Cat stopped eating
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 1:48 pm
We've been feeding our bengal a raw diet. At first she absolutely loved it. Four weeks later we're coming home to untouched food in the bowl.
Took her to vets, nothing wrong with her. Vet reckons she's being fussy because she's not "hunting" for her food. But I can't exactly hide raw chicken wings and bits of liver around the house. She hates dry treats so that options out too. She is an indoor cat. We're working on harness training and building a run so she can safely go outside, and we will provide frozen chicks etc when that's ready, but we're talking months.
I was thinking of making some sort of fillable toy to put the chicken wing in and hide that for her to hunt, but my mum (who has the skills to make said toy) refuses on the basis that it wouldn't be hygienic for humans. I asked my tech savvy dad to help me make this machine I saw a guy made for his fussy cat, where you train the cat to put a ball in the machine, and the machine releases food. My dad refused and suggested I just don't feed the cat for a few days.
My family are not animal lovers, so don't understand why these options make me grit my teeth.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? She hasn't eaten for three days and I'm really worried.
Took her to vets, nothing wrong with her. Vet reckons she's being fussy because she's not "hunting" for her food. But I can't exactly hide raw chicken wings and bits of liver around the house. She hates dry treats so that options out too. She is an indoor cat. We're working on harness training and building a run so she can safely go outside, and we will provide frozen chicks etc when that's ready, but we're talking months.
I was thinking of making some sort of fillable toy to put the chicken wing in and hide that for her to hunt, but my mum (who has the skills to make said toy) refuses on the basis that it wouldn't be hygienic for humans. I asked my tech savvy dad to help me make this machine I saw a guy made for his fussy cat, where you train the cat to put a ball in the machine, and the machine releases food. My dad refused and suggested I just don't feed the cat for a few days.
My family are not animal lovers, so don't understand why these options make me grit my teeth.
Does anyone have any other suggestions? She hasn't eaten for three days and I'm really worried.