Fussy cat's wet food has been discontinued!

[TemporaryCatSlave]

Gourmet Gold Melting Hearts. It's a mousse with a gravy centre. Lots of upset owners online, especially ones with elderly cats with no or few teeth and can't chew. TempCat is just fussy and will go without rather than try something else. (He does eat dry biscuits so he won't starve).

I've just spent ages searching online and found some from a hopefully-not-dodgy online store, of just one flavour, so bought as much as I could in one go. But once that's gone I'm not sure what we'll do.

It took me ages and quite a lot of trial and error to find something he'd happily eat. He'd gone off the food his previous people fed him and a lot was wasted whilst I tried other foods from cheap to outrageously expensive subscriptions. He is very, very suspicious of anything new, dislikes anything lumpy, doesn't even like Cat Soups or Lick-e-Lix. The nearest mousse-like alternative (Revelations) he is sporadic about and even pate types mixed with extra water he can turn his nose up at.

I feel sorry for him as he likes his wet dinners. And sorry for myself as it gets expensive buying new brands then chucking uneaten food away. I know - first world problem etc. Moan over......

Mine also misses it. Bastard purina.

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Have you tried this?

Worth trying Katkin. My own fussy cat will only eat their food - it comes in trays which are a moussy texture.
https://www.katkin.com/

Thanks for trying to help. And yes, you would 'think' expensive gently cooked healthy food would go down a treat. But no. He acted like I was trying to poison him. I actually posted a thread at the time as he refused to eat it, followed all the Katkin advice and even mixed with the now discontinued mousse, but eventually I cracked and gave up. I really wanted it to work to reduce the smelly poos he does. But alas, I still have several pouches from the trial as being frozen it's hard to donate away (or I'd send it your way!). It may end up feeding the local foxes over winter at some stage.

The good news is he is eating the Purina Revelations mousse, albeit not with great enthusiasm. Plus it's not cheap. I've ordered some of the Pets at Home mousse to try. Cross fingers...

I know the feeling, all 4 childhood Persians and current longhair moggy go nuts for chicken livers. Literally sitting in the kitchen waiting by the cooker.

Offered the Bengal some once and he backed away in fear like I’d offered him a plate of arsenic with a strychnine chaser. He preferred tinned salmon, dh made me buy the skinless and boneless for him too.

My katkin order has just arrived, hope the prince likes it!

I also take uneaten cat food to the local fox!

How do you cook the liver, I might try that.

I sometimes buy the cheap white frozen fish from Sainsbury's and poach it for the boy.

Oh no, I didn't know that! It's one of my two girls' favourite.

My late elderly boy adored it. God knows what I'd have done if he had still been here!

@Sunshineandrainbow You boil them in a covered pan.

Was it the Katkin pouches (the original version, chunky meat) or the new trays (introduced this year, soft mousse) that you tried?

Both are still available, after an outcry after they introduced the trays and tried to discontinue the pouches.

They still produce 3-4 varieties of the pouches to appease the pouch fanciers (my cat is one), but actually the trays are now improved since first introduced. It was around March 23, and my cat absolutely refused to even try after sniffing.

But this month I tested a few trays and he's been fine with them and eaten them.

In other words, maybe worth giving it another go with the new improved trays.

@RogueFemale Yes it's the old pouches. Thanks for the update on Katkin but not not sure can face trying more expensive stuff in case it also is rejected! I'll see how the cheaper stuff goes first then maybe reconsider.

Gosh these fussy cats have us wrapped round the proverbial paws don't they.

Yes indeed they do, but I'm relieved to have found a food he reliably will eat. I was chucking out so much uneaten food before I found Katkin (he'd like X brand for a bit, then go off it, then back to square one). Anyway, the trays are something to bear in mind as they're the right texture at least.

BTW very surprised yours won't eat Lick-e-Lix, it's like crack for cats, god knows what's in it!

@TemporaryCatSlave I know this is a bit of an old thread, but did you ever find anything your cat would eat consistently after the discontinuation of the melting hearts? [/ shakes fist at Purina.]

I had about four or five days of luck with the Scrumbles pate and was really hopeful but she’s turning her nose up at it again. She will eat the revelations occasionally but again, not consistently. I’m so pissed off about this! She will just not eat if it doesn’t meet approval. She’s an elderly cat and has always been a nightmare to feed.

I’ve had success in the past for the longest with Royal Canin sensitivity control pouches - I had some left over from a cat with allergies - but the problem with that is it makes her constipated, and it’s not a great diet to be on as it’s just chicken and rice.

It’s so bloody stressful trying every day to encourage her to eat.

Hi,
I gave in and have been ordering it from Spain every month! They have it on the Miscota website called Purina Gold Melting heart fondant. I just figured it was worth paying the £17 postage for 6 boxes of 8 tins.
Purina have a new one out here though (which so far she quite likes) Nature's creations - this also has the melting heart.
It's awful isn't it? I've wasted so much money on different cat foods that the Cat protection league have benefitted from!