2 days ago I bought new cattreats, salmon flavour

I allready had treats from the same brand, pieces of chicken (97 % chicken), but the shop was out of these ones specific, they had another with chicken but it only contained 65%. So i went with the salmon ones which are 95% fish (and some potato, i guess for keeping the treat together :) )

Finnley isnt bothered if he gets chicken or salmon, he loves both.
Ayla loved the chicken ones.

Yesterday i gave them one, and Ayla was batting it around, playing with it, but ate it in the end.

This morning i gave them the chicken ones (still have some left). Finn ate it immidiatly, Ayla refused but kept miauwing, Finn ate her piece (she left it unattended so Finn took his chance lol)
I gave Ayla a salmon one, and she starts putting it in her mouth, spits it out, plays with it, takes it up, growls at Finn cause he came too close and she wasnt finished yet and ate it after a couple of minutes.

Since it was odd behaviour i gave her another, she has played for 10 min with it, picking it up, throw it in the air, batting it around, ofcourse shoving it under the door and had to miauw very frustrated.
Finn was waiting patiently for her to leave it alone so he could snatch it.
In the end she layed beside it at some distance and Finn stepped in and ate it.

No pacing afterwards from her, so i guess she was 'done' with it.
But she didnt ate it??

She acted like as if it was prey. They have gotten day-old chicks twice now since i have them. And then she plays with it for 20-30 min before eating it, same behaviour, but she eats it though. Finnley batts his chick around for 2 minutes and then starts eating, he loves his chick though, he is just not enthousiastcly playing with it as Ayla does.
After Finnley has finished i put him outside the bathroom so Ayla can keep playing till she is done with her chick.

Should i seperate them when giving this salmontreats? So Ayla gets to play with it and eat it when she wants (or not...)?

It was very cute to see though, however i would like to be able to give her a treat as reward too when im training things, and waiting for her till she is done playing for it doesnt really help that lol.
I also was very surprised to see her refusing the chickentreat, she loved it before. Is this just 'spoiled behaviour' (i want the other!!)?

My three tend to not be real big on chicken treats either. In fact Gaga is the only one of the three that will touch them, and even she is not real keen on them. Salmon treats (usually I get the freeze-dried stuff, 100% meat) are loved by all though. Not too sure what to say about the playing with the food. One cat playing with it, but happy, the other just trying to eat it. I guess if they were my cats I wouldn't be too thrilled about pieces of food being flung around the house. That tends to wind up in places like under the fridge or under the sofa where it will sit and mold and attract insects. So I would probably focus more on giving them food that they will actually eat (even if that means giving them each a different treat) and then giving them the play that they need afterwards. But whatever works for you.

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The freeze dried chicken treats they both love (loved?).

But since i wanted to order a couple of things together, including catfood, i was waiting for ordering it online till they were finished with this bag of food (kibble), and some new (to try) all meat wetfood (grainfree)
I ordered those yesterday again.

I sure hope they still love those treats because i ordered a big pack (200 grams) of it lol, and a mixed try out pack (cow, duck, chicken and tuna, tubes with 30 grams each)

My cats won't touch freezes-dried treats. They do appear to look more like toys than food. I am curious about feeding them day-old chicks. Live day-old chicks? I've seen my DSH find a mouse and play with it for 20 minutes and then eat it and while I don't like mice, I hate it when he gets one, or a squirrel or chipmunk or even a bird.

Oh god no, dead ones absolutely dead ones lol

I work at a wildlife rescue centre and we get in 4500-5000 birds per year, also raptor birds. So at the centre we always have (frozen!) day old chicks. Not from the birds we got in ofcourse, we buy them at a frozen (pet) food supplier.

I can buy them myself too since big petstore's have them in the freezer in the Netherlands, but that would take quite a bit of space in my freezer (you can buy them per kg), while i only give i to them once per 3-4 weeks. My old dsh couldnt have them a couple of times a week for example, or her poo would change (not 'nice' firm ones).
And since 'we' are still a bit struggling to find the right food for them and dont want to overdo it with the chicks... they love them though.