AIBU to feel that the cat is playing silly buggers, and I should not pander to him.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

At least - no more than I have already.

CatBastard (so called because he bites you if you stroke him too much/not enough/or even consider stopping stroking him) eats tuna - because if we give him ordinary cat food, he leaves home.

We buy him nice tuna, in spring water, because I worried about the salt in ordinary tuna damaging his kidneys. This far I am prepared to pander.

He insists on having his tuna outside, on the garden table. I don't have a major problem with this, but it means that anyone else who can get to it, eats it - the dogs, if they are out in the garden unsupervised, or the local seagulls - so I prefer to feed him on the utility room draining board.

This is not good enough for CatBastard - ohhhh no. He can jump up to the draining board (I've found him on the work top before now), and is cool with the idea of food in the utility room (we used to keep the dogs' food in an open box, high up on the microwave in the utility room, where they can't get to it, and we found him knee deep in it, eating it, one day - the dogs were appalled) - but he is currently shouting at me because I have put his bowl of tuna on the utility draining board, not the garden table.

It is the last can of tuna - I need to go shopping tomorrow - so I think it is perfectly reasonable to want him to eat it all - not the birds or the dogs - but he disagrees.

AIBU not to pander to him?

Have you tried the Iams pouches? Nothing gets left with those with my feline overlords. They had begun to leave the Sheba pouches, so I switched, and now it doesn't see the sides.

My eldest overlord has developed a new technique for when i don't up quickly enough to let him out and feed him in the morning. he now gets on my bedside table and proceeds to throw my glasses, jewellery until I get up. and books on to the floor

Yet again, the Daily Mash are spot on: www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/cat-will-eat-rat-but-not-cheaper-catfood-20151021103163

I am going to try the tuna pouches or tins - I think I will have to have a trip to the pet shop this weekend, to get a few different options so he can try them. Failing that, I will try the IAMS pouches, scaryteacher.

I have checked the Pets At Home website - I hadn't realised how many different sorts of tuna for cats were available!!

My Evil Bastard Cat was so dissatisfied with the levels of service over the last 20 years that she deliberately engineered kidney failure, forcing me to make The Appointment. I offered some morsels for her last weekend, cat soup, steady diet of Lick e lix, freshly poached chicken and the like. EBC rebounded like lazarus, appointment cancelled, now she won't touch anything less suited to her refined tastes.

God I love her

So funny and so true FatherJemimaRacktool

He is the king. 😂

...put it in the car and drive 15 miles from home and throw it out in the middle of nowhere. That'll teach it some respect

That's a terrible way to treat a can of tuna!

My cat is also fussy and gets ridiculous runny poo with commercial cat food. She gets roasted chicken now, but she's bored of it even though she gets offered different stuff. DH nearly cried when I got her wild alaskan red salmon it was her birthday and she didn't eat it all

Yeap I had three cats, the mother and her two grown kittens. The mother cat never liked fish whiskas, which as the only thing in the local shop, but I swear she trained her daughters to refuse it too.

YABVU, I'm tempted to report you for cruelty. Your cat should be allowed to eat on the kitchen worktop next to the slowcooker (or on the coffee table).

idiotcat will run up the old step ladder to jump over the wall, and then sit and cry outside the gate to be let back in.

he also likes to sit in the small window in the utility room and meow for me to let him in, and then he will jump out onto the garden table run around to the outside back door and demand to be let into the utility room by the door when he was already mostly in perching on the window.

he eats most thing though, but especially likes lidl cat food with jelly...for preference he will refuse to eat his and eat his sister's.

he likes to steal the dog food as it is being dished up and loves it when we have a puppy in the house as he teaches them about sharing by barging over and scoffing their food

Mine comes upstairs at 7.30 and bits any bits of me which are sticking out of the duvet until I get up and feed her.

I tried shutting her downstairs - she just scratches the carpet and door until I give in.

She has won all the battles in this house - ginger furry CB!

Take it to the cats home. Won't be getting posh tuna there!

Well - Sir is currently face-down in a bowlful of tuna and wet cat food, mixed half and half, and early indications are that he is not just picking out the tuna and leaving the wet food.

Maddie - I would happily let CatBastard eat on the worktop in the utility room, but he makes no secret of his preference for the garden table. But he agrees with you that I am cruel and frankly a bit of a failure as a servant.

I have to say ours love the Aldi select (naice version), both the pouches and the little Sheba esque tins. We also buy a bag of true cheapy chicken breasts and gift the two of them one between them occasionally, supplemented with cans of tuna. They get so shiny when they have the fish!

Oh, and beware of sardines in water. They are an EXCELLENT unblocker of cats.

This is them.

SDT I fear you are beyond help.

I recommend having a look on ZooPlus for further tuna options. Zebra!cats do not like tuna, but am aware from browsing process there are, at conservative estimate, 50 billionty sorts of tuna catfood available there. You can also get taurine supplements & multivitamins for your feline overlord[s] if you find CatBastard particularly likes an, er, incomplete food. I know that's not the word but I have so much too much tired to find the real word. I also have black!cat q aggressively snuggling my ankles & blond!cat squoogling into my hip, purring madly, and wrapping his front paws over my hand to ensure the tummyrubs keep coming. It's a bit distracting. Jolly cute, but a bit distracting...

Big Cat decided a while ago that my bedroom was his bedroom. He is a very, very bad sleeping companion so I really had to put my foot down. After a couple of nights of him keeping me awake by trying to dig his way under the bedroom door, I put down a thin line of pepper along the floor. He got the point. Big Cat is as much a bastard as the next feline but he knows a losing battle when he sees one.

Big Cat is on medication for epilepsy and tuna is the best way of getting it down him without a fight.

Small Cat is a little fluffy angel. OK, she does the needing the lounge window to be constantly open in all weathers thing, but nobody's perfect. She doesn't understand tuna. It's not cat food, so why am I showing it to her?

Princess Polly will not eat the same two meals running. She will eat Encore crab, and Tuna Roe, Gourmet Soup (but leaves the vegetables) and will eat tinned Tuna in Spring Water. All food has to be room temperature.
She supplements this limited diet with Royal Canin Exigent biscuits.
Her housemate Seamus likes Sheba, but it must come from a pouch!(even though its the same recipe in the little foil tubs).

Op try your fussy bugger on Encore, expensive, but it is a complete cat food.

He has eaten some of the wet cad food/tinned tuna mix - although he leapt off the draining board when I came out into the kitchen and spotted him eating - it will be much harder for him to carry on his fussy ways now he knows I have seen him up there!

Cat food - though he is a bit of a cad - and a blunder!

Fucknuggets - bloody autocorrect - bounder!!

It wanted to autocorrect fucknuggets to duck nuggets (which I assume are a product available at the poshest of McDonalds!

YABVU. As well you know. It's his god given right that you will pander too his every whim. Remember that ancient Egyptians worshiped cats as gods and cats haven't forgotten.

My dog has such a high quality and bloody expensive dog food that if he has to eat anything else it makes him ill. I once ran out before the next order arrived so I bought the blandest biscuit I could find and gave him that. He waited until he was in the car before he brought the whole lot back up, virtually undigested.

One of our dogs once came upstairs and got onto the bed for a cuddle, put her head lovingly on my shoulder - and threw up almost in my ear.

I was Not Happy.