Moving from sachets to tinned food

[Mydogsnotfat]

Hello,

I have 4 cats currents ranging in age from 18months to 10 and they are currently fed a good dry food and a mixture of wet in sachets - Sheba, Felix, Whiskas.

I'd really like to find a tinned food or foods that I can use instead as we go through the sachets quickly and the recycling is a pain.

Any suggestions of foods I would not have thought to try. They will only eat foods with gravy, no jelly and no frozen foods like Katkin despite trying. One of them is very.very picky.

Hoping you all might have some good suggestions. Ideally I'd like to buy a few single tins so if they refuse I won't have wasted too much.

Thaks in advance

We have a very fussy boy cat who had been really enjoying the little Untamed tins - they do some in gravy and you can do a trial of it to see what they will and won't eat. (They also have some of them in the Co-op and Sainsbury's if you wanted to pick up indivdual cans.) However the last few days we seem to have reached the end of the line with those and he's only eating about 3/4 of it, so will cycle back through some of the other wet foods for a bit.

He gets RC dry biscuits which are decent but is really not a wet food guy and would prefer to eat Go Cat morning, noon and night. I just worry it's not good for his kidneys not to have wet although he does drink and our vet is happy with him.

Have you tried the Pets at Home ones?

Thrive. Penelope will only eat in gravy. She loved the fishy flavours.

Can but single tins or multi packs. I think Sainsbury’s sells some glaciers or can get it on Amazon or from thrive.

Purina Gourmet Gold? Though they are little tins, so you’d be opening and washing many tins every day.

@Judystilldreamsofhorses I’m finding the same with Untamed. I think they’ve shot themselves in the foot with the recent rebrand and recipe change. Mine won’t touch the gravy varieties, no longer keen on the chicken and a bit meh with the rest of the fish options. Need to find an alternative.

Previous cat was fussy. He would eat tinned in jelly if pushed but not pate and nothing from Lidl. He wouldn't even go near the Lidl food.
Current cats aren't fussy, but much prefer jelly to gravy. They turn up their noses at the Lidl dried food, not keen on the Aldi dried food but OK with tinned or dried from Tesco. (A bit of a shame because I like Lidl)

They much prefer the more expensive dried food, and definitely prefer pouches.

Our three transitioned easily to Tesco tinned!

I'd try the non-fussy ones on the Tesco food, and feed the fussy one separately.

One of mine prefers to eat alone, so I try to respect that. Sadly, she doesn't show me the same respect.

We've tried Felix whiskars - only eat the jelly
Tried untamed neither cat would eat it. Dogs loved it.
Currently eating gourmet cake 1 tin does a day for 2 cats plus kibble and treats.
Cat tax

Oh! I did not know about the recipe change and have been really fretting that something was up with our cat. I am so, so grateful you posted this. Have a festive Louie as a thank you!

Cats - no, won't eat that, not touching that, want 'gourmet cake'.
Also cats - don't want that expensive plush bed, this upturned holdall will do nicely.

I’m lucky in that all 3 of mine love the Applaws chicken in broth tins. They have a tin each per evening as a treat (a lot of wet foods are not classed as “complete”)

Again, lucky that they all like the Applaws dry food (which is classed as complete). This is freely available all the time for them to graze from.

eating gourmet cake 1 tin does a day for 2 cats plus kibble and treats.
Mine must be very greedy. I try to not give in to their demands for food, otherwise they'd eat all day.

Cheap cat food - cat goes to the bowl, licks off the jelly or gravy and leaves the meat. Why don't they just make tins of jelly?

Cat beds? Cat sees the nice igloo and turns it sideways and sits on top.
Guest's holdall? Perfect perch.
Guest's merino jumper folded on the bed? Bliss.

My cats transitioned immediately to Applaws but apart from having favourite flavours they aren't fussy. Also they like different flavours so someone will always eat the rejected food.

Their preference would be Whiskas 😪

I mix and match and get whats on offer and the ones my gang love best, the cheap shite from the supermarkets but not the cheap cheap shite, just the cheap shite. I give them meaty bits in gel and gravy and they will leave the chunks. Even though if they catch a mouse, it's down in one.

I have 4 cats and use Animonda Carny from Zooplus. I mix water into it to make it sloppier and to help make sure they’re drinking enough.

All mine like it but they don’t seem to be fussy. I like it because of the high meat content and one of mine seems to have a sensitive stomach as other food gave her constipation and farts so bad she could clear a room!

My six month old kitten is really, really fussy. The only food she will reliably eat is Nutriment raw beef. I’ve tried Applaws, Katkin, Marro, Untamed, Scrumbles, Felix and Go Cat! The local pet shop ran out last week so I ordered some Carnilove tinned kitten food from amazon and she cleared her bowl. Sadly in true cat style she went off it as soon as I ordered more and we’re back with the raw food.

All this talk of fussy cats reminds me of my very unusual cat Mr G from years ago, whose tastes stretched beyond the usual cat boundaries. He ate broccoli, potatoes, peas, chips, lentil casserole, naked beans, sponge cake - ate fecking everything really.

Mine eats gourmet gold succulent delights and that’s it. Nothing else is delicious enough apparently