Current case of Wellness 5.5oz cans of Turkey & Salmon
BB  28 Apr 12
7WTSS4 04:59

One cat will only take a few licks and then try to bury it. She's kind of finicky anyway, but
the others are eating it, but with much less enthusiasm than before.

It does seem to have much larger pieces of carrot and potato in it and
one of the cats won't eat the carrots, just licks around them and leaves them in the bowl.
I even try to mash them up, but there's always a few pieces left I don't get.

Over the past few months they either are tiring of Wellness or something has changed with the food.
I did give in and feed some Friskies canned for a short time, but while they all ate it and seemed to like it, there was vomiting nearly everyday. That and the fact that it caused my diabetic cats blood glucose levels to rise too much.

I recently did something I never thought I'd do and bought some FF gluten-free flavors or Turkey & Giblets and Liver & Chicken. I'm trying to coax the finicky one to eat more because she seems to be getting smaller and smaller and barely eats enough to stay alive. I guess anything I can get her to eat is better than letting her starve herself.

Hubby says feeding these cats is becoming too complicated and I have to agree with that, but what can you do?

Interesting, snowshoes.  That's the exact date and flavor that my cats think is great, and only a little different in time stamp, too.  Yours are less enthusiastic, mine are more.  Cats!

So that makes me wonder that refusal by cats to eat the food or not be enthusiastic about it, doesn't necessarily mean something wrong with the food, just that different cats have different tastes of what they deem as "good". Have you noticed larger pieces of carrot and potato in yours?

BW, the Wellness codes are different from the Purina codes in many ways, and it's my understanding that the stamps are times, not Julian dates.  They do not read as Julian dates.

Snowshoes, I wonder if it is just individual cat tastes, and not that something is wrong with the food. What I think is wrong is that there is now so much variation in the food!  It wasn't like this before.  I have noticed more prominent pieces of carrot, but thought that was because I'd switched from 3 oz cans to 5.5 oz cans.  My cats used to accept only 3 oz, but are now pretty much refusing 3 oz and eating 5.5 oz.  The 3 oz are all made in Canada, so I was guessing it had something to do with ingredients used at the plant where it was made.

Bo continues to do well on the 3oz 20 Apr 12 Turkey - same as two others are using. Humm....I'll have to check in the stores and see if there is any more around here.  In the 3 oz I hadn't noticed any change with carrots or potato.

I have finished a case of 24 Wellness cat food 5.5 oz cans
Turkey / Salmon
28 Jan 12
7WTSS4

Last month I finished another case of 24 cat food 5.5 oz cans
Turkey
22 Sept 11
7WTKS4

Not one complaint from either of my two companions

We've also been using the 3 oz cans and the 4 siblings have been on again off again as always.  It doesn't seem to be any relation to anything -- just moods.   

Our newest addition to the family, little Sunday, who has been with us now for just two weeks, really liked Wellness canned when she was plucked off the streets and famished LOL.       Now it's getting harder to get her to eat more than a few licks.  Will continue to try though...