Kitty Resistance

We're having a few setbacks in the food department. At first everybody was excited about the new prescription diet, but that has cooled. All of the cats, Khan included, began gravitating back to the Hairball Prevention food they had been eating. I mixed the hairball food with some regular Science Diet and began feeding that to the other 3 cats, keeping Khan on the Purina. Not only did all four of them keep going to the bowls of the mixture, but they all have figured out how to pick out the larger kibbles of hairball diet, leaving the smaller maintenance food in the bowl. Sheesh! They won't touch the regular food, and while Khan will nibble at his Purina when it's freshly poured, he'll still wander back to the other.

In addition, Khan has declared war on Cosequin, which we're supposed to be sprinkling over his food to help his arthritis. He does not like it, and I haven't been able to trick him into eating it. He sniffs the bowl thoroughly every time I give it to him, and if he detects anything other than food, he walks away. Stubborn. Hmph. So for now I'm giving it a rest and I'll try using canned food later to se if that works. Oh, and to prove to me that he doesn't need Cosequin: since the first day I tried to give it to him he has begun once again using his stool to hippity-hop onto the bed just like he used to. (He hadn't been even attempting to get up there for a few weeks, which is why we got the Cosequin.) Now he's jumping up 3 times a day just to prove to me that he is perfectly fine.