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Old 03-06-2009, 09:41 AM
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Re: Good quality wet cat food!

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Forthglade does look good - i would much rather go natural. I have had poor experiences with our vets - one said that Syd could never come off RC Urinary S/O - and the one i saw yesterday is just completing her qualifications in this condition - yet she said she hated these natural brands and would just give him Whiskas! warning bells rang but as Syd hadnt eaten for 3 days, i just wanted to give him something i knew he would eat - i went through all the brands at the supermarket but the oh so meaty looked the best of a bad bunch

I don't want to do my cat food shopping through a supermarket so i am currently looking at Zooplus and the like - but i think i am over-researching as my head is fit to explode
exactly! sometimes we go into things too much!

Whiskas is a great food for persuading a cat to eat, and i always keep some in for that reason. Not every cat likes forthglade, its more of a pate than chunks so it wont suit everyone. If you want to try a pack i could post you one. I buy mine from berriewood wholesale, along with my litter, dog food, and dry cat food . I find forthglade great for cats recouperating too, as it can be liquidised easily and syringe fed.

Ive used zooplus before too as they also do some of the harder to obtain wet cat foods.
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Re: Good quality wet cat food!

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exactly! sometimes we go into things too much!

Whiskas is a great food for persuading a cat to eat, and i always keep some in for that reason. Not every cat likes forthglade, its more of a pate than chunks so it wont suit everyone. If you want to try a pack i could post you one. I buy mine from berriewood wholesale, along with my litter, dog food, and dry cat food . I find forthglade great for cats recouperating too, as it can be liquidised easily and syringe fed.

Ive used zooplus before too as they also do some of the harder to obtain wet cat foods.
thanks for this - although Syd doesn't tend to like pastes so i may look for chunks in jelly (fussy so-and-so!). I am quite put out by the vet snubbing natural food - as long as there is no high carbs in there or unnecessary products, they should eat natural foods.
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Old 03-06-2009, 11:53 AM
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Re: Good quality wet cat food!

To be honest the supermarket is the best place to start. All supermarkets now stock high meat content foods. If you have fussy cats it is pointless ordering a large amount from zooplus and having a cupboard full of things that the cats didn't like.
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highlife (Asda, Pets at Home, some Tescos and Sainsbury's)
encore (Sainsbury's made by the same people as Applaws)
forthglade (Pets at Home and on-line)
natures menu (Pets at Home and on-line)
almo nature (on-line)
natures harvest (Pets at Home and on-line)
Asda Select - The black label small tins are the best.
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Re: Good quality wet cat food!

All my 7 have Nature's menu pouches and Arden Grange biscuits mixed expensive i know but they are all worth it i also convinced a lady in pet@home to change to naturals when she heard whiskers is 4% meat and Naturals is 71%
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My OH says the natures menu are tasty!
Just seen this - did he actually eat it then??? Was his dinner late getting to the table
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Re: Good quality wet cat food!

I'm encountering the same problem; my cat has just been diagnosed diabetic and I want to get her away from regular wet/dry food onto a totally wet diet with very high meat content. She has to have the pate/mousse kind as she struggles with chunks (although she likes them). I was leaning more towards Nature's Menu or Nature's Harvest until I saw the good deal on the Asda food, but I'd read that meats like chicken, turkey and rabbit were better for cats in general than fish (or beef/lamb)... I suppose if she mostly had one of the Nature diets as her main meal and then the Asda tuna food every now and then it would make the more expensive stuff go further!
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Old 12-06-2009, 12:44 AM
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Re: Good quality wet cat food!

forthglade (although not as high a meat content as some - but still 100's of times better than whiskers etc) is a pate and may be worth considering.
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Hi, i no pouches isn't what you want.... but i know that hi life do do kitten food in the pouches as thats what i buy for my 2, im not sure if they do it in the tins. My 2 love it tho, i use pouches coz my 2 dont eat food al through the day(wet food anyway). They just refuse to!!! They always have dry food down and they like science plan or JWB xx
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Hi,try mixing the dry and wet food together,my cat Flo was the same as a kitten,now she very rarely eats wet food but I wish she would,I know there is very little meat in it but cats drink very little and it helps with the urinary track later in life
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Just seen this - did he actually eat it then??? Was his dinner late getting to the table
Yea he tried it He also tried the high life tuna when I started buying that, I won't let him eat fish in the house because i'm scared of them so he decided to steal it from the cat! He said he was trying it to make sure it's ok for for our little man
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