Terrible cat food

[BeckyBismuth]

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

My 3yr old Maine Coon has Untamed wet food and Concept for Life dry food. His coat is shiny and he is a whopping 11.3kg

I don’t think any pet food lists ‘various sugars’. But no, I don’t think you or I can tell the quality of the food from its ingredients list because we are not qualified to do so. We have no idea of the function of those cereals in a cats diet.

The fact you think you ‘know’ how good this food is for your pet shows how ubiquitous this type of marketing it.

Raw meat alone would not be a balanced diet for a cat. Raw feeding also carries serious risk which makes it seem not worth it to me.

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’Cat the vet’ is a great source of information on this.

@AnnaMagnani I tried mine on the canagan - they took one sniff and recoiled and ran out of the kitchen!

A vet. With specialism in nutrition. It serves a purpose in the food.

Obligate carnivore means that an animal must eat meat and will not survive if it doesn't get certain nutrients that are only available in meat.

It doesn't mean that the animal is unable get nutrients from other food or that the animal can only eat meat and any other food sources are bad for it.

For example you can't feed your cat exclusively rice but there's no evidence that a complete cat food which provides an appropriate balance of nutrients is worse for containing rice.

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Exactly. Cats (like other obligate carnivores) which live on hunting spoils alone will be consuming unlaid eggs, plus the grains, plant matter and insects etc that are in the digestive tracts of their prey.

No obviously raw meat needs to have other things like bone and offal to make it complete, and various sugars are in the likes of whiskas and felixs wet food. I don’t know through marketing, I know through my own study and research. As far as I’m aware vets have little training in nutrition.

My cat refused her tea again. She took one lick so I gave it to her brother. I then offered same brand, different flavour and she wouldn't even lick it. Ten minutes after she's eating it laid on my bed <head. wall>

But you have more training?
Cat is a vet but she has a specialism in nutrition.
I looked at our felix and I’ll grant you, it does say ‘various sugars’. But my point still stands that pet foods are forumlated and all the ingredients have a purpose. And that purpose isn’t ‘filler’.

Believing raw meat is better doesn’t make it so.

Despite all my attempts with other food, Dcat is happy with his Whiskas and iams dry food. He has thrown up several brands of more expensive “better” food. He also loves raw meat of whatever variety we’re cooking and lamb is his personal favourite.

Applaws tins and encore fillets are treats along with plenty of lik-E-lix. He won’t entertain dreamies or any other packets/sticks/freeze dried snacks. He is also partial to the odd mouse, especially the heads.

He is silky, glossy, shiny, perfectly proportioned and full of energy.

Mine didn't care for untamed, but doesn't really like wet food much. He's quite fussy with meat, if I cook some and give it to him warm he loves it, but cold nope not interested. Fish however, he's climbing up my leg before I've even opened the tin of tuna! He does tolerate Sheba fresh and fine, but barely eats a pouch a day of it.

Dried food he has Carnilove in whatever flavour I've picked up, loves his dried food.

Has anyone tried Republic of Cats? My cat loves their pates and stews. Tried Untamed - didn't like it, tried Blink - awful stuff. But for 30 tins of Republic of Cats it's £37 a month - I think this is rather expensive (£1.24 per tin). He will eat Felix Doubly Delicious at just £0.41 per sachet. I do love to see him finish a full bowl of meat so might get him ROC tins maybe once a quarter.. just as a treat.

Mine is going off Blink. I might try Republic of Cats though to see how she gets on with that.

I went on holiday and when I came back she was terribly finicky and wouldn't eat the normal food - even though she had behaved herself impeccably with the cat sitter. She walked away from EVERYTHING and by the end of one day she had eaten absolutely zero. I gave her cooked chicken - gone in 60 seconds.

Mine eat Sheba wet (in jelly) and Iams dry. They also go outdoors so probably supplement their diet with various mice, rats and birds, plus insects. They're all very healthy and are at their ideal weights.

I spend around £45 a month to feed all three of them.

One of mine won't touch Blink unless he sees the other one eating it, then it becomes acceptable. Neither of them will eat the Whitworth's biscuits I got from Pets at Home using a voucher. They went off KatKin 🙄

They're now on a mix of Untamed, Applaws and Royal Canin biscuits for little fatties. We have to shut them in the living room when we cook or they actually like starving seagulls.

Nood dry biscuits here - it's the only dry biscuits they are happy to eat without having to add a meat topper.

Agree this is fantastic for getting cats to eat and I also use the small sachet over many meals just don't drop it in washing up bowl full of water!

Ours have been on Felix Agail for donkeys years. I buy a mountain of it at a time when it's on offer and as yet they haven't got bored of it.

They can't resist human food or things they catch as supplements though.

Apologies for posting on a Zombie thread. A scamming advertiser has reopened this thread by flooding the site with adverts for marro cat food. I can only assume it's inedible shite if they need to stoop to such crude methods of advertising.
I've reported them

I don’t like to give mine Felix, but having wasted £££ on many types of high quality cat food that they won’t eat, it’s what they tend to get. My cats have even been known to ignore human grade cooked chicken and Fresh Tuna in favour of Felix! They do have a high quality grain free dry food though.

Bigbuttons what kibble do you buy? Another vote for untamed from me, but they are not keen on their scrumble kibble

Mine with happily eat a mix of scrumbles and n and d herring and orange- they still hate most wet food