ext_48424 ([identity profile] pendamuse.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] pt_tangles 2007-01-25 07:13 pm (UTC)

Cats will not starve. Period.

If you switch them both over to a raw diet, she will eat because there is nothing else. Trust me. Think of it like cats in a tree - you know the old saying, "every see a dead cat up a tree?"

Mix her kibble with the raw food over a few weeks, gradually give her more raw and less kibble.

My cats balk when I won't give them wet food all of the time. They meow and follow me into the kitchen where I put out dry for them. They'll look at it and walk off, but after a while they do come back and eat it.

She may not eat it for a few days, or she won't eat it if you're looking, but when she gets hungry enough she will. You've had her for seven years. She'll trust you enough to not poison her.

What you can't do is cater to her finicky behavior. She'll eat what the other one eats eventually.

Can you imagine making a separate dinner for a finicky child every night? My mom didn't do it. My sisters don't do it with their kids. I don't do it with my cats.

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