very fussy cat

jpmummy

Hi
Hope anyone can help me please, i have a very very fussy cat, won't eat fish and changes her mind daily what she likes to eat, currently we have 2 lots of food in the cupboard one from a great cheap shop beginning with an A and a well known brand in a pink box! she is refusing to touch the latter and I am worried sick as i only have 2 pouches of the cheaper stuff left til payday, any ideas what to do, she is my lickle darling hence me pandering to her when on 2 salaries but now times are harder and i can't afford not to give her the leading brand cos its all thats left! she has gone off in a huff and the food is just shrivelling up!

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gettingready

She will not starve herself to death - do you have any dry food to live out for her?

tanith

When she gets hungry enough she'll whatever you put down.. I wouldn't worry she won't starve.

LutonGirl

I would suggest not putting a whole pouch out at once. If she puts her nose in the air and flounces off, it will dry up. Put out a small amount then fold the top of the pouch and clip it with a clothes peg. If she's hungry enough she'll eat the food and then put out some more. Dry food is great, as GettingReady has already said. You can leave it out all day and she'll nibble and graze on it when she feels like it. She won't starve.

It amazes me when cats go fussy and off their food, but will happily dig through a black bag to find something tasty...

jpmummy

thanks so much guys, i can't believe she has flounced down and just eaten it! that never happens it normally goes out in the bin - she must of known mummy wasnt gonna pop another pack in the bowl! she really is a minx, love her thou that's why i chase out in the frost and cold looking for her if she ain't in! XX
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gettingready

I have to say that one of mine will rather starve than touch ANY dry food at all.

Fred only ever eats wet food, never ever dry....

BUt then with wet - whatever it is as long as it is a double amount of what the other cats get - Fred is happy LOL

*Scarlett

Maybe try Royal Canin dry food for "fussy eaters".

It is expensive but if she likes it there will be a lot less wastage.

We have 3 cats and 1 is the strangest - he would only eat tuna or Whiskas Tempatations and was the skinniest boy.

Now all 3 eat the Royal Canin and it's so handy just to rattle it out into the bowls without worrying about it drying out or going off.

They still get some wet food but they mostly like licking the gravy off it!

lisajane8482

I give my cat royal canin dry food too. Fill his bowl on a morning and leave it out all day, he grazes throughout the day and never wastes any. He gets a quarter of a pouch of wet for his breakfast and tea everyday. He won't eat anymore wet food than that and he's really fussy about what wet food he'll eat. He sometimes goes off his wet food so I just don't give him it for a couple of days, he sulks a little but when I put the next wet meal he eats it all.

thehappybutterfly

The only thing that works for us when our boys start turning their noses up at wet food that they've eaten before is to vary the brand and flavour. If we open a box then feed them only that box, they're fed up by pouch four. So we open a 2/3 boxes and mix them up.

Our vet suggested that we don't rely on dry food only - apparently it can cause problems with their waterworks. Not enough fluid or something? Shame because there's not a dry food they DON'T like.