They really do ask for it by name

[brightrosefox]

So it has been established that my cats love Meow Mix best.
I had bought Friskies food in both dry and wet form, and they ate it up, especially the wet. Then I bought some pouches of Meow Mix wet food, the chicken kind, and the Meow Mix Indoor Formula dry food. I fed the cats the pouches and they went nuts until I ran out and started in with the remaining many cans and pouches of Friskies. I still had a bag of dry Friskies, and a bag of dry Meow Mix Indoor Formula, plus the Friskies that was still in the large feeder bowl. The bags of dry food were on the table that the feeder sits under. I was sitting here in the living room watching TV, when I heard a weird rustling noise coming from the closet area where we keep all the pet stuff. Tuesday had jumped up onto the table and was trying to rip open the bag of Meow Mix with her teeth -- she had ignored the Friskies completely. I chastised her like I would a child, and then, realizing that she was so insistent on Meow Mix Indoor Formula that she actually swatted at me and growled when I pulled her away, I took the bag and the feeder, poured the Meow Mix into the feeder tube over what was left of the Friskies, and set it back in the closet. Tuesday and Puff attacked it as one unit. It was funny to watch.

I have tried many brands -- generic grocery store names, organic foods, classic brands like Purina -- but this is the first time the cats, especially Tuesday who barely eats much at all, really took a liking to a particular brand.

Comments

[saighin.livejournal.com]

So it has been established that my cats love Meow Mix best.

*lol* Told ya!
It's all my little brats wanna eat...snobs...

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

I didn't believe it till I saw it! They must put crack in the ingredients, I swear...
At least it's inexpensive!

[fyremoon.livejournal.com]

Cats are strange animals, they have tastebuds that detect sweetness but they don't work, instead they have enhanced mineral detection.

You might want to read this article about dry food and cats:
http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html

Feeding a cat on a dry food diet opens up many health issues from obesity, fatty liver disease, renal failure, mycotoxins and dental problems.

Unlike dogs, cats are primarily carnivores and lack the ability to process vegetables and grains. You can give a dog a mixed diet or all vegetarian diet, but a cat has no way of processing the proteins in vegetables, nor can control the enzymes that build up in its liver.

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

Oh, I read that. In fact, I posted it to the naturalliving community. I honestly think it's hype and mostly bullshit, but that's me. My smaller cat will not touch any kind of meat, chicken, raw stuff, nothing. Not a thing except her own food.
Here, feel free to check out the hundred-plus comments to my exact question on this, linking to this exact article. Apparently, some cats love dry food and live perfectly fine on it all their lives with no problems. Others don't. I think it is just the individual cat.
http://community.livejournal.com/naturalliving/1572905.html

[whordorable.livejournal.com]

My cats all love Kit 'n Kaboodle. They treated the healthy stuff from Wild Oats with mild disdain and seemed pleased when I switched back. :]