My Cyan is an extremely particular eater. Her palate does not need variety and in fact will not accept any change of menu. The same food day in and day out works perfectly for her. This should make it a simple task to keep her appetite satisfied. Hmph, if only, but cat food companies have other plans for me.
The first feeding problem arose when after eating Friskies Fancy Feast Turkey in jelly for the first 10 years of her life, every day, our local importer decided that they would change their import menu by discontinuing this product variant in favour of a 'newly improved' sliced turkey in gravy.... after my little girl flatly refused to eat the new and improved flavour variant, I scoured the provinces many retail outlets taking up all their old stock of the original feast and even got in contact with an international stockist in preparation for future dinners as direct imports. But I was saved this last resort option when Cyan decided she actually quiet enjoyed the Whiskas chicken in jelly .... a huge victory for me.
So for the past two years it has been Whiskas chicken in jelly on her menu for dinner - that is until this week. My little angel is not eating ~ her usual dinner that is. She greats me with frantic hunger meows on my return home from work in the evening and has started pawing my eyelids in the morning so that I can wake to give her breakfast. I do naturally jump at her demands but to no avail - the saucer of food remains untouched and Cyan continues to behave like a kitty who has just arrived home from an animal shelter and really needs food.
Today I phoned the manufacturer of Whiskas, to be told that they had in fact changed their formula ~ improved on it ~ and that whilst they sympathised with my dilemma, they had naturally based the change on the results from a panel of kitties it was tested on who really did prefer the new formula..... so 'too bad' for me and Cyan. Mmm.... the panel obviously had no Siamese proof tasters on it, of that I am convinced.
And here begins my search for an acceptable Cyan meal.......
2 comments:
Damn those Whiskas bastards! Siamesse are known for their food fusses, though.
Good luck!
Grrrr... drives me mad too! Luckily mine have become decidedly unfussy lately.
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