Why does my kitten eat the jelly and leave the food?

Question

our kitten's weird. we give her whiskers kitten pouches, which she does occassionally finish. however, I've noticed all the jelly disappears and the meat is left. I know it's not too big for her cause she's eaten bigger chunks of meat before! (she's 5 months so hardly tiny)

also if I give her the meat in gravy pouches, she'll l**k off all the gravy!

total waste of money really.

is anyone else's kitten as weird as ours?

Answer 1

lol is kinda strange kitten u have there.

Answer 2

Our cat (shes not a kitty) always leaves the meat.

If you want to give your cat meat give it some leftover

meat from dinner your kitty may not like meat along

with mine.  Still you can just try to like put the meat

in the blender and liquify it.shell l**k the stuff right up!

Answer 3

If you mash the meat into the gravy / jelly she will eat it. I think the juice takes the place of drinking water. I feed my cat with pouches of Felix. She will eat some but likes it all if mashed. The GOURMET GOLD ROASTED tins are preferred by her. (Bit costly though so I sometimes add cheap cuts of cooked chicken to spread it out.) If you have the dry cat biscuits for your cat make sure you always have a bowl of fresh water as well. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Yep! I got an older female that likes the gravy more than the actual food but I'm lucky that the other cats will eat what she leaves behind so it's not wasted. They should come out with a product called "just gravy" for cats like yours and mine. You could try buying cans of beef, chicken or turkey gravy to see if your kitten like that? I tried turkey gravy on mine but she didn't like it that well the other two I didn't try but might work?

Answer 5

she probably knows it is not good quality food and won't eat anything that isn't good for her, get her some good high quality kitten food

Answer 6

Probably because it's full of artificial flavorings and junk. Why not try a higher quality wet/canned/pouched diet? Whiskas has /always/ been a low quality food!

Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to dump cheap leftovers in. Will it kill your cat? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.

Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.

Thankfully, there are some excellent cat foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.

Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Whiskas, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Meow Mix.

Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Felidae, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timber Wolf Organics.

Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less p**p!

A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Diets high in grain have been attributed to problems with diabetes in cats. Cats are obligate carnivores, so why should there be grain in their diet? Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diet's include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, and Sold Gold Indigo Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some of the high end foods can be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness and Solid Gold. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.

Remember that foods should be switched gradually, especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.

Another option for feeding cats is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:

http://www.barfworld.com/

http://www.rawfedcats.org/

http://www.rawfed.com/

http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawm...

Now the question is, do you feed wet or dry? Wet is the correct answer. The reason is, in the wild, cats normally get most of their water content directly from their prey items and drink very little. Domestic cats are no different, and because of the fact that they are designed to take in water with their meal, they have a very low thirst drive. Cats often just don't drink enough. This leads to urinary tract infections and crystals. The bit about dry food being better for teeth is a myth and has not been proven in the least. Canned/wet food is better because it more closely mimics the cat's natural diet. More on why canned food is best:

http://www.catinfo.org/  (Excellent cat nutrition information by a vet)

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canne...

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?ac...

Another option to get cats to drink more would be a cat fountain. Cats tend to like to drink from running water and cat fountains see to that need, encouraging cats to take in more water.

More:

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_... (Dog food reviews. It's for dogs, but most of the high quality brands also put out excellent cat foods. Anything with five or six stars is a great food.)