Fancy Feast Troubles

For years, I fed my four on Fancy Feast pate. Believe me, I tried EVERYTHING else. Then, about two months ago, they started turning up noses at the food they used to love. I have one 16 year old and one seven year old with a sensitive tummy. They both started throwing up. My youngest two did not throw up, but would walk away from it, even with toppers. I started having to throw at least half the food I fed them away.

The list of flavors they would eat grew smaller and smaller until just recently, they refuse it all now. Thank goodness they like Friskies. All the flavors of Friskies pates for now. I am also going to experiment with Dr Elsey’s dry.

I spent a lot of money on cat food, given cases of it to a neighbor who feed some ferals and am so unhappy with Fancy Feast. I thougth I had two flavors they would still eat for one meal a day, but now.....more cases to go to the ferals.

I decided to do some research and found this site that shows I am not the only one...... Why on earth do they do this? Cost? They have to be losing money...so many of us are not buying anymore.
Top 45 Reviews and Complaints about Fancy Feast

I haven't had any issues with FF recently. Just bought a few cans last weekend.

My guys have always been iffy with fancy feast. Same with Friskies, but lately they are refusing the fancy feast all together. sometimes they will eat friskies the savory shreds, or the prime fillets.

Tractor supply has a country chicken pate, it is very much like fancy feast pate, its in the paws and claws. my cats like it, they are not fans of the other flavors.

The best bargain food for me right now is the american journey from chewy. my guys are ok with the chicken pate, but they quite like the minced flavors. And chewy has a great return policy if your guys dont like it.

and all 4 of mine love the Dr. elseys chicken, they all hated the salmon

I've been having issues with ff, had to move to Purina Muse and pruna one true instinct.

After opening a few cans I noticed the fishy smell. Fish is one of the ingredients in all their food. One of my 3 cats does not like it. Maybe it's the fish.

Oops I missed the bad auto correct, that's Purina One True Instinct.

My cats seem to be rejecting all the Turkey flavors of Fancy Feast and Friskies lately. I have no idea why.

I dont know if its the different foods, or the cats Mine are off on almost all their wet foods lately. Tiki and almo nature is all they want to eat, they are refusing a lot of their old favorites If they get fussy with these two im not sure what i will feed them

I hope there's not a problem with cat food again, at least not a dangerous one.

I hope not as well. After my listeria scare im always afraid to even put toppers and try to entice them to eat a food if they are being fussy. I did with the S&C, cat got sick and then that food was recalled. i felt so very bad. So i always wonder maybe there is a valid reason they dont want it? I dont know. I just know i do waste a lot of food I only have one that is a fancy feast cat, and she has been off on it too, all the flavors. Others are off on everything, im hoping its just them being cats.

My heart and thoughts go out to you!! and everyone who's dealing with this sort of thing.
Fingers crossed, the Big Guy is currently somewhat stable with a few things I've managed to find for him.

I got bought the cases of Fancy Feast from Chewy’s so I will contact them and then donate to our no kill shelter. Right now they are happy with most of the Friskie’s pate. I also have a small bag of Dr Elsey’s chicken dry food and they LOVE it! I know that they should have wet food, but if all else fails.....

Same here with fancy feast classic too. It started probably 6 months back for me, bad stomach issues for one of my cats. I only feed fancy feast. Mostly classic beef, turkey or chicken out of their variety pack. Oh and I used to feed their grilled flavors. I truly could not solve the problem. I even took the cat to the vet and had full blood work done. I mix up FF classic flavors, my cleaning woman gave treats of all sorts, vacations, etc. so was impossible to pin down.

At one point about two months ago I completely gave up and switched out all of my fancy feast - all classic and grilled, meat and fish and went to their gravy lovers, just turkey and beef, nothing else. Removed treats out of the house.

And what do you know? Both my cats are absolutely perfect now. I only feed wet food it’s been like that since they were about a-year-old they are now eight years old. I still don’t understand why the classic, grilled and all the other fish flavors had so many problems and gravy lovers is perfectly fine with them. It honestly worries me because gravy lovers is so high in carbs, but at least they are happy and no stomach issues at all. I do add a lot of extra water every time I feed them. And since they are all wet diet, they never get any dry food just a can of wet three times a day each.

Maybe it’s issue of where fancy feast produces them or ingredient update?

Dont know, may have been the food, or just something going on with them at the time? Maybe try bringing back in a classic flavor, only one, and see how they do? My one fancy feast girl still likes the Turkey and a few others. The thing that worry's me about the gravy lovers is how low calorie it is. Most of the gravy lovers has less than 30 calories per can. for my guys that would take about 7 or 8 cans each. That and the high carbs. All of my cats seem to be off on most of their wet foods right now. Not just a fancy feast problem at my house

I just tried a case of Lotus, the Just Juicy chicken, my cats normally love shredded chicken foods. They will not touch it, flat refuse, one lick and they are DONE! They will eat Fancy feast if i put it down beside the Lotus. And Lotus is suppose to be a good one? I dont know. cats

Hahahahaha, I Know!!!! CATS!!!!!

One person on the comments thread I posted took a picture of the labels and they are different. She called FF and asked, they denied a change until she produced the labels and then they said that food was made in France. I guess French cats have different tastes?

duckpond said:

Dont know, may have been the food, or just something going on with them at the time? Maybe try bringing back in a classic flavor, only one, and see how they do? My one fancy feast girl still likes the Turkey and a few others. The thing that worry's me about the gravy lovers is how low calorie it is. Most of the gravy lovers has less than 30 calories per can. for my guys that would take about 7 or 8 cans each. That and the high carbs. All of my cats seem to be off on most of their wet foods right now. Not just a fancy feast problem at my house

I just tried a case of Lotus, the Just Juicy chicken, my cats normally love shredded chicken foods. They will not touch it, flat refuse, one lick and they are DONE! They will eat Fancy feast if i put it down beside the Lotus. And Lotus is suppose to be a good one? I dont know. cats

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I know your pain about expensive or ‘whole’ or grain free cat foods, my cats won’t touch them either I’ve spent more money than I can count on them. My girl, hungry as she is, will not even lick pure cat foods. My boy same way.

I completely understand your thoughts on carbs and calories! Before I converted my two cats to wet, my big boy was almost 22lb! Btw, i love catinfo website, just have to put it out there. My vet was shocked when she saw him at his annual visit after seeing him when he was just a kitten. I Wasn’t counting anything I just had dry food out all day when at work. She said, and I really love this vet I stayed with her for the past eight years, you must convert them immediately to all wet food!

Anyways... cans of gravy lovers beef and turkey are very similar in calories, about 67 each. So I split 2/3 of can to my girl and 1 whole can and rest of her can to him. Works out perfect. 3x a day. That’s approximately 260 calories a day for him and 160 for her.

Next visit in a year he was 17 pounds, that was 5 years ago! He’s kept to that weight all this time. Vet agrees it’s perfect for him. He’s a big, long, tall cat. I was so proud! My little girl, his sister, she never had a food obsession so her weight has remained steady, about 10-11pounds.

I’m so afraid of classic FF whatever purina did, it broke my cats. Their poop turned light brown, smelled terrible and was very bloated, they went literally after every meal, almost diarrhea like. My girl drank water like crazy. I thought both of them turned diabetics, and my boy and girl potentialy had liver diseases. Like I said battery of blood tests came back negative. The only thing which helped is completely changing their diet. I tried probiotic supplements, slow food changes and nothing worked for months until I removed classic food.

The best food out there is what the cats will eat, what keeps them healthy, and happy. If the gravy lovers is working for your guys, then that's the best for them

duckpond said:

The best food out there is what the cats will eat, what keeps them healthy, and happy. If the gravy lovers is working for your guys, then that's the best for them

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Exactly!!!!

I feed my girl wet only and Fancy Feast meat pate (beef, chicken, turkey, chopped grill). She has done fine. But when there are problems, it may be the vendor rather than the company.

Two cats ago, I bought a case of Fancy Feast beef pate from Amazon. It was my cat's favorite flavor--but when I opened a can from this case, he refused to eat it. I tried again, another refusal. I went to the supermarket and bought the same product, and he wolfed it down.

I informed Amazon that the product was 'off,' and they refunded me. Later, my vet told me that if I buy online, it's best to use pet food companies (like Chewy) because other vendors don't move pet food as quickly and my use 'suspect' third party vendors.

Good to know, thank you. I do get my cat food from Chewys. That is one reason i have so much left, have to order more to get free shipping.....