Refrigerated food is cold, has a different texture and very little
smell.  Since you're feeding it to her on the same day why not put the
rest of the can on the counter with a saucer or plastic lid (available
in alot of places) on top.

pat

(1)  You don't need to refrigerate the food if you use it within a day.
My cats hate refrigerated and warmed up food. Just get a special plastic lid
for the can. Those are great!

(2)  Leave that away for a while, she'll come back to that.

(3)  Twice, and don't refill before the rest is eaten unless it's 24 hours
old.

carola

The "you eat it or you starve" method.  You feed her what you want her to
eat, leave it down for 20 minutes to half an hour, then pick it up and don't
give in till morning.  Cats are picky eaters because we make them that way.
There really isnt a need for a varied diet.  Buy only one kind that you
think is best, and stick to that.  In fact, too varied a diet can lead to
gastro-intestinal distress (aka diarrhea)

When my furfamily went from free feeding to schedule feedings, it took a
while for them to get the picture.  As long as she eats something she'll be
fine.  If she eats nothing for more than two days, she wins and try
something a different food or you could run into other medical issues.

Memphis and Phoenix here.
Listen carefully, we will say this only once! It seems that you are as yet
not quite trained in the ways of us superior beings! It is our right (duty
in fact) to make ourselves your number one priority, and that includes
getting you to worry over our eating habits. Of course we will refuse to eat
our favourite foods, turning up our cute noses at everything you thought we
liked!
How else do we train you to give us the tastiest titbits from your (our)
larder?
Naturaly you should feed us any time we enter the kitchen and meow at you.
We can then eat a couple of mouthfuls of each new delicacy. We also reserve
the right to follow you around our house complaining that we are starving,
when there are at least three types of food out for us. You see, we are
cats, it is our job to think up ways of keeping you on your toes. Can't have
any slacking around here unless it is us doing it. We don't spend 18 hours a
day just sleeping you know, we are busy dreaming of new ways to get you to
do our bidding. We had better stop talking now, we have already given away
too much information, and it is time to go back to sleep.
Memphis and Phoenix

(I was hoping somebody would answer this but nobody
has so far. I am wondering about the same thing)

Hi Kiran,

You will have to be a bit hard-nosed when she refuses a feed.  Tell her
that's all she gets.  It may help to vary her diet so it's not the same meal
twice a day.  When you refrigerate her food, is there anything else in the
fridge pungent enough to taint her food?  This would certainly put her off.
It would put *me* off!

As to the number of meals a day, the ideal portion is 1 Standard Mouse-worth
per feeding.  My two cats get fed twice a day (morning and evening), but if
a cat asks for another mid-day meal then I will supply it.  This is not a
regular thing; it's almost a treat in response to a needy request.  In
winter and cooler weather, I leave each serving down until the next meal.
However, food goes off more quickly in summer heat, so I won't force them to
eat rancid food.  I will either replace it or oblige them to eat their
'light' biscuit menu, which is always available to them.

It is not a problem to a cat to return to a meal.  In the wild, a cat may
make a larger kill last for two or three meals.  In the meantime, the
carrion is covered with leaf litter or other detritus.  You may recognise
this activity in your cat following a few mouthfuls of dinner; kitty will
then scratch or scrape at the floor around its dish to cover it with
imaginary detritus.  See this for what it is and you may be less anxious.

Hope this helps.
Spider

I'm an owner of a fussy kitten and my advice to you is to put some tempting
treats on her left over food or ptu fresh food on top of old food and mix it
around.
when she's not looking you can even pretned to to take a new can out of the
cuboard even thought its left over. don't give her more than she can eat.

If she refuses all of the above, it may seem cruel but if she dosen't eat
the food just leave it, she'll be forced to eat it when she hungry.
the last resort is to give her cat buiscits only, and to eventually add cat
food you know she likes.

I so dearly recomend pouches as they stay fresh for longer, I recomened
felix as my little one always eats it and id never use canned food because
of the plaqe stains and bad breath it causes.
whatever you do give the cat, they prefer thier dinners at room tempercher.

I let my cat graze on her food she eats little and often, I mix two
varieties of pouches with buisciuts together. This makes her dinner more
interesting with the differnt flavors and textures, throught i never give
her too much to go waste.

Do you clean the cats bowl after each meal? it could be that what is putting
it off.