What should I feed my cat? Vet anti whiskas

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I've been feeding Gordon about 50/50 dry food and wet. I've been using Iams dry food, but was about to switch to Hills anyway.
Took him to the vets today. and the vet said that I needed to give him mostly dry food, and a tablespoon of wet food in the morning and another tablespoon in the evening. The wet food he recommends is Hills and comes in a small tin, which would last for days if only using 2 tbsp a day, and cost 99p a tin. I just can't can't can't keep cat food in my fridge.
He said that Whiskas is like McDonalds for cats, full of carns which is why they love it, but it is absolutely terrible and has no decent nutritional value at all. I don't find that remotely surprising, but it comes in those super handy little pouches and is cheap too.
What do you do?

Have you tried the Pets at Home pure range? It is cheaper than the brands and is not full of rubbish.

How about tuna or sardines in spring water? My cats love it, and you could freeze it into smaller amounts and then dole it out as needed.

right, off to look at the pets at home web site. Great idea re freezing food CakeyWakey. I froze some portions of prawns for him the other day. I guess I could even freeze the cat food in portions.

Hills is a waste of money. Iams probably isn't much better, if it's anything like the dog version.

Why is the vet so pro hills then?

Does he sell it in the surgery by any chance?

um, yes, I guess so

I haven't tried Hills, but give my cats Royal Canin. (I don't like RC for my dogs, but it suits the cats well). I did try Applaws dry for a while, but their poo absolutely stank to high heaven on it, and i also tried Iams as it is the only food barring Whiskers etc I can get within an hours drive of me, but it made the Ragdolls fur matt really easily.

Applaws do do a wet food which is brilliant, the Tuna ones are like tins of fresh tuna. You can buy it online. High Life do a high meat content wet food in pouches too, I think it is 70% meat/fish.

Hills do sell the moist food in pouch form too - no need to waste or have to try and store left over parts of tins.

Felix is a perfectly decent wet food for cats, and where I work, is recommended for clients for cats with no other health issues. Whiskas is not perfect, but its not that horrendous either. If you feed around 1/4 a sachet twice a day and increase his biscuits then you'll not be feeding enough to make it a macdonald's meal anyway ;)

Iams biscuits are not that great, as they are often the food fed to cats what are brought in with urinary crystals and blocked bladders.Go cat is worse ;)

Hills is a so/so option for cats, I find that cats fed on hills have REALLY stinky poo, and there is no reason you must feed hills over anything else.. it sounds like it benefits the vet's pocket if you do and thats wrong.

My cats are on royal canin biscuits and felix wet food and they're fine. As a rule, if you avoid feeding the cheapest foods, you're doing fine What you save in cheap food, you pay in vet bills ime, so pick something mid of the range you can afford and you should be fine.

Oh dear! Our two cats are exclusively fed on Whiskas Fisherman's Choice sachets. Every single dry food I've tried, including everything the vet recommended, gives the cats diarrhoea.

If Whiskas isn't good for them, what should I do now? They seem hypersensitive to lots of different food including James Wellbeloved dry food highly recommended by our vets.

Do us humans all like the same food? No! So why should cats? If your animal is well and healthy on what you're giving it there's no need to change it surely!

Mine get a mix, from supermarket own brand, to Whiskas (not often as it's expensive), they're currently on Felix because it's on offer, with Omega dry food and they are absolutely fine. They supplement their diet with rabbits (yuk for me when they bring them in to show me), and are wormed regularly. My mummy cat had a virus when she was small and it really upset her innards, but my vet said rather than giving her fancy foods, to give it time and go back to what she was on before, which we have, and she's fine. I don't think there's a one size fits all, you just have to find what suits them best.

A vet here who does not sell food. I have two cats one who vomits nearly all types of food. The best combination I have found is Royal Cainin Sensitive cat in the morning and waitrose own brand pouches in the evening.

Royal canin, hills and orijen are the best foods, they have very high meat content, much higher than the supermarket brands which are also full of nasty colourings etc.

Hills is rubbish. Really. Just look here.

It's overpriced.

I feed my cat on Asda own brand!
A bid handful of dried and the same amount of tinned twice a day, more if she wants it.

She seems fine.

Is this really bad then?

We started our cat on Whiskas pouches, then moved to Royal Canin dry. He wasn't gaining weight properly on the Royal Canin so we switched to Applaws which has the highest meat content of any dry food and no cereal fillers. He certainly beefed up but I agree with the previous poster who said the poo STINKS!!!

So we are thinking to switch back to Royal Canin supplemented with some wet food to make sure he doesn't lose weight. Our new kitten loves any kind of food and she's already overweight at 16 weeks, so hopefully the Royal Canin will manage her weight a bit better.