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We had a diabetic cat who passed away a few years ago. While dealing w/ her diabetes we discovered, surprisingly, that some of the Fancy Feast "Classic" flavors had some of the highest protein to carbohydrate ratios of any canned food. Also, she loved it.

When we adopted our two sister cats almost two years ago, now aged 2 and 1/2, we had them on kitten food for a while and since have had them split a can of Fancy Feast at breakfast and dinner, with a few handfuls of quality dry food through the day.

At first they liked all the "Classic" flavors, then they narrowed it down to just Beef (always the favorite) Liver & Chicken, Turkey & Giblets, and Chicken, in that order.

In just the last couple of months, they have started to walk away from random cans of any favor, even the Beef. Anyone else have that experience? Is Fancy Feast trying to pass off some stale stock? I'm not sure, but I think the price at our local grocery actually went down at some point.

Thanks, and thanks again for how helpful you were when we were treating diabetic Bootsie. We actually got her off the insulin at about 16 years old.
 
I haven't had this specifically with Fancy Feast only....
I have a cabinet full of at least 10 different brands.... but my cat will cycle where she won't eat one for a few weeks that she previously
liked or seemed to love... which drives me crazy but if I switch to something else for a while... she'll eat it again down the road...
 
yep - my 3 are the same :cry:

Sometimes I put a food down and they won't touch it - even though it was a favourite the day before.
So I open a can of something else and give them that and ....they go back to the first one cat(2)_steam

C-A-T-S :!:
 
I've seen that with ANY brand of canned food I've used. They like it one day and then they don't. I always keep a variety of flavors around - even ones they don't "like". The only ones I don't buy are those that NO-ONE in the house will eat. It's rare to find a flavor that NONE of the seven will eat. Sometimes I just switch the bowls up. If I give Chester the same flavor out of Sophie's bowl, it somehow becomes magically acceptable again. Go figure...

Or I try switching up brands. We eat Fancy feast until we get tired of it so I switch to Friskies. When they get tired of that, we go back to Fancy Feast...
 
This is such a relief to read. Oscar was diagnosed a week ago today and we're pretty much over to wet food, but he is a ridiculously fussy eater and it is freaking me out.
 
Mine are exactly the same. In fact, if I buy anything it bulk (including their faves), they'll refuse to eat it (I'm sure they go through my receipts :lol: ).

I order catfood over the internet from Germany (I'm in the UK). The Europeans seem to be better at making cat food than us Brits. One shop sells so many brands of low carb stuff, that last time I ordered a single tin of each. I had a 10kg (22lb) package delivered to my work address with not one flavour duplicated. So far, so good....they will outsmart me again, but not just yet (hopefully).....
 
I just recently noticed that both the Classic and the Chunky Chicken Feast contain fish! :o Not sure if this has always been the case, but I only feed fish once a week, so now I have an entire case of FF Chunky Chicken I had just bought before noticing the "fish" on the ingredients list. It's going to take me forever to get through. :? Maybe that fish ingredient is what changed?

Two things I do to trick my cats into eating food they were swooning over the day before (sometimes even the meal before) but then suddenly decide is not worthy of their discerning palates:
  • Mix with another style (i.e. if it's Pate, I mix with a Chunky; if it's Chunky, I mix with a Pate)
  • Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese
 
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