Decent food a fussy cat will actually eat??

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My cat has gone off all his usual food. I usually buy premium quality wet food from Zooplus such as Wild Freedom meats, Greenwoods Tuna and Cosma soups. At the moment he's having small amounts of Sheba terrine and Purina Mon Petits Intense (bloody ridiculous name, sounds more like a perfume!). He's not keen on them, they were bought in desperation.

I took him for a check up at the vets and she thinks he's very healthy. So we agreed to try new foods and watch and wait for the moment. He is a little chubby so that's not a worry. It might be that he's had to have treats after medicating twice per day and that's shifted his palate? I do sprinkle Fortiflora on but even that's not enough to tempt him now.

He's completely forgotten that he arrived as an alarmingly thin rescue who would eat anything.

I was going to do an Untamed trial but looking at Trustpilot, many customers are really unhappy after a rebrand has apparently coincided with a big reduction in quality.

Wet food only as he gets constipated on dry food, even though he ups his water intake.

Any other suggestions of good quality wet food that is yummy? Thank you 😽

Oh sorry I misread the no dry food! She also has carnilove dry food mixed with water

That's exactly what we're doing at the moment, but he's reluctant to eat anything. And he's always been a little piggy so it's a marked change. I'm hoping to find something he will really take to.

This little darling won't entertain a lick-e-lix! I bought a huge box of all the flavours. He took me merely offering one as an insult.

Mine would only eat Felix As Good As It Looks ( or whatever) fish recipes in jelly. She died earlier this year at 14 but remained healthy till then. I rescued her as a semi feral tiny kitten so you’d have thought she’d be grateful for anything, but oh no, just Felix, and some crunchy biscuits on the side.

In the spirit of appetite-prompting like the drizzle of salmon oil - one of mine is a porker but I have to give him some metacam in his wet food and I think that affects the flavour so he's more reluctant, and I sprinkle a few flakes of katsuobushi - bonito flakes, smoked dried tuna - on the top and that sparks his interest. My other cats aren't interested in it though so it's a cat-specific thing, potentially worth trying though. E.g. https://shop.yutaka.london/products/wadakyu-katsuobushi-bonito-flakes-standard-40g.

Felix AGAIL is my trio's most reliably favoured wet food and they like most of them except for the beef flavour - I don't know what it is about beef but they almost always turn their noses up at it. Why the standard mixed flavour box has to be 1/4 beef...

My healthy slim 13 year old goes the rounds of Felix, Sheba, Purina One pouches with a couple of dreamies on top, I change when he gets bored with each type. Until recently he had never in his life finished his food in one session and would always leave some. But I recently got him some 7+ Gourmet Perle pouches, he absolutely loves them, eats the whole pouch in one go and licks the bowl clean.
So it could be worth trying some bog standard food, you never know.

@givemushypeasachance, she would only eat Doubly Delicious so it was always fish related. Pain aren’t they?

My cat is unbelievably fussy but he will eat Sheba, but only in jelly, plus he likes Royal Canin dry food. And Dreamies. Actually he would live on Dreamies if I let him. He does tend to just eat the jelly rather than all the meat but I figure he's at least getting some moisture. He won't touch "posh" or really cheap cat food. If in doubt I give him kitten food which apparently is fine for older cats and has slightly more protein content if he's being incredibly fussy, and he'll eat AGAIL kitten fish flavour in jelly. One tip from my local cattery was to mash it up very small, with a few treats on top. Good luck!

I've ordered a new selection from Zooplus based on these recommendations - thank you. It's a bit reassuring that there are so many incredibly picky cats around...

Haha these are all so relatable, dcat druves us mad, she yowls really crossly when dissatisfied with our offerings. Generally she is telling us she wants the other one, regardless of whether it's the gourmet or the sheba or the nood. She will generally scoff a tin of encore - but not a complete food. Ditto the sheba soup, which does encourage her to eat a bit more of the rehected food if we slosh it over the top.
Swear she has a cut-off of £20/ kg 🙄🙄