Terrible cat food

[BeckyBismuth]

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

Exactly @faerietales . You also have to remember the rule that the food they're refusing this week might be the same one they lapped up last week, especially if you were daft enough to go out and buy a load of it.

Mine will only eat Felix. Tried all sorts!

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.

Yup. Whilst I'd avoid the cheapest dry foods for male cats as, anecdotally and in my own experience, they contribute to UTIs, beyond that it really is about finding that sweet spot of what your cat will eat and what keeps them healthy.

@BeckyBismuth

Beautiful kitty ❤ Happy birthday!!

My sympathy for all those with fusspots. We are almost at our wits end with one of our cats. We have two that are rather too round and eat anything, and one that's like a walking skeleton. We can't get him to eat much! We've tried Felix, Felix kitten, Untamed, Marro, Applaws, all plus Purina One dry (which he does love). I wish we could find something for the fussy blighter!

My cats have beautiful glossy coats due to Untamed

I told my vet about mine not eating and she said she was a Princess. I'd spent a fortune on food after a previous visit which the vet said to try, which she did deign to eat but then was okay on her usual for a while after the vet visit as I thibk she was embarrassed at being called a princess. I'm wondering whether to just let her go hungry until she stops being a madam?

Agatha hated all attempts with raw. Loved most of the Republic of Cats stuff, but that ended up being v expensive, and is now happily eating webbox wet (jelly, not gravy) with some go-cat crunchies to graze on. She would very much prefer whatever I'm having for dinner, especially mince and chicken, but wafer thin ham is her absolute favourite as an occasional treat.

Yep- it’s an utter pitta. My attitude now is that that is what they get until the batch has gone. If they are that hungry they will eat.
We are digging a hole for ourselves.

Thank you! Her name is April. She's a cross-eyed meezer!

Ours get Untamed and Katkin but old DCat, who was around before we had much money and was brought up on supermarket food, loves the odd tin of Kit-e-Kat, which smells horrendous. I think of it as cat McDonalds.

Katkin is excellent. I don't love the packaging but it's not a deal breaker.

I keep a few tins of Untamed as a backup but I'm less keen in it because a) the protein choices are really limited (chicken or tuna) b) DCat doesn't like it as much and c) they've run quite a few advertising campaigns on socials which are blatent digs at Katkin and it's really put me off them as a brand tbh.

Go cat - only dry food my cats have refused to eat under any circumstances
Renal cat food- cat preferred death rather than eat it
Whiskas/Felix- the McDonald's of the cat world. Cats love it, I'd like them to eat healthier
Canagan, especially the tins - even my fusspot loves it.

Following this thread for food tips, bought a bulk load of KatKin after a successful trial period which Miss L is now refusing to eat! Also as others have commented the packaging is nearly as bloody awful as the names 🙄
She has Symply every day but I like to give her a wet food too (I heard it stops them bringing ‘gifts’ in so much).
As well as KatKin I’ve tried Cheshire Cat which she loves but it did get pricey.
Might give Felix or Sheba a go next.

Both of my cars have been fed in supermarket wet food since they were kittens. The tabby is now 12 and the grey one is 11. They’ve only ever been to the Vets once when they were microchipped. No health issues here at all.

Pet food is strictly controlled in the Uk. All pet food in the UK with ‘complete’ written on it is:
human grade meat. This is the law
nutritionally appropriate for species and age it is marketed for.

The ‘big brands’ are able to employ specialist animal nutritionists who know far more about pet food than people on TikTok.

Describing complete pet food as ‘like McDonald’s’ or ‘not nutritious’ or ‘full of filler’ is snobby, scientifically inaccurate and directly playing into the hands of advertisers using meaningless phrases like ‘real’, ‘proper’, ‘natural’ blah blah

Of course they say raw is better, because they want you to BUY IT.

The best food is a complete one you can afford and your cat will eat.

I’m a hell no for felix or anything purina

we use Blink wet and dry

At the moment, mine have Meowing Heads wet food and occasionally a small amount of Lily's Kitchen dry.

I also feed them other wet food, Macs and Bozita, in rotation as they get fed up of having the same food all of the time.

I've tried Katkin, but one of my cats consistently refuses to eat it. It's difficult to store as I don't have unlimited freezer space.

Mine like Marro - all flavours except the fish which they won’t touch. Scrumbles dry food also seems to be a winner. Their coats and poos are a lot better since we stopped giving them Sheba Fine Flakes and Felix.

@MonteStory respectfully I completely disagree with you. so something that has”meat and animal derivatives cereals and various sugars” as ingredients is ok rather than raw meat with bone and offal, the latter being by far the best choice for an obligate carnivore.

To add, cereal is a cheap filler, not at all snobby or scientifically inaccurate (not sure where you got that from)

The only food my 14 year old doesn’t throw up immediately is Sheba pouches. Anything else gets vomited straight back up before she even walks away from her plate.

It might be “the best choice” but if the cat won’t touch it, it’s irrelevant.

My 3 will only eat Go cat. Nothing else. They hated the Aldi stuff the most.

yes I wasn’t querying that point, I totally understand that it would be hard if your cat doesn’t like it, I was just stating the former points in the post were false.