Going to have to stop feeding my cat

[HardRockOwl]

Well.. not quite. I'm not that mean. But no more pouches.

She's 8 and always been fussy but in recent months it's ramped up. I've tried everything. Felix, whiskers, Gourmet, Sheba, the Cheshire Cat garden, blink, Lily's kitchen - I could go on and on. Gravy, jelly, pate. From cheap to very pricey

She won't look at them. Well, she will. The look says 'what the fuck is this?' and today it tipped me over the edge as I'd spent £12 on pricey ones

So my question is.. anyone out there just feed dried food? She eats that fine - we usually have Canagan or Sense 6, so a nice high quality one. Always has access to her water fountain

There's nothing wrong with her either. In fine fettle

But I can't keep buying these pouches for her to not eat. She usually has 2 pouches a day but I've always had to rotate a lot as she will eat it one day and not the next - and just recently - nothing

Also Untamed do a trial box for £8 mine seem to like that.

My 3 have only dry. The only time they have any pouches is if my neighbours cat starts turning his nose up at the food she buys and she then gives it to me!
All 3 are in good health 😊

Same problem here. What's worse is she will sometimes appear to like a wet food (obviously one I need to buy online and very expensive) and no sooner do I think I've sorted it she decides that NOTHING will make her eat the very same food EVER AGAIN.

So I decided to stop the game snd bought her the Nood and the Scumbles dry food. For the first time in ages she eats it all and she doesn't yakk it all up again as she used to on the IAMS.

Now we have an unspoken agreement. She has a bowl of complete dry food and a Sheba complementary wet food every day. All the other wet food went yo my neighbours cat. Clean bowls every day and harmonious human to cat relations.

my Cat (sadly no longer with me) used to take the piss with wet food pouches. I would spend lots of money & time buying her all manor of varieties only for her to look at me like something she had stepped in. If she was feeling generous she would lick the jelly off before shouting at me for something more delicious to be served. I would even get up at all hours of the night to serve her too as did DH. I got tired of it so purchased her dried food she had Carnilove and we had a stand off for a good fortnight before she gave in. Never looked back though. She lived to 19 years of age and other than old age never had any health issues. ( admittedly though I did still buy her tinned sardines 😂 for a treat).

What a ridiculously alarming title for just switching pet food!

That's more of an issue with male cats than female, though.

If you’re feeding canagan she probably just doesn’t need the pouches. Mine was a right bloody scavenger before we started him on canagan now I can even leave chicken out and he won’t steal it.

Yes my two fussy princesses will only eat good quality dried food (turn their noses up at anything that doesn't require a second mortgage to buy it 🤦🏾‍♀️)
I supplement this with bits of chicken and tuna and of course lots of water. They're actually much healthier on this than they were on the pouches which gave them diarrhoea on a regular basis.

I always fed dry until she she got old and the vet recommended introducing wet for health reasons. Now there is always a bowl of dry down for snacks, but I feed wet throughout the day.
I throw SO much wet food away though, it's ridiculous. She licks all the gravy off and leaves the chunks which either dry out, or in this summer weather get flies on it. Dry food is so much less wasteful.

Mine has Hills dry, he won't touch anything else and he turned his nose up at lick-e-lix.

My cat (around 14) is exactly the same, I've tried everything, all different types and quite expensive stuff too. I now leave his biscuits, Royal Canin Ageing plus the dental biscuits for him and I only give him a small tin of wet food when he goes to bed at night. It's the only way I can more or less guarantee he will eat it. Currently it's Gourmet Cake.

I've wasted pounds and pounds on wet food, he'll eat it for a few days, even a couple of weeks, then suddenly, it's no, I don't like that one, usually after I've bought quite a lot of it.

At the moment, fingers crossed, he is not wasting hardly any of the wet food and he always has biscuits so I don't think there's any way he will starve.

This is just one of his ways that is ensuring that I will never, ever have another cat despite him being my sixth one. 🙄

One of ours only wanted dry food. I don’t see the problem?

@Festoonlights lol. Made you look though eh? And hopefully you've recovered now

Only just!! 😂😂

@Festoonlights phew! Sorry for the shock headline. I actually hate oriole who do that and then did it myself

I had visions of staving moggies shivering in the dark in wretched conditions 😅

Mine won't touch it so it doesn't work for all cats! She sniffed it and walked away. She'll only eat Purina dry food and Felix As Good as it Looks wet food. And then only some flavours. The only time she ate in a reasonable way was when she was pregnant. ☹️

One of mine will only eat dry food. Always has done, they told us that when we got him from the rescue centre as well. He’s now 13 and well. He is overweight though, the vet said that can happen with a dry only diet. He has a light cat food and we have to strictly limit it otherwise he is very chunky.

Whereas I had visions of a six-dinner Sid waddling through the door having mugged all the neighbours for food - obviously not through the cat flap, as he wouldn't fit!

Our old girl is so fussy she will pick out different shapes of dry food and only eat the ones she likes at that particular minute in time. We have 5 different boxes of wet food open for her at the moment, and 3 dry open (plus the 2 she won't eat at all) that we are cycling through. Luckily we have another cat who will eat her leftovers but FFS love make your mind up.

Thank you for saying your cat has already been vet checked. I know most cats are fussy beggars but I couldn't in good conscious not mention what happened to our darling girl.

Good luck in finding something she will eat!

My cat has always point blank refused wet food, I prefer the dry food as it's less messy and smelly so for me it's a win win!

My 5 year old cat has dry food except the occasional pouch (couple of times a month). And the occasional bit of chicken or fish if left overs.

It's the Hills Science Plan food. Very healthy cat.

Previous cat made it to 19 yo on the same diet with no health problems we were aware of.

Royal canin dry is a complete food. Its good quality and they make a variety of different formulations for different types of cats (different breeds, indoor/outdoor, different ages etc). It seems expensive but when you look how much they ate actually supposed yo eat on a day it's not bad. Mine love it.