who would win?

I ate yesterday a fish in a restaurant (sort of) and I left a little bit of salmon for my cats.
And you know what? Those little stinkers DON'T WANT TO EAT IT!
THis means a war. I decided: this or nothing.
So far they've chosen nothing...

I wonder how long I'll be so brave to see my cats going/coming to the kitchen and checking their bowls and looking at me all the time with their hungry eyes.. Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggghhhhhr.

How long would you hold on?

 

Myself, I would be glad that my cats are not interested in what I am eating. As it is, they think that whatever I am eating must be so much more delicious than what I am giving them from the cat food packet.

 

I wouldn't pressure them to eat the salmon. They didn't ask you for it. You just assumed they would want it.

How is it their fault that you decided to give them your leftovers?

 

Sometimes when my dog won't eat the food I put in her bowl I will get a spoon and feed it to her. Works every time, not sure if it will work well with cats though.

 

I wouldn't force them to eat it. Your cats know that the fish is too old for them to eat. They want fresh fish!

 

I eat leftovers all the time, if it's good enough for me than it's good enough for an animal too. They're just being fussy little furballs.

 

So did they end up eating it?

I wouldn't have pushed for it either, but that's mostly because I know my cats are "fussy little furballs" as Ras said, and wouldn't cave, lol. I've dehydrated fish into cat treats before, though, and they ate that!

 

I suppose dehydrated fish would be somewhat like salted fish here. Cats here practically go crazy over salted fish, especially when it's grilled. Salted fish comes in many grades. The cheapest I can get is about 2usd per kg. So far the cats can't differentiate that from the 20usd per kg stuff.

 

My cats can tell the difference between cheap dry food and the expensive stuff. I can't imagine them caring one way or another when it comes to fish, though.

 

I think your cats can do that because there is a real difference in the amount of protein in the cheap food and the expensive stuff. Fish, of course, is all protein without any fillers.

 

You're probably right, Victor. There's definitely a difference between various commercial cat foods, but fish is fish, right?

Or maybe I just have picky cats...

 

Well, I have a pet store owner who was very frank with me when I asked him about the difference in price between the cheap cat food and the expensive cat food. He told me the difference was basically in the protein content.

As for fish, my cats never found any difference between fish that costs 1usd per kilo and fish that costs 10usd per kilo.

 

If you put something on the fish that may be why it was rejected. Plus in the wild fish is eaten raw so cooked seasoned fish is not what the kitty ordered.