I tend to do 1 big order with Chewy to avoid shipping.

Is it the Classic Pate type?

I buy their food in my grocery order every week rather than in large amounts.

Sorry I missed the detail.

Probably 6 mos or so ago the beef & chicken arrived. Very light in color (usually brownish) & my senior would not eat it.

I hope you find something your kitty will eat!

Dec 2021 there were issues.

Serial numbers, cover art, slogans.

you may want to email your veterinarian.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=fancy%20feast%20problem

They mostly eat the seafood pates. Lena will usually eat any of them, and lots of it: chicken and liver, chicken, turkey, as well as the seafood. I had paused her seafood for a while because her bowel movements smelled horrendous (they really always have, but I didn't link it to the seafood until recently.)

I'm going to experiment at dinner tonight and try feeding them a variety of Friskies seafood pate that I bought back when it was difficult to get FF.

Thanks!

I will let you know if my cat suddenly won't eat it anymore.

I'm always skeptical...

A year or so ago, I bought a bag of dry Merrick cat food which caused vomiting.

This used to be a super premium brand.

Then they moved mfg to KY. Perhaps the coal ask or other toxins caused sickness?

But so far they are still eating Fancy Feast pate. They never did go for the shreds.

Lena decided to stop eating it because she's a cat and that's what they do, and then she also told Lucy to stop: "The human probably has bought a whole lot of this stuff so now we have to not like it any more, bwhahahaha!"

for the 14 years I've had them both. This very abrupt halt is very suspicious.

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I feed both gravy and pate recipes to my 17 cats, and with 17 cats, I go thru a lot (!!) of food. Most of my cats started turning up their nose at the gravy food a few months ago and most recently started turning up their nose to the pate. As well. Apparently purina changed the fancy feast recipe somehow, and not for the better. However, since whatever change the recipe was made is has been unannounced I don’t know if it’s an actual recipe change or a change in the sourcing and quality of the ingredients. Whatever it is I found I needed to change what I fed my kids.

At first, changing was kind of painful budget wise. Not so much anymore though as purina ff is almost as expensive as other, higher quality foods.


A sidenote and unrelated to Purina and Fancy Feast — for those pet owners with senior or sick animals that rely on baby food meats in order to tempt and and get their pets to start eating again— Gerber also recently changed their recipes making their foods less palatable. They removed the broth and substituted water and cornstarch… now, this food is no longer grain free for those animals with digestive systems that require it, but the food no longer smells or has a meaty taste. It tastes pasty. None of my seniors or hospice animals (cats or dogs) will eat it. I would suggest Beechnut. They are still purely meat and broth.

I've never fed them anything but the classic pate due to it being grain free. It's just so suspicious that this is happening with both of them and so abruptly.

Going to try a Friskies pate variety they've eaten in the past that I have tonight to see what happens.

I called the manufacturer to get the numbers on several minerals that can be problematic and the numbers were fine. If my cats aren't interested in a meal, I fold in some nutritional yeast flakes... most cats will kill for it!

Do you know why they crave it?

B complex, but they'd probably have to eat way too much to get that benefit!!!

Now I'm wondering if commercial cat food is deficient in B vitamins.

Off to hunt...

Still looking for nutritional reason my senior overweight kitty is always so hungry.

When Aldi was out of human alaskan cod for a couple of months, I did a deep dive on where to buy locally.

Surprise: Walmart only carries cod sourced from filthy Asian waters. No thanks.

Note: grocery stores here include only Kroger & Walmart. Kroger doesn't carry it either, at least near me. Fortunately, Aldi restocked. Yaaaaaay!

I’ve heard of using cat nap to get animals to eat something they didn’t want, but never this about nutritional yeast. Here’s hoping that works.

I always understood that seafood pet products should be avoided primarily by our male cats because of their contributions to urinary crystal formations. I’ve had male cats with crystals and found it to be very expensive. So I do avoid foods containing fish for them. But I do feed it to my girls.

My senior will not play to get exercise & absolutely semands food every 3 hrs.

Vet says she is very healthy, but 16 lbs.

Tyia!

My cats are still eating it fine. They don’t like the gravy at all or the chunky. Every once in a while I get them some of that food that comes in the little trays. Salmon and tuna.It might be Purina, I forgot what it called.

We used to feed a lot of Fancy Feast to our crew along with a higher-quality staple food, because they loved it. In the past year, we have stopped buying it because one would pretty much immediately vomit it up (multiple types, not just one flavor), and others started giving it the hard pass. I'm not sure whether something is contaminated or there has been a weird formula change, but I absolutely do not trust it any more.

company changes its product. One of my cats barely touches her wet food at all now, and won't eat some previously preferred flavors at all.

They never liked chunks. They just eat kibble. What are a couple of higher quality canned pates I could try? It bothers me some.

Honest Kitchens is human grade. Good stuff!

Apparently, Honest Kitchens makes canned pate!

Some of my kids won’t eat the honest kitchen pate. I think it has too much pumpkin in it for them.

All honest kitchen wet foods come in little cardboard containers. I personally really like their minced foods, which are nothing like fancy feast minced but more like a very meaty soup. My husband has likened the texture of HK’s minced foods to canned chili without beans — which is pretty accurate actually.


HK has a really good sale on their dehydrated kibbles right now. FYI

I love that they're such an ethical company.

Sorry to hear your kids won't eat it because of the pumpkin. 😏

I've only fed dehydrated chicken cat & dog food, but it's been a few years. Ty for nudging my memory!

What is minimum order for free shipping?

Tyia!

And free over this threshold

And Othello wouldn't touch it. So he got ff medleys.

Did you try the dehydrated or wet?

Always searching for low-fat options for my senior, overweight girl.

Back when it was hard to get ff medleys.
Tried a lot of different wet foods. Some he would taste and ignore ,some he'd partially eat and others he would sniff then run away from it.lol.

May I suggest a slow feeder if he eats dry?
Did wonders for my big white chonk Bear.

texture is not consistent from container to container. I've tried other brands/flavors but they've always wanted Sheba tuna pate.


Thanks for the nutritional yeast suggestion.

There's always a possibility of a bad lot. If you got it from Chewy or another online vendor, let them know too.

appearing different and asking questions. FF asked them to private message their questions. Maybe try that?

I feed them every morning and evening. They eat the gravy style and have no issues. They tend to take a pass on the pate, though.

Try the ff medleys