If I am picky and fickle about what food I eat........

[BookWorm45]

what food might be worth trying next ?

Dry cat biscuits are the favourite - pouches are much less popular. Out of the dry and hopefully healthier options, James Wellbeloved has been the favourite but now is becoming an also-ran. IAMS gets ignored or kicked around the kitchen floor. Canagan was left in disgust. Something made out of insects was also not a winner.
Any others worth a go ?

Arden grange biscuits are high quality food.

Agree he is handsome and also stern: you had better get it right OP or you'll face that expression every day!

thank you everyone for comments (and the one about him being stern made me laugh).

I've now got a good list of items to try, plus I also bought a few from Pets Corner to start off with (they very helpfully said they would refund me if my cat would not eat it, as long as I come back within 30 days !)

He has supplemented his diet today by trying to steal bits of my breakfast...

Professor furry trousers is incredibly food fussy but loves Hills biscuits for sensitive tummys & will eat natures choice wet cat food or duck, pork or chicken felix

Other than that he will only eat mouldy old rubbish he finds outside

Mine are happy enough with Scrumbles and Lily's kitchen dry. But only the chicken variety.

as an occasional wet food, they like the gravy Sheba trays.

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Admittedly mine is an absolute gannet, but she adores Scrumbles chicken. It’s like a game of Hungry Hippos.

i just keep cycling through the grain free ones. At the moment Scrumbles is out of favour, Lily’s is okay but going down in the charts, Canagan was tolerated only for one meal, sometimes I can get her to eat an Applaws fishy one. Webbox Naturals is going down ok. Then she’ll hate it and back to Scrumbles.

DH, although he adores the cat and will do almost anything for her, has vetoed Meowing Heads. It really is smelly.

My two (older, fussy cat who previously only like Felix As Good As It Looks) and 5 month kitten who mostly likes anything that isn't his have both been won over by Smila. I'm very happy as it comes in recyclable packing, is cheap but high quality and they both eat it so doesn't matter which bowl the kitten is gobbling from.

Which flavour Canagan?

With my fusspot, tins are preferred to the pouches and Tuna is the ultimate food. He also likes the tins with Sardines. Of the pouches only Herring and Salmon will do.

Of course if it's being served in someone else's house he thinks it's marvellous regardless of what it is.

Mine have a mix of James Wellbeloved oral health and normal chicken flavour and one meal a day with a side of royal canin dry which they all love. Doesn't seem to matter which one it is. They've got 'siamese' breed specific at the moment. The JW oral health has been very good for the older cats teeth.
Wet food - I rotate several, one cat only really likes the small Sheba sachets. Felix shreds proving popular too. Expensive food they seem to love for the first couple of meals and then they go off it. To up the protein I give them fish/chicken/meat.
They all go a bit mad for those dehydrated meat treats.

Mine has turned her nose up at Felix Doubly Delicious and is also apparently no longer a fan of Felix AGAIL turkey and lamb, even if I coat it in Lik-E-Lix. I bought loads of Lily's Kitchen when it had 25% off and she wolfed down the first tin and refused the rest, so it now sits under the stairs, reminding me daily of the £75 I spent in an attempt to give my beloved furry overlady a good quality grain-free diet. Same with IAMS: ate once, refused the rest of the box. I thought she might be poorly but she can put away industrial quantities of Lik-E-Lix and Dreamies without issues.

Why don't they just make ordinary cat biscuits that taste like Dreamies?

I ponder this question often... about as often as I wonder why they don't put the stain remover in the washing powder and be done with it.

Probably for the same reason they don't make broccoli that tastes like chocolate.

Still not eating properly and seemed a bit listless so I booked a vet's appointment for tomorrow morning. Just before bed I put down some biscuits just in case it tempted her to eat. Little bugger ate the lot, wolfed it down.

Still going to the vet's just in case (she's also been shaking her head a bit so will check for ear mites) but I am relieved.

Hoping the vet appointment will be a complete waste of time and money @twobluechickens - that doesn’t sound quite right but I hope you know what I mean.

Cats are not so very far removed from their wild ancestry, and I wonder if sometimes when they seem off their food, it’s just normal for them to have a longer gap built in from time to time, considering that not every hunt would be successful (or perhaps occasionally they can’t be arsed with the effort and would rather chill for a bit).

Thanks @Renamed, I hope so too! We've had zoomies at 5am and she's currently mithering me for breakfast so things are looking up. I bought small packs of Felix as opposed to the 40-pouch boxes I usually buy, and I wonder if they are a different recipe (they are slightly different flavours) as she's turned her nose up at all of them, including chicken which she normally likes. Just eaten the gravy and left the meat.

Definitely recognise the thing about "eaten the gravy and left the meat", we have that quite a lot.....

My cats turn their noses up at dry food. They like wet pouches. 2 cats share 3 pouches in the morning, 1 each for lunch unless sharing a chicken breast and share 3 pouches at bedtime. I just buy Aldi fish variety pouches and they gobble it down.

Tried a pouch from the usual 40-pack and she's inhaled it. So it's the recipe. A relief! Cats eh 🙄