Cat food - what and when!

[CoralDaffodil]

Hello! So 3 weeks ago I rehomed two cats aged 1 and 1.5. They currently have a pouch each of wet food in the morning - 6am, dry to snack on during the day and then half a pouch each at around 6pm. They are between 3 and 3.4 kg. They came on whiskas / sheeba wet food and burns dry food. From what I can see these foods are not particularly good meat content wise. I have tried some grain free wet food - M&S and Harringtons and poo wise they seem better (not as wet) as it was quite messy on Whiskas. Does anyone have any recommendations for some good quality (but not insanely expensive) cat food.

Um I've seen katkin recommended a few times but not sure how expensive it is in comparison. It is human grade meat though so seems to fill cats up more.

We tried applelaws with our old cat, they quite liked the fishy ones.

Congrats on your new cats :)

I would focus on high quality dried food and not worry too much about the quality of the wet.

I know people will come on here and say Felix/Whiskas are basically McDonald's for cats but (for my cats anyway) the wet food is a tasty extra rather than a necessity.

Mine get half a pouch of Felix twice a day, and then we feed them specialised Urinary biscuits (as one of them has crystals) and they have free access to those.

I've tried all the fancy foods and they ignore all of them

That's not a lot of food. My cats have always had a good quality dry food available all day (fresh water too). My boy likes Scrumbles (Amazon), Purina or Harrington's dry.

He has 3 pouches of wet stuff a day - 6.30am. then about 3pm, then 10pm. That's either Purina, or Harrington's. A few times a week, I substitute a pouch for some fresh, cooked (and cooled) chicken, or tinned tuna in spring water or oil.

Had several cats over the past 42 years.

As a pp above does, mine are on their dry ad lib (just top the bowls up when they get their wet), with 1/2 pouch wet mornings & 1 pouch wet evenings between them. And water there all the time of course.

A local rescue centre were very grateful for all the left over tins/pouches/trays of "posh" wet food I tried them on when I decided to change them from Felix recently, and they have finally settled on Sheba, but they have a good quality dry.

Thanks for the advice. Maybe they do need more.. I will try and offer it, but they tend to leave a little so not sure that it’s too little.l for them as such. What I’m feeding now is just what the RSPCA had them on. I will focus on trying to get a good quality high meat content dry food then. I have seen applaws recommended before actually, so I may try that!