Picky eaters (not a "Silly ____" story, just a question)

[badgerpup]

Query:
Do your feline overlords companions have a preference in the origin of what they will or will not eat?
I mean, do they prefer beef, or poultry, or fish? Or do they like the more 'exotic'- e.g., venison, duck, etc.?

Asking because my monsters DEMAND the fishy-flavored treats (they get Temptations because I got it on sale at the local thrift store). They leave the poultry and beefy stuff sitting and ignored :thumbsdown: (if it stays ignored for over 6 hours* it's deemed a failure and doesn't make a re-appearance- I got quite the assortment of dirty/reproachful/scandalized/disgusted looks when I got them the fancy stuff made from duck)...but fishy goodness gets snarfed at one go. :9


Yet when I make something for myself involving chicken or beef it's "Please Mom can I have a taste oh pleasepleasePLEASE?".
The chicken they'll eat either cooked or tartare...but I have to cook the any red meat because otherwise Riktor will *URP* it right back up 5 minutes later (no matter how small I cut it).


* On ignoring stuff...I'll put something down (yesterday it was pork rib meat) in their 'special treat dishes' and they'll sniff it, maybe taste it...
give me a Look, and then walk away. Yet when I come back maybe a couple hours later the dishes are empty.

SOMEBODY ate it :shrug:...and it weren't me.

How about your guys?

[Warpy]

1. Wet cat food was something I only tried once

because diarrhea in long haired cats is not something anyone wants to contend with, not even the cats. The other on-sale tins went to the Humane Association.

Both of my cats thrived on Kit N Kaboodle from Purina. The tom lived to a ripe old 17, ancient for a Himalayan. The hardy Maine Coon is still alive and going on 18 and the vet can't believe she's never needed dental work.

My tomcat liked fried chicken. The girl kitty has more refined tastes and will turn her aristocratic nose up at everything but smoked salmon, although she'll lick out a yogurt cup once in a blue moon.

Still, their preferred food is that one brand of kibble, other brands having been unsuccessful experiments (ugh, bury it) no matter how great the sale was. Since the girl kitty is such a picture of health, stable in the earliest stages of kidney disease, the folks at Purina have to be doing something right.

[david13]

2. Yes. Mine prefer the fish things. Except for the new kitten

which may be the case but I have not experimented enough yet to know about her.
But the older one, yes.
Then what I have, I must share.
But with the older (old) one I think I noticed that it is not so much that he is hungry, or even really wants what I have, it is just that he needs to have some, to know that I would and do share with him.
Pack mentality or something.
dc