Geeze, my new kitty is picky! I am in the experimental stages of finding

[Paper Roses]

food she likes. Been through I can't tell you how many cans of food. She will sniff and walk away. The only thing she has eaten with gusto is ProPlan shredded chicken with veggies. I have also tried several dried foods, served as a side dish. Still ProPlan Chicken(dried). Maybe the ProPlan chicken she was given at the shelter is the only thing she associates with food.

Other ProPlan foods she has walked away from. Those tiny little cans are expensive. I have tried several Friskies and 9 Lives to no avail. For a kitty that was taken from an abused, neglectful household, she sure is finicky.
I'm going to shop again tomorrow. I wonder if it the shredded or the chicken she likes.
I want to give her a variety of things that she likes...if only I could find what they are.

What does your kitty love?

[emilyg]

1. Mine love

Friskies tuna and chicken wet, oceanfish wet, 9lives oceanfish wet. Yhey love Purina salmon and tuna dry.

[njlib]

2. Fancy Feast house here

Upstairs kitties are Fancy Feast wet & dry, which is all they'll eat. The leukemia cats downstairs are Fancy Feast wet/dry, but I can also get away with the Friskies Selects for Indoor Cats...but only the herbed salmon and classic chicken. They're a little more open to any dry food downstairs, too.

Why ARE cats so picky?? Dogs are so much easier.... :)

[virgdem]

3. I totally sympathize and understand...

your plight. I too have a finicky feline. We have two cats, Sammy, who is 19 and will eat anything that isn't nailed down, and the new kid on the block, Abby. Soon after we adopted her in October, she would not eat much of what we offered her (Fancy Feast). We took her in for shots and discovered that she was jaundiced. After we spent several hundred dollars to take her to a specialist, we discovered that she had Pancreatitis. She now has to be on a low-fat diet of canned human chicken/tuna and lunch meat to supplement since mid-November. We also have to give her Sub-Q injections every night and give her pills in the morning. She is a sweetie, but very picky. She will eat something in the morning and turn her nose up at the same thing in the afternoon. Grrr!!!!!!!!!!

I have very little experience with finicky cats, as the initial six cats that I had pretty much ate anything that I put down in front of them. My little cat, Doodle, was somewhat finicky, but the rest had excellent appetites. We call our 19 year old, Sammy our Mikey cat (she will eat anything, just like the kid in the old Life cereal commercial).

I wish I had an answer for you as to how to get your cat to eat, but as you can see, I'm having my own problems in that department. Good luck in finding a food that your little Diva will eat.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. I have that same problem, a recent event for my cat.

He actually just stopped eating altogether and I am still working on this. Vet and I are working on some health issues right now and that may be my problem.

In answer to your situation, though, cats do not need the variety of foods that we do. In fact, to keep them from having stomach problems, it is a good idea to find a food and stick to it. If your cat does eat ProPlan, you may just have to feed that to her. If it is just too expensive for feeding all the time, you should try mixing a little bit of another food in it, and make the move to a different food slowly. Start with almost all ProPlan, a tad of another food. Hopefully this would help.

I have usually had good luck with Fancy Feast Savory Salmon. I have discussed with other cat owners what they feed to see if I can find something my monster will eat now, and Friskies in pouches has had high scores. But if you have as much a problem as I have right now, you will spend a fortune on food that is just thrown away. I hope that doesn't happen.

Good luck.