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?

He is trying to train you, food goes outside on the table, even superior food will be ignored in favour of any food in the correct place

Saucy Jack, I tell DCat same thing. He just gives me evil eye then goes back to cleaning his bum he is on $$$ food which he usually loves but every now and then goes on a hunger strike for whatever reason, not that a cat needs a reason for anything...
OP, in light if above, helpful advice from me :)

😂😂😂😂 at hairpoo - sorry....
ZebraOwl your ZebraGinge is soooo cute

No helpful advice to add. My two are happy on GoCat and the occasional savaged hand for stroking longer than the predetermined but undisclosed amount of time...

SDTG have you seen this book left lying around anywhere recently?

Everything has to be exactly right for him. He owns you, you are his servant.

When will humans get their heads round the fact that just because a cat can climb onto somewhere doesn't mean it's acceptable to feed them there?? If he wants to eat outside you serve his food outside and make sure it doesn't get stolen by other cats/dogs/gulls etc - not like you've anything better to do than stand there guarding it!

Might he prefer his food to be served in the neighbour's bin?