Hi All

I'm looking for some advice. One of our girls is a VERY fussy eater, she won't entertain biscuits at all, we've tried everything to get her to eat them but she would quite literally rather starve. So...we have been feeding her Hills Science Plan Kitten meat (tinned). This has been very good and her stools have been nice and solid so it's obviously not upsetting her stomach but they only have one flavour (Chicken) which she now seams to have gone off to the point where she's hardly eating.

We have tried her on other tinned meats, which she seams to love and eat lots of, but her stools are very loose, these have been your standard super market meats like whiskers etc. We wouldn't keep her on these long term, we only really tried them to see if she would eat something different, it was really to confirm that it was the food that was a problem and not the she was poorly.

So, can anyone suggest a good quality tinned kitten meat that we can purchase in the UK? I would consider raw but I really don't know how to prepare it, or how to vary the diet enough to make sure they are getting everything they need and I'd be devastated if I prepared it incorrectly and made them ill.

Many Thanks
Heidi

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Heidi

Hi Heidi

I too have a similar problem, they hardly eat their biscuits at all. Since we picked Zeus and Hestia up quite a while ago now, we started off feeding them whiskas and tuna. Their stools were fine of the tuna but as you mention, not very solid of the cat food. They just were not interested in the biscuits, which i think is mainly due to them finding it too hard to digest when they was young kittens. Although we tried them on Royal Canin Baby Cat which is quite small and they would have a few mouthfuls here and there but never really took to it.

We also have tried the Hills Science tinned food, but they are not keen on at that at all. They will only eat felix and occasionally whiskas, although gradually as they get older they are beginning to eat more dried food. The dried food they like best is the James Wellbeloved.

I too am curious on the raw diet, but sceptical about giving it too them.

I tell what they do love though, Boiled chicken, they cannot get enough of it. They get it as a treat more than a meal and absolutely love it.

Anyway please let me know if you find something that works and that they love, as there just doesn't seem to be enough kitten food about and i think the adult stuff would be far too rich for their stomachs.