Fussiest cat IN THE WORLD.

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I need to preface this by saying I’m more of a dog person, but my heart has been won over by Oliver who came to us via The Cat Distribution System.

We can’t find a cat food that is acceptable to him. When he arrived we tried him on an expensive, ready made raw food. He hated it. Then Kat Kin on subscription; he loved it for about 3 weeks then completely refused it. My hairdresser suggested good old Whiskas, well, he LOVED it. For the last 2 years he had nearly taken my hand off when I’m trying to put it in his bowl, and has devoured 4 pouches a day.

Until 2 weeks ago when he suddenly decided it was going to poison him if he ate it, and he hasn’t touched it since. Wonder if they’ve changed the recipe? I’m trying not to pander to him, but have tried at least 4 other brands again and he won’t touch any of them. He went mad for a tin of pilchards though, and will attack anyone trying to eat ham straight out of the fridge without sharing with him.

Is he actually going to starve to death or will he give in at some point? He staged a dirty protest the other day by depositing a dead mouse in his food bowl on top of the uneaten food!

Picture of Whiskas Quality Control:

My incredibly fussy cat will only eat gourmet gold succulent delights. Might be worth a try

OMG he's GORGEOUS!

Try to make friends with a local rescue centre. They tend to get given all types and brands of food, and you can ask if there could be an arrangement with them thereby they let you try one of everything they get in, and in return they get all your rejected food.

Mine are currently hoovering up HiLife tuna in jelly in the morning, and Harringtons in gravy in the evening. I've tried them on loads of different brands - I have an arrangement with my DSis that any she tries and her cats reject she gives me and vice versa. Anything neither pair of cats like, we give to either her or my friends who have been adopted by strays or ferals.

Keep an eye on Zooplus - they often have "taster pack" offers on.

Good luck!

Thanks both, will try gourmet gold. And that’s a genius idea, Allergic re a cat rescue.

I wouldn't ask a cat rescue for swaps, I'd just give them anything he doesnt eat. My ex stray is the same, a fussy little lad who would only eat one tin [salmon] out of the Gourmet Gold mousse collection so 3 out of every 4 tins went to other cats who live in our garden [at the time we had one who had to come indoors or he would get swamped so he had most of them].

But now after stopping the gourmet gold and having a range of other offerings, he not only eats all gourmet gold flavours he has gone mad for the Timbale of which I don't know the UK translation but its like a chunky not saucy but still see meaty bits in it.

One trick I do when he won't eat the wet food is to put it on his plate but push him gently to the side and because he pushes back he automatically thinks 'I'm having that no matter what she thinks' and dives straight in.

Wow he is a magnificent beast. Penelope is pretty fussy but loves Thrives fish flavours.

I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of him though. 😂

Our cat was super fussy. He would only eat one specific type of Whiskas. He had some teeth out that must have been hurting him and now he eats anything. Worth getting his teeth checked?

Look at that face! He knows what he wants. He is just waiting for you to work it out.

Mine will also go for a takeaway (mouse) if the provided food is not too his liking.

Have you had his teeth checked?

My fussy cat has decided he will only eat on particular supermarket’s own brand food. I don’t even shop at that supermarket. Some times he rejects even that and turning the bowl round or putting the same bowl in a different part of the room works but not always!

No advise really sorry but he is BEAUTIFUL

My cat will only eat lidl succulent selections pouches and gocat biscuits.
tried on her on others including more expensive brands but nope.

she seems to think if she refuses she will get chicken.

Agree he is a magnificent beast . We also have an extremely fussy cat who will only eat Felix AGAIL. The problem is he's a big muscular boy and I'm not convinced subsisting on the cat version of McD is any good for him. I am trying all sorts of other wet foods with absolutely no luck what so ever - he absolutely hates anything that looks or smells like real food.
I read somewhere that cats actually get most of their nutritional needs met through dry food and wet is mostly for hydration and flavour, so I am focused on damage limitation through good quality dry and protein toppers - but I feel your pain!

My girl cat enjoys Harrington's and Purina. My super fussy boy cat will only tolerate untamed. They are a fab company and do a trail box for only 7 quid so worth a shot!!

Can you try warming it up to make it more smelly and allegedly appetising?

He’ll probably still reject it and as a bonus your house will smell of cat food.

That is a fabulous face. Look at the contempt.

He won’t starve. He will do the dance of death. Throw some Dreamies over the Wiskas, that usually breaks the furry dictatorship.

This is Luna and Arlo, rehomed from rescue centre in late October. From day 1 they have never eaten the wet or dry food the centre said they ate.
Ive been through every wet food brand from the cheapest to the most expensive. Nope. Actual chicken - might condescend to it for a day.
Im now on 4th brand of dry food.
They seem to exist on Dreamies and I have the most well fed hedgehogs in the UK

You can't have the World's Fussiest Cat because she's in my house. We currently have boxes of Hills Science, Harrington, Sheba flakes, Sheba trays, Felix AGAIL, Felix Doubly Delicious, Gourmet, Gourmet melt in the middle, Kirkland pate half open. Plus at least 4 types of biscuit. She eats on rotation - don't be thinking we chose a pouch/tray/tin of each and then move onto the next, because that would be daft. What happens is she eats only one food on repeat until <random event> and then will never touch it again and moves onto the next. However, the first <random number, no less than 3> options you chose will be the wrong ones. Sometimes it's as simple as moving from poultry to fish or jelly to gravy, but you never know.

She's got a toddler's divided plate that has 6 different sections on it. Sometimes she has a bit of 6 different types of food at the same time. Pretty much always the wrong 6 foods, mind. Our other cat is now knocking 6kg and I've got a flock of crows.

Ours happily eat Harrington s grain free (although one of them won't eat the beef. Or the jelly).

I once tried them on Animonda Carny (sp?) which they all adored. Unfortunately, it didn't agree with their innards so I stopped getting it for the sake of my sense of smell.

I often think cats are put on this earth just to challenge us.
One of my girls is a pain - she likes to have choices for her meals so sometimes will get a buffet. I waste so much food with my cats and it makes no difference when I tell them about the starving stray cats who’d love to eat what they won’t.
They quite enjoy Fancy Feast for a treat.

Are you certain hes not being fed elsewhere?

Sounds familiar?

Mine are on Sheba.

They worked their way up to it by accepting and then refusing everything own-brand from Aldi/Lidl/Tesco etc.

Their requirements are jelly, not gravy, and something that could reasonably be considered actual meat flakes, never the 'meat' cubes. Nothing else will be accepted now (although girl cat will lick pate off my plate, and boy-cat rather enjoys the smoked salmon wrapper, and weirdly, the liquid from a tin of chick-peas)

They also have dry food, but that must be the expensive 100% meat stuff from Maxizoo. No other brands are acceptable (they left every single nugget of an equivalent brand I bought in an emergency and preferred to starve while waiting for me to go to maxi-zoo than eat them)

Have you tried cooked chicken?

My gourmet girl needs her food rotated as she gets bored very easily. She's the frivolous type that needs a different dish every day so some days it is chicken, canned tuna, Whiskas, Felix Doubly Delicious, Pate, Boiled Cod, Beef or whatever meat I am eating, etc.

She'll turn her nose at it and flounce if she is served the same thing two days in a row. Then the meowing will start. I totally failed as a cat mother and created a monster!

Your Oliver looks wonderfully majestic!

I feel your pain OP. Our little madam ate anything and everything at first - we soon found out it was because she was riddled with worms 😲 After they were evicted she got fussier - first Felix pouches, then only Encore, then only Encore fish in broth, then only two flavours out of the three in a box. However she'll eat most dry food and she seems healthy enough, but I agree it's a bit worrying. She won't even eat Lik-e-Lix, so I hope her teeth stay intact!

More pics please

He's so regal