Fancy Feast issues?

[hippywife]

Both of my cats have now stopped eating their Fancy Feast Classic Pate, regardless of which variety I give them. Normally, Lena is a voracious eater due to her hyperthyroidism, and I had considered there may have been a change in her condition. However, Lucy has also stopped eating it, as well.

This has been going on for about a week now and it's making me suspect they might have changed something about the formulation of the food. I put nothing past these huge corporations anymore and their efforts to cut costs while raising prices,

Is anyone else having this issue?

[SheltieLover]

1. Not yet, but still feeding FF Classic Pate received months ago

I tend to do 1 big order with Chewy to avoid shipping.

Is it the Classic Pate type?

[hippywife]

9. Yes, that's indicated in my OP.

I buy their food in my grocery order every week rather than in large amounts.

[SheltieLover]

10. Thx

Sorry I missed the detail.

Probably 6 mos or so ago the beef & chicken arrived. Very light in color (usually brownish) & my senior would not eat it.

I hope you find something your kitty will eat!

[Tetrachloride]

2. Take photos of every part of the can or labels

Dec 2021 there were issues.

Serial numbers, cover art, slogans.

you may want to email your veterinarian.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=fancy%20feast%20problem

[SheltieLover]

5. Thx!

[hippywife]

6. Sounds like this is just about the chicken and liver variety.

They mostly eat the seafood pates. Lena will usually eat any of them, and lots of it: chicken and liver, chicken, turkey, as well as the seafood. I had paused her seafood for a while because her bowel movements smelled horrendous (they really always have, but I didn't link it to the seafood until recently.)

I'm going to experiment at dinner tonight and try feeding them a variety of Friskies seafood pate that I bought back when it was difficult to get FF.

Thanks!

[Sanity Claws]

11. I just ordered some FF chicken and liver from Chewy.com

I will let you know if my cat suddenly won't eat it anymore.

[SheltieLover]

3. Ty for the heads up, btw!

I'm always skeptical...

A year or so ago, I bought a bag of dry Merrick cat food which caused vomiting.

This used to be a super premium brand.

Then they moved mfg to KY. Perhaps the coal ask or other toxins caused sickness?

[Midnight Writer]

18. I had the same problem with Merrick. I tried two different varieties, and got vomiting both times.

But so far they are still eating Fancy Feast pate. They never did go for the shreds.

[SheltieLover]

19. Must be that lovely KY mfg facility.

[Ocelot II]

4. No, it's still my cat's favorite over anything else.

Lena decided to stop eating it because she's a cat and that's what they do, and then she also told Lucy to stop: "The human probably has bought a whole lot of this stuff so now we have to not like it any more, bwhahahaha!"

[hippywife]

7. It's always been my cats' only canned food

for the 14 years I've had them both. This very abrupt halt is very suspicious.

[qzwv8j]

40. Your two cats are tooooo funny

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[qzwv8j]

8. Yes

I feed both gravy and pate recipes to my 17 cats, and with 17 cats, I go thru a lot (!!) of food. Most of my cats started turning up their nose at the gravy food a few months ago and most recently started turning up their nose to the pate. As well. Apparently purina changed the fancy feast recipe somehow, and not for the better. However, since whatever change the recipe was made is has been unannounced I don’t know if it’s an actual recipe change or a change in the sourcing and quality of the ingredients. Whatever it is I found I needed to change what I fed my kids.

At first, changing was kind of painful budget wise. Not so much anymore though as purina ff is almost as expensive as other, higher quality foods.


A sidenote and unrelated to Purina and Fancy Feast — for those pet owners with senior or sick animals that rely on baby food meats in order to tempt and and get their pets to start eating again— Gerber also recently changed their recipes making their foods less palatable. They removed the broth and substituted water and cornstarch… now, this food is no longer grain free for those animals with digestive systems that require it, but the food no longer smells or has a meaty taste. It tastes pasty. None of my seniors or hospice animals (cats or dogs) will eat it. I would suggest Beechnut. They are still purely meat and broth.

[hippywife]

12. I don't know about the gravy ones.

I've never fed them anything but the classic pate due to it being grain free. It's just so suspicious that this is happening with both of them and so abruptly.

Going to try a Friskies pate variety they've eaten in the past that I have tonight to see what happens.

[Karadeniz]

13. I've read that seafood pet foods are to be avoided. I give mine Tractor Supply's 4Health brand.

I called the manufacturer to get the numbers on several minerals that can be problematic and the numbers were fine. If my cats aren't interested in a meal, I fold in some nutritional yeast flakes... most cats will kill for it!

[SheltieLover]

20. Thx for sharing about nutritional yeast flakes

Do you know why they crave it?

[Karadeniz]

23. It smells a bit fishy. They'll eat it straight on the counter! It contains almost the entire vitamin

B complex, but they'd probably have to eat way too much to get that benefit!!!

[SheltieLover]

24. Thx for sharing!

Now I'm wondering if commercial cat food is deficient in B vitamins.

Off to hunt...

Still looking for nutritional reason my senior overweight kitty is always so hungry.

[SheltieLover]

21. No doubt seafood is sourced from filthy waters.

When Aldi was out of human alaskan cod for a couple of months, I did a deep dive on where to buy locally.

Surprise: Walmart only carries cod sourced from filthy Asian waters. No thanks.

Note: grocery stores here include only Kroger & Walmart. Kroger doesn't carry it either, at least near me. Fortunately, Aldi restocked. Yaaaaaay!

[qzwv8j]

30. Really? Wow.... I'll try yeast flakes tonight!!

I’ve heard of using cat nap to get animals to eat something they didn’t want, but never this about nutritional yeast. Here’s hoping that works.

[qzwv8j]

41. My understanding of pet seafood products

I always understood that seafood pet products should be avoided primarily by our male cats because of their contributions to urinary crystal formations. I’ve had male cats with crystals and found it to be very expensive. So I do avoid foods containing fish for them. But I do feed it to my girls.

[SheltieLover]

14. Does anyone know of a reasonably priced, low-cal FF Classic Pate substitute?

My senior will not play to get exercise & absolutely semands food every 3 hrs.

Vet says she is very healthy, but 16 lbs.

Tyia!

[Walleye]

15. I have been ordering fancy feast salmon pate three cases at a time from Amazon

My cats are still eating it fine. They don’t like the gravy at all or the chunky. Every once in a while I get them some of that food that comes in the little trays. Salmon and tuna.It might be Purina, I forgot what it called.

[Jirel]

16. I'd switch to something higher quality.

We used to feed a lot of Fancy Feast to our crew along with a higher-quality staple food, because they loved it. In the past year, we have stopped buying it because one would pretty much immediately vomit it up (multiple types, not just one flavor), and others started giving it the hard pass. I'm not sure whether something is contaminated or there has been a weird formula change, but I absolutely do not trust it any more.

[tblue37]

17. Yes. They changed their can designs, too, which is something that often happens when a

company changes its product. One of my cats barely touches her wet food at all now, and won't eat some previously preferred flavors at all.

[vanlassie]

22. My two 2year olds have refused FF pate for a year.

They never liked chunks. They just eat kibble. What are a couple of higher quality canned pates I could try? It bothers me some.

[SheltieLover]

25. Weruvia for canned & Honest Kitchen dehydrated for wet food

Honest Kitchens is human grade. Good stuff!

[vanlassie]

26. Thanks!

[SheltieLover]

27. Yw!

Apparently, Honest Kitchens makes canned pate!

[qzwv8j]

31. honest kitchen pate

Some of my kids won’t eat the honest kitchen pate. I think it has too much pumpkin in it for them.

All honest kitchen wet foods come in little cardboard containers. I personally really like their minced foods, which are nothing like fancy feast minced but more like a very meaty soup. My husband has likened the texture of HK’s minced foods to canned chili without beans — which is pretty accurate actually.


HK has a really good sale on their dehydrated kibbles right now. FYI

[SheltieLover]

33. Where are you finding sale on their kibble?

I love that they're such an ethical company.

Sorry to hear your kids won't eat it because of the pumpkin. 😏

I've only fed dehydrated chicken cat & dog food, but it's been a few years. Ty for nudging my memory!

[qzwv8j]

37. Sale (50% off select recipes) is on their website

https://www.thehonestkitchen.com/

[SheltieLover]

38. Ty!

What is minimum order for free shipping?

Tyia!

[qzwv8j]

39. Shipping is $5 for orders under $49

And free over this threshold

[I_UndergroundPanther]

44. I tried honest kitchen

And Othello wouldn't touch it. So he got ff medleys.

[SheltieLover]

45. Thx for sharing.

Did you try the dehydrated or wet?

Always searching for low-fat options for my senior, overweight girl.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

47. Wet

Back when it was hard to get ff medleys.
Tried a lot of different wet foods. Some he would taste and ignore ,some he'd partially eat and others he would sniff then run away from it.lol.

May I suggest a slow feeder if he eats dry?
Did wonders for my big white chonk Bear.

[in2herbs]

28. About six weeks ago my 2 cats suddenly started leaving their Sheba tuna pate. The

texture is not consistent from container to container. I've tried other brands/flavors but they've always wanted Sheba tuna pate.


Thanks for the nutritional yeast suggestion.

[packman]

29. Cats -

Cats- can't live with em, can't live without them. The little bastards can drive you crazy. My cat didn't eat for several days, vet visit (advice - he'll eat when he gets hungry), changing foods, changing brands, trying to force feed (Never do that again), worry, worry and more worry- then he decided he had played enuff mind games with us and starting eating again his original food

[niyad]

34. That is one adorable cutie!

[SheltieLover]

46. Adorable!

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. Get the lot number from the cans and report it to FF

There's always a possibility of a bad lot. If you got it from Chewy or another online vendor, let them know too.

[Ziggysmom]

35. Purina Fancy Feast has a Facebook page; I see others posting questions about their foods

appearing different and asking questions. FF asked them to private message their questions. Maybe try that?

[hippywife]

36. I deleted my FB account about 10 years ago. nt

[SlimJimmy]

42. I've been feeding FF to my three semi-ferals for about three years.

I feed them every morning and evening. They eat the gravy style and have no issues. They tend to take a pass on the pate, though.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

43. Othello hates pate

Try the ff medleys