Paté

I discovered a long time ago, that Sake and Haiku do not like paté style cat foods.  I try to buy chunky, and had to have another shopper tell me which of the Fancy Feasts http://www.fancyfeast.com/ was chunky (grilled, and now, gravy lovers).  This past weekend, I bought a can that said "chunky."  It is really paté with a little bit of chunks in it.

Taki will generally eat paté if it is a flavor she likes. It was interesting to see her reaction to liver: she sniffed it tentatively, then backed off from it. 

Haiku likes human tuna, and so do Taki and Sake.  Sometimes, Haiku just sits next to the feeding area, even when there is liver out (which she likes) and has a hangdog look on her. She does not cry. She just sits.  She moves to eat, when I put out tuna.  She does not like tuna if the can is not freshly opened, although I do refrigerate it.  Taki started eating it after the can was opened, so Sake and Haiku do now, too.

When Haiku started eating at the feeding area, Sake was mean to her, and sometimes chased her off.  That is part of the reason I put a second feeding station in the bedroom.  Even now, sometimes, while Haiku is eating, something will happen (a loud noise, another cat just bumping into her) and she will run off.  Since Taki's arrival, if I bring her back to the feeding area, she will resume eating.  Not so before.

Haiku is a skittish eater, and I try hard to find her favorites.  Except for the paté issue, Sake is less so, but has become more picky with age... Both Sake and Haiku vomit salmon.  I think it is too rich for them.  Other than human tuna, they do not seem to care for fish content cat foods, although they frequently show interest in the fish I eat. 

Taki likes fish content food, including salmon foods.  But, if salmon foods areout, Sake eats them, and gets sick, so I rarely buy salmon flavored foods.

Feeding these cats can be an issue.  Less so, if I stay away from paté!