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Thrive dry food

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Sunshine49 · 27/03/2018 13:38

Hello everyone! Has anyone ever bought Thrive dry food for their cat? Mine are currently finishing off a big bag of Royal Canin dry, but now it's nearly gone, I was thinking of trying Thrive. Do your cats like it and would you recommend it? The Royal Canin seems great quality to me, but I believe Thrive has higher meat/fish content and no grains. I've heard it is quite expensive though. They also have two pouches of James Wellbeloved wet food each per day, so the dry is in addition to that. Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

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Vinorosso74 · 27/03/2018 14:37

I was planning on getting some for our newish lad. He's currently on Lily's kitchen dry and a tin of Thrive wet each day but thought it looked good, high meat content and grain free. It's £9.99 a bag on Zooplus which I didn't think was bad so will be getting some on his next order.

EachandEveryone · 27/03/2018 15:52

Did you try Purizton yet? It’s on Zooplus

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Sunshine49 · 27/03/2018 16:02

Hi EachandEveryone - ooh, no I forgot about that! How would you say it compares to Thrive? It looks quite a bit cheaper, for one thing!

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EachandEveryone · 27/03/2018 16:06

They say in compares to Orijen which is meant to be one of the best dry cat foods out there. Why dont you order the set of three smaller packs and see? Also you can email thrive and they will send you free samples.

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Sunshine49 · 27/03/2018 16:55

EachandEveryone - ooh, thanks for the tip. I do love a free sample! Grin

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dementedpixie · 27/03/2018 16:57

I buy thrive for my two. £9.99 On zooplus and Amazon for 1.5kg I think

viccat · 27/03/2018 17:28

I've given Thrive to my cat and a foster cat and both liked it. As it's high protein, you don't need to feed a huge amount - a small bowl will do an adult cat just fine, so it is quite cost effective. It took my foster girl about two months to eat a bag of Thrive alongside 2 pouches of wet.

Ski37 · 27/03/2018 20:38

Interested to hear peoples opinions on this.... mine only eats dry (in the rehoming centre he licked the the jelly off wet and left the rest!) I was feeding him James Wellbeloved grain free but then changed to Applaws as it has a higher protein content. He seems happy on this (but then again I have a feeling he would be happy with anything that fills his little hairy belly)! After much googling I’ve decided Thrive may be better as it has an even higher protein content but I still have half of a massive bag of Applaws to get through.....is it worth changing?

dementedpixie · 27/03/2018 20:40

You could mix the 2 together and then it would get introduced gradually

Ski37 · 27/03/2018 20:54

dementedpixie that’s what I thought too. (I just worry I’m in danger of embarking on a never ending quest for the perfect dry food- which probably doesn’t exist 😹)

Ski37 · 27/03/2018 20:58

I’ll give Thrive a try.... it will make me feel better to know that he’s eating the most meat possible..... And to be honest I don’t think he is fussy enough to realise his food has changed 😹

MojoMoon · 27/03/2018 22:17

My fussy eater has some thrive chicken dry food alongside his wet food.
Thrive has no grains and lots of protein and seems to last a decent time per bag. You don't need tool out loads down, it seems filling.
Price is best on zooplus

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