So now the four overlords are refusing to eat Untamed AND prescription food, I give up.

[sweetkitty]

I spend a fortune on the best quality cat food I can afford for the four little furry overlords in my life. I have
DC1 was a large ginger tom always miaowing for food. He’s had urinary crystals in the past so is on urinary food, he refused Royal Canin wet sachets but ate the dry biscuits so I gave him them with a few tins of Untamed. Then I found this high meat content urinary food on Zooplus, he hates it and has stopped eating Untamed. He’s only eating Thrive biscuits and has lost about a kilo. He’s only also has allergies and is going to a special vet dermatologist next month!
DC2 - very overweight tortie always on a diet, was on RC diet took her off that and onto Thrive as it’s not got grain etc in it, she refuses to eat Untamed.
DC3 - beautiful in his prime mini panther he used to love untamed now won’t eat it but eats Thrive oh and DC1s food
DC4 - ideal weight only eats biscuits

I also have microchip feeders for skinny DCats 3/4 as the other two would eat all the biscuits. I want them to eat a good quality wet food especially DCat1 they want to eat dry. They are driving me mad they don’t know what’s best for them I have a cupboard full of unopened cat food and they would probably rather eat Whiskas or Supermarket own brand! Argh cats!

Honestly I would feed them what they’ll eat. Our madam is back on good as it looks having gone on strike re eating and scared me to death. She then ate the Felix beautifully in the cattery when we were away so I’m just going with that. She’s 16 so any food is better than none.

I have a cat like this, he's very ill right now so he needs to be eating proper food. But he's also skin & bone so I'd rather he got calories in him full stop.

Today, that's meant he's only eaten treats. Sigh.
But hopefully the calories mean he won't stop eating due to lack of energy and I'll be able to get some proper food in him tomorrow or Wednesday.

Spending a bloody fortune on cat food atm. Fussy little so n sos.

@AmoozzBoosh oh no hope your cat is ok DCat had an awful time with his bladder and kidney a few years ago hence I’m keen he eats mostly wet food

@nhsmanagersanonymous oh I know but they chop and change what they will eat every 5 minutes

Thank you, me too.
If he'll only eat supermarket stuff, have you tried mixing it with what you want him to eat?

Or mixing it with a teaspoon of water for extra fluid?

They are clearly protesting for the McDonalds cat food - just buy some whiskers or butchers tins and a bag of go-cat and peace will be restored. I can't help with the weight differences, one of mine is double the size of the other two and yet doesn't eat any more and exercises the same.

The mistress of my house has decided in her mature years to refuse fish sachets. She's the boss so we have to accept her behaviour and present the food she'll eat.

I feed my cats a mix of foods, I never stick to one brand they have 5-6 pouches between them (plus dry) and I try to only give 1 pouch/ tin of any brand each day so they’re never over reliant on one brand. I feed a mix including Thrive, Untamed, Scrumbles, Sainsbury’s Delicious Recipes, Lily’s Kitchen, Blink and Cool Cats Club and sometimes Felix Deliciously Sliced (which they love even though I know it’s not ideal! It does seem to have a higher meat content than a lot of the generic brands though, around 30%), I try and bulk buy what’s on offer as best I can. I find that by trying to give a variety of brands every day the cats don’t tend to get bored of anything and rarely go off anything, but if they do I just take it out of rotation for a few days and then when I put it back in after a short break they’re usually back to clearing it again.

Heat it up to blood temperature….gross but works.

@MolkosTeenageAngst for one of my cats, I do the same. The other will usually circle between 4 different types and tends to change his preference a half packet at a time (guess which one I'm currently having issues with? Lol)

Honestly, the amount of cat food I have in stock I could open a cattery!

Plus the ham, chicken, fresh and tinned fish...

We recently got a puppy and they’ve remembered they really like dog food (!) so they ate holding out for that! Ginge has been known to break into cupboards and the bags to eat the dogs kibble! Oh they like the dogs wet food too just not their own.

They have every variety of Untamed and I also have Thrive and Applaws wet food for them yes served warm:room temp in their ergonomic ceramic bowls! They won’t touch stuff like Carnilove or other meaty tins. But give them cheapie biscuits/kibble. Won’t eat Blink anything that’s like a meaty paste. Honesty these cats.

Ill order ginge some RC urinary kibble again then at least he eats it and it helps his kidneys.

Specific health issues aside, I personally don’t understand spending hundreds of pounds on expensive food when they’re just as happy eating supermarket own brand.

I know someone will pop up and tell me it’s the equivalent of McDonald’s but our cats are all happy, healthy and good weights on Sheba and whatever dry food I happen to pick up from the supermarket. They go outside, hunt, climb and explore and never have any issues. One actually had crystals a few years ago but since letting him outside we’ve not had any issues so it must have been stress related in some way as he’s just fed bog-standard cat food and has been for ages now.

We have a fussy boy who would prefer to eat only GoCat biscuits, and no wet food at all. I had a massive bag for life of various rejected foods collected by Cats Protection the other week - there was Untamed and Blink in there as well as cheaper supermarket stuff. Hopefully their kitties will like it!

Our "best" wet food is Sheba - which he probably eats about 60% of - and he will also eat the pate style Purina tins. Our "compromise" is that he gets a mix of GoCat and Royal Canin dry, and the Sheba. I agree with PP that the best food is the food your cat eats, but it's hard when you want to give your cat good quality and they won't eat it! Our previous girl was a hoover and even when she was diagnosed with intestinal lymphoma she was 100% #cleanplateclub (even on the day she was pts she cleaned her plates).

This boy is two and a half, came from Cats Protection last year, and had spent his first year living as a stray kitten in a woman's shed so I have no idea why he's so fussy! He has a terrible habit of eating (live) spiders and then puking them up which I suppose is a throwback to his shed era.

My cat will only eat Iams (dry).

Tried all sorts in the past but now just give her what she wants!