Ben by Daniel Shelton for November 01, 2023

Yet this is the same animal that will gladly eat out of the trash can if you leave it uncovered.

Cats are the same way. That’s why they’re called finicky.

Got the cat the premium food and he would hack it up. Didn’t want him to starve so went back to the cheap stuff he could keep down. I put the premium food outside for the animals. Nothing would touch it!!!

Bought store brand cat food. Mixed it with the Friskies in the cat’s bowl, cat ate the Friskies left the store food, returned the bag to the store

Could his reaction have been more clear?

No different tan a child who refuses to eat any other food that is not his favorite brand. All you have to do is walk down the cereal grocery aisle and to see that cereal packaging is geared to children and their (at the time) favorite cartoon characters. Of course, it helps if it is heavily sugar and chocolate coated.

About half an ounce (15 mL) of unseasoned chicken or beef broth, warmed in the microwave and poured over the new food will fix that immediately. Be sure to acclimate Max to the new food over several days by mixing in increasing amounts with his old food, or you may find an unwelcome surprise on your most expensive rug.

If it is cheaper, it is usually either unhealthier or worse tasting or both.

Ad lines to watch out for: “I wouldn’t fed this to my dog, and neither should you.”

He has a career in acting, especially drama.

I have never seen a dog refuse any brand. I have seen cats spurn the same brand they ate with gusto the day before.

I don’t know about dogs but I had one cat who would howl to be fed, take one bite, and “save the rest for later”.

Money’s tight after you retire. I’ve never felt so broke since my income became fixed!

Stick to one brand to prevent picky eaters. So said my vet.

Husband used to be – had to the correct brand name. Gradually I would use store brands and he accepted them.

Since start of Covid we have been food shopping, cooking and eating differently. (We used to eat out all lunches and 3 dinners weekly and we don’t eat breakfast, we have late night snack as our third meal.) We also started mostly shopping in the Walmart Neighborhood Market with a list every 2 months, then down to every month, then down to every 2 weeks – now back to buying as needed, but rarely go to other supermarkets which we used to go to before Covid. (Only thing lacking at this store is there is limited meat assortment.) We have bought a lot of items which are Walmart brands including canned soups.

All of a sudden he has decided that one of the Walmart brand soups that I use to make our Sunday night dinner (chicken and dressing bake which replaces WM’s frozen turkey and dressing bake which we used – only frozen meal we used) – to make an easy on the cook (me) meal on Sunday nights. I put it in the oven, put a can of soup – Walmart brand homestyle chicken soup – in a pot on the stove and could call my 94 yo mom for a weekly call (so my sister did not have to call that her night).

When they discontinued the meal about 6 months ago he came up withe chicken replacement meal. We used WM brand soup – cream of celery with canned milk and it was fine. He suddenly decided that he is allergic to the home style chicken soup – which has spread to their regular chicken soups – noodle, rice, etc.