| Reasons Your Cat May Not Be Eating: | | | | your cat could be reacting to the change in diet. If it |
| Stress - Cats can experience stress from even the | | | | is an outdoor cat, he may also have found food |
| simplest of changes around your home. If you | | | | elsewhere. |
| recently moved residences, cats can have difficulty | | | | There are a number of other food-related issues that |
| adjusting. Introducing a new pet into the home can | | | | could explain why your cat is not eating, and they |
| also be very stressful. Other changes around the | | | | deserve more explanation... |
| home that stress them, and possibly cause them not | | | | Cats were initially bred in Egypt, so therefore, they |
| to eat, are moving furniture in the house, or even | | | | are instinctively desert-dwellers. Since there is little |
| moving the food bowl to a new location. Cats love | | | | water in the desert, felines depend on getting their |
| routines, and any changes to those routines cause | | | | liquid nutrition (water) from their food. Sure, cats |
| stress. | | | | have been domesticated to where they will drink |
| Other Cats - Felines are very territorial, and may lose | | | | water from a bowl, but instinctively, they depend on |
| their appetite due to a territorial dispute with another | | | | getting it from their food. |
| cat. If your cat primarily lives outside, perhaps a new | | | | Have you ever had a cat that died from kidney |
| cat moved into his territory, thereby upsetting him. A | | | | problems? I have, and I have learned that it was |
| new cat introduced into your home can upset your | | | | probably caused by feeding my cats a diet of dry, |
| indoor feline friend. | | | | crunchy brown things. Sure, cats will be fine for a |
| Illness - If your cat seems lethargic, hides from you | | | | number of years eating dry food exclusively, but it |
| more than usual, and in unusual places, or goes for | | | | takes a toll in the later years. |
| more than 24 hours without eating, then a trip to the | | | | Try a variety of canned foods for your cat. They |
| veterinarian is probably in order. | | | | are much more easily processed by the digestive |
| Food Issues - If you have recently changed cat | | | | system, and they will help your cat live a longer, |
| foods, or if the current food changed formulations, | | | | happier life. |