Getting cats to eat canned food?

Answer 1

"Need to," no. It is an option, of course, but unless there is a special dental or digestive concern, there is no need. There is less nutrition in canned food than dry generally by volume, too, so can create more abundant waste. Of course not! Both canned food and kibble food for either sex of dog. Both types of food are great for dogs.

Answer 2

Getting a cat to eat canned food can be very easy or quite challenging, depending on how fussy the cat is with food. Some cats will take to a new food immediately, while others require time and patience to get used to a different food.

For a cat that has been fed dry food all its life, or for the majority, it can be tricky to get a cat onto a better diet. A lot of dry food contains strong flavours, and more flavouring and fats are sprayed onto each biscuit to make it irresistible to the cat, even if the food contains very little meat and other nutrients a cat needs.

There are a few methods to entice cats into eating more wet food:

• Add a little canned food to the cat's old food (whether it be dry or wet food). You can gradually start to mix a little more of the new food, and decrease the old. This can take some time, anywhere between a week to even a month for really fussy cats.
• Add the cat's favourite food to the mix, or just to the new food. Many cats cannot resist smelly foods such as oily fish. Chicken is also ideal.
• The smellier the food, the more enticing it is. Even warming up the new food may do the trick.
• Try getting the cat to eat a low-quality wet food such as Whiskas at first, if getting a cat off a dry food diet. Even lower-quality wet foods are preferable to a lot of dry food brands, due to the amount of filler (corn, cereals, wheat, soy etc.) in them. Generally, wet food has far less of these ingredients. Once the cat is on wet food, it becomes much easier to switch to a much better brand that has plenty of meat in.
• Give your cat "tough love". Take away the dry or old food completely and replace with the new. This can work with some cats, but others will prefer to starve themselves than eat a different food. Never let your cat go without food for more than 48 hours. Less if the cat is overweight or otherwise unhealthy. Personally, I do not recommend this method, unless your cat isn't very fussy with food changes.

As with all food changes, be sure to try and change the food over slowly to avoid any stomach upsets, and to be patient with particularly fussy eaters. Wet food is preferable over dry, due to a much higher moisture content (many cats do not drink enough on their own - even when fed on dry food) and it is much easier to find brands that are grain-free and have several named meat sources on the ingredients list.

Answer 3

yes because they need a balanced diet like humans