My cats picky with food

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My 2 year old cat quite a small cat. She weighs just over 3kg. Vet said shes not thin just right for her size. She has always been a fussy cat with food and goes off brands quickly. She goes to her food bowl looks at it and walks away from it. Then she will come back have a few mouth falls and goes again. But she has been more fussy than normal the last few days. Has eaten and had water. Spoke to a vet nurse who said was normal for cats to do this. So im wondering if its the food she has dry and wet she has. Any ideas what food she would eat please as getting on my nerves with what shes doing lol

My cat is doing this recently to she gets Aldi wet and Dry but the dry food is purely for her to graze and clean her teeth so im looking at putting her on a more high quality food like Applaws or Natures menu
She is barely touching her food and just licks the jelly or gravy off it.
She's 2.9kg and about 2yrs old so im looking to keep her at that weight as the vet said she's a healthy size any bigger she'll be obese

My two have AVA dry food from pets at home (60% chicken) alongside wet food (Sheba fine flakes and select slices and Gourmet perle)

Thankyou for the replies ill take a look at them for her. She just licks the top of the gravy as well.

I looked at the ingredients on AvA and wasnt impressed its very grain and additive heavy not something that cats need

My boy is fussy. He only really eats dry so we give him Applaws or Lily’s Kitchen. I give him cat milk at night, plenty of water and the odd cat soup to keep his pee pipes working.

Do cats actually need dry food if they just eat wet ? Id ideally cut it out of her diet completely but don't want her having bad teeth as a result of not chewing dry

Purizon dry from zooplus does the trick. Its grain free. Also look at Sainsburys taste the difference wet or Shebafineflakes. Mine do this all the time so i put a tube of lik e lix on top every now and again. I quit fannying around after them now.

Purzion looks good is it a hard dry food or does the kibbles have some moisture and softness to them ? That ingredients list looks brilliant exactly what my cat needs but she does love moist food over dried

AVA is grain free

Yeah try the sample pack of three I would say it’s not dry dry if that makes sense. You can always mix abit of wet food into it at first. Mine adore it I’m tempted to order the giant bag. It’s not badly priced either.

Great thankyou. Shes only been eating the dried food today and not gone near the wet. Going out tomorrow to get a few samples and see. Only thing is i can only get to Morrison's so any idea of any of a good food in there please. Will sort out properly in the new year. Shes on harringtons currently.

Sheba fine flakes has a very fine jelly and small pieces of meat

Encore dry is complete but not the wet. Mune have fine flakes too.

Ok littke update. She refuses now since i posted this to eat wet food but loves dry food and drinks water to. Ive tried sheba etc but no change. So is a cat ok on just dried food. She certainly is a lot happier. Shes booked in for a health check next week

She's fine on just dry so long as she has plenty of water to drink. The main reason wet cat food exists is for the moisture they get from it cats a notorious for not drinking enough

My cats were like this, just licking jelly/gravy off so I tried gourmet pate instead of another food with bits. All three of them love it (they also have dry every now again). That might be worth a try.
It doesn’t dry out or go dark as quick as normal wet food, and mine go back to it after a while whereas before I was wasting loads.

I think there’s benefits to both, I’m sure I’d read or got told that dry only diet can be bad for their liver/kidney, though but I’m not entirely sure whether thats just where there is lack of water.

I have a four month old kitten. She isn't growing well and is the picklest eater I have ever come across. I have been through so many different types of food both wet and dry. She will eat AVA wet mixed with a bit of dry food (currently BURNS). The dry food is left until she is absolutely starving. She doesn't eat much at one sitting and a pouch can sit there all day before she finishes it. She's too thin and underweight. I am absolutely fed up of it. I've had lots of cats and i cannot be doing with this pickiness. She also refuses to go outside, and if I put her out she screams to be let back in. Not really a cat, more a would be human. She is constantly trying to get at whatever we are eating or drinking too which is very annoying.

My cat can be like this, I give him tube of Lick e lix as wet food sometimes when he goes off his usual tins.
Sometimes he will eat wet food if I mix Lick e lix in with it.

Im sorry what do you mean a FOUR month old kitten screams to be let in? Why are you forcing a baby to go out? Mine where at lease six months and even then the door was left open for them to come in and out. As it is now a year later.

I'm trying to encourage her, not force her. I've never had a cat that just doesn't want to go out!

4 months old is quite young to be going out by themselves. When mine first went out i went with them. Some cats are happier inside

My cat only eats dry food and the vet said that is fine as long as he is drinking water from his bowl so she should be ok. I gave up on wet food as he was only licking the jelly and leaving the rest. I have a happy healthy cat on dry food only.

My cat is a fussy madam, and also fickle. We have a cupboard full of rejected foods which I must bring to the CPL at some point. She barely drinks water from her dish, but will happily slurp from filthy puddles - all broth type things are sniffed and left, so I have given up trying to tempt her with different options and we stick with what we know she likes (for now!). She will hoover down cat milk though.