I went to Sainsburys a week or so ago to get some of the Lily's Chicken. It was a good price, and I bought loads. 21 packs, which should havebenen enough to finish the transition. Except things didn't work out as planned. .
When I got it home, I realised it wasn't Lily's Chicken whatever. It was Lily's Organic Chicken something else. They did not want to know. They refused anything that was mixed with this stuff.
At first we assumed it was the raw they were objecting to. We tried them on just the Organic Chicken and they wouldn't touch it.
DH ended up feeding them just the raw food. And they ate it. All of it. Since then, they have been served only Nutriment. They eat the chicken, they tolerate the rabbit, they won't go near the salmon or the venison.
They are currently eating about 1 and a half of the 175g packs a day, between them. I've had to get a system going so that we always have a defrosted pack ready to serve, but we don't have lots of defrosted packs sitting in the fridge. They like it fresh.
We're lucky that there is a company that specialises in raw food and they deliver to our area. I I think we'll end up getting a fortnightly delivery for a while.
Yesterday we decided to give them a treat, and I offered them a defrosted chicken heart, which is one of the additional Nutriment things that are suitable for kittens. . They tried to eat it, but just couldn't manage it, so I cut it in half. It took them ages to eat, but they seemed to really like them. I gave them another half each today, and they devoured those. Again, it took a lot of eating, and Shelby speared hers on one paw, and held it up like a kebab to try and eat it. It was good to see her natural behaviours showing as she worked out how to eat it.
They aso have access to dry food, as Izzy likes dry food. We're using Lily's dry kitten food, and only put down small amounts at a time. All 3 cats eat it.
They are growing well. and now are the size of small cats (although they still have kitten faces). Shelby weighed in a over 2.2kg this morning, and Lewis was just over 2.3kg.
