Never actually noticed that - I would just feed them the pate variety if I could but neither of them is that keen - they loved the reindeer chunks in sauce but hated the reindeer pate - hardly touching it - adding water to it meant they wouldn't eat any of it at all so we'll be sticking with the sauce & jelly varieties I guess.

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They can be such contrary creatures. Have you tried mushing up their jelly/gravy food with a fork to make it more like pate? Or have you tried mixing the pate in with the jelly, starting off with tiny quantities and over time increasing the amount of pate you are including? Might initially create a bit more wastage, which is a bit of pain considering that you don't get Bozita very easily, but once they are eating pate food your world of good quality cat food opens up radically.

Have you contacted the zooplus mothership to see whether they would send to Norway?

Have just ordered Bozita, Smilla and Animonda Carny - hopefully will be there when I get home! Think I'm a bit too excited about this...

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Give Smilla first. I've heard of many cats in the forum (Ari included) stopping liking Smilla after having tried Animonda.

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Percy goes nuts over Animonda Carny, but he'll eat Smilla and Bozita in rotation as he has no choice. I think it's the beef in Carny.

His fur is a lot better, silkier and fuller, since he was swapped off regular Whiskas to a grain-free sugar-free diet. I wish I have the willpower to follow a sugar-free diet too...

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My lifelong ambition is to be a crazy cat lady. The only obstacle is my OH.

Who will go and who gets to stay? Stay tuned...

Glad to hear Percy is doing so well on that combination! Have ordered the chicken varieties of each to get them started, then will bring in other flavours Do you buy one variety at a time and just change your order to something else when you run out? Or do you feed them a different variety every day?

Still glad I bought the Applaws dry - it's going in the treat balls I've ordered them. These kitties are going to bankrupt me ha ha

Will have to try and work up to getting them some occasional raw for their teeth - am vegan and handling meat gives me the wiggins Can just about handle wet canned food as I still don't have to touch it!

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Here's my shnizzle:

2 cats (6 months / 14 months)
Two wet meals (of 100g) a day. Dry food down at lunchtime and as I go to bed. Water constantly, refreshed daily.

Wet Food
Brand: Andy Carney
Price Per 400g: £1.08
Notes: They get 1/4 of a can in the morning and 1/4 in the evening. I buy the 12 x 400g from ZooPlus (one of each to cover all the flavours) and both fish flavours, rotated so they get a different one every day.
I do feed Asda's Tiger every so often though as complimentary food. For instance, if one cat has to be starved due to vet operations, then I don't want to open a new tin of Andy Carney so I feed a pouch instead.


Dry Food
Brand: Asda's Tiger
Price Per 100g: ~£0.10
Notes: I choose cheaper dry food as it's just a snacky food for them. However, I may try Applaws after seeing it on offer.
A 2Kg bag lasts about two months.


Litter
Brand: Oko Plus
Price: £25 / 40ltr
LTR Per Week: 2ish
Notes: Well, so far, a 40ltr bag has lasted since the 1st of October and there's still (at least) a month left!


Not included in analysis:
Raw Food: Asda's Smart Price chicken wings
When: One every week, or so
Price: £2/10 wings

Treats: Asda's Tiger sticks / Dreamies
When: Whenever I remember :P
Price: £0.85/8 sticks
Notes: I won't be buying any more dreamies. The sticks, yes.


TOTAL COST PER WEEK:
Wet Food: £7.56
Dry Food: £0.47
Litter: £1.25

TOTAL: £9.28

Not bad I guess.
Some of the mathematics may be wrong, it's too early in the morning!

Unfortunately, as Norway is not part of the EU, and has a bunch of odd rules on importing things (and charges stupid customs fees for anything over about £20) it's not possible. Next month I'm hoping to make a larger than normal Bozita order, so I may try them on the turkey pate (the wholesaler only sells the reindeer & turkey pate flavours) to see if that makes a difference (I figure with more flavours the pate meals will be more spread out).

In any event, I'm hoping this situation will only be for another year to a year and a bit, by which time, we (& the kitties) will have moved down under. Having had a bit of a read through the cat forums from oz, it seems that IAMs, Hills etc are what gets recommended as "good" food, so unless I find something else that's actually reasonable quality, I've already decided that once we move we'll be switching to an exclusive homemade raw diet. If I do find some reasonable quality wet food, I'll may combine that with the raw - but they will definitely be getting at least 50% raw after the move.

I would already be considering a raw diet except between the cost, and more importantly the availibility of meat & offel etc it's just not possible, so for now I'm happy to make do with the Bozita, while it's not as good as it could be, it's certainly better than the supermarket brands.

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Not sure I agree that the Bozita in jelly/gravy is really any better than the supermarket fare but in your rather restricted circumstances one has to do with what one has.

By all accounts, Australia is as food poor but at least access to raw - even to some prepared raw food - is quite good.

Have a happy new year!