Picky Eating

Yes. Mixing wet and dry in the same bowl, or feeding wet at one meal and dry at another, is a perfectly reasonable way to combine the higher hydration of wet fo…

For cats prone to food fatigue, rotating between two or three proteins or formats works well: chicken one week, fish the next, then back. More than three option…

They can help in two ways. Aromatic toppers (warm broth, a sprinkle of freeze-dried meat, a teaspoon of plain wet food over kibble) make the meal smell more int…

Often yes. Cats decide a lot about food by smell, and aroma comes off food more strongly at body temperature than cold from the fridge. Warming wet food to arou…

Usually not. Leaving food out all day (free-feeding) means your cat is never genuinely hungry at any single moment, which makes her less interested in any parti…

Cats can develop food fatigue, where a long-time favorite gradually loses its appeal, especially with wet foods served the same way every day. Other possibiliti…

Yes, more than people expect. Deep narrow bowls compress a cat’s whiskers as she eats, often called whisker discomfort or whisker stress, and some cats respond …

Two things tend to be going on. First, food at the bottom of a deep bowl often goes stale faster as cats stir it, especially wet food. Second, deep narrow bowls…

Cats often prefer the gravy or topping part of wet food because it carries the strongest aroma and the most volatile flavor compounds, and cats decide a lot abo…