[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]
anecdotal evidence, meaning that you have a cat that starved to death because it refused to eat the brand of cat food you were buying?
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Of course not. I would never let it get that far.
I found a few non-Wiki cites like this one, plus the one delphica found.
[QUOTE=Tamerlane]
I doubt that happens often, as a deliberate stubborness. But cats are apparently prone to hepatic lipidosis, wherein a fasting cat can, potentially, get itself into a medically bad condition sometimes in as little as a couple of days of fasting. …
So less voluntary starving themselves, than vulnerable to badly damaging themselves when going into a food snit ( or stressed or sick or whatever ).
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I see that. Ignorance fought! But the impression I get from that article was that the cats getting that disease were not eating because of stress or another disease, not due to “pickyness”. Though I do notice that the article says “when a cat stops eating due to stress, another disease or for any other reason.” I suppose cats are more fragile than I thought they were.