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How to transition a picky kitten from wet to dry food without vomiting?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Cat | Mixed Breed | Female | 2 months and 20 days old

I have 12 week kitten was bottle feed since 2 days old. As slowly changing her to eating went to several foods. She is very picky. Seba went food seem to work ok. Trying to get her train to dry food. At first s big no.. now as I try to make it completely diet. She will vomit it up some time now once a day. I m getting flustered. Also the cost of staying on sheba is about 20 dollars a week plus. She's a growing kitten. Any suggestions. Sincerely Mark still

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Answered By Dr. Elizabeth

Veterinarian

Published on January 29th, 2019

One way to try to transition Sassy to a dry food is to gradually decrease the amount of canned food and leave a bowl of the dry food out at all times of possible. Decrease the amount of canned food by 25% every 3-5 days. She will eventually start eating the dry food. It is important to feed her a high quality dry kitten food. I recommend Iams or Royal Canin. The vomiting could be due to many things. Parasites or dietary indiscretion are common in young kittens. I recommend to have her feces checked for worms by her veterinarian. She should also be getting all of her shots currently. I hope this is helpful and please feel free to post any additional questions.

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