Terrible cat food

[BeckyBismuth]

Give me your worst and best cat food and why, please. I am losing the will to live.

Felix as good as it gets is cheap and makes my cat ill (but he loves it)
Katkin keeps him in great health but it is expensive (compared to supermarket stuff), has really annoying packaging and takes up loads of freezer space. He loves it, unless I've run out and used something cheap and then he takes a few days to be persuaded to go back onto it.

Raw is by far the best and the likes of whiskas and felix in wet food and any royal canin, hills, go cat in dry food are the worst!

To add it’s because they are not nutritionally appropriate for cats that are obligate carnivores

I don’t like the Whiskas dry food, it feels as cheap as it is - cat loves it.
I also give her untamed, a wide variety of the jelly and gravy ones. She does eat them but I don’t think she loves them, however her coat got so lovely when we started her on untamed so I’m not swapping.

The ordinary own-brand sachets from Sainsburys, Waitrose, Morrisons and Lidl all have 100g each in them and my cat is happy to eat them, so they’re the best cat foods as far as I’m concerned. Felix has only 85g in each sachet and my cat refuses to eat it, so I think it’s crap.

We’ve just switched to a fancy grain free one called untamed. It’s expensive and the tins are small. The cat quite likes it so far.

My cat is really picky, I've bought expensive stuff and she walks away from it, give her Felix and she scoffs it all, cook her chicken and then the next day she meows at whatever is in her bowl because it's not fresh chicken and walks off in a diva strop.

Worst…supermarket own brands
Best… Untamed, my cats have beautiful silky fur, they don’t stink and never have upset tummies

My three kittens turn their nose up at ALL posh foods ( like they literally jump away from the bowl like they have been electrocuted)
and randomly from day to day with all wet food. It is driving me bonkers. It’s a lie to say that cats prefer expensive stuff . They hate untamed. However, expensive kibble is a success.

In light of this information, I would give your cat Felix. Definitely avoid giving her any more chicken unless you’re prepared to feed her on freshly cooked chicken every day.

Mine have Royal Canin kitten food (they're 10 months and 8 months) and some quality wet food morning and evening. I was feeding them Applaws, which they loved, but I've just started to feed them minced chicken (human grade) cooked in chicken stock (I make a bit batch of stock from the chicken carcass when I cook a whole chicken). As it's an addition to their balanced complete cat biscuits it's fine. And works out half the price of Applaws!

My boy cat will eat anything. My girl cat refuses everything and then I have to put sauces, soup, yogurt, dramies on top. Then she thinks about it. I had to let her have tea in bed, on my bed, to make her eat. 😭

I tried to give my cats Untamed but they don't like it, which is a shame. They do have Katkin, but I don't like the packaging. One of my cats will eat mostly anything (except Untamed, for some unknown reason) but the other one is really fussy and so I have to lace the top of the Katkin with the 'junk' food that he likes.

Mine gets Scrumbles. Royal Canin gives him the runs.

A sprinkle of Fortiflora probiotics is so useful with finicky cats. One sachet can last over many meals:

https://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/supplementsspecialtyycatfood/digestionnsupplements/1022677

Mine are all on Bella&Duke raw. We don’t keep dry food in the house at all anymore since my poor boy had a urinary blockage! If there’s ever an issue with our raw food delivery (delayed, still frozen when it’s dinner time, etc), we always have an emergency supply of Lily’s Kitchen to keep them going.

My girl gets Purrform raw diet, which she loves. I give her a cod loin, Encore ?, a couple of times per week for the fish supplement. She would live on Dreamies if I’d let her.

Agree this really helps as does a squirt of lic a lix.

My cat loves purizon dry, good quality.
Wet food we get Tilly and ted from Asda. Cheaper Morrison mousse in tins. And sheba fresh and fine but no other sheba.

Cooked human grade meat , usually chicken or mince beef for 50% of diet and 50% crave biscuits. One cat prefers takeaway ( mice, birds, squirrel etc) so supplements their diet.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/250384740220868

Well I might give chicken to her today, as today is her birthday. But I bought a multipack of Felix too.

Mine likes purizon dry. Applaws wet, and miamor wet, rosies farm ( sometimes)

Used to give applaws dry but after purizon freebie samples he refuses applaws dry now

I tried him on various supermarket wet foods. Just a waste of money as he just sniffs it and refuses to even lick it.

Cat is fussier than my fussy child..

I’m tempted to try the Katkin for my fussy boy, but good grief, how nauseatingly twee is it? Just call it beef, chicken and lamb instead of moo, cluck and baa. 🙄

Mine will wolf something down one day and refuse it the next. They will often refuse their own bowl and then eat from another bowl which has EXACTLY the same food on it.

The best cat food is one that suits your cat - I personally get a bit sick of people banging on about how feeding X food is awful and you should only be feeding Y.

Y might be a great good but it the cat won’t eat it, then the quality is totally irrelevant. Mine all have Sheba - they finish every portion, have solid, non-smelly poos and it’s affordable 🤷‍♀️

I could spend more money and buy a higher protein food but it would be a total and utter waste of both time and money.