One of my little guys had to go through that back in August. What’s amazing is that he had to eat wet food for several days, and he and my other cat absolutely don’t like wet food. Even when they were kittens, I tried getting them some nice refrigerated wet food as a treat a few times… barely touched.

I was astonished when my vet told me that once he healed he could go back to dry food. Cats apparently hardly chew their food at all. Vinnie didn’t need all his teeth out, but he had like 8 or 9 removed, and the vet said even if all his teeth had been removed he’d be able to eat dry food.

After the surgery we started calling him gummy nubbins.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Haha. Yeah. My old cat. Before she passed, would vacuum up her dry food and regurgitate it whole.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I knew a cat that would put kibble in her water dish to soften it. I see now that I should have been grateful she didn't use your cat's method.

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