It is a proven fact that tuna and seafood is bad for cats. It hurts their urinary tract. Try to move them from canned tuna to canned beef, turkey or chicken cat food.

No, check with your vet! One issue of feeding them nothing but tuna (depending on the type of tuna) mercury toxicity is a concern.

Fish is a good source of protein and other nutrients, but too much fish in a cat's diet can be harmful. Tuna is high in polyunsaturated fatty acids and requires substantial amounts of vitamin E to preserve the fat. Cats fed a diet containing excessive amounts of tuna can develop steatitis, also known as yellow fat disease.

No, they aren't. You can try giving them dry food mixed with wet food and a little water. Make sure you let it sit for 10 minutes before serving, however, because the food expands, and your cat may get uncomfortable if the expanding happens in their stomach. Slowly wean off the water, and if you wanted you could eventually wean off the wet food as well. Your cats are likely not going to starve themselves if the only option they have is dry food, however. Just stop giving them the can! :)

Tuna is great for a treat, but not a steady diet. There are some great canned foods out there -- some are almost like tuna. You might try putting that over the dry food. Then they'll (hopefully) eat some of both. And, don't worry, my cats don't know they are cats, either!

if i just ate tuna i think i would get malnourished. had a dog once that only ate chicken, sausages and semi skim milk. ..it died x

Don't let the cat train you.

They won't let themselves starve. They know that, right now, if they don't eat the dry food - you'll give them tuna. Stop giving them tuna. Stop providing any food except the dry food you want them to eat. Eventually, they'll eat it. -------------------- Another thought, though - have you tried other brands of dry food? Perhaps there is one they're more willing to eat than others?

Yep you've been trained to provide only what they want! Tsk tsk. Naughty cats. Animals won't starve. Just provide what you want them to eat. Vary it with some raw beef mince, and chicken wings and necks are an excellent for their teeth. You have to consider that though our beloveds are domesticated their digestive systems are not and are still wild. What do wild animals eat? They eat the whole animal. That means it's guts and bones, and some hide and flesh and organs. A variety of meats and from a variety of animals. Dry food is okay to provide chewing and crunching for their teeth but RAW chicken bones (wings and necks are a good size)provide chewing and crunching exercise and food and some nutrients. Do you have a bait shop nearby? Go there and check out bait fish, whole fish preferrably in packs that the fish is not forzen together and defrost and offer them a whole fish (cat sized of course!). They get chewing exercise and fish bones and all the things inside fish. Add this into their usual diets and leave them be. Don't baby them into eating things as they will expect that all the time. Not Good. Bad Cats! Now not all cats will go for this and you may need to use some ingenuity and just plain hardnosed patience for them to accept that you are in charge and what you provide is to be eaten. Some foods will work and some won't. Be foods refused once don't mean don't try again. You have pampered them perhaps a bit too much. And a little tough love is needed for their health and well being. Good luck.

Thanx to everybody for your thoughtful & (sometimes) hilarious answers. I am still trying to move the little darlins' to some REAL canned cat food- slowly but surely.Only you should see the looks of condemnation if they see the picture on the can & realize I have fooled them!!! LOL. But seriously, I will try some suggestions & see what works. Plus, now that Spring has sprung, they have discovered bird hunting!

Ummm. How did they find out about the tuna? Read the labels and hold you at claw point until you opened the cans? (Hehe.)

I wasa actually at the vet last week with mine getting her nails clipped, and they asked what she ate, I told her sometimes she eats tuna, and they said that the kitty would die in about 7 years if I continued to feed her tuna consistently. It creates a vitamin deficiency according to the vet ..

If you give them ONLY nutrionally complete cat food and NOT any tuna at all, they will eventually eat it. No cat has ever starved itself over lack of tuna.

People tend to humanize animals. I sometimes refer to them as like people as well, don't get me wrong but I know they are animals and ONLY animals. The only reason an animal will not eat what you put out for it is because you don't give it enough time to do so. Animals will not starve themselves unless they are extremely wild or sick or injured. Other than that, give them time and don't panic. Just like a cat up a tree. It is not the cat who is in panic, it is the human on the ground who puts themselves in the cats place and panics.

fatigue them. hunger. pain. sufference. now that they're hungry, get soft food and hard food, as i said somewhere else, mix it up, heaten it a little in the microwave and wetten it a bit. 37°C and humid enough, that's how cats preys are likely to be when bitten off. now serve it. cycle the food with anothe same good quality one and vary the taste. now go in crowd and pick your family gun and fire up in the sky , now watch how police comes after you. ah ah ah, how dumb out of me

Your cat probably hates the dry stuff.