Cat Food Trouble

penguingirl

Mine doesn't like any wet either, and so we only give him Iams (which he loves!). Are they eating elsewhere? My boy gets fussier when he is stealing from next door (where the cat gets fed whiskas dry food which must be tasty but makes him have smelly farts, or he steals the dog food). He also had a prescription food once and we had to gradually mix it with Iams to make him switch back.

Mine will also eat all day. We recently found him in the shed whilst we'd been mowing the lawn with the stockpile of Iams- he'd opened a bag with his claw and looked like he was on the verge of throwing up from gorging.

meritaten

my very fussy Persian likes Sheba tray food - the ones in jelly or sauce - not gravy. Or Applaws chicken or chicken and cheese. but as for dry food he will only eat the PAH one. (thank god its not the really expensive ones! shhhhhh don't tell him PAH is quite cheap)

cabbage

gettingready wrote: »

All big supermarkets stock Classic:



Cheap but quite decent - I have 6 cats and they all love it, worth a try if you do not want to order online?

They do fish or meat or mixed pack of 6 tins for around £3.00.

I run out yesterday (delivery today) so got my lot 2 tins of Felix - jessssssssssssssssssssssssss, forgot how Felix tins stink... Yukkkkk

Classic much better than Felix/Whiskas/Go-Cat

The cat rescue place where we got our boy uses this. It's quite good quality but as we already had a cat eating Felix AGAIL we gradually swapped him over.

HappyMJ

Rummer wrote: »

Hello

We have two gorgeous cats who have started to refuse the food we are giving them. They have both been recently checked by the vet so there are no health reasons. One is 10+ and the other is 3.

Over the years we have tried them on different brands which often they will eat happily for a few weeks/months and then randomly for no reason they will just refuse to eat any more of the sachets. However recently they have started refusing straight away.

Normally they have dry food left out which is changed twice daily and they are given a sachet each of wet food morning and night. Fresh water twice a day and their dishes are cleaned daily too.

It is the wet food that they are turning their noses up at we have tried them:

All super market own brands
Felix
Kitecat
Wiskas

Also tried Iaams which they would not go near

We only buy from supermarkets for ease and I would be happy to purchase other brands online but they are more expensive and I am worried we will just be wasting more money.

Any ideas??

If all else fails and they start losing weight then feed them chicken...raw chicken, cooked chicken it doesn't really matter...raw is much better though...cat's tend to love chicken. It's also cheap. You can pick up a bag of frozen chicken portions for £1.75/kg. You only need to give them about an ounce a meal (25-30 grams) so each portion will cost about 5p. For a few days/weeks it'll be fine but try having the dry food down and try feeding a pouch a day between them each day for a meal instead. Dry food doesn't need changing twice a day it can be left down for the whole day or as said already removed after a short time and put into a sealed container to keep it fresh.

Rummer

Thank you for all the great advice

They have now decided that they don't like Sheba after a few weeks of eating it with joy :mad:

geri1965_2

My old cat (16) can be fussy/faddy with food. We buy Hilife from Poundland, despite being cheap it is actually quite good quality (high meat content, little or no cereal filler). £1 for four sachets.

monty-doggy

Mine like the little tins of gourmet gold. They have 2 a day plus dry food which I alternate depending what's on offer.

Dimey

Don't think its been mentioned so..... have you got your 10yr old on Senior food? I think there's a senior food for over 7 and then an even more senior, not sure what age.

Mine has to have Hills Senior and Hills KD or Royal Canin Renal because he has kidney problems. I know some people are anti Hills but I haven't found a renal alternative other than Royal Canin Renal.

I'm sure other manufacturers do a Senior range.

Dimey

Better_Days wrote: »

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As to wet food, they are not that fond of Whiskers or Felix etc either. I have been thinking about just buying a couple of tins of tuna a week and giving a little of that everyday instead.

I used to give mine some tinned tuna in spring water as a treat now & again and they loved it. My little girl cat used to drink the spring water juice when she wasn't well, that was about all I could get down her.

But I've since been told on MSE than its not good for cats. I was told the tuna is too rich for them and the spring water is just as salty as brine.

So I don't do it anymore.

dollywops

My very 1st cat, Sooty, ate Whiskas from a can for 51 weeks a year. Then he went off it, and we would try every flavour possible, and then after a week he would go back to his usual Whiskas.

Funnily enough, the next one, Ollie, did exactly the same thing.

Our current owner, Benji, loved Whiskas fishermans choice in jelly - a different flavour every meal, then he went off it. Currently (fingers crossed as we bought 6 cases last week in Bookers) he is eating poultry in jelly. He also loves the Whiskas temptation with cheese treats and is also partial to the dog chews from Lidl.