Cat no longer seems to like food!

[Otispunkmeyer]

This is getting a bit tough now.

Food she used to like, including biscuits (Royal Canin 33), wet food (including those fish4cats tins which she would inhale!) now gets a cursory sniff and off she trotts.

The only thing she will eat (and like a rabid zombie) is dreamies.


cooked ham? boiled chicken? bit of steak? nope. Not gonna eat that. Our last cat would fight you for those!

But no, serious now, she seems to have just stopped liking her usual food. We've tried a few different brands and types and those get the same treatment. Dreamies and live prey seem to be the only sustenance. She seems pretty normal in herself though, not sleeping excessively, not being lethargic or anything like that. When she comes back in I'm gonna weigh her, but having picked her up yesterday she still feels like a regular old 4 kg cat.

What could be going on? Do you think she's playing a game? hold out long enough and dreamies will be forth coming?

[Scotfox]

Getting fed elsewhere may be ?

[Munter]

You could always keep her in for 24/48 hours and see if her appetite improves, as well as check what comes out the back end.

[snake_oil]

How old is the cat? I don't want to be alarmist but we lost two of ours to kidney failure at 11 and 12 years of age. The first sign was loss of appetite and they went downhill very quickly.

[fakenews]

Had similar recently - cat went off any beef flavoured meat, now this includes chicken and has desires to be placed in front of his food to eat. Still an appetite though...bd animal.

[Otispunkmeyer]

She's just about 4 years old.

Keeping her in might be worth a shot (she'll whinge like mad though!).

I reckon she's finding food elsewhere though, I mean she doesn't seem to be any lighter, skinnier and she still seems full of energy and she'll scoff dreamies like they're crack.

[Jasandjules]

One of my cats has not been about for about a week. The other night I was coming home when I saw her along our road with a rabbit in her mouth..... She may just be hunting.

[Gretchen]

It’s mating season. She may be in love. Is she spayed?

[Patch1875]

Our Max Goes off food often but he loves Royal Canin savour exigent it’s for fussy cats.

[colin_p]

Patch1875 said:

Our Max Goes off food often but he loves Royal Canin savour exigent it’s for fussy cats.

Our fussy cat will only eat this fussy cat food as well, the little st.

[trickywoo]

Over active thyroid could do that too.

Bit young for it but worth bearing in mind.