Slight intimation of non-dire catness

[serinde]

Context: Wednesday night, Steve and I went out to the Pet Megastore Thingy and got a huge array of different brands & flavors of wetfood, in the hopes that Mage would be tempted by one or another, and then we could buy lots and lots of that. So far, he's mostly been snubbing them, except the aforementioned kitten food which he aforementionedly horked up the next day.

Mail just received from Steve (who is working from home today, and monitoring the cat situation) (turns out hospital visit is scheduled for 4pm):

Pookie,

Good news about people coming over.

By the way, something about a lot of these fancy-ass cat foods:
none of the cats like the damn things!  The ones Mage wouldn't
touch, I tried on Fizzy and Ranger and you'd think I tried to
feed them old tires.  :-P

Steve

Comments

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Well, when you say "fancy-ass" are we really talking expensive & healthy? None of my cats has ever been willing to touch Science Diet canned food, for example.

I agree that finicky eating habits and major horking do not necessarily indicate any lack of perfection in cat health, especially with a change of diet. However, I'd think that hiding is a concern if that's not usual for him.

Hopefully you'll have good news any minute.

[marietta-sca.livejournal.com]

My cat's dislike wet food at all. I tried giving it to them once, and it just sat there... but they tear up hard food ;)
They'd eat Tuna Fish out of the can, though.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on what they're used to. When I had cats they always only ever had wet food from a can; never dry food. The sound of a fork against a can would be enough to call them in from wherever they were :-)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, wet food has usually been amazingly popular with all of them. On the other, usually what we've gotten has been cheap, stinky ol' Friskies. (The purchases encompassed some fancy organic whatever, and some super-science items.)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

What amazes me is how very young cats who have never *tasted* wet food before come running at the noise of a can opener. Racial memory!!