Help for the Fussius cattius.

[Limaloma1]

My cat is ridiculously fussy. I just cant keep on top of things she will eat.

When she was a kitten I've tried applaws, lillys kitchen, james wellbeloved, butchers classics, felix. She tolerated applaws and then Felix for a while then turned up her nose. Wouldn't touch the others.

Ive been giving her highlife cat food which she seemed to love for a food few months then tescos Hickery dickery cat food. Now she will only lick the jelly parts.

I have a pets at home where we live. Zooplus want £6.99 delivery charge so im loathed to order something from there she wont like.

She has james wellbeloved dry cat food alongside the wet food which she grazes on through out the day but seems to be looking for wet.

Ive tried just tuna on its own..nope

She will eat cooked chicken but its not possible to give her that every day.

Any thoughts of what i can try next for her please?

Mine have settled on gourmet solitaire tins - beef or duck in a tomato sauce. They will also eat gourmet perle sachets. They eat Encore dry food

Thanks Dementedpixie. I forgot she tried that too but seemed to have really sticky poo that stuck to her long fur! Is there any other good cat food online stores. Really want to rant at zooplus. We do have roads in the highlands you know 🙄!

Our fussy pair have Canagan who do free delivery - although I'm not sure about the Highlands, you'll have to check!

How long do you leave it before you offer another food?
My cats don't get the option to be fussy and as we have a dog if you snooze you loose.
I would tough it out for at least 12 hours before offering something different.

Harry has just gone off the last Country Hunter flavour he'd eat. I've tried loads of others in the past without success so there's not a lot left. He's on James Wellbeloved wet and dry now until he goes off that as well!

My cat after 7 years of fish only has branched out to chicken.... she will sometimes eat the brands you’ve tried. We seem to have hit a winning streak with Sainsbury’s posh cat food at the minute... not sure how long it will last. She has royal canine biscuits and only one sachet a day.

Mine is like that. I put it down to boredom and rotate the different brands. Perhaps dig out the previously favoured brands, if you've still got them and give, 'em that. At the moment mine likes the naturo and a wilko own version of a more expensive brand I was buying for him. Wilko do delivery not sure if you'd be covered though.

You've hit the nail on the head: She will eat cooked chicken but its not possible to give her that every day.

She's telling you that you need to make it possible

I put it down to boredom and rotate the different brands. Perhaps dig out the previously favoured brands, if you've still got them and give, 'em that.

I second this. It's definitely worth re-trying things at different times. Our very fussy cat always goes through periods of eating one food, then goes off it, and miraculously eats something she previously only pawed at.

Currently she's just gone off Sheba's individual pouches (although DH hasn't got the message yet, and keeps buying them) and is eating Purina Gourmet pouches, which she's not always been keen on. For dry food she's ignoring the James Wellbeloved, but I'm trying to get through the small bag before opening a new one. Hill's Science Plan's tuna flavoured dry food for mature cats is usually a hit, but I bet once I open the huge bag, that won't last long. Bloody things...

Another one that works on rotation here too! Flavour of the month will suddenly be refused and I end up going back to the ones that were refused a few months prior only for them to be consumed with gusto!

I tend to stick to two main brands and vary the flavours; there are six cats here and one can't tolerate gravy, so it ends up either everything getting wolfed down or everything left; it can drive me to distraction sometimes.

Ah thanks everyone for your replies. The day after posting this i checked zooplus again to see if there was any offers for free postage etc. When I added some stuff in it came to £3.99 postage, so ordered £30 of Animoda Carny tinned food. It arrived today and she sniffed at it in the bowl and has walked away. 🤷‍♀️

This box is now being donated to local cat rescue!

Yes i think maybe rotation of all the foods she has tolerated is a good idea. She doesn't even like Dreamies!

I have to follow my fussy cat around and put the food right under his nose to get him to eat sometimes. He might walk away from it in the kitchen but eat it in the hall or on the windowsill.
He is a bit thin so I'm trying to get him to eat more before anybody tells me I'm being ridiculous.

Ours wouldn’t eat amionda Carny either. He would stuff himself silly on felix as good as it looks.