Why does my cat only eat dry food? Refuses all wet food

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My cat is 2yrs old, I have had her since a kitten. She will NOT eat wet food, I have tried her with tons of different makes and flavours. I mean it's not a problem, I give her good quality dry (Thrive) and she drinks plenty of water. But it just seems so strange to me, as I imagine wet food would be more palatable and appealing to a cat. What's that all about then?

Back in the day when I was young there was no dry cat food. Cats lived off tinned cat food. So I guess my cat would've had to eat wet food. Maybe if I had persisted with offering wet food only then she would've 'caved' and eaten it.

Will your cat eat meat at all?
I use Blink now and it’s not full of any trash, it’s human grade.

it’s definitely something to work on, I don’t use much dry now since I saw this video by Jackson Galaxy

I can't answer that, but I have the opposite problem (if you can call it a problem)!

My cat will only eat wet food in gravy. No dried food and not in Jelly either!

Anyway I'm sure your cat and mine are healthy enough on the one type of food!

Quite honestly, if you’re providing a good quality dried food, I’d be delighted. Less mess, less waste, less smelly and much better for your kitties teeth. She will thank you when she’s older.

Yes all of these are good points and I hugely appreciate not cleaning out a wet food dish and the smell on a hot summer day. But I worry she's not getting variety, or 'natural' cat food in the form of quality protein.

She won't eat human meat either - chicken, beef, tuna, prawns, she turns her nose up!

So I give her Thrive as it seems to be high protein no grain etc

Yes I tried her on Blink as it is good quality. You're right maybe I should try again after a gap.

My two-ago cat wouldn't eat wet and current cat demands a pouch every morning which she will occasionally lick, so 99.9% of her diet is dry. She won't go near posh cat food or meat for humans.

I have 3 4 year old cats. They have only ever had dry food never even tried them on wet. Vet is perfectly happy with them they are healthy and happy and have good teeth 😊

Not planning on switching them to wet unless I absolutely have to.

Mine is the same. Will kick meat but just leaves the rest. We give them high protein dry food instead.

Gosh yes that would be a bit worse probably! With my last cat, gravy always meant rather smelly poos!

One of ours cats only eats dry food, won't look at wet food. She will eat chicken when given the opportunity. Other one eats mostly dey and will eat one type of (expensive) wet food in gravy, won't eat chicken.

We were told they ate dry plus Felix wet food at the rescue but they never ate a bite of it at home

No idea why...picky buggers!

I have 2 cats. Boy cat won't entertain wet food at all. He only eats dry.

Girl cat would only eat wet if she got the opportunity, I make sure she eats some dry but it's not her favourite. She will try to get the pouch out of the box and eat her way into the pouch. Loves pate type, mousse, gravy, jelly, soup so all types.

Boy cat is delighted to hear the fridge opening and has occasional cheese, ham, chicken. Girl cat prefers fishy stuff and has a little bit of salmon, tuna. Both eat dreamies when they can persuade them out of me.

Teeth are good apart from one of boy cats front fangs which he snapped after falling off the too of the wardrobe when he was 6 months.

Wet food is better for a cat as they get the majority of their moisture from their food normally. I've read that the worst wet food is better than the best dry. You need to make sure that there's plenty of water for the cat and they're not dehydrated.

End of the day though, they are fussy little buggers.

Ours only eats dry and will lick gravy, not jelly and not the meat from the pouches.

She will eat fish, chicken and any red meat that she can clean up from the remains of a human dinner. She is not allowed this option very often.

She is incapable of catching live prey.

She is now 18/19 so she has coped with this diet.

Ours will only eat dry. At least one will and turns up her nose at ham, chicken, tuna etc (does kill and eat the odd mouse though). The other will eat anything that might even vaguely be edible…crisps, tomatoes, cheese, leaves. The vet tells me they’re both very healthy!

Mine will only eat one type of very expensive dried food I can only get from the vet, or Dreamies / Felix Crispies. I've tried all the brands of all the types of food plus chicken fish etc and she won't have a bar of it. At least the vet food is full of the nutrients she needs and she wont drink from a bowl of water but she has glasses of water dotted about the house and a bucket of rain water shes got in the garden 😁

I knew someone who had a cat that would only eat tinned steak out of M&S. The funniest part is how on earth did the cat manage to train them to do that, its pretty niche