My two weren't real keen on the reindeer pate when I tried it but have loved pretty much every flavour in sauce/jelly they've had. I have just worked it out, so far they have tried 11 of the 17 flavours of Bozita available from where my local petshop orders them for me. It's only the pate one they weren't keen on, (though they would eat a little reluctantly), and adding water to try to make a sauce for it resulted in them flat out refusing to eat it at all.

That being said, I'm going to try them on the reindeer pate again next month, along with the turkey, however I'll also be getting some reindeer in sauce and some chicken & turkey in sauce to mix with the pate in the event they still won't eat it on its own.

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Luckily mine seem to like the pate ones the best - I just wish Bozita made more pate flavours. I must be going crackers 'cos I'm sure I once fed them a fish pate (plaice I think) but now can't find any fish pates listed on Mutley & Mog or Zooplus

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The bolded is the main consideration because the proportion and quality of the meat has knock-on effects in terms of nutrition, energy etc. As less meat is used in cubed food as they contain a whack of jelly/gravy, this drives up the moisture content of the food. While moisture is a good thing, you can have too much of a good thing in canned food as this in turn is having a knock-on effect on nutrient levels (protein, fat etc). So, quite a lot of the money that you pay for that food goes towards paying for the unnecessary jelly/gravy filler (jelly/gravy tends to be around 50% of these foods).


I need to pop out now but if no one has illustrated the difference by the time I come back I will give you a couple of examples.


And yes, then there are the manufacturing considerations. In order for food to be cubed and most importantly remain cubed, it gets compacted and additives (e.g. binders) are added so that they hold the shape and do not disintegrate in the jelly/gravy. However, even with pate food you need to add additives so that it doesn't just turn into hard lump of something in the tin.