Several thoughts:
1. When you plan out your cat's meals, their eating preferences has got to be the #1 consideration. It does no good at all to feed them something they hate. Surely you can put yourself in their place and imagine a scenario where you were forced to permanently change your diet, arbitrarily to something you thought was awful with an "eat it or die" ultimatum.
2. When evaluating new foods buy in tiny quantities and be ok with tossing out the bag if it doesn't work out. Buying an enormous quantity of untested food is a huge mistake (you know this already). It's time to toss it out, give it away, or donate it. I've found that even after you've tested a new food a little, and the signs are initially good, even then it's risky to go "all-in" on that food. "It was a passing fancy" can easily apply to carts lol
3. Even if you've established that you are feeding them a food that they absolutely love, even then I'd be careful buying in huge quantities. I've definitely noticed that the cats enthusiasm for a newly opened bag can be initially high but go down pretty rappidly if it is not perceived as fresh. Sometimes I get 2/3 of the way through a modest sized bag and just end up tossing it and getting a new bag. When all three of my cats are sniffing it and walking away, that's a pretty good clue.
4. If it were just one cat eating a little, then walking away and not eating more, you could think maybe it's a tooth problem or something like that. But 2 cats? Nah, it's the food. Another possibility is that the particular bags that you got were old or bad.
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