Thread: Chicken Hater !!

Hi Grace,

We did a bit of research on tuna and our vet also told us that tuna has a high oil and "metal" content which can disagree with the kittens tummy.
Apparently (I may be corrected), the Tuna in tinned cat food is processed differently to "human" tinned Tuna.

We looked into this after giving tuna to our previous cat and it gave him a "runny bottom" every time!! We have also discoverd that if we gave tuna based cat food to our younger girl kittens they suffered the same problem.

As for the weight issue, when we had Little Dot at 26 weeks old, in May, she was 1.8Kg. She now tips the scales at just over 4Kg!!

Hope this helps.

If she really loves tuna then for sure deff.go onto the proper cat food ones.You might be lucky & she will eat the tinned Felix etc ones or you might find you have to go for the smaller more expensive ones that look & smell more like the human version.You may not find these in kitten form but I have always put my babes onto adult wet pretty quickly,the first ones went onto them as soon as they arrived here & the last two were changed over pretty quickly too.They all had nutri plus gel as well for some extra vitamins seeing they were not on kitten food,by the time I had gone through a tube of that I then started on SF-50 powder & continued with that until they were about 18 months old,might be good for your little girl if you feel she is a bit underweight anyway,especially the nutri,could just give her a boost. Feed her little & often so she doesn't overload & give herself the runs,make sure her worming program is right up to date & then just keep giving us updates on her progress along with photos please....x

Thanks very much for reply's ,i did read a bit about dot's story unfortunately couldnt get link to work but i got the gist of the story ,she is a little miracle and a credit to you steve ,as for the runs since her wormer and jab at 13 weeks i have struggled with soft to soft/little bit runny poos over last 3 weeks ,they are formed but dont half smell ,not 100% sure tho that it aint the royal canin causing this and maybe it is a bit too rich for her, but she is very active and at most i get 2 poos a day but i have been messing about with her food a bit adding some wet and chicken breast etc ,i will continue with the little and often feeding and will definately buy some extra nutri powders ,i will introduce some fish based adult food as she seems to favour the fishy varietys and let you know how i get on and i will add some pics ..

thanks very much again for help guys much appreciated
Grace & willow

Hi Grace
My 3 refuse point blank to eat chicken too, and have done since they took over the house last March! I really struggle to find good quality wet food that they like, they always seem to prefer our old fella's food & will try to nick it if they possibly can - no good for them as it's for seniors. About 6 months ago I tried Schesir Kitten food from Zooplus ... they refuse the chicken but adore the tuna. It looks and smells like 'human' tuna, but obviously has added goodies for kittens. They have at least a sachet a day with kibbles and rarely leave any... perhaps worth trying some of that for your little girl?

I would try to get her eating good quality adult wet food.
The best stuff is on Zooplus, a lot of it made in Germany, and grain-free.
There is a lot of grain in kibble which just goes straight through them, hence smellly poos.

As for her weight vs. the comparison charts, don't worry about how 'far behind' she is. As long as she's putting on weight steadily, which she clearly is doing, she's fine. Looking forward to seeing pictures! x

Little bit of a break through today i hope ,went to pets@home which due to where we live it is the only petshop within miles and is still a 20 mile round trip ,but bought a small bag of hills science plan dry food mainly because it had tuna in it ,lil willow seems to like it a lot more than the rc36 & rc34 which i still think is the main problem with slightly soft/runny poo and with her not that keen on eating it ,i have also ordered a tube of nutri plus gel as a supplement hopefully should be here start of next week by which time i hope to have her weaned over to the hills and see how that fairs before we start looking for a wet diet to compliment a kibbles food she will enjoy ,i have not heard many great things about hills science but at this stage i would be so happy to just see her enjoying her food a bit ,hopefully the fish route is the answer & a wet diet would possibly be even better again ,starting to feel like im operating a science lab here with digital scales, round bowls & bags of different food everywhere ,i can see a growth graph chart on the horizon as well (hides head in shame)

many thanks for all your replys ive posted a few pics taken just now while i could get her to sit still
Grace & willow

She's absolutely beautiful Grace! The second pic is adorable :-)

Wow, she's utterly gorgeous! What a beautiful smiley expression she has. Such a pretty girl - bet you are smitten!

Thank you so much for the lovely comments ,she is spoilt rotten by us all, my 7 year old adores her and my OH goes all gooey around her it's very funny ,im working on him and maybe a companion for her in the very near future looks promising ,i have been showing him the stunning guy's & gals in the members gallery and he laughs at the thought of a massive male to scare the postman with (typical bloke)
Had a bit of a set back this evening tho and had a poor little kitty who needed a bath after a runny bot ,we are convinced now that this rich dry food isn't agreeing with her and as we are already in the crap so to speak its time to switch to a wet diet ,sent OH to get some Hi-Life ocean variety the high meat content one and will be introducing it over next few days until she is on it solely then possibly try adding small amounts of dry as a filler later on once her lil tum has settled down ,as like many others i have read about hanging around the litter tray with a baby wipe and a possible visit to the washing bowl aint much of a life for the poor thing or us :(

Hate seeing her with an upset tum altho you would never know it she tears around the house and is full of energy ,hope this fixes the lil lass

Grace&willow