The human fights back.....

[wolf63]

Frankie and Princess Merlin are driving me nuts with their refusal to eat what is in their bowls, I am considering feeding them dry Iams only.

Just now the dry Iams is down all the time and they are supposed to get half a 100g sachet each twice a day i.e. a total of 100g per day.

However I have been bullied into increasing this to twice this amount (and more some days)

Is it fair to change the diet of a 4 year old cat?
If so should I just let them go cold turkey with the Felix or should I decrease the amount of Felix over a period of time?

They are actually on Whiskas just now and it smells awful - really, really awful.

Before I got my last cat I had a dog and he was so easy to feed - put anything down and it was eating/guzzled right away. He didn't like cabbage or jelly (the dessert type) and garlic bread didn't do much for his breath but would eat anything else.

Cats - Bah!

[pastafreak]

I keep thinking i should be immune to the dirty looks Caspar gives me........he is happy with something for all of 5 minutes.....then it just sits in his bowl and festers. I say just throw the food in the bowl...and leave the two little fusspots to get on with it.
They need tough love........I keep threatening Caspar with another cat who will eat everything on the plate......lol

[tamborine]

chuck the bu$$ars out & let them fend for themselves - plenty of mice/rats need mullering.

[wolf63]

I seem to spend my life lugging cat food home - only for it to be sniffed at. Frankie usually sniffs his own food and then pushes his sister away from her bowl so he can check that out.

All the sachets that are left are on the 'don't like that' list. Why can't the cat food companies just sell us sachets of jelly with no meat?


I think that I will go upstairs and turf them off my bed.

Night - give Caspar a nice kiss from Princess Merlin.

[wolf63]

tamborine - I am sorely tempted but these too have pretty limited hunting skills.

We had a pigeon flying loose in the house and neither of them seemed at all interested in trying to catch it.

[pastafreak]

Caspar has a field day with moths...does that count as hunting....shame he cant go out......

he says 'thankyou ' to the princess...and sendsa hug back...((HUG))

[Ice.Maiden]

Our cats won't touch anything that's in gravy. There are only 2 types of tinned food they'll eat, and they turn their noses up at dried food. This is why, in between the tinned stuff, I end up making them mince dishes....lamb dishes...chicken.........
: )

[wolf63]

And I though that I was being manipulated. Just wait until the demand mouse mince

[tamborine]

OMG Ice.....pampering is hardly expressive enuf! If the cats were hungry they would eat.

Let their food fester till its maggoty then they'll eat the maggots - yuk, then you can kiss them ;(

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol! Well if the boot was on the other foot, humans don't always want the same type of food all the time, or stuff that they find tasteless. I don't mind making the animals the dinners that they like. They're well loved!

[tamborine]

purr leeeese ice - dont compare animals with humans.

Feeding them gourmets maybe love to you but if you cut off your finger & offered it to cats they wouldn't hesitate eating it. Humans would hesitate.

[Ice.Maiden]

I don't think my cats'd eat my finger unless they were starving! They rarely even catch birds and rodents - probably because they're too full on everything else! LOL.

[tamborine]

ice - change of subby....r u on FB; just put meself there with the AB site but can't see much happening.

[Ice.Maiden]

I'm not, tamb. I don't go on any other sites apart from here - wouldn't have time!

[originalspa]

My two used to do this and I actually made the mistake of buying 2 boxes as it was buy one get one free deal and half way through the 1st box of Whiska's, they decided they didn't want to eat it anymore! I had one full box of Whiskas left over, which I had to give to my friend, whose cats weren't that fussy! (Lucky Cow!)

I tried to persevere, I was determined to finish the old box but gave up as they made me feel guilty and wouldn't eat it! I eventually gave the rest to my friend again, who was very grateful as she didn't need to buy any food for a while!

[wolf63]

originalspa - All I have left is the stuff that they have been refusing to eat. There are about 30 sachets.

They love the Whiskas but it stinks the house out.

Frankie has been sitting on the desk and crying into my ear whilst combing my long hair with his claws.

Neither of them are overweight - if is just impractical to buy a box of 12 sachets if you know that they won't eat half of them.

I wrote to Purina about selling single flavour boxes - but they say that there is call for it and gave me �4 of tokens.

[brenda]

Is this Frankie the Tom Cat of which we speak?

[wolf63]

Brenda

Yes - Frankie de Tom Cat is the ringleader but his sister is involved too.

I don't know which is worse - the incessant crying on the claws raking through my hair of taking chunks out of my legs.

They have skulked off upstairs so that they will be lying on my bed and when I go to bed they will refuse to move.

Good job I love them. ;-)