Thread: Changing food

I will be interested to see any advice given nj.

I havea similar problem atm. A couple of weeks on junk food (whiskas pouches) and my kitten is being a major fusspot about eating better quality food that he previously gobbled up voraciously.

I had the opposite experience though. The poo is much less stinky on decent food than on the cheap stuff.

I would try some other foods similar to the bozita? It seems to read as a pretty good quality food

Thanks for the reply. I'm at a bit of a loss to be honest - I had read the same as you that better food results in less and less smell. Maybe Bozita just isn't right for them which seems a shame because they wolf it down.

It might just be too rich for their tummies too? You could always change/leave it for a few more weeks and try again. Or you could feed a blend of the old food and the new food on a sliding ratio for a week or two say start at 30% Bozita/70% Felix and ramp it up to all bozita if that makes sense

I think I have nutted out my kitties issue - he doesn't like anything with turkey flavour. I thought it was the pate style he didn't like but a process of observation has revealed the issue Shame about the $10 worth of turkey flavoured cans I'm sitting on grrr!

It's definitely worth getting them eating better food though. Mickey returned hs 2 lowest weight gains the second and third weeks he was on the whiskas (165gm and 200gm) One week back on better food and his weight gain was 300gm!

Progress!

Upping the Bozita (75% Bozita / 25% Felix) has helped no-end so hopefully it was the Felix that was causing the upset. I'm hoping to have phased it out completely by the end of the week. The smell over the last 36 hours has been much reduced and they're both seeming a bit more regular in their habits.

On to the next problem - he has a bit of a habit of treading on it after he (or his sister) are done - looking around I think there are enough people that have raised this online that have had the same problem, so I'm much less worried by it. Baby wipes are now strategically positioned throughout the house to make sure there are no traces!