Hi all,

I have two Bengal cats, one 9 months old and the other 4 months, so one is firmly a kitten, the other a junior. I have been feeding them IAMS kitten pouches, and the older one will just not eat dry food. The issue is that being so young, they get through the pouches at an unbelievable rate!!! This is not surprising given that there is so much packaging and not much food. This was not a big issue with one cat, but with two, it now is.

My question is then are there good quality wet alternatives to pouches? Are there any good quality tinned foods?

I feel that pouches are really not very practical when yiou have two hungry mouths to feed!

Thanks for any help and advice!

James

I've recently switched to using high life tins, my bubba has a tuna tin in the morning and then pate for dinner, he loves it I also tried the purina (sp?) ones which have chunks of fish in them, he didn't like these so much which i'm glad about because i'm petrified of fish and it took everything in me to get it from the tin to his bowl xD

All the high life food i've found has 50-70% meat in it and i've seen other people reccomend it I'm not sure if they do a kitten version, maybe someone else will know??

Hope this helps x

highlife
encore
forthglade
natures menu
almo nature
natures harvest

and my newest find...
asda select is now 60% meat/fish and currently 4 for £1 - bargain!

Just bought 54 sachets today lol. They are mainly on a mix of Raw and forthglade, but they love fish. The pilchard asda one is full of fish chunks

i might have to have a wander into asda and sample these lol

not personally i'll bring them home for ollie and millie lol

My OH says the natures menu are tasty!

Tesco do Just Nature, 60% meat, no wheat, preservatives, etc. It's in a tray. Was 52p, now just 22p.

Is available in Turkey and other flavour is Lamb

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/tesco...Rice_100g.html

I am really confused with the whole good quality thing. We have finally been able to put our Syd onto 'normal' food rather than prescription RC Urinary as he just wouldnt eat it and lost lots of weight. i took along this list of foods to the vets yesterday and she said she wouldnt recommend any of these - just to give him straight forward Whiskas! she said she trusted Whiskas, Iams and Hills more than any others as they come from large companies who do tests and studies.

Yet reading other threads, a lot of people say to stay away from these as they use bulking agents etc in

I don't want him to have a relapse - we did give him Whiskas pouch Oh So Meaty last night with a bit of his prescription food and we are putting lots of water in there

But what do people think of Whiskas?

Very confused!!

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Personally i hate whiskas and the similar brands as a rule.

Whiskas has around 5% meat content. Cats by nature are total carnivores. They do not need cereals or any other bulking agents, they just need meat. The meat should contain bone, organ muscle (heart lung etc), small amount of other organ meat (kidney etc) and plenty of normal meat. A raw diet is the most natural thing for a cat, however i appreciate that its not as convenient for people, so the next best thing is the higher quality foods. These foods will contain as much meat as possible, which is why i wont buy anything that contains less than around 40% real meat.

Whiskas (and the other similar brands) is full of fillers and ingredients that the cats dont need and cant fully digest. However they are good at tempting a cat into eating, and i have used them for this reason. I have also used the jelly from a tin of whiskers to rub onto a weak cats gums to help perk them up - works a treat.

I also find that with certain foods whiskas can be expensive in comparison. I use alot of forthglade, which works out at £0.19p per 100g compared to whikas at £0.41p per 100g


I am going to say here though.. many many many cats must live happy healthy lives on whiskers, it would go out of business if they didnt, i just dont feel its the best for my cats. Sometimes we look too much into things, if your cat is happy and healthy on whiskers and it suits your pocket then why change?

The oh so meaty range is slightly higher in meat content... they contain around 14% fish and animal derivatives. I hate that term and prefer to know what is going in to my pets food, rather than some mechanically reclaimed crap that they have put in.

I took my advice from a vet specialist in nutrition.

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

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