Hi, a friend of mine up at the school just told me this morning that she has switched her cats over to Pets At Home Complete Cat Food and she swears its a great product......just wondered if anyone else has used it and what they think? I was considering giving it a go? any opinions are welcomed....

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Royal Canin are a quality complete, dry food which you can get from Pets at Home.. I would give your cat that over the Pets at Home own brand

What are you feeding atm Tinks?

I wouldn't recommend Pets At Home own brand. Have a look at Royal Canin, Eagle Pack or Orijen.

Just found an ingredient list for Pets at Home Salmon Adult Cat Food:

Fresh Salmon and Chicken, Rice, Poultry Meat Meal, Maize, Fish Meal, Animal Fat, Egg Powder, Brewers Yeast, Maize Gluten Meal, Barley, Poultry Digest, Sugar Beet Pulp, Sodium Chloride, Cranberry, Potassium Chloride, Methionine, Citrus Extract, Yucca Extract, Rosemary Extract, With Antioxidant EC Additives (Vitamin E and Vitamin C) Contains Tocopherol Rich Extracts Of Natural Origin Vitamin E and Vitamin C As EC Permitted Antioxidant.

Notice that the first ingredient is really two combined into one so that it can appear first on the list and that Maize is broke down into two different ingredients so it can appear lower on the list.

Fresh Salmon and Chicken are good quality ingredients but both inclusive of water content making them less dominant ingredients than they appear.

Rice is non-descript and suggests low quality. Rice is only really a filler so it is a bit shocking that it appears second on the list and when you consider the first ingredient is two combined and inclusive of water, rice probably makes up a large proportion of the food!

Maize is also low quality, difficult for cats (and dogs) to digest and is associated with allergies. It's broken down into two ingredients to make it appear lower on the list than it really should be.

Poultry meat meal is also non-descript - what poultry is it from!?!

Sodium Chloride is basically added table salt and is used to cover up rancid meat and fats.

The others I've highlighted in red are either by-products, low quality or added for flavour with no nutritional value.

Barley is about the only ingredient other than chicken and salmon worth mentioning!

So to sum up; no Pets At Home own brand isn't a good food and it's got a very disceptive ingredients list.

Remember cats are carnivores and when looking at which cat food I think it's important to make that the first consideration. Cat food should be primarly meat not grain/cereal based in my opinion.

look at all the crap in there!

I've just ordered some orijen from zooplus, should arrive in a couple of days (no doubt while I'm at work ) so I can report back when I get it

Hi guys, thanks for your thoughts on that one! At the moment I am giving Royal Canin, but they are sulking at the bowls and I think they have gone off it...hence looking for something to introduce some enthusiasm. But, after looking at the list of ingredients that was kindly put on the forum here....I dont think i will bother and will stick to what they know. I guess I could always put a little bit of wet food on top to give them a bit of a kick couldnt I?

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Yeh Alfie does that because he likes wet food, but I am trying to limit that! But he gives up and then just eats the biscuits.. I put a little bit of meat on it sometimes to encourage him

Hi switching and changing diets to much can make some cats fussy feeders(or so ive heard!)stick with it if hes hungry he wont starve himself.

Exactly, Royal Canin is pretty good as far as I know but I can't actually find an ingredients list. Only just managed to find the Pets At Home one today, thanks to them now having an online shop!

Matty - Our cats are doing great on Orijen, theres a very noticable increase in their energy levels and they look so much healthier, it's quite amazing the difference a good food can make!