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Cat bored of food

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PinotDragon86 · 20/04/2025 22:54

Wonder if anyone has some advice for me.
My cat seems to be bored of his wet food. I don't want to switch it out as it
is a decent one (blink) which seems to me to be a good choice looking at the ingredients. He is on Iams biscuits too so want to make sure he is on a good quality wet to make up for the Iams, which isn't quite as good, but the sod seems uninterested in it now. He's been on it for nearly 18 months and has been fine but last couple weeks will only pick at it. Anything I can do to spice it up? He still eats it eventually and does supplement it with some of the local mice. I just want to give him the best I can afford. The last time I tried him on something else he had a dodgy tum. Any advice welcome.

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Galectable · 20/04/2025 23:35

I rotate flavours for my cat. That seems to keep her interested. I don't buy the expensive stuff, just middle range. Dry kibble and tins of wet food. I usually give her dry in the morning and wet and dry in the evening.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 20/04/2025 23:37

No advice, but our boy is largely disinterested in wet food - we’ve gone from Whiskas (which is what he was on in foster care) through Blink, Felix, Untamed, Katkin, and Sheba. He has Royal Canin dry, a “chicken yoghurt” most days, and does drink water. Sheba is the one he eats most of but sometimes he just licks the gravy off and leaves the meat.

We were in for boosters the other week and the vet said he’s in tip top health, and wasn’t fussed that he’s not fussed about wet food.

He’s such a monkey that he rejects the tuna cat food tins which are essentially human tuna (Untamed and Encore) but if I open a tin of tuna to make a sandwich for me, he’s through like a shot.

user1469569516 · 20/04/2025 23:39

Pop some Lik-e-Lix on it and give it a light stir.
My cats love it.

lunaemma · 20/04/2025 23:41

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 20/04/2025 23:37

No advice, but our boy is largely disinterested in wet food - we’ve gone from Whiskas (which is what he was on in foster care) through Blink, Felix, Untamed, Katkin, and Sheba. He has Royal Canin dry, a “chicken yoghurt” most days, and does drink water. Sheba is the one he eats most of but sometimes he just licks the gravy off and leaves the meat.

We were in for boosters the other week and the vet said he’s in tip top health, and wasn’t fussed that he’s not fussed about wet food.

He’s such a monkey that he rejects the tuna cat food tins which are essentially human tuna (Untamed and Encore) but if I open a tin of tuna to make a sandwich for me, he’s through like a shot.

Mine is the same! Licks gravy off Sheba, refuses all fish cat food but will mug me for my tuna Confused
I’m having success with a trial box from Marro which is frozen, he likes the turkey and the chicken one so far

faerietales · 21/04/2025 06:12

There’s no point worrying about decent cat food if your cat won’t eat it.

I always think of how many millions of cats have lived long, healthy and happy lives on supermarket brand food and Whiskas or whatever.

musicalfrog · 21/04/2025 06:17

If he's not on a vet diet then maybe try some other brands? Make sure it's at least 50% meat in the ingredients. Most supermarket food isn't.

Mine love Aatu.

Zooplus are a good stockist.

Changeissmall · 21/04/2025 06:18

Ours has top quality food and sometimes does this. He’s only two and very healthy.

He once came back from a long jaunt outside and I swear I could smell fish on his breath. As we live in Surrey I don’t think he’d caught one and I suspect the nice woman two doors down.

Mine gets the same carefully measured portions every day and sometimes wolfs it down and screams for his next meal and sometimes just eats a tiny bit then wanders off for hours. It’s just cats being cats I think:

PinotDragon86 · 21/04/2025 12:21

Thanks for the advice everyone. He isn't not eating it at all, he is just picking at it. He is still eating his biscuits fine also and hasn't lost weight or anything. I've tried him on a couple of different brands before (introduced slowly) and he got the runs and always gone back to blink.
Will just have to keep an eye on him and see if he goes back or not. Thanks everyone

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Sunshineandrainbow · 23/04/2025 07:36

Could you swap up the dry food to a better one. We used purizon from zooplus, Cat adores it. I then don't feel as guilty about the sheba wet food and the Morrisons mousse tins that he loves.

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