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does anyone else have cats that will not go on mse diet?

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  • melvis
    melvis Posts: 6,006 Forumite
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    I am quite lucky as Suki (the cat my boyfriend had when we moved in together last January) will eat any cat food without fuss, and even waits til the other cats has finished eating before she has a go. Barley Wine Extravaganza (who was 1 on Boxing Day) and Jager Bomb (her younger sister of about 6 months) will eat ANYTHING they can! Pizza, Donner Meat, Tuna, Chicken, Macaroni Cheese, Ice Cream, Mashed Potato ... basically anything you leave on a plate/in a bowl they will attempt to steal. Before we taught Jager it was wrong she'd attempt to climb on your plate for food before you'd even finished eating!

    The only problem we have with Rude Boy (the dog) is that if we give him human food (i.e on a Sunday I may replace his usual meal with the meat/veg/potato etc left over from Sunday lunch) then he seems quite offended when he goes back to dog food on the following morning and waits all day before he will eat it. But once he's hungry and realises dog food is his only option today then he continues as normal.
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  • Jacks_xxx
    Jacks_xxx Posts: 3,874 Forumite
    dubsey wrote: »
    Jacks I love that you called your cat Mulder we called DD Dana! :j

    :D Excellent! Even if people didn't love the X Files, Dana is still a beautiful and unusual name.

    One of our neighbours called their kitty Scully as she was Mulder's sister and they couldn't decide what else to call her. :D (Mulder's relations are all over our neighbourhood!)

    And to think my hubby wanted to call the cat Greebo! (I couldn't see myself yelling that at the back door. :eek: )

    Love Jacks xxx :D
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  • We have 2 cats at home- Tom and Bunty

    Tom isn't too fussed about what he eats and enjoys a variety of cat foods (depending on whats on offer). He has wet food as well as dry and the occasional treat of prawns.

    Bunty on the other hand is a right madam. She turns her nose up at most cat foods, prefering to eat tuna and slices of meat. My bf's mum (they are her cats) gives her several different choices for dinner on separate plates and she still turns her nose up at them.

    But his parents go away most weekends to their caravan so we look after the cats and she just gets regular cat food whether she likes it or not. She will always eat it if she's hungry and if she doesn't Tom will eat it for her.

    They are very spolit though, they get poached fish twice a week as well as endless titbits from the fridge.
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  • firespire
    firespire Posts: 795 Forumite
    KiKi wrote: »
    So when he eats the new food, reward him with strokes and tickles and sit by the bowl with him as he eats.

    Non of the cats we have had ever like to be stroked or touched while they are eating, they much prefer to be left alone. I don't blame them neither would I.
  • I am sad to report that my progress in getting my two cats on non premium wet cat food is going down like a lead balloon. (Keeping the dry food purina)

    Tesco premium in jelly...nope..younger boy will eat but older female takes one sniff and then sits back and waits for more appetising fare, sadly I always back down after an hour or so, back to whiskas or felix:confused:

    Wasting so much food at the moment, I'm about to give up....
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
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    haven't read the whole thread but have you tried mixing half a Felix with half a standard brand.... and switching gently.

    Plus make sure the cats aren't in the kitchen when you prepare it, maybe they are reading the labels/spying the tins!

    My cats are called Jenson (as in Interceptor!!), and Bob (original name Patch i think, but we call him black bob the lodger, as he's supposed to belong to house 2 doors away. - apparently he hasn't been home in 2 years, so they've given up on him. They know he's well fed but he's never in for long, bless him. Or her, we're not sure!)

    They'll eat anything as long as it's in jelly... felix has been half price at somerfields for a while which is helpful. And any generic dried food... so i guess i'm lucky.
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • sammyjig
    sammyjig Posts: 243 Forumite
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    I have 2 cats about 14 years old. One of them has always had health problems. They both love tesco pouches (about 19p) and tesco value cat crunchies. Their health hasn't suffered because of it.
    :)Do more of what makes you happy:)
  • Tiglet
    Tiglet Posts: 405 Forumite
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    I usually feed Tiglet the Tesco own brand chunks in jelly. After a few weeks on this, she gets bored and refuses to eat it. Then I have to switch to Sainsbury's equivalent.Another few weeks and it's back to the Tesco stuff.

    I'm no connoisseur of cat food myself - I just buy whatever has the lowest water content. She seems happy enough with this (although it doesn't compete with her favourite bluetit flavour!)
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