Cats not eating properly

If he sits on my knee I can't see the TV. I can't lift him anyway.

Hope he jumps onto your knee for cuddles all by himself as he’s a mighty armful to lift up ??

He's a whopper right enough but the gentlest cuddliest cat we've ever had - and we've had a few!

Yikes! 12+ Kg that is A Big Cat ?

Royal Canin. Phone wouldn't believe I wanted to say Canin instead of cannon!

We reckon Dreamies is cocaine for cats!
Baz has Royal Canon Maine Coon dried cat food chunks. The bowl is kept topped up and he grazes whenever he feels like it. Big water bowl too of course. He's a big cat at (12.4 kg) but there's no fat on him and his coat is lovely. DH orders the food online and it's delivered rapidly. It's a fraction of the cost of buying it in the pet food superstore.

One of my dogs will quite often refuse food, he will always eat the cat's food though.

Good news Blue Saphire. Now you know how to deal with the huffy behaviour, it does put your mind at rest

Strangely enough when our madam is in the huff it doesn’t put her off any amount of Dreamies which tells me she really isn’t off her food, just wants goodies. Explaining to her it isn’t nourishing food just earns me more filthy looks!

Excuse the Gollum speak. 'I think '

My two have eaten most wet and dry food since we've had them (apart from one supermarket brand of tinned food that they refused point blank) but over Christmas they decided that they didn't like anything at all. Which was a shame as we had just stocked up on 2 dozen tins and a big bag of dry food. After a couple of weeks of sniff and walk away they clearly decided that mum wasn't joking when she said they weren't getting anything else and have now appeared to have given up fussiness as a bad job.

I thinks it's a rare cat that will starve itself to death...

Cats definitely off any wet food, but tucking into biscuits, so think I might have to go for a good high quality complete dry food.

Thank you, BlueSapphire. I have just read your post to our pampered moggie who still hasn't touched today's luxury pouch

I've told her I'm not going to put up with sulking so she's flouncing up the garden path at this very moment probably plotting revenge!

Good news. What characters Birmans are! Give them a pat from me.

Glad all is well and that they get over their huff soon lol.

Cat update.
Vet has said not to worry, they are fit and healthy, not losing weight, and the problem is probably psychological, related to being in the cattery, ie they are sulking! Which is what you have all said! Anyway it has set my mind at rest. They are eating their dry food, drinking and still loving their daily treat, and playing games of chase. Thank you o.

Thank you everyone, I will update tomorrow. I have just 'caught' the one I am more worried about eating biscuits! And both food dishes are now empty, but whether she's eaten it or her sister has had both, I have no idea.

I do wonder what the cattery actually fed them.A few years ago we came back early from holiday and called at the cattery, they were all being fed Whiskas ( wet food) and the owner was embarrassed. She had asked what we were feeding our cat when we took him in there and she had said that they gave the cats their individual ‘choices’.
Well, in reality, she didn’t!
Perhaps your cats preferred what they were being fed on there?

Good luck at the vet.

Do they suffer from fur balls ? As that can make them go off their food.

Thank you everyone; I really do think it's because they have got the huff because of the cattery, but it has got to the stage now where I am so worried that I have a vet's appointment for tomorrow. I gave them tuna this evening and one of them has had a mouthful and the other has just walked away from it. I am just beside myself because it's been 10 days now.

Honestly Bluesapphire this wee so and so is absolutely fine! She is eating, just not what you think she should be eating or what she used to eat. She's had dried food, water, tuna and chewsticks. It's only been a matter of days. Ignore her. She'll come round.

Update on cats.
One of them is tucking in, but the other is still not interested. She deigned to eat a mouthful of tuna this morning, and then walked away from it. She also had two chewsticks last night. I'm going to give her a few more days and then get her checked over at the vet, I think.

I have tried every trick in the book with our Madam......

1/4, 1/2, 3/4, full pouch, has to be gravy, licks the gravy and leaves the meat sometimes. Argh! Give her a taste of something which she will devour, put some in her bowl and I get dirty looks....you expect me to eat that? One certainty is tuna but it has to be in spring water ?

Dogs certainly are so much easier. We always had Labs and they would hoover up anything on offer.

At one point our Abyssinian would only eat the jelly round catfood chunks!
YumYum, the Birman, always enjoyed a private prawn. The boy cats were not allowed to share it!

Our cat is very fussy about her wet food so I buy pouches because half way down a tin she'll decide she dislikes it and it has to be fed to the dogs. One week she likes meat in jelly, the next it has to be gravy.

Her theme tune is O fortuna because that's the one food she never tires of. It's getting ridiculously expensive now though.

Biscuits - no problem. She'll even eat the cheap and nasty ones from the village shop!

Dogs are so much easier to feed.