Cat Food Trouble

tea_lover

My cat loves Sheba steamed and tender, Sheba fine flakes and Gourmet Perle. But he definitely has his fussy days and turns his nose up at all of it sometimes.

Funny little things aren't they?!

pawsies

Consider researching a raw diet?

http://rawfed.com/myths/cats.html

Mrs_Z

Yes, we have this too.... I would also recommend raw fish. Sainsbury's own label 'White fish - all shapes and sizes' is frozen pollock and costs something like £1.68 for a bag of 520g (has about 6 filets). Very handy to take 1 filet at the time, defrost it and just cut it into pieces. This has never been yet refused (although only serve it about once a week).

poppycracker

I have one gannet and two fussy eaters too. I feed the gannet in the hall and the other two in the kitchen.

I feed Whiskas pouches and Tesco own brand dry food. My oldest cat will go through phases of not touching her wet food but as there is always plenty of dry out, she doesn't get anything else if she does leave it.

Marmaduke123

poppycracker wrote: »

My oldest cat will go through phases of not touching her wet food but as there is always plenty of dry out, she doesn't get anything else if she does leave it.

I think that's the answer really. You know your cats wont starve!

I wonder if the manufacturer has changed the recipe of the wet food? I have had that before now.

I would persevere with putting the wet food down , and just take it away if its not eaten. I think cats will often go several days before they accept food which smells different.

Coopdivi

Mrs_Z wrote: »

Yes, we have this too.... I would also recommend raw fish. Sainsbury's own label 'White fish - all shapes and sizes' is frozen pollock and costs something like £1.68 for a bag of 520g (has about 6 filets). Very handy to take 1 filet at the time, defrost it and just cut it into pieces. This has never been yet refused (although only serve it about once a week).

I agree. All the cats round my way go berserk for the Basics fillets. There's rarely any bones in them, maybe one every four packets or so. In any case I always find them because I need to cut the fish up quite small.

My cat has about four fillets a week. My neighbour's cat who meows frantically whenever he sees me and rolls around on the ground in ecstasy would have four a day if I was soft enough to give them to him.

rita-rabbit

Dimey wrote: »

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.

Simply tuna in Jelly, comes in cans - Asda sell it.:T

antw23uk

My cats are on the RAW diet and I get it from Natural Instinct. As a treat they will also have the odd raw chicken wing or lambs heart which they love.

We dont get refusals or fussy behaviour that others do who feed the rubbish junk that is commercial cat food. Our boys are fit and healthy with perfect teeth, coats and small none smelly poos and they love there food.

Our friends have started there two on the RAW diet but still supplement with biscuits :mad: They have been away for three weeks on holiday and I've been feeding them and lets just say the biscuit tin hasnt been touched and both cats have lost a little bit of weight which they desperatley needed to do, lol

Feed RAW .. you and the cats will not regret it :T

Thanet62

geri1965 wrote: »

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.

The same product is on sale in Sainsbury's for 75p PER SACHET!!:mad: So in fact your cheap and cheerful is actually a very expensive brand. Its obviously packaged for the export market and proves the "Rip off Britain" theory.
BTW My old moggy loves "Hi Life" and so do I (for my wallets sake...I know what you were thinking!)

his_missus

Mine go through phases too. At the moment they're loving Butchers Classic - quite a high meat content for the price.

Also mine like Hi-life fish, you can get packs of 4 at supermarkets. It looks a bit hideous - bits of fish in jelly - but it always goes down well with them.

Interestingly, they've never liked Felix of any kind - tins, trays or pouches.