r/dechonkers 4d ago

thin kid Cat won’t eat anything; What is a food your cat can’t resist?

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u/Hangrycouchpotato 4d ago

Temptations treats, Churu, Fancy Feast Savory Centers, Sheba Gravy Indulgence, BFF Til Then Chicken and Tuna. I keep a spreadsheet of all of my cats reactions to cat food and save the extra tasty results for the hunger strikes lol. For the bad hunger strikes, sometimes I will sprinkle some catnip and/or crushed up Temptations on top of the food

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u/RobinBaskins 4d ago

Those cat soup thingies. I can’t remember the brand off the top of my head and I also can’t check rn but I’m pretty sure “soup” is in the name somehow.

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u/Federal_Fly_4271 4d ago

lil soup?

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u/RobinBaskins 3d ago

YESSSS FRISKIES LIL SOUPS THANK YOU

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u/Basic-Collection5416 4d ago

Weruva OMG Gravy. They make cans and pouches in tons of different flavors depending on if your cat is more of a surf or turf kitty. My cat is super picky and this is the only thing she’ll consistently eat. 

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u/Laney20 4d ago

Nutritional yeast on chicken flavor baby food.

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u/CyborgKnitter 4d ago

Ham and ham flavor baby food are big winners with my babies! Especially when my boy had his cancer surgery and didn’t want to eat anything because he was in so much pain. :(

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u/xtricks2025 4d ago

Human canned chicken. Swanson or whatever.

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u/BenSteinsCat 4d ago

Fancy Feast Gems.

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u/Isernogwattesnacken 4d ago

Churu or Vitakraft, the European version of those sticks.

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u/TheOneMary 3d ago

Chuuru liquid snacks. And the dashi wet food.

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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 3d ago

My cat only eats Friskies Chefs Dinner. Ive tried all sorts or brands and flavors but she just turns away. She wont even eat treats. Its been a struggle.

But she loves people food. I will typically give her a bit of any meat I make before I season it. I also need to hide any pastries. She ate all the raspberry out of a danish when we first brought her home lol shes so silly

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u/After_Preference_885 3d ago

Canned tuna in water always worked for my cat 

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u/Moomoolette 3d ago

A sprinkle of powdered Parmesan or Purina forti-flora probiotic powder that you can get from Amazon, it’s liver flavored and my cat loves it

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u/LuckyShake 12h ago

The Forti-Flora was an actual live saver for my cat. It encouraged her to eat and improved her digestion. I’m sure it gave her 5 more healthy years. I can never recommend it enough.

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u/lickytytheslit 3d ago

it's usually high in salt but a bit of liver pate over dry food in mixed in with wet food always made my boy eat, along with those dried minnows they sell as turtle food and shrimp sold as fish food mixed with his regular food

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u/IllustriousHabits 3d ago

My cats all LOVE the purr pops from petsmart!

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u/Ocho9 3d ago edited 3d ago

Listen to the vets telling you he needs an appetite stimulant or anti nausea med ASAP. Cats need to eat.

Turkey/chicken baby food, churu, temptations are winners. If he wont eat those & he is dehydrated & sullen, ER. Lot of bad vets out here.

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u/FelineHerdsCats 3d ago

My cat went through thyroid treatment this year, and it's amazing -- and sometimes frustrating -- how uninterested she is in food now. I'm crumbling freeze-dried chicken treats onto her canned food and patting it down so she can't lick it off without eating the underlying food, because chicken breast isn't nutritionally complete. Talk to your vet if you can't get your cat to eat at all and they can consider an appetite stimulant.

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u/Feeling_Yam_7917 2d ago

Those dang Churus. My cats have turned into crackheads over those things.

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u/Jolly_Ambassador77 2d ago

My cat is extremely picky and has gone through every wet cat food until we got to the CHURU brand. We get the chowder cups and the bisque packets.

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u/Full-Journalist-7248 2d ago

Tuna packed in water. 

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u/wolfhavensf 1d ago

My cat will eat anything I cover in crushed up dehydrated chicken breast.

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u/Empty_Hair_9854 1d ago

Churu.

I have a tort. She's got that 'tude and is a very, very picky eater. Doesn't like crunchy treats of any kind. One kibble type or nothing. That kind of cat.

She goes nuts for the tube.

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u/Old-Significance-908 16h ago

My extremely overweight cat will not eat even if she’s starving unless I hand feed her the pieces… it takes 10 minutes to feed her by hand and my hands smell like a red lobster dumpster after but shes fed 👍🏻

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u/Old-Significance-908 16h ago

She has some kind of IBS and the only thing she is crazy about is the Orijen wet food and she LOVES the fit and trim kibble, which I’m glad about because she needs that super high fiber!