Here are some tips for transitioning your cat to a canned food diet. Know that most cats can be transitioned to canned food but it takes patience and persistency! It may even take a month or longer.

1 - Put a small amount of fresh canned food in a separate bowl near your cat's dry food every day.  After a while, your cat will accept it and hopefully try it.  Once your cat is eating some canned food, try decreasing the amount of dry food and increasing the amount of canned food.

2 - Keep offering canned food at EVERY meal. Know that you will waste a lot of canned food during this process, which can be frustrating! Make sure anything refrigerated has been warmed up briefly for 10-15 seconds in the microwave. Test it to assure that it is not too hot!

3 - Pet your cat while he or she is eating. Many cats are "social eaters" and will eat if you talk to them and are excited about the food too!

4 - Sprinkle some pieces of crushed dry food on the canned food.

5 - Put a little canned tuna on the canned food. If that doesn't work, try a little grated parmesan cheese (just a little, as we don?t want to cause an upset stomach).

6 - Try dipping some dry food pieces in the juice from the canned food. If he or she will eat it with a bit of canned juice on it, try the 'chip and dip' trick. Scoop up a tiny bit of canned food onto the piece of dry food. Put it on a separate plate from their small portion of dry food. Some cats will eat their small portion of dry and then go investigate the dry food with a tiny bit of canned on it.

6 - Going one step further, try adding a few small pieces (the size of an eraser head) of the canned food to the portion of dry food. Your cat may pick around the canned food but will get used to the smell - and texture - even if he does not eat any pieces of the new food.

7 - If you have a multiple cat household, some cats like to eat alone in a less stressful environment, so you may need to take these cats into a separate, quiet room. Try forming a meatball of canned food and offering it by hand. Eventually you can move from your hand to a plate!