Boris eats Fancy Feast cat food. That is it. All other foods get pushed on the floor. My wife spotted a reasonable dry food on sale and a famous brand canned food. So she bought them.
Now she is determined to force him to eat them. It is not going well. He has as usual shoved everything off the desk onto the floor. So she decided to tape the dry food bowl onto the desk. He crapped in the dry food bowl.
He is walking around the basement meowing loudly at night, just in case you want to sleep. He is determined and so is she.
He is a fat kitty so he can wait it out. But he does like to eat. So far he has lived on kitty treats.
He does not eat people food, no ham, chicken, turkey or beef. He just wants his Fancy Feast.
Is that so bad?
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
I shouldn’t laugh, but it’s very funny.
I bought some bargain cat food once…once.
I knew someone who had two cats who would only eat the expensive medicated food from the vet. Mmm, medicine!
Cats are simultaneously the most impulsive and the most stubborn creatures on earth. We have two lardbucket cats who refuse to eat anything other than full-fat Cat Chow, and they’ll try to murder you in your sleep if you feed them anything else. These same two lardbucket cats will also try to eat things like rubber bands, corn husks, plastic bags, and all sorts of other non-food items if they’re in range…but try to introduce diet cat food or Tripe In Gravy and all of a sudden it’s a hunger strike situation.
In summary: cats.
Funny, but I wouldnt do that.
I seem to recall hearing that a cat not having food, even for a few days can be a very bad thing for a cats health, fat or not.
Having owned a number of cats, i am going to say this will end one of two ways: tears or cat pee.
This is the point where I would have given up. but then again, I’m a dog person, and not used to dealing with felines. maybe you can try reasoning with whichever one of the two is the more reasonable one? Hopefully your wife…
Um, a fat kitty can have serious health repercussions from not eating for several days.
Either your cat wins this one, or your wife wins an expensive vet bill. Or perhaps a new kitty, since FLD can be fatal.
My money’s on the cat.
Boris is about 3 years old.
Mix old food with new. Change ratios ever so slowly. Perhaps a treat after he eats the right stuff?
It can still happen to a younger cat if it doesn’t eat. I’ve read stories on this site of people fighting this fight with their cat and winning, so it’s possible the cat will give in, but it’s also possible he doesn’t and then you’re going to have an expensive problem and/or dead cat.
Is anyone offering odds on this one yet? I’m willing to take the cat, but I want to know the odds first.
I’ve lost a cat to Hepatic Lipidosis (Fatty Liver Disease). It’s not fun. Find something he adores, and start mixing in the new with the yummy stuff little by little.
ETA, my cat was not geriatric, but she was overweight. She was, if I recall, about 2 years old.
I fight with the cats over what they’re allowed to jump on and going in or out or whatever, but I let them take the lead on their food. I don’t think your wife is going to win this one.
Hey! You know the rule about cat threads!
Have you tried offering it to the dogs when the cat is around? Our animals will occasionally refuse food until one of the other ones wants it and then it becomes an all out race to the death to be the one who eats it even if they initially refused it.
The cat will win. Since they always lose the battle on when they are fed, they have sworn never to retreat one inch in the battle on what they are fed.
It’s perfectly okay to feed a cat on nothing but Fancy Feast. My cats always lived until their late teens and one into her twenties on that. My 18 year old eats it almost exclusively.