Cat food Sachets are a ripoff

[johnnygriff]

Why are people buying sachets when they are about 4 or 5 times the price of tins? Smaller supermarkets are stopping selling tins. Why are people falling for this non recyclable con? Makes no sense to me.

How come cats are senior at 6? Oh yes, to sell catfood.

I mean when did they start making cat food, 1950's! Cats lived on scraps /birds/rodents from time immemorial. They're living in the lap of luxury, even on the cheap stuff.

Kittens don't need need kitten food.

Kittens tend to burn more energy than older cats which is why kitten food is recommended.

If you compare the activity levels of my cats it seems to go:

kittens - run around like wildfire
adult cats - goes outside, does exercise but puts on weight just by looking at food
older cat - sits about all day, only moves to eat, still loosing weight

So I'm happy to accept the nutritional needs of kittens and older cats are different.

My cat is not young. He's a teenager. He runs, climbs, hunts, jumps, sleeps a lot and will demand food. He's not overweight.

I ignored the age for senior catfood until cat behaved like a senior. She only started to look aged in the last year. On that, I'm totally with you.

I also looked out a senior catfood that actually looked like it had something in it proven to extend the life of older cats. Not one that just seemed to have slapped 'Senior' on it for no apparent reason.

I don’t bother with senior wet food, there’s such a small selection and I’d rather ate what he likes. He does have senior biscuits but they are the same flavour as the adult ones.

Carny is a raw food diet which is the best for animals Udder it just another organ meat and part of raw feeding is feeding offal and organ. Id rather my cats ate that as apposed to the grain and meat meal mentioned in some of the foods mentioned on here.
Meat meal by the way is just meat flavored grain making science plan 100% meat free

To the poster who mentioned the Carny poos its normal for the first few weeks raw feeding any animalbfor them to have runny poos while they adjust to the new food same with any food switchover

We used to use Carny and our cats litter tray stunk. We now use Grau and his 'deposits' are much more pleasant. Both are good brands but Grau is a better fit for him. Not all brands suit all cats so if Carny is causing a stink there are plenty of other high meat, grain free options.

The older cat turned her nose up at Carny she doesnt share my raw feeding values so she gets the Applaws pouches instead which is another good option. The kitten loves his food and eats really well with no stinky or runny poos yet

We're using Iams kitten food pouches and Purely Kitten chicken dry food, are those ok? Both grain free (as recommended by MN when I posted in desperation about the stench when they were on Whiskas!)

Iams is made up of "meat and animal derivitves" and "derivitves of a vegetable origin" is that something you'd eat yourself ?
Purely kitten contains :Composition and Nutrition: Composition: Poultry Meal (25%), Chilled Chicken (18%), Maize Meal, Rice, Fish Meal, Poultry Fat, Maize Gluten Meal, Yeast, Linseed Meal, Sugar Beet Pulp, Omega 3 Oil, Chicken Gravy, Minerals, Seaweed Meal, Herbs (Couch, Kelp and Nettle), Oatmeal, Barley Meal. Technological Additives: None stated; Sensory Additives: Colourants; Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 14,000iu/kg, Vitamin D3 1250iu/kg, Vitamin E (alpha sign Tocopherol) 100mg/kg, Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate 278mg/kg, Ferrous Sulphate Monohydrate 200mg/kg, Manganese Sulphate Monohydrate 94mg/kg, Cupric Sulphate Pentahydrate 20mg/kg, Sodium Selenite 5mg/kg, Calcium Iodate Anhydrous 1.5mg/kg. Analytical Constituents: Protein 32%, Crude Fibres 2%, Crude Oils and Fats 16%, Crude Ash 9%, Moisture 10%.
Cats don't need and can't process Maize or Poultry meal ( another name for grain)

Oh dear

dh and I will have to have another chat (it took me an hour to convince him that whiskas wasn't good enough)

Hmm, and I thought that Royal Canin was decent quality - it's certainly a pain in the backside to get hold of, so surely that means it's not big standard food?!

I trust my vet, they've recommended it so I'll believe them while the mini-beasts are kittens. The previous beasts were on Royal Canin for various medical conditions and it certainly seemed to help them. I'll go away to bury my head in the sand now...

Try applaws pouches on her. For dry food you want at least 90% meat content nothing less

Vets have 0 training or knowledge when it comes to pet food they just promote the likes of science plan and royal canin because they are paid to

I tried my cat on raw but thankfully he wouldn’t eat it as the thought of it made me feel sick. There’s no way I’d try it again with him or any other cat. A pouch is more convenient as I’d never remember to defrost the raw food!

Regarding grains, while I appreciate some cats can’t tolerate them they don’t affect all. He has James Wellbeloved biscuits and the contents of his litter have always been fine!

Regarding the sachets being recyclable, I've always rinsed and put in recycling, they recycle tetra packs so I assumed cat food pouches would be similar.

Applaws dry isn't 90% meat either! I've ordered thrive dry which is 90% meat

Are any of these good high meat foods not in pate style as mine don't like it. They had bozita and feringa when kittens but stopped eating them. Tried several others from pets at home and zooplus and made lots of donations to the sspca! I now stick to the wet food they will eat and give high meat dry food alongside

The Carny didn't cause runny poo, just really, really stinky ones. Two of ours are virtually house cats (by their own choice) so it was unbearable. My Dh bought a shed load of the stuff so we tolerated it for weeks. I found it hard to stomach the actual bits of animal you could see in there.

I might try applaws then. Although we are skint at the moment due to old big cats vet bills at the moment. Until recently we were spending over £100 a week on medical for her.

He has James Wellbeloved biscuits and the contents of his litter have always been fine!

It's not just about the litter tray it's about long term effects on their digestive system. Cats aren't made to digest grains so their system has to work harder to process it. It can cause problems further down the line, not always obviously but it's a risk especially as cats age.

He's been on them since not long after we got him and believe me, it would cause me more problems to try and change it than it would to leave him on it!

I would agree that the Aldi cat ones are reasonable in price and our car seems to really like them.
Cans are sometimes a pain to be honest as my cat will never eat an entire can LOL