Do any cats actually like prescription diets?!

[Mrsmunchofmunchington]

Over the years I have had cats on a variety of prescription diets and without fail they will eat the biscuits but either refuse to as much as lick the wet food or else eat a couple of sachets which leads you to buy a big box of 48 and then they won’t go near the stuff.

My girl has recently had to go on to sensitivity food. She likes the royal canin sensitivity control biscuits and ate the wet food for a few weeks but is getting increasingly grudging about it.

The alternative is hills z/d but I hear that very few cats like this at all.

I am pondering what to try next. I don’t want her to have a biscuit only diet so she needs a suitable wet food which is acceptable to her discerning palate!

She isn’t a big fan of fresh fish or chicken.

Her favourite wet foods were sheba and gourmet but after years of being fine her tummy and skin now say no.

Mine loves hills c/d urinary dry food
won’t touch the wet!

My girl is on royal canin hypoallergenic. She was on the hills z/d dry for a while but they changed the recipe and it made her ill again. Then we tried the wet z/d and she ate it begrudgingly. Our vet suggested the swap to royal canin but slowly phased in. Well, we left the bag on the kitchen counter overnight, and she voted with her stomach by literally ripping into the bag and scooping the biscuits out- something she had never done before or since. She literally voted with her stomach and loves her biscuits.

@Bumblebeehive does she like the wet version too?

@Bumblebeehive apologies, I have just googled and see they don’t make a wet version for cats.

I’ve ordered some trovet hypoallergenic wet food as the reviews seem good.
Will see if lily concurs!

@beachwalkx I wonder why they all prefer the biscuits?

Mine isn’t a wet food fan anyway but I make him eat some as he has urinary issues!

My cat was on z/d which she found very boring I change her to purina ha which she loves even though she has been on it for 4 years now.

My cat was on the Hills z/d for a bit - she was very reluctant and I could see why, it was horrible claggy stuff. A lot of it went to waste. However I had some tins leftover and gave them away to a friend with the warning about it, said if her cats didn't like it I would just bin them - apparently her cats wolfed into them.

Shee quite liked the Royal Canin hypoallergenic dry food though, thankfully since that kept her going when she often turned her nose up at the wet.

None of mine have ever touched prescription wet food! I’ve had two males with urinary issues and our vet just said any wet food is better than no wet food.

Royal Canine Hypoallergenic. Mine loved it, even the one that it wasn’t prescribed for, we went through it an alarming rate and they gained quite a bit of weight!

Mine eats hills jd and td, dry only, she won't touch wet food even after getting some teeth out, not even fresh meat.
She drinks plenty water though (must be from the bathroom, or preferably rain water!). She's never had urinary issues and kidneys all good on recent blood test. Some cats just prefer kibble. You could try hills biome digestive which I think comes in pouches or id which definitely does.

Mine would eat dry specialist food, for his kidney issues, but was not at all keen on the wet, and I tried a huge range, including some of the European brands on Zooplus (had occasional short term successes with them, usually until I invested in a bigger delivery 🙄). The more sensible vets took the line that it was better he had some wet food that he would eat, even if not the specialist stuff, than just dry biscuits. And in his last year I just gave him whatever he would eat as it was more about keeping weight on (he was 19 by then ).

It sounds like my experience resonates then.
Cats like the dry prescription diets but not the wet.

@tesseractor I did the same thing with my old girl who wouldn’t eat wet renal food. I tried brands from around the world and had a mountain of boxes of (rejected) cat food stood in my kitchen.
Eventually I gave up and accepted that whatever she wanted was best.
Actually it seemed to make no difference to her kidney disease which never got any worse and she died some years later of an unrelated condition. Still miss her.

Ours has improved her eating since switching her to renal wet food. She's still temperamental, eats almost nothing for almost a day and then gets very hungry, but overall it's better.

It's also stopped her vomiting issues. She's had them since a kitten according to her notes, and since we've had her from 6 (she's 15 now) she's vomited anywhere from at least once a day (bad spell) to a few times a week (good spell). Now she only vomits when she eats grass -which I haven't even included above.

I'm delighted for her to have finally resolved it after her whole lifetime