Heard of
replacement cats?
There's like a billion frigging cats that would be happy to take a finicky eater's place. I have no patience for otherwise healthy cats who go on pout hunger strikes. We used to adopt all our cats from kill shelters, preferably hours before their execution. We had no problems with finicky eaters. It was as if they understood "Oh you don't like it here? I'd be happy to take you back."
100% compliance with the Nutirmax or Wysong or whatever healthfood cat food we were giving them.
Thank god we're allergic to them now.