I believe Fancy Feast DID change the formula. I have fed my cats fancy feast for years and now they are totally off the chicken and beef. Beef was NEVER popular to begin with. Tried chicken hearts and beef. Even the wild life outdoors would not eat it. That tells me something right there. Inferior food!!! Cats noses do not lie! Two of my three cats will eat about anything put before them and one is finicky (never having lived outside and having to scrounge). He tries to cover up the food as if it was in the box. Comical! My search continues!!

They can change it and not tell you.

http://truthaboutpetfood.com/as-soon-as-practical/

I just called the customer service number for Fancy Feast (1-800-933-0991). We have been using FF grilled variety for 11 years and our cat no longer likes it. They DID change the formula somewhat with the new label. Customer Service was more than fair to refund the purchase price and send me coupons for free cans. Our cat will still eat the FF Gravy Lovers, so I can use the coupons, and I will look for some of the older cans before they are all sold out.

Yes they did change the formula or at least substituted an ingredient, probably for a cheaper import.

my cat will only eat FF Grilled Turkey in gravy. Now she won’t touch it and in fact runs away from it.

it seems that everthing with a best before date of 2019 or after if affected.

I have tried every month in these bb dates and they are outright refused. I give her an old tin with a 2018 date and she eats it right away. This is no coincidence.

Purina of course denies it and sends you coupons. But what use are they for something she won’t eat. This was all she ate, now there is nothing! Thanks Purina.

Been feeding my cat original chicken pate. A few months ago I noticed more liquid in it so I figured they were saving money adding water or something NOW the last couple of weeks the same chicken pate I've always ordered from Amazon changed again. Instead of being a pate it's more like ground up mush with lots of liquid. Big Mistake Purina.

My two cats stopped eating any variety of Fancy Feast at the same time

My ten year old cat grew up on FF. Earlier this year she started throwing up as soon as she at it. Now she eats Purina Pro Plan. I've tried higher quality brands, but she snubs them.

My 10 year old cat was crazy for Fancy Feast Savory Salmon Pate wet but the last case we got from Chewy stunk to high heaven and he won't eat it.

Hu… I order 6 cases at a time of the Fancy Feasts gravy lovers Salmon feast from Chewy . For a long time my 3 cats loved it but the last few weeks i thought it smelled stronger and looked different. My cats turned up their little noses at it.
As someone else here mentioned, I thought it may be the heat. I read online someone had the same problem with dog food and found out the formula was changed to make it cheaper.
My older cats like the gravy so I’ll be looking for something different

i definitely think they have either changed to a cheaper formula or the factory that they contracted with is changing to cheaper ingredients. I also noticed on amazon that customers of some canned food called fussie kitty or something like that have been complaining that their cats who have loved it for years are now refusing it. I have been feeding chicken, tuna, fancy feast dry, and temptations treats as well as canned evaporated milk to all of my tame kitties and ferals. Keep in touch if you folks find something your kitties like!

I have 4 cats 12 years of age or older and for the last 2 years they have all stopped eating anything from Purina/ Fancy Feast, when they ate that Foo their entire lives. You name flavor of Fancy Feast or Purina and they used to love it, now they won't touch it. I found this to be the case with some stray cats outside as well. I also tried at least 6 other kinds with no luck. Blue, Rachel Ray, Weruva and others. I'm at my withs end, and every store I shop at hates it when they see me coming with another return. I truly don't know what to do. For their entire lives they licked their plates clean and now every day for the last two years have been hell. These cats are my life and I'm seriously considering turning them into a shelter. I'm beyond stressed out.

One thought comes to mind, Tim. Have you checked their teeth or taken them to the vet for a dental? Bad and sore teeth will cause a cat to stop eating. I know dental work is expensive tho, but worth a try.

HU, We have a cat that will only eat FF and it seems the same to us. Which ones specifically smell and look different? Are you absolutely sure it's not a problem in her mouth? A few years ago we had a cat not eating much and getting thinner and when he went in for a dental, the vet found his mouth filled with cancer. Hopefully it's not that, but I would rule out a bad tooth or whatever.

trout feast flaked has been our staple, but no more. salmon feast pate as well. I am now feeding actual tuna and buying chicken at 99 cents a pound to boil and feed because it goes farther. I bought 4 turkeys at thanksgiving on sale as well. my spoiled kitties like deli meat ham and turkey shaved thin. 1 have 6 cats at home and feed 20 strays at 4 different colonies because i can't stand to see something starve.

your cat is not picky. the formula has changed 100%. we buy bulk for our cat and we had old batch at home still left. we bought more recently and cat walked away. we had this issue with seafood pate before. so we opened old batch a d new batch side by side. the consistecy is different, smell is stronger and viscousity looks very milky. if i can smell the difference then you know cat can smell 1000 better. poor cat! you cat is healthybits the purina products. we took our poor cat to the vet at first and doctor said the cat is very healthy.

so i called purina for the second time. again again, we havent changed the formula. it is complete bs. i told then if they wont admit changing formula i can walk to the lab and test both batches of thei’d like. i heard pause lol. sorry for this has happened to you, we take pride ….. blah blah, blah …. you know the rest.. you can make the difference if you call them and tell them your cat is not eating the food. tell them it looks different from the other batches, because they will male your cat sounds ill.

If everyone complained to them maybe they would change and realize that customers who have been loyal for 20 years no longer will support them.

Yes, I agree. My cats have eaten Fancy Feast Wet for 10 years and this past 2 months they walk away from it. I've asked Purina if they changed the receipe and they responded "No". Well I don't believe that. I'm glad to hear that other feline owners are having the same issue. Purina made me feel like I was crazy or something..

Are the "best by" dates ok on the cans? Or, just curious if the change in consistency and flavor could be due to storage problems in warehouses, esp. since COVID when the supply chain was/is wonky. Cases could be sitting around too long and not properly stored.

My original post was from 2017, lol. But, it’s continued to be a problem all these years! She’ll eat a flavor for a while and then completely stop. It’s such a hassle. I haven’t found any FF flavor that she’ll eat consistently. I haven’t found any non-FF food that she’ll eat at all. I did just find out that she needs a dental cleaning and a possible tooth extraction.

Mine suddenly stopped eating any of the FF fish or seafood flavors about a month ago, both cats, both at the same time. They'll eat the turkey, chicken and beef flavors reluctantly. It was such a dramatic change, both cats, so suddenly -- I have to believe the food changed somehow. I've wondered if the whole supply chain thing with covid may have caused them to choose other suppliers or cheaper ingredients or something. They are both healthy, four years old, and have not had any health issues.

I have 16 rescue cats and they have been eating Fancy Feast Medleys for over a decade. All of a sudden they were throwing up and I was trying to find out what was different. I knew the can and the label and the case box they came in changed but ordering it from Chewy.com it was still showing the can I have bought for years and years. Then a couple days ago some of my cats just stopped eating. I saw where the primavera ones looked darker. I called Purina and was told there were just a few changes to benefit the cats, i looked and a lot has changed. I called Purina today and they said they are getting a ton of complaints, so along with mine, maybe they will do something. I am devastated. Try getting 16 finicky cats to eat somewhat the same name brand food. Im so so sick to my stomach watching my cats that now are not eating. I am beginning to wonder what people are even thinking, everyone knows you can not just change a cat/dog's food like that. You need to make slight changes over. NOW the only way i can get the old cans is in the pack of 12, but who knows how long that will be. So very sad. Im very mad.

The only way i am getting the older cans is in the packs, i get the primavera pack with 12 cans in there and thats the old can. I have 16 rescue cats and i am devastated about the recipe change. At first they told me at purina there wasnt a big change and i told them BS. It took me years to find something my cats all like and now this happens. AND be careful because on Chewy it has a pic of the old can, but its the new recipe, Chewy just hasnt changed the picture yet thus why i am returning 10cases of the Tina Primavera after work today. At now 26.00/case this is nonsense. I just wanted to make sure to tell you in the packs i can get the old recipe. When i called Purina they said ALOT of people are complaining. I told them i rescued my 16 cats, i am supposed to make them happy and have full bellies and now what do i do. Good luck with your babies.

Hey, folks! Thanks for all of the input! I have been feeding dry Fancy Feast, but gave the canned as a treat. It is the same with Friskies canned. It used to be 13 oz cans but they switched formulas and even the labels were different. A few years ago they stopped making the 13 oz and only went to 5 oz cans with the old labels. You can see a difference in color and consistency. My cats loved the turkey and giblets, but they won't touch it now. I have turned to serving human canned tuna, human canned chicken, deli and sandwich ham, chicken, and turkey, as well as cooking chicken and turkey when it is on sale. i hope they change it back. I found an old 13 oz can of turkey and giblets in the trunk of my van and it wasn't expired. when i opened it, THEY CAME RUNNING! I ONLY WISH I HAD TAKEN PICS OF THE TWO CANS SIDE BY SIDE! i would even call cbs, nbc, or abc to run a story!

My cats loved the classic Primavera collection. Although Purina is saying only the outside labeling has changed same formula inside, it’s not true The gravy is brown and has a strong smell. My cats wont touch it. I am now looking at other brands.

Well I have an 18 year old cat and she loved FF and I open a can and she takes a few bites and just cries so I can to find other people and they changed something. I just opened a can of tuna and she’s eating like no tomorrow. I guess canned tuna and canned chicken because I’m tired of throwing the food away

They changed the gravy to something veryvwatery and there is hadly and chicken in the cans it is giving my cats diarrhea i have 6 cases from Chewy wish i could return it😢

This is OT, because I talking about Earthborn wet food, but..... I finally switched from Earthborn's "Chicken Cattitore(sp?)" because it had become unrecognizable. Mostly gooey gravy and little chicken and sometimes dark. My cat was throwing up more than usual.

So after years of that flavor, I bought a can of another - the Earthborn Chicken Jumble, chicken with liver bits. My cat LOVED it. It was nicely shredded white meat with liver, no gooey gravy, in fact very little gravy at all. She licked the dish and would beg for more throughout the day. I bought a case, and had my supplier - PBS Animal Health store - order some to have in stock. They gladly did so.

Well, the second case, what a disappointment! I opened a can to find MINCED darkish chicken in a brown sauce and very little liver. And you guessed it. My cat ate it gingerly. Didn't finish the bowl and began walking away from it whenever I fed her. She'll eventually eat it, but I feel sorry she got cheated! lol Not sure what to do now.

I'm sure the company is having problems like all others as far as getting ingredients, etc. but sheesh. It's expensive food.

My 4 cats walk away from the food now. they sniff and a couple will lick it but then all refuse to eat it. theyve been eating the classic pate for 4 years but stopped eating it a few months ago. the liver and chicken pate is much darker in color now.

Not only has the Fancy Feast canned changed, but Friskies canned is also inferior to what it once was. It is a different color as well and must taste different because my cats used to prefer it to 9 lives, but now it is the opposite.

Im wondering if the manufacturer is using insects (crickets/beetles) instead of real meat? Seems the animals know the difference!

My older cat too has been eating Fancy Feast tuna Primavera for a long time now that the new labeling has changed none of their food is the same it stinks it's runny it's in bigger chunks my cats will not even eat it all my friends say the same thing I don't know what happened to Fancy Feast but I am now looking for a different brand I will no longer buy their product and neither will any of my friends that have used it for years

Yes…. it smells sour and my cat wont eat it now

Yes, this last month; 3/23 we purchased more cans of FF Salmon Pate. It's the cat's favorite. It is now pale in color, doesn't smell like there is much salmon in it. Perhaps more filllers? She won't eat it.

I've noticed my cat all of a sudden turning his nose up to the grilled seafood which USED to be the only one he would eat!

I feel like this is the Waffle House of posts. It never seems to close.

Fancy feast with gravy has been a favorite for years. now it smells bad and is pureed. my cat won’t touch it now now. I love my cat and do not want to kill him with bad food. Im going to have to abandon Purina products for something that is fresh and my cat will eat.

My cat won’t touch it either . We are not happy ! Plus she has not felt well for som tim time now 😡

It reminds me of the Article Sven sofa posts ............

What are people using now instead of Fancy Feast?

I don,t know if the classic pate has changed but I know tthe grilled fancy feast liver and chicken canned cat food has definitely changed. Color is different and it smells different and my cat wont eat it any more.. At first I thought I might have gotten a batch that was mislabeled but I have tried two other batches from different stores and they are the same. My cat says Yuk, and so do I. Think I am gonna switch to another brand for a while. I did try some flavors of Weruva cat food. Its more expensive but has quality ingredients. Lots of flavors and varieties. My cat doesn,t like all of them but I did find a few that she will eat and I am happy to pay a little more if the ingredients are quality and she likes it.

Thanks for answering. We finally found a food Max will eat...it's the Brand Tractor Supply sells. He likes the dry food for weight loss.

I can't believe how often this thread pops up. Must be good stuff?

Yup—8 cats won’t eat it. Looks like it has tons of blood in it , especially at the bottom of the can. I can understand why they won’t eat it—I can’t even look at it. It’s disgusting.

Mtn, I don't think this post is really about cat food. I think it is code for something--I just don't know what.

does anyone where i can find the old fancy feast medleys my cat wont eat anything but that !!!! or any suggestions on what would taste the same? Im desperate !!

And remember when it was $.88 a can?

The cans of Earthborn I feed my cats keeps going up in price too - now $2.98 a can. Between that and the special Purina urinary tract dry food ($85 a 16lb. bag) I have to buy, something needs to give.

Be careful what you post - it may live on forever.

lol

I've probably posted the same thing more than a couple times, but that's because I don't read through the entire thread to see what I already typed. : )

I have 9 cats and have had as many as 12. Most have eaten Fancy Feast wet and dry all of their lives and half I've had since they were born. Over the last year, they are not happy with the Fancy Feast Dry or wet. Sometimes they will eat it but end up not wanting it within a week or so. It has to be something with the formulas because how else do you explain so many cats disliking the food at the same time?? From my perspective, the meat in gravy is big and chunky and cats don't like the big pieces, some of the pate is very stinky, and they removed coloring from grilled beef and it looks terrible. I must find something better because $.90+ a can is beyond ridiculous when cats don't like or eat.