Fussy Eater

[DontCallMeCharlotte]

I have a lovely ginger boy who's 13. Over the last few months, he's started to turn his nose up at his food. I've tried cheapest, middling, most expensive (little tins of pate which I'm tempted to put on my own toast!), he's not even excited about tuna. Short of cooking him chicken every night - which I'm sure he would love - does anyone have any suggestions for something he might wolf down with joy?

I feel your pain. It's an ongoing struggle trying to keep them food happy. I give mine one small tin of tuna per week, just a little taster at lunchtime, which they really like. I give them dry food and at the moment they're enjoying Whiskas chicken in jelly and tuna in jelly sachets - the individual sachets, not a box. I'm not a cat food oficianado, so can't recommend anything useful. I've tried dried prescription food, which they really like. Maybe your boy would life that?

Wish I could suggest something - my cat is a fussy bastard too.

Mine has colitis, so has to be a restricted diet, otherwise his bowels bleed. He lives on a sensitive dry food, no wet food at all, only a bit of boiled or roasted chicken occasionally. Before we knew this about him we were giving him wet food. The wet food with chunks, he used to just lick the jelly or gravy off and leave the chunks. He loved the pate stuff, but again, if it had vegetables in it, he would leave those, so damn fussy. Even the Royal Canin Digest Sensitive food, which is similar to the prescription stuff the vets give to cats who need to have a short period of digestive rest, he would only lick the gravy off and leave the meat.

He does love Purina One Sensitive dry food, I swear it's laced with kitty crack or something, he'd never say no to a bowl of that.

Thanks for your replies. I bought him some Lily's Kitchen (I think it's called?) organic stuff which he quite likes. I don't blame him for being fussy. Bless him, he's put up with Felix for all his life and now he's putting his paw down. He is also a champion of licking off the gravy and leaving the rest! Unfortunately, I can't abide the smell of Whiskas and he's not that fussed with it anyway. We'll carry on with the Lily's Kitchen for now - he also likes the Sheba sachets (@ £5 for eight!!) but they seem to have very small portions. He does like Go Cat so I might try him on an actual dry food.