Cat only eating dry food

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Our cat was adopted from a cat shelter where they fed him felix pouches, which he loves.

I've tried to move him onto wet food with a higher meat content, but he refuses all the brands I've tried. However he loves the dried food.

Is it better to let him live on just dried food, or mix it up with some felix pouches?

He's an otherwise healthy one year old boy, and he drinks water quite happily.

My rescues are the same. They love James Wellbeloved biscuits which are a complete food, which biscuits do they have? I managed to switch them to Sheba which probably isn't any better than Felix but they won't touch decent wet food or actual real tuna etc. They have a small pouch each per day.

They have a water fountain, and look very healthy and shiny at 3 years old so I'm not worried.

One of my cats is very fussy. I like to feed them high quality food but he will either walk off and not eat anything, then the food either goes off or the other cats eats it, or seem to like it for a while and then start refusing it.
I have taken to mixing a small amount of a pouch he does like into it and that seems to work relatively well.

My cat was a rescue cat, feral until a few months old, and would only eat dried food. I gradually introduced him to wet food and he like the Felix soup one, Mon petit gourmet (I think) and the Fine Cuts one - Sheba I think. They have to be fish flavour and in gravy, not jelly.
He tends to lick the gravy up first and leave the chunks if it is a flavour he doesn’t like. Won’t touch human tinned tuna or other fish. I’m vegetarian so he doesn’t get much chance to try other meat.

I’ve tried to source good quality dried food and am currently feeding him Wild Freedom dried food, which seems to have quite a high meat content and not too many fillers. He was on Crave fish flavour, but now I’ve taken the plunge and bought a 7kg bag of it, he has gone off it, obviously.

I leave fresh water for him but he prefers to drink out of an old washing up bowl that's outside and full of rainwater, algae and wriggly things.

You would think starting off feral he would eat anything, but he is so fussy!

Our cat is also fussy about wet food - another ex stray boy who lived in a shed until he was ten months old and now is a Prince. We cycled through them all including £ raw frozen stuff and subscription models like Untamed, and the one he eats most of us Sheba, so that’s what he gets, plus Royal Canin biscuits. Some days he eats the lot, others he mainly licks the gravy off. At his boosters/annual health check back in April I asked the vet about his diet, and she said he was absolutely fine, no issues.

He does drink water, and goes nuts for tinned tuna (if I have that I give him the spring water), bits of chicken, dairy-free cheese etc. He’s also not afraid to swipe things waiting to go in the oven - once a whole sausage roll.

Our previous girl cat was “clean plate club” all the way, so this has been a bit of an adjustment, and initially I got really anxious that he wasn’t “eating well”, but there’s nothing coming over him. Scenes from yesterday.

Thanks for the replies. It's funny how fussy all these former stray kitties are. Our boy was an underweight kitten riddled with fleas and worms when we took him in just a few months ago, you wouldn't believe it to look at him now.

He's eating the feringa dried food which says it's a complete food. We've tried to add in various pouches but he only likes the less healthy varieties such as felix. Our old cat ate the high meat content ones and lived to a great old age, so I was hoping to follow the same diet again.

He also loves eating tinned tuna, and will help himself to pretty much anything I leave unattended such as milk in the kids cereals bowls and his favourite, crisps.

Our Fonzie came from a rescue, we were told he ate Purina dried food and Felix cat food. We tried him on other branded wet food and he refused to eat it, which is typical cat behaviour!! Fonzie has the brands he likes, cat biscuits are always on offer and I put down a little Felix twice a day. Fonzie is a grazer, so there'd be no point in me giving him lots of wet food, as once it's left for a few hours he won't eat it!!! So give your cat both. Don't bother with other brands, your cat knows what he does and doesn't like!!!

Any wet food is better than none, especially for males as they’re prone to urine issues. I would rather mine ate better quality but he refuses so cheap crap wet it is!

I have two cats, adopted as kittens of about 12 weeks old. They came on Felix pouches, and initially I transitioned them to a better quality food and they were fine with it and ate really well. They're now almost 1, and one of them has recently decided she will not eat wet food! I've tried many brands, and all are being rejected, even ones she used to eat happily. The wet food gets left out and eventually her sister eats it or it gets thrown away. It's frustrating, but I've upgraded to Feringa dry food (which seems to have a good protein content and is grain free) and try to take comfort in seeing that the water bowl is being used, and remembering that millions of cats live long lives on dried food diets. I still put out half a pouch of wet per cat in the morning and half a pouch in the evening, but even if I don't put out dry she still won't eat it at the moment.

I wonder if it's partly the heat at the moment as both cats are eating much less.

All my rescues eat Iams dry food, and drink from a variety of sources around the house/garden.
All boys, all fine, glossy, healthy.