Cats not eating properly

When my cat was ill last year and off his food the vet gave me some prescription food for him which he scoffed. It was hills restorative care a/d only tiny cans and a bit pricey but as they got him eating I really didn't care. Most vets have it, pets at home and Amazon who have everything.

Cats sulk and can be contrary ! I don't think I'd be worrying too much. Give it a couple more days and they'll be back to their normal selves.

Birmans are apparently famous for huffing! If they are both eating the dried food and drinking the water I suspect they're absolutely fine. We had a Birman once. What a little madam she was. Easily the cat with most character we've ever had.
Re Hill's Science diet, no cat we've ever had has touched it with a bargepole!
Give those cats time. I think (and hope) they'll be fine.

Yes I agree with the last two posters, your cats will not starve, just ignore their sulking and they will be fine.

Did they just feed dry food at the cattery? Maybe the cats are quite happy and prefer that to the wet stuff. I would stop putting the wet food down for a few days, try again and if they are not interested give up with it and let them just have dry. If they are happy and playful there isn't much wrong.
My friend always has two house cats (at the moment a Ragdoll plus another fancy breed huge beautiful beastie!) and she never feeds them wet food. She's had indoor cats for 30+ years and they have all been happy and healthy.

Sounds like sulking to me, definitely. I wouldn't feed only dry food though as it's not recommended at all now and is causing all sorts of urinary and kidney problems in the large proportion of cats who have no instinct to drink water. I had massive problems with my boy (male cats are particularly prone to crystals because of a 'kink' in their anatomy which was caused by breeders apparently - a wild cat would not have had this design issue, according to my vet.)

Thank you, I think they are sulking, so will just ignore the little madams for the time being! They were fed their normal wet and dry food at the cattery, so I will just carry on feeding as normal. I might try a bit of tuna. They will have to get used to the cattery as they are booked in again twice this year!

Don't give in! Our Birman, YumYum, was such a little madam. Although she was technically mine she just loved men. All men! It was so funny, as soon as a man entered the room she was advancing towards them tail up and 'well hello there' written all over her wee face. I was abandoned at once. She completely ignored any females and especially didn't seem to like my DD. Such a character. We all loved her.

My experience of cats leads me to think yours are trying to make you feel bad about that stay in the cattery.
"The food we got there was much better than this".

Don't fall for it!

Our cats/dogs always behaved like this until they felt I was sufficiently punished for abandoning them.

As long as they are eating and drinking, full of beans, it doesn’t suggest they have a health issue.

I now can’t keep up with any wet food our fussy little madam (cat) is in the mood for. She’s lucky I adore her and excuse her shouting at me when I don’t see to her needs immediately !!

We once had an Abyssinian. She was a nightmare and ended up not eating at all. The vet said she was the only breed who would starve themselves to death. Needless to say we couldn't cope with the worry (we'd really tried everything) and the breeder offered to have her back. It was sad. Amazing how pets put us through it.

Oh that does sound like a nightmare Jane I would be returning her too as the worry would take the joy out of having any pet in the family.

I have a rescue cat who has a lot of Persian in her except for the face as she's the prettiest little thing you've ever seen--------but so naughty ! Admittedly I've ruined her and she can go into sulks and naughtiness if I happen to raise my voice.
Believe it or not she opens a drawer in my bedroom and out comes all the contents in a heap on the floor. This is every time I mention the word naughty ! I can't really scold her though. Some of the looks she gives me are nothing short of dramatic.

Someone originally dumped this little beauty nearby because she'd been pregnant at the time and she'd darted into my bedroom to have her kittens. I rang the RSPCA who came to collect mum and kittens and I asked them if I could have mum if nobody claimed her.

Within 6 weeks after various procedures with her I got a phonecall to collect her. Best decision I ever made. She sleeps through the night on my bed, but she doesn't like me going out ! Sulky and indifferent when I return. What a character !

I think that in feline parlance you are being punished!! Ignore them and they will come round eventually.

My two are going through a bit of a phase with regard to their wet food (pouches, in this case).

I have started dividing one pouch between the 2 bowls, if they eat up, I give them a bit more.

They are both still eating dried food (which is available at all times) and water consumption is normal.

They both seem to be in good health, so we will NOT be taking a trip to the vets anytime soon!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Good luck at the vet.

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?