Another food thread!

[Ladybird69]

hi I’m looking for some help. My 7 yr old ragdoll has gone off her usual food Sheba, maybe they’ve changed recipes? I’ve bought numerous different brands over the past month or so but she turns her nose up at everything. Cheap supermarket brand and even eye-wateringly expensive brands. She’s pestering me for food now! Despite there being 3 different bowls down and a bowl of dry food. She’s only happy eating cooked chicken and her daily treat! Is that ok for her to just eat chicken? Tia

Have you tried Thrive? They do a chicken one. And I think it’s a complete food. The risk with just feeding chicken is the lack of taurine I believe.

I haven’t tried thrive. But I’ve tried applaws. Scrumbles. Untamed. Plus the usual felix whiskas ! The local cat rescue loves me

We have a fussy boy (an ex stray kitten, 100% pure bred moggy - so no right to be picky!) and I used to be frantic chopping and changing foods getting him to eat. Our local CP have enjoyed huge bags of rejected foods, just like you!

We recently had him in the vet after he’d been puking a bit and she said the absolute worst thing for his gut was trying different things all the time. This might not be useful for you - our cat is much younger - but her advice was small portions of the same food, take it up if he doesn’t eat it, repeat. Do not offer alternatives. She also recommended a food topper thing, like dust you sprinkle on wet food, which our boy loves. I got it on Amazon.

If she likes cooked chicken Untamed do tins which are just chicken in gravy. We’re on that now with Royal Canin biscuits. Louie wouldn’t touch the jelly ones (which aren’t a complete food anyway) but he likes the gravy and we tend to get one box of the pate ones every so often which he also eats all up.

I bought the chicken from untamed. She wolfed down the first time and then never touched it again. Then tried chicken in gravy scrumbles again ate it once. So sticking with the cooked chicken for the time being. I’ve only had good old moggies in the past and they would eat anything and everything. So this is a new thing for me to deal with. Thanks for your advice @Judystilldreamsofhorses

I’m not sure cooked chicken is going to give her all the nutrients she needs @Ladybird69 - does she have “complete” biscuits as her main food and just the chicken as a side? Weirdly Scrumbles biscuits were the only ones Louie wouldn’t touch at all, not even to taste, despite being excited when k opened the bag. Something about those little round balls was not a vibe!