Canned Cat Food Question

**JadeandLexi'skittymom** · 06-26-2009, 12:29 AM

My 2 kitties, Jade and Lexi, don't like canned cat food. (they also are not interested in tuna/tuna juice.) I have never had or known any cats who didn't love canned food. I've tried different brands and flavors. I've tried the chunky, flaky and paste kind. I tried mixing water into it. But they just sniff it and look at me like i'm trying to poison them! Are my cats insane?

**Medusa** · 06-26-2009, 07:21 AM

My cat Creamsicle won't touch canned food. She'll eat only Purina Cat Chow, that's it. My RB Puddy didn't like it either. Cats are like people in that sense; they're all different w/tastes to match.

**aTailOf2Kitties** · 06-26-2009, 07:35 AM

I couldn't get Montego to eat canned food at all for years. I finally got him to eat Sheba brand chicken flavor, but after a couple weeks he would only eat a couple bites of that, or anything else I got him. So I just kept gettin the cheap stuff after trying everything else 'cuz my vet told me to give him all he would eat, but I knew he wouldn't eat much of anything I got him.

Some cats just really prefer the dry for some reason.

**happylabs** · 06-26-2009, 08:44 AM

All four of my kitties get to split a can of Friskies with gravy for their dinner every evening. Sometimes they eat it and sometimes they don't but they always lick all of the gravy off.

I really wonder what is in those cans though...I think it is all just "mystery meat". Your kitties just have different taste buds.

**columbine** · 06-26-2009, 09:45 AM

Smudge used to refuse to eat canned food unless there was no dry food in his bowl, and then he'd just pick at the canned. But then I changed the brand I was buying because he was allergic to grain, and all of a sudden he liked the canned better than the dry! Cats are just unpredictable.

Love, Columbine

**Freedom** · 06-26-2009, 09:52 AM

Since kibble is "supposed" to be better for them, and help clean their teeth, keep their gums healthy in the bargain, doesn't sound like too much of an issue!

I only open a can once in a while as a treat for my crew.

**freckledimple** · 06-26-2009, 09:56 AM

This big pretty boy really like dry food best. He'll lick the juice off of moist food, and sometimes he likes tuna juice; but dry is his favorite. Go figure

The rest of the other kitties are normal-ish. We actually have a few that like applesauce

**lvpets2002** · 06-26-2009, 10:02 AM

No No your Cats are not crazy.. I have a couple that does not & wont eat canned wet food.. Also we would like to see pics of your babies.. And Welcome to Pet Talk & enjoy all the talks & pics..

**10cats4me** · 06-26-2009, 08:44 PM

with 10 kitties in my house, there are 10 brands of "finickiness"
Some like chunky, some shredded, some paste.
The 1 thing they all love is shaved turkey from the deli counter. Not
the cheap brands, the more expensive the better. I have a yr old little
girl that loves ice cream. She hears me getting it out of the freezer and
comes running.