Wet Car food help please

[Sunshineandrainbow]

Ginger Tom cat age 3, I have always fed grain free wet food. Took a liking to lily's kitchen but now walking away from it obviously after I have bulk bought!!
It is expensive and in current times would like to save some cash.
Is there a middle ground of better quality food than say whiskers. He does eat high meat dry food so does the quality of wet food matter?

Thanks

I have used Amazon's grain free wet food pouches in the past and my cats have loved them. It's just recently there have been supply problems so I've started looking elsewhere. Morrisons do a grain free food selection. Zooplus have a huge selection too.

My very fussy cat likes the Aldi tins of gourmet mousse food

Feringa from ZooPlus is reasonably-priced & high meat content as well as being grain-free. It comes in pouches, tins & trays. ZooPlus also do Rosie’s Farm trays, which are cheaper than Lily’s Kitchen.

You can get Hi Life pouches from Pets At Home &
Amazon - using subscribe & save with the latter works out well here (for the Senior Tuna only, the chicken was considered insufficiently delicious).

Pets At Home stock a huge range: the Ballet Cats really liked Blink! because they like shredded chicken/that sort of food texture. They quite liked Nature’s Menu; & Butcher’s Classic & James Wellbeloved get recommended on here quite often.

So yes, there’s heaps of choice out there; & given cats are obligate carnivores, they really should be eating high meat content food unless a vet advises otherwise.

I have placed an order on zooplus.
He used the love the natures.menu Country hunter but that was discontinued

Good luck finding a new food-of-choice. Have just (too late for this shop, sorry…) remembered ZooPlus do Bozita too. It’s reasonably priced (especially if you can save up & bulk order) AND Tetra Paks are widely accepted in kerbside recycling now.

I've found Carny, Smilla and Bozita to be the best value good food from Zooplus.

However, the downside is that it's much more expensive to buy small quantities and the minimum order to get free postage results in a large and heavy parcel of a lot of food if you only have one cat, especially one who refuses to eat anything you've bulk bought!

Less of a problem for us as we have 4 of our own and foster rescue cats so it nearly all gets used reasonably quickly, especially if we have a nursing mother, the amount of food they can get through has to be seen to be believed.

I've just discovered that lidl do grain free wet food. My girls are going to try it as a treat. Hopefully it won't go straight through them. Loose poo on a long haired cat is not good!

I will look out for this thanks.
He wouldn't eat the Rosies farm. Fgs it looked better than my dinner! Fox enjoyed it though!
He has eaten the Hilife perfection pouches but don't think they are complete food although with the good dry food he eats maybe that doesn't matter as much?

I’m sure the fox was very grateful for the 5⭐️ dining experience, but how frustrating for you!

Do you think he’d go for one of the Hi Life complete foods? Mine, being older, have this tuna terrine, but they do a version of it for adult cats & also a fish one & a chicken one. You can REALLY tell it’s tuna when you open the pouch - that’s what the smell is, not catfood. It’s proper bits of tuna in jelly. And it vanishes at speed…

I will definitely try those thanks so much ballet

You’re very welcome Sunshine: let us know how it goes, won’t you?

My bloody cats object to Lily's, Hi Life and some others that I don't remember, and now they have gone off Wainwright's and Scrumbles from me but they seem to be eating it if DH dishes it up!

Anyway I meant to say I'm going to get a trial pack of Feringa, see what they think of that. DH gave them some of his chicken the other week and this started about then so I think they think anything he gives them is promising!

@Sunshineandrainbow your auto correct in the title made me laugh ,
wet car food , that will be petrol then huh 😄😄.

My fussy over Lord won't eat much wet food ,,I got fed up of buying expensive meat and him eating half a portion then turning his nose up at it for the next few days.
Now ( due to heath issues ) he is on dry Royal cain bladder food which he likes, most of the time .
He gets one pouch Sheba wet food split over two days once per week .

I haven't tried sheba so I could give that a try.

Glad you liked the error in the title 😀

I’m also having a nightmare with wet cat food - mine decided they only liked Cosma Asia pouches but it’s constantly out of stock. One of them does eat some of the Feringa. They both seem to generally refuse any wet food that is complete. One of them really only wants dry, but he’s prone to urinary infections so not great for him.

I’ve no idea if it’s any good - possibly not - but you can get smilla vitamin paste that contains taurine. Although I suspect if eating compete dry that should give enough .

I have one feline dustbin and one who has to eat quite 'plain' cat foods (not too much colouring, not too much grain).

I try lots of cat foods - currently the plain eater is enjoying Blink. It's good in that you can pick it up in the supermarket to test (though I think they do a trial subscription option too). We have that as his day-to-day food on subscription as we can exclude flavours that aren't popular. Hi Life is another one that can be tolerated but annoyingly that seems to have vanished from Tescos, so can be bought direct from the manufacturer or on Amazon. Some of the fish flavours are incredibly fishy so not entirely loved. I've just tried a trial subscription of 'Untamed' - that was kind of judged as 'ok' so I'll probably get that as a small order occasionally to mix things up . What I tend to do is go into Pets at Home and see if any varieties are available in single sachet/small boxes and keep trying them out to stop him getting 'bored' with Blink. It's lucky the other cat will eat pretty much anything, so there isn't much wastage.