Fussy Eating in Cats

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Hi everyone.

I have a cat for about 4 months. Sheis gorgeous and beautiful but is more of a fussy eating than my 3yr old

See will only eat Kitekat pouches or Sandwich meat.

I have tried everything, expensive food, cheap food, Dry food, human food. Sardines and Tuna and she is having none of it

Do I give in and take out shares in kitekat

No, just keep feeding her what you want her to eat, she will not starve herself to death.

No, you go out and buy the cheapest food you can find (I buy Tesco and Sainsbury own) and you put the food down and don't give her anything else until she has eaten it.

My cats are about 7 months old and they generally eat whatever is given to them although I am not as completely mean as I sound in that I avoid buying flavours I know they don't like. Also, it is easier with 2 as they don't like to see another cat eating when they are not.

They get fussier as they get older so you don't want to be limited to one expensive brand so soon in her life.

Tesco do their own pouchs, just get a similar flavour to the ones you know she already likes, put a fresh bowl of food down every day, then if she doesn't eat it she isn't hungry.

Mind you, she will probably start rooting about in your bins

Cats are notoriously fussy about their food. I tend to buy what I know mine will eat, but only because it's too wasteful otherwise - I'd rather spend the money on food she will eat than spend it on stuff that ends up scraped into the bin three times a day.

Beware though - the moment you give in and stock up on her favourite food, she will never eat it again

My cat has the Tesco sachets, he loves them and they are at least 50p cheaper than the next brand

Cats will eat if they are hungry enough trust me. Having said that my parent's (semi ferral) cats turn their noses up at tesco's tinned food (but eat it under sufference when its a choice between that and rats) and their fav is aldi's extra cheap stuff

Lidl do a luxury range with veg in it and she ate that, She did like a brand I found in Asda that was 70% fish. But at 43p a tin it would have got expensive. The vet says she has a good figure and isn't fat like most cats but it does worry me. Thanks for all the advice I will percevere.

She won't starve. she'll soon learn that nothing else is forthcoming and will eat what she's given. Cats, a bit like children, will be fussy if you let them. As will dogs come to think of it. My parents had a friend who had a dog who would eat nothing but fillet steak, now what one might ask is where the dog learned to eat fillet steak in the first place. That dog would have led a very hungry existance in my house, lol

hi wannabe
just for the record , i have 3 cats, they all eat kitekat, but only cause its the one i buy i think!! im sure that if there was only one type of food was on offer, they would tuck in jst the same. Cats are fussy eaters, but maybe a bit of variety wont do any harm? after all i wouldnt care to eat the same type of food day in day out. Mine are quite partial to leftovers, including any scraps of meat or fish, although my youngest does have a penchant for bits of chocolate digestives too