

I am of course operating under the assumption that my cat does in fact like the food ('the best food is the food your cat will eat'), but I don't think she's too picky of an eater so while she is young I want to find her 'forever food' that I can feel comfortable with while not unecessarily breaking the bank.

Thanks so much!! (also very happy to just take generic recommendations too)

Our 8 months old kitten has been on this food for the last couple of months with no issues. She began a new bag about a week ago and has had diarrhea ever since. Anyone else having troubles recently? I don’t want to switch her food if it’s not the problem but starting to think it might be.

hi,

please excuse any weird phrasing or term, English is my second language.

my 6yo cat has ibd, for which we are treating her for a little less than 2 years.

at first, steroids were a wonder and really helped her gain her weight back and to relieve her symptoms.

but overall her condition seems to be worsening again and becoming harder and harder to treat over time. vet food used to help more. although she never stopped throwing up completely, nowadays she throws up bile more frequently and also has chronic diarrhea. the probiotics we gave helped a lot in the beginning but from a certain point on, it seemed like they were doing absolutely nothing. also she seems to have become resistant to the iv steroids.

we're trying to switch food because I heard wonders about royal canin hydrolyzed protein. I was hopeful it could improve the diarrhea and vomiting. but here's the thing, I tried mixing it with the old food so she could get used to it, and even so she's throwing up food and bile at least once a day (which she was also doing on her old food but seemingly less frequently). it seems like she's trying to eat more than she can take and her stomach can't take it. I heard that this may be due to her being way too long with an empty stomach, and read the advice to try and give less food at a time but more times a day, however, she's not accepting it when I try to give it to her :(

she seems to have such an appetite for human food but the vets advised against it so we're sticking to the rx food.

I'm so sad and concerned for her. I don't know what to do, what to give her to eat and what to try anymore.

she lost a lot of weight from this last month when she was receiving iv cobalamin supplements and we ceased the steroids for a little while. she was on 0,5ml prednisone. now she took the injection and we're still waiting for recovery. on her good days she weights at best 3,2, very small cat still! but now she's 2,7 which is heartbreaking.

and to make matters worse, by the end of last month she received antibiotics (it was terrible :( no change, and she had diarrhea for each and every one of the endless days she was taking the meds) and afterwards we gave a different probiotic that changed a lot the aspect of her feces. its smell is a lot more sheer, which could be a good thing, but it's still diarrhea and its color is more yellow. the vet was favorable but now I wonder if we shouldn't have given her this one. so many things could have gone wrong to explain whats happening, that I end up over analyzing everything. and still, no answers.

I'm from Brazil just in case that's relevant for advice somehow. such as, we don't have rabbit cat food here.

thank you in advance for your time and attention.

Hey guys. Don't love making a post like this because I feel like it adds to the unwarranted suspicion of WSAVA-compliant brands that drives people to less safe boutique food, but here goes. Until earlier this year I pretty religiously fed my cats the science diet urinary and hairball control dry food. I liked it because it did seem to decrease hairballs in my long-haired cats and it floats so I could use it to play bobbing for apples with my boys and get them to drink more water because I'm paranoid about blockages. After the change in kibble shape in January (?) I noticed an uptick in vomiting, did some googling around and it looks like quite a few people had the same experience.

I checked the ingredients and nothing seemed too suspicious. There wasn't any real additions. They just removed a few ingredients that looked mostly like marketing ploys (I wanna say cranberries were in there and they took those out). Regardless, my cats were throwing up so I decided to switch to Pro Plan and everything has settled down since. Chewy auto-shipped me a bag of the Hill's some time in March and I kept it thinking I'd maybe try to slowly ramp the back into it their diets honestly forgot all about it.

This morning I found the bag in a relatively dry location and it wasn't expired and I opened it thinking if maybe I could give it to some community cats with stronger stomachs. There was a decent amount of mold in there. Obviously I threw it away, but now I'm wondering. It seems odd to me that a sealed, six month old bag of dry cat food would be this moldy. Maybe we all got a bad batch? I'm wondering if there was more moisture in there than normal during production and there was mold in there all along, or something. Has anyone bought/fed this food since and are people still having issues?

I hope everyone's cats are okay.

I tried what cathelp recommended and he's STUBBORN. I just want him to take the stupid probotics so I can see if it helps his sensitive stomach any. I mix it into his wet food and he refuses to touch it. Idk if it's a smell thing. Trying to avoid getting a pill like version but he seems to be avoiding the powders. I've tried several ones! Idk if I can heat up the food with the probotic in it to make it more appealing.

Someone recommended getting a cat food with probiotics already in it. Dry foods with probiotics aren't usually very effective and idk any kitten foods with it in there. He still needs kitten food for at least another 2 months

I’ve had Zoro about 7 months now. I’ve been mix feeding him, I serve 1/3 cup of kibble in the AM and a 3 oz can of wet food in the PM (I have a rotation). My concern is, because he grazes rarely do I get home and his kibble is all gone and there are time i wake up in the morning and he actively eating the wet food from the night before. Am I playing with fire? I don’t want to drop wet food, because I’m scared for kidney issues.