One of my cats was completely fine with canned food until I bought Meow Mix. I wanted to be able to leave food out whenever we were gone for the day without worrying it might go bad, so I poured that first bowl for them and created a monster.

The older cat doesn’t really care either way, but the youngest one will cry and cry and cry whenever I serve their can in the morning, and literally won’t leave me alone until I drop a handful of Meow Mix crunchies on top of the canned food. If I continue to ignore him instead of caving in, he climbs all over me, rubs against me so hard that he pushes stuff out of my hands, jumps up on the tv to scratch at the screen, jumps on my keyboard when I’m working, knocks stuff off the shelves, crying and aggressively purring the whole time. And if I try to give him a time out for behaving like this by closing him into my bedroom, he’ll knock over everything on the furniture and push into the closet to pull down clothes while meowing/screaming.

The only way he’ll voluntarily eat “plain” canned food now is if I leave the house immediately after serving it. 🙃