Licking gravy off food

[Piggyhoolier]

Need some advice on feeding please, my 2 year old rescue cat arrived with us 2 months ago. She’s brilliant, settled in amazingly and obviously rules the roost already in terms of her taking priority over humans for the sofa etc.

But, I’m a bit concerned about her diet. We feed her Felix sachets because that’s what the rescue shelter fed her and we wanted to give her continuity. For the first few weeks she was fine, turned her nose up at some flavours, devoured others. But more recently she just licks all the sauce/gravy/jelly off and leaves the chunks. Every single time. They then have to be binned because they dry out. She does eat much more dry food since she’s been doing this so she’s clearly getting enough to eat, but my question is, is this normal? Should we ditch wet food altogether? She can open cupboard doors so if I give her just dry she goes to the cupboard where her food is and opens it until I give her a sachet. Which she goes giddy over but leaving all solids. Any advice gratefully received!

My cat does this, I have to mash it to get him to eat the meat too.

Mashing, great suggestion, thank you!

Mine do this too... I don't give much wet food at a time to encourage them to eat it all, not just lick the gravy off. Maybe a quarter or third of a packet? I top it up if they polish it all off and are still asking for more (usual), or give them dry if they don't seem too bothered or I know it will be sitting there all night

Ours is the same. She eats the meat if she is hungry and has nothing else down, but if she has dry food available she will lick the gravy off the wet food and leave the rest. She also leaves anything in jelly or pate So now I give her just a little of one thing at a time.

Mine do it too, I’ve concluded they’re just arseholes

Yep, mine does this too. Licks the gravy off and leaves the chunks. Won't eat anything in jelly. Backs away from fresh cooked meat or tuna as though it's trying to leap out of the dish and kill her.

Luckily our other cat eats everything that's not nailed down (and sometimes that is) so finishes up whatever she leaves.

Ours do this. One cat rushes in, sucks all the jelly/gravy off the chunks in his bowl, then rushes over to do the same with his sister's bowl. Then there's a stand off while they both sit there disgusted at the lack of jelly. Then a couple of hours later they will eat the bare chunks.
Now, we have made meat jelly and added it to their bowls at various points during this process and they have looked at us as if we are totally bonkers and refused to eat the extra jelly

Is it the chunks in jelly or As Good As It Looks? Mine will do exactly what yours does with the chunks, but not with the AGAIL because the meat bits are less 'chunky'.

Mashing was a spectacular fail, she still licked the sauce off. She does it with all varieties whether the chunks are small or large. But from what you all say she isn’t unusual in doing this so I’ll try the tip of giving less and if she still does it i’ll conclude that as per sexnotgender’s cats she is in fact just an arsehole . She’s bloody lovely though so I’ll let her get away with it. Thanks all!

See ours won't touch As Good As It Looks, at all. Possibly because the gravy:chunk ratio is off.

Buy different food.

Mine do this but there is v little nutritional content in the gravy or jelly. Cats effectively are like humans and left to their own devices would choose to eat at MacDonalds everyday rather than have a balanced healthy diet.

Zooplus has been our friend due to the vast range of much cheaper and much better catfood available there. Mine are now fed mainly dry food (helps their teeth) but their wet food is Animonda Carny which is all meat and disappears in the blink of an eye.

We've just put our elderly cat onto Felix as good as it looks as he was having issues with his kibble and he can't afford to lose weight due to hyperthyroidism. He also licks off the jelly/gravy and leaves the chunks. I thinks its because he is lazy. I was mashing it in the dish but my sons gf said they smoosh it in the pouch before putting it into the dish and that works well.
As for flavours, he only likes fish. Hates chicken, tolerates other meat flavours. He's 15 so we let him get away with it.

Depending on how indulgent you're feeling, you could try the little pate/mousse type food in tins- mine always liked those, and the ones with flakes of food suspended in a much firmer jelly.

You can also now buy these little sachets of wet food which our cat goes bonkers for!

This is them:

www.uk.sheba.com/products/treats/salmon

I mix up brands for mine - I think she just gets bored with a brand after a while. I try something new until she gets bored with that and then switch again.