What has happened to Felix pouches?

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Yesterday was shopping day and picked up my usual box of Felix 7 yrs+ for the cat and realised the box was more slimline than normal but still £5.00 for 12.
Got home, plonked the new box next to my near-empty box only to realised I thought I’d only bought half the usual amount. Checked the box, still 12 pouches but the weight per pouch has reduced from 100g to 85g but still charged £5.00!!
I’m already struggling to stretch out one box per week for my cat. There is no way I’ll be able to stretch this for one week. That’s just doubled the cost for as I’ll need to buy 2 boxes now. Fuming.😤

This is incorrect. Mine has half a pouch on a morning and half on an evening plus access to biscuits. This was advised by a vet for my indoor cat many years ago, especially as the biscuits are better for their teeth. She's a good weight and healthy.

Glad I'm not the only one - so sneaky to have kept price the same, reduced the amount by 15% - and we think added water too... receipe changed as well - cat eating loads.... poor form Felix

I just clocked this when placing my Tesco order and came here to make a thread, but you're all ahead of me.

Shrinkflating bastards. People who didn't spot the pouch weight change might think their cats were losing weight because they were ill and take them to the vets needlessly. It's not just sneaky, IMO it's unethical.

I will be looking to change catfood.

My two cats have half a pouch each in the morning and half a pouch each in the evening with access to biscuits all the time. My old boy is 16 and that’s all he’s ever had and is still slim and healthy in his old age. Once he goes I’m going to experiment with different food for our remaining young boy, I’m hoping he will be less picky when he gets the chance and will eat tins. I’m on the hunt for the 100g pouches, it’s still available on Amazon in the old size.

I'm so annoyed by this I've just been on twitter reading everyone ranting. 😆 Purina just seem to keep replying the same thing over and over and it's made me even more annoyed.

I've just ordered a box of 40 Harringtons off Amazon for £11.89.

I think the supermarkets are in on it too. I was excited to see a box of doubly delicious pouches in a flavour cat likes, checked the back of the box and spied they were 100g pouches. Joy, it was also a buy two for £X deal. Picked up another box, checked the details but that box contained 85g pouches. I rummaged around and found another 100g version at the back of the shelf.

It was not old stock, either, dates were good. Buyer beware.

There was some old 100g boxes in tesco the other day. I moved them all to the front and put the smaller ones behind. I hope it helped someone!

Agree. Mine only get one pouch between the two of them, as most of their food is dry, although now the Felix pouches have shrunk I may increase it to one each. And they're hovering on the edge of being overweight, so they're definitely not starved!

Got 3 of the old ones in Home Bargains yesterday - there were four on the shelf.

Finlay is less than 4kg and extremely active - he will eat between 4 and 6 pouches a day plus dry food and dreamies, sticks and lick e lix - he hunts small rodents and birds mainly but really fancies a squirrel given half a chance

Mine would riot on one pouch a day! They get one on a morning and one at tea time, with dry food available all of the time.

Anyone else's cat refusing to eat the 85g As Good As It Looks?

My older cat won't touch it, and she's not the biggest fan of dried either, so she's on a bit of a hunger strike. (Not starving but extremely annoyed and only eating the bare minimum). I've got 80 sodding pouches. Luckily the younger one will eat anything.

I'm looking into alternatives, but we moved to this because she refused other types.

Bloody Purina!

Ours has gone off her usual Doubly Delicious but it accepting the chicken and duck As good as it looks. I really want to get her on a better diet but she turns her nose up at all the 'good' food. Vet advised to try and get her on dry food instead of the treats we give her (she's becoming a chonk) but she has turned her nose up at Scrumbles and Canagan dry food. Little madam!

Ours is fussy and decides to go off certain varieties of felix sometimes. We’ve taken to leaving the abandoned dinner portion in the kitchen with her at night. Funny enough it has gone by morning.

Whiskas sachets were shrinkflationed from 100g to 85g quite a while ago. My cat is given the own-brand sachets from Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Waitrose, which all remain at 100g at the moment.

Sadly the other cat is a pig in disguise, and snarfs anything available.

Bit late to this but mine has had tummy issues since the change of packaging - has the recipe changed too? I’ve tried her on all sorts of more expensive wet and dry foods but the only one she would reliably eat was Felix AGAIL 7+ (she’s 11). I am taking her to the vet tomorrow anyway as I suspect she has a UTI. She has one pouch a day with 30g biscuits and is overweight so I’m thinking of switching to weight management biscuits too, but don’t want to do it all at once if she’s already upset at the change to Felix.

Pouches are smaller for sure - they need something else with them like biscuits otherwise theyre complaining after 10mins!

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Cats recently affected by felix food

hi bungobungobungo, im surprised to hear your feeding your elderly cat felix cat food, this cat food isnt designed for elderly cats, it needs hills urgent care or on care which are good at helping your cat to keep its weight on, I get it for my cat whos 16.