Fussy cat - what to do about wet food?

[Ironfloor269]

Cat is 1 year old. He only eats wet food in gravy. Partial to fish and poultry. Used to love Tesco wet food in gravy but suddenly stopped. We then tried Amazon life long fish in gravy. Again, are for a few months but now doesn't like it much. Will eat if I give it every few days but not more often than that. So now he eats Lidl wetfood in gravy but only poultry and game. Turns nose up at beef and lamb.

My questions are,

What do you do if your cat doesn't eat the given food for a few hours?
Do you give another variant? Or wait longer and hope he'll eat if he's actually hungry? How long is too long to leave food in bowl? I tend to throw away after a few hours and try another variant. This is how I found out he likes poultry, fish and game in gravy to red meat or food in jelly.

I've now accumulated several unopened red meat pouches as a pack comes with all the variants.

Should I just accept the fact that I'm going to have lots of unopened cat food pouches and donate to charity? Or is there a trick I'm missing?

He still eats Lidl dry food without a fuss though.

I've a 1 year old cat who has developed the fuss with wet food. As a kitten he would only eat Whiskas poultry in gravy pouches. Then I tried him with fish with jelly pouches. He only liked the salmon and tuna. Then he would only eat Whiskas tinned salmon in jelly. I used to buy one tin at a time from the corner shop. Then after a few months he went off that. My DP gives him a bit of tinned tuna in water every day and unsurprisingly he loves that. I've tried all different individual pouches and he turns his nose up.

His main food is Hills Science Diet dry chicken which he eats no problem and he does drink his water. Although he is eating I would have preferred him to have some wet food because I know from experience that male cats can get urinary problems.

You could try going on zooplus and ordering something a bit better quality without breaking the bank.

I think a lot of cats live quite happily on dry food. When we adopted our two the RSPCA told us something like IAMS dry is ok as their only food. Personally I might just pick a good quality dry food for him and not worry about the wet for now. He is only little, his tastes may change over time. Ours have variously been on all dry, all wet and various other options in between over the years.

@TroysMammy thank you, my cat is the same. Wet food is hot or miss.

@Murmurur I'll have a look on Zooplus, thanks. He does eat his dry food without a problem (although, now that I've said it out loud, he'll probably stop 😊).