Hi everyone! So... I plan out my wet food for the kitties well, and always have enough to last the week and then some. However, I forgot to pick up dry food and didn't realize there wasn't more in the cabinet (could've sworn I had half a bag left! lol)
Long story short, I was too lazy to run to the pet store yesterday since I cleaned all day for my grandparents and was exhausted. So Ellie and Tootsie have been without dry all day yesterday, and now today as well.
Of course they're both acting like they are starving to death. :roll: Ellie is laying by the area where her dry used to be and just staring, then coming and mewing at me. They've eaten their first serving of wet food and now just keep going looking for more food, only to find an empty plate haha.
They usually only get 1/4-1/2 cup a day (to share between them both), and then are fed about 4.5oz (9oz altogether, 4.5 for each cat) of wet each a day, split in 3 servings. This may seem like a lot of wet considering they also get dry, but keep in mind they tend to waste a lot of the wet. Certain times they gobble it up, other times it just sits and gets licked.
Do you think it's fine to just cut them off from dry altogether, instantly, like I inadvertently did? Or should I buy another bag today and just slowly wean them off? The only thing I worry about is making sure they're both eating enough. Tootsie is 6 months old, Ellie is a year and a half old. Some days Ellie would eat more dry, other days Tootsie would, and the other would eat more wet. But sometimes Ellie just licks the gravy of the wet and walks away, so I worry one is eating too much while the other isn't enough. They both like grazing on their wet food, so it's hard to see who is eating what at a time.
Thanks!
Sorry for typing a book about dry food... haha I tend to over-worry!
Long story short, I was too lazy to run to the pet store yesterday since I cleaned all day for my grandparents and was exhausted. So Ellie and Tootsie have been without dry all day yesterday, and now today as well.
Of course they're both acting like they are starving to death. :roll: Ellie is laying by the area where her dry used to be and just staring, then coming and mewing at me. They've eaten their first serving of wet food and now just keep going looking for more food, only to find an empty plate haha.
They usually only get 1/4-1/2 cup a day (to share between them both), and then are fed about 4.5oz (9oz altogether, 4.5 for each cat) of wet each a day, split in 3 servings. This may seem like a lot of wet considering they also get dry, but keep in mind they tend to waste a lot of the wet. Certain times they gobble it up, other times it just sits and gets licked.
Do you think it's fine to just cut them off from dry altogether, instantly, like I inadvertently did? Or should I buy another bag today and just slowly wean them off? The only thing I worry about is making sure they're both eating enough. Tootsie is 6 months old, Ellie is a year and a half old. Some days Ellie would eat more dry, other days Tootsie would, and the other would eat more wet. But sometimes Ellie just licks the gravy of the wet and walks away, so I worry one is eating too much while the other isn't enough. They both like grazing on their wet food, so it's hard to see who is eating what at a time.
Thanks!
Sorry for typing a book about dry food... haha I tend to over-worry!
