catladyintraining
Savannah Adult
I got George a few months ago, and it was shortly after he had a food scare, he suddenly and unnoticed by his previous owner stopped eating his dry food. When they noticed, the vet gave him fluids and he was put on wet food (yuck Friskies gravy) and his liver had started to get bad. When I got him he had nasty runny poop and was vomiting between meals so I upped his meals to 4 a day and had him on 3 oz cans. That seemed about right, he's roughly 12 lbs now. After a little bit he started eating 4 5.5 oz cans a day because he would cry for more food after he ate the 3oz cans. He would act as though he was starving between meals.
I switched him recently from Soulistic chicken to Stella's Chick Chick Chicken and he was doing amazing..I was going to go with the canned and freeze dried raw but he started refusing the canned and running to where I make the raw...it was great for a week but yesterday he just suddenly didn't eat as much. He's playing, he's spunky (chasing my poor 10 yr old ragdoll mix around biting her neck from behind like he thinks he can do something with her..they are both fixed) but he isn't eating as much. His poop smells like flowers and look like they should (well not flowers but not like death either) I put about 15 Stella nuggets in the bowl 4 times a day like he used to want to eat and he will eat it but not as enthusiastically as he was before.
I have cases of food we have gone through that he has loved and left behind and I am more invested in getting him on the Stella and Chewy's than the rest because I can control the water and I can put as little/lot in there as he seems to want and I know its really healthy but the sudden drop in appetite has me a little worried. He's done this before and then I switched flavors on the canned foods and he was great again. Is this normal? I ordered some different flavors of the Stella's to see if rotating that will help but with him getting so sick before from refusing food with previous owner, I know he can wait it out a long time and so I am afraid to test the "outwait him" method. Is this normal? Maybe he pigged out to get his weight up to normal and now he's just on maintenance? Any thoughts would be greatly welcome.
I switched him recently from Soulistic chicken to Stella's Chick Chick Chicken and he was doing amazing..I was going to go with the canned and freeze dried raw but he started refusing the canned and running to where I make the raw...it was great for a week but yesterday he just suddenly didn't eat as much. He's playing, he's spunky (chasing my poor 10 yr old ragdoll mix around biting her neck from behind like he thinks he can do something with her..they are both fixed) but he isn't eating as much. His poop smells like flowers and look like they should (well not flowers but not like death either) I put about 15 Stella nuggets in the bowl 4 times a day like he used to want to eat and he will eat it but not as enthusiastically as he was before.
I have cases of food we have gone through that he has loved and left behind and I am more invested in getting him on the Stella and Chewy's than the rest because I can control the water and I can put as little/lot in there as he seems to want and I know its really healthy but the sudden drop in appetite has me a little worried. He's done this before and then I switched flavors on the canned foods and he was great again. Is this normal? I ordered some different flavors of the Stella's to see if rotating that will help but with him getting so sick before from refusing food with previous owner, I know he can wait it out a long time and so I am afraid to test the "outwait him" method. Is this normal? Maybe he pigged out to get his weight up to normal and now he's just on maintenance? Any thoughts would be greatly welcome.