When it's time to break out the canned food (she gets 1/2 can in the
eve) if I'm not on time Meep lets me know it.  She also harasses me
while I'm dishing out the goods (all normal cat behavior).  But as soon
as I set her food down, she looks at it, looks at me, and walks off.
Doesn't matter if it's her usual food, something new, fresh can or out
of the fridge.  Sometimes she'll give that little front-leg shake that I
think means "ew!".

Some time thereafter, she'll go back and eat it.  Sometimes it'll be a
few minutes, sometimes longer.  Sometimes MUCH longer, after I should
have thrown it out.

For a bit of background, she was on strictly dry kibble for quite a
while.  Then she started getting about 1/3 can wet in the evenings, so I
had someplace to put her meds (glucosamine, liver flavored, which she
likes).  From reading here, the "knowledge" that it was best to have
cats on dry only (for their teeth) has been changed to it being best to
have them on wet, I upped it to half, but because she would have teeth
issues without the kibble, she gets both.

She also still gets kibble so she gets adequate and good-quality food,
since she prefers grocery-store quality wet (9-Lives, to be specific),
and won't always eat that either.  So her kibble's better quality, to
make up the deficit.

I'm usually a pretty good student of Meep behavior, but I can't quite
suss what's going on in her furry little mind this time.  All I can
guess is that she keeps expecting something else, but since it's never
*been* something else (she gets no human food at all), I have no idea
what she could be hoping for.  Anybody else's cat do this?

jmc