I have two boxes of Whiskas and my cat is refusing to eat it. He's hungry but he just turns up his nose. If I put some dreamies on it he eats a little bit.

Never been a problem before. Anyone else had this?

Hate to say it but whiskas is like the mcdonalds of cat food. It's like 4% meat. Which means 96% other stuff.

The dreamies just make it taste a bit nicer for him.

I can pretty much guarantee if you bought some better quality food (natures menu, applaws, heck even Asdas own brand is 60% meat) he would eat it.

Cheers. Serves me right for buying a cheap deal.

Waitrose own make of cat food is pretty good. I mix it with Royal Cannine dry food.

Have you changed between cans and pouches? Mine used to inhale pouches but wouldn't touched tinned.
They just get dried food now (Royal Canin) and they get a bit of ham as a treat during the day. No more stinky breath and smelly poo!

My cat gets a pouch every morning and another every night.

I have tried every variety under the sun, and she has always refused to eat Whiskas.
Her favourite? Wilkinsons own brand. Loves them for some reason.

My cats will eat almost any brand of food, even stores own, but both refuse to eat Whiskas or KiteKat.

My cat will only eat frozen fish. He stopped eating cat food at around three months old, tried everything and he went on hunger strike for three days! He used to eat a brand if coley however they stopped it, thank goodness he agreed to cod - no haddock just cod!

i was actually just reading a thread on a different pet forum where someone was saying their cat is refusing to eat whiskas too...maybe they've changed the recipe?

http://www.petforums.co.uk/cat-healt...hes-jelly.html

Whiskas has gone downhill.

Which type of whiskas is it?

Mine are happily eating oh so tasty range ATM (was on uber cheap special offer) but I find that ANY brand with big chunks in it just get licked by the older cats so I bought a cheap potato ricer and have to push any lumpy stuff through that now and they are ok with it. fussy sods.

Saying that they will take my arm off for felix as god as it looks but they hate the normal felix.

My 2 won't touch Whiskas either. Nor are they too fond of anything in jelly. Surprisingly, their favourite food is Aldi's own.

My sisters cat will eat anything but tinned Whiskas, just refuses to eat it so we never buy it now as it is a waste of money.

Cats have a tendency to try to climb up the rungs of quality cat food. We took in a stray some years ago. At first he was fine with leftover meatloaf (all we had on the first few days with him). Within a year or so, he was past the supermarket-own brands, past "Kit-e-Kat", past "Whiskas" even, and was on Sheba! Anything less than "Sheba" in his favourite two flavours wouldn't get eaten.

My cat will eat any wet food, Kitekat being his favourite, although he only likes Go-Cat and no other brand for some reason, yet will eat the dogs' dry food given chance.

Just keep it for another time.
Give them something else for a while.

My four cats will go off a brand of food they have been eating for weeks, and strangely all at the same time.

Bloody Cats!

My vet refers to the Whiskas and Felix brands as the McDonald's of cat food because they are so highly processed with very little meat, as Dollymarie explained. I am sure such highly processed, supposedly 'tasty' cat food plays a significant factor in the rise in cat obesity.

I never eat McDonalds so I refuse to feed my cats such poor quality food (not that they'd touch it anyway). Pet stores stock a much larger and healthier range of cat food than most supermarkets - ranges like Applaws and you can get wet Hills too. My cats don't like a diet of exclusively dry food (as my vet advises - she would prefer them to have just good quality dry food, I mainly use Science Plan). Quality food costs a bit more but surely it's worth it to have a healthier cat?