So I've got an adult cat who has NEVER liked wet food. She would turn her nose up at it and not eat (skipped a whole day once). I was fine with this, I learned she was very picky and so we went with only her favorite dry food for a couple years.

A couple months ago I adopted a new kitten, and he loves his wet food. Originally I started feeding them both wet food because she seemed interested and I thought, it's been a few years and this is wet food from her favorite dry food brand, so maybe she'd enjoy it. So a couple weeks go by of me feeding them both wet food, she was getting a little less than he does because I still wasn't sure.

In the end she eats the gravy stuff happily and would only eat small amounts of the actual meat cuts. I tried a variety of flavors and even a few different brands but it was always the same. My kitten is a trash panda and will eat anything, my adult cat pushes the chunks away. I tried cutting the chunks into small pieces, or just putting less of the chunks in with the gravy, it didn't change anything. If anything she got worse and would push the smallest amount of chunks away and then stop eating it in favor of her dry. Finally I stopped giving it to her. She was only licking up the gravy, which I just couldn't imagine was good for her.

I've tried the soups and broth versions meant to act as like appetizers. It was roughly the same, she liked the broth but not as much as the gravy so she'd do a couple licks then move on. But she still screams at me when it's time for me to feed the kitten his wet food. She acts all excited and runs up to her bowl but these aren't cheap and she really doesn't eat it. It doesn't stop me from feeling horrible though. Like I have the urge to scrape nothing but that gravy into her bowl but that's seriously not healthy right?

And yes, she drinks a ton of water. We've never had any issues there, considering she was only having dry food for so long she's got 3 water bowls all around and they're all the fountains to make sure she 'hears the water' or whatever they say promotes drinking water.