Thread: Innova Evo Canned Cat Food

Originally Posted by elismom

My fella likes the Core and it's cat and kitten so we've settled on that for dry as he had no use at all for the Wellness dry kitten. He wouldn't even look at the canned Core but does like the Wellness canned kitten. You're absolutely right that there isn't much that I wouldn't do for him at this point! I just feel so guilty that it took us SO long to figure out what was wrong with him when we first got him, nearly 2 months and $1000 worth of vet bills before we got the bacteria diagnosed and treated properly, that I've tried nearly every food on the market in an effort to find something that he will chow down on and get caught up on his growth. He's a particularly fussy eater which I'm not at all accustomed to (suffice it to say that the barn cats where I board my horse are VERY well fed with his rejects and follow me around like the Pied Piper!). Anyway I'm just wondering if the amount that he's eating is sufficient in relation to what other MC kittens eat.

Can you remind me what bacterial infection he had, and did you ever determine how he likely got it?

They can catch up very rapidly. Our boy Zephyr had to have emergency surgery for intussusception at 16 weeks, and ate almost nothing for two weeks. Dropped about half a pound of weight. Within two weeks after he was back to eating "normally" his weight was back on its original track, and he is now a very big boy (20 lbs at 18mos). I say eating "normally" because it was hardly normal--he ate like a pig--would have done any dog proud. He was eating canned food probably a dozen times a day; we fed him whenever he came and begged.

Remember that the canned foods are mainly water (typically 70-80%) so they do not provide that much food value compared to dry. On the other hand, you do need to be certain they get enough water in them when eating dry, so if they eat mainly dry try to monitor their water intake (easiest by monitoring their water output ). The Wellness Core is very high protein, so they don't need as much of it as some other foods.

Here is something I posted in the weight chart thread:

I was just looking at the Zephyr info I posted, and it is interesting that there are two gaps of six weeks. Between 18 and 24 weeks he gained 2.5lbs, so .42lbs/week, while between 24 and 30 weeks (7mos) he gained 3.1lbs, so .52lbs/week. I think that is quite amazing, for a 10lbs cat to be adding half a pound a week! This appears to be his period of peak weight gain in terms of absolute weight. On the other hand, in the five weeks from 11 to 16 weeks, his weight increased by 63%, which seems rather astounding.

So your guy probably should be in a high growth period.