We have one 12 year old cat, borderline diabetic controlled by diet, and two half-grown kittens. Until a week ago, had a fourth old cat. Feeding all of them Fancy Feast Classic Pate, all of the chicken and turkey and fish flavors. Started out with some liking fish only, some liking non-fish only, but then they began eating from each other's bowls and it was hard to make sure no one got cheated. So, to simplify things, we now open three cans of different flavors, mash them all together with a little extra water, and then dole it out and disperse bowls. They still constantly switch bowls to see if someone else has something better, but since it all tastes the same no one overeats any one bowl and they all seem to get enough. We order a case of each flavor all at once, then re-stack the cans in the boxes in rotating order, so all we have to do is pick up the next three cans in a row. The food mix is always at least one fish and at least one poultry, with the third can varying between.
Suddenly, NO ONE wants to eat their food. All three of them. It's the same blending we always have done. This has happened once before, went on for almost a week, where they grudgingly eat their meals a while later, after letting it sit for a quite while in protest. It seems like both times this started probably about the time we started new cases of food, I think (we order in so much FF it's hard to track, exactly.)
If one cat went off the food, I'd figure it was the cat. But all three at once? I'm wondering if FF varies some of the ingredients (like I've learned that "liver" can mean ANY kind of liver, not just turkey liver in turkey flavor food, chicken liver in chicken flavor food, nope, it can be a mix of every liver they can get) and so we get batches that they just don't like? Tried to put a beef flavor into the rotation once, and they definitely didn't like eating beef-fish-whatever mix.
So wondering if other people have noticed that their cats go off certain batches of FF? Since our older cat is not insuliin-dependent and going hungry is not a critical situation, our view is "if you don't want to eat, then go hungry til next time, we're not buying new food" and they do indeed decide eating is better than starving after a while. But I think it a bit weird that all three decide the food is no good all at once. Has anyone else seen this?
Suddenly, NO ONE wants to eat their food. All three of them. It's the same blending we always have done. This has happened once before, went on for almost a week, where they grudgingly eat their meals a while later, after letting it sit for a quite while in protest. It seems like both times this started probably about the time we started new cases of food, I think (we order in so much FF it's hard to track, exactly.)
If one cat went off the food, I'd figure it was the cat. But all three at once? I'm wondering if FF varies some of the ingredients (like I've learned that "liver" can mean ANY kind of liver, not just turkey liver in turkey flavor food, chicken liver in chicken flavor food, nope, it can be a mix of every liver they can get) and so we get batches that they just don't like? Tried to put a beef flavor into the rotation once, and they definitely didn't like eating beef-fish-whatever mix.
So wondering if other people have noticed that their cats go off certain batches of FF? Since our older cat is not insuliin-dependent and going hungry is not a critical situation, our view is "if you don't want to eat, then go hungry til next time, we're not buying new food" and they do indeed decide eating is better than starving after a while. But I think it a bit weird that all three decide the food is no good all at once. Has anyone else seen this?
