That's a big hike: Lidl do this. Not sure how the price will compare per kg; there are only eight sachets X 85g. Two of mine like it, two don't. Various flavours. It wouldn't cost the earth to try a couple

 

Hi,
You could try Meowing Heads. It is pate style in packets. It is a wetter pate than Animonda if that makes sense.
Waitrose sells it.

If open to Amazon, Venandi cat food in pate style in tins would be similar to Animonda. Some varieties of Venandi have veg, berries etc but many are pure meat.
Same with Mjamjam.

Mjamjam and Venandi can be found on Amazon as well as Pets villa an online retailer.

I often found good deals on Amazon and Pets villa.
The prices vary though so keep an eye out for discounts.

Both Mjamjam and Venandi are German I believe.

 

I just found this when having a look on Amazon for Venandi for you:

Amazon.co.uk

 

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Ouch. 12x 800g tins now £40.50- 42.50 😳😳😳

I did get in just into time then with my big bulk order last week. At £30.49, and even then i did think that extortion compared to last time.

Mine do to of taken to Catz finefood like ducks to water when i did buy some to trial 6 months ago.
They did to not get it this time as about 50 or 60 quid last week for the same amount as carny, and Macs does to of gone up too.
No idea why, but at this rate a day trip to germany with a van may to be into order just like the booze cruises of yesteryear.

I guess i will to be bulking these supplies out for a bit to make them last with other foods.

To be keeping a keen interest onto this thread.
2 of mine do to have quite violent gut reactions to any coshida stuff unfortunately.

Yeah it’s gone up massively! I wanted to check if we also needed dry food before placing the order and when I went to order this morning the prices had gone up, some flavours were already more expensive over the last few days but many were still cheaper until yesterday. I was planning to order 48 tins which is about 2 months worth. I really don’t want to be paying that much more but I’m unsure whether there are any options that are actually cheaper and easily accessible for us - that our cats will also eat.

 

Thank you both!

I had a look at Lidl and unfortunately ours doesn’t stock the Coshida Pure Taste cat food, only the cheaper ones that have grains/sugar. I did find some at Aldi but it’s 49p per 85g tin which isn’t actually cheaper than Animonda Carny even at the new price as we would likely need 4 tins a day between our two cats (they have 65g of Animonda Carny 2x per day, so one tin lasts 3 meals / 1.5 days). I bought 4 tins to try but it’s unlikely we’ll switch to it due to cost.

I will have a look at the options on Amazon. Unfortunately Waitrose is too far away for us to be a realistic option. Amazon do have Animonda Carny but it isn’t any cheaper, the tins you linked are the smaller 200g tins. We buy 400g tins which used to be £18-ish for 12 tins and we often got them on offer or at least 10% off. Now £25 for 12 tins. I suppose we could consider ordering 800g tins which are a bit cheaper than the 400g tins but still more than we paid so far per 100g and it would mean one tin would last 3 days - I’d prefer the smaller tins. I think the 800g tins about £20 for 6 tins.

 

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Smilla?
I did just put an order in yesterday. So glad I did!
Plus get 15% off with my continuous discount and then order when they do 10% vouchers.

 

What continuous discount is that? For a subscription? I have the 3% savings plan and usually combine with a 10% off coupon (which I was planning to use, it expires today).

Does anyone know this Amazon brand food:

Amazon.co.uk

It’s quire cheap and grain/sugar free but chunks in jelly
There is also a pate which used to be called Lifelong, but it’s a bit more expensive:

https://amzn.eu/d/2hux3LN

I’m wondering if they’re worth trying.

I did wonder about Smilla but I would only want to order a small amount to try and not keen to pay for postage.

 

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Sorry should have worded that better.
My savings plan is 5% and then I order when I get a 10% voucher.

I think if they eat Carny they should take to smilla but who knows with cats.
Well cats that aren’t mine, mine eat most stuff.

 

Thanks for your kind offer!
I did actually have a refund from Zooplus at the start of last year, when I’d ordered a big bag of dry food and a few days later the vet recommended switching them to a different one. They refunded me and suggested donating the bag to a cat rescue which I did.
I have now ordered 12 tins of Animonda Carny and 12 tins of Smilla so we have some more of the food they like and hopefully they will take to the Smilla food.
Hopefully the price for Animonda Carny will come down again.
Thank you all!

 

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Thanks, my order arrived today. Will try them with the new food once our current tin is used up.

i just had another look at Zooplus and the price has gone up even more for Animonda Carny. Most flavours are now £30 for 12 tins of 400g. What on earth is going on?

 

Hi I have just found this thread because I am also perplexed by the overnight price jumps! One of my cats has a beef allergy and Animonda was one of the few good quality, better priced beef free foods that they'd eat. I'm on the hunt for an alternative now oof!

 

Oh that makes it so much trickier for you! If it helps, I tried my cats with Smilla this afternoon and they ate it. It looks quite similar to Animonda Carny in texture etc. and similar price to what AC cost before the increase. Just double check it’s beef free as my cats are fine with eating beef.

 

I'm having a look now at Smilla and the ones without beef as a flavour have "Meat and meat by-products (20% poultry, 20% duck)" so it's 40% meat in total? No beef I think which is good news so I might pick some up and transition them while I have some carny left.
I hope this isn't the new, permanent price of carny 😐

 

I hate to be pessimistic, but unfortunately, when things go up in price, in my experience they seldom ever come down again. 😿

 

I am not sure how it works with the labelling. It could also be that more of it is meat but not guaranteed to be a certain type of meat (they might use whatever is available) - which would make me wonder if it could maybe contain beef even if it doesn’t say so? Maybe someone else knows more about this. It doesn’t actually contain much apart from meat so the meat content must be higher than 40% I think.

Yeah, I also hope it’s a temporary issue, maybe a supply issue? Anyway, I hope the price will come down again.

 

Another update, most flavours now increased to £33.89. Do people really still buy them at this price? How can they justify these constant increases every few days?

 

Yeah I saw! I emailed them to ask them if it was permanent increase and they said they didn't know so we'll have to wait and see. I won't be able to continue feeding my cats Animonda at this price. Feringa looks like a reasonable alternative.

 

Did they give an explanation as to why?

They’ve just sent an email with some foods, including Carny, at 15% off through the app.

 

I saw the discount but it isn’t a genuine discount if it only reduces the price to what it was a few days ago. We won’t be buying it any more at this price.
I had emaiked them as well and got a bog standard copy and paste email. “We ask for your understanding that we always strive to offer the most competitive prices in the market. However, we cannot always avoid an increase to some of the prices of our products.”

An increase of over 80% in less than two weeks is just completely ridiculous. Meanwhile in Germany they charge about £14 for the same product.

 

I got the same reply. If it's still around £14 in Germany, hopefully it's just a supply shortage for now. Fingers crossed!

 

Yes I agree re the discount not being genuine.
Just pointing it out in case it was the only food someone’s cat would eat it, better than nothing.

 

It’s something when catz fine food and macs don’t look like the expensive options.

 

at this rate, I'm considering making my own

 

The litter we use did at one point go from £25 to £30 to £31.50 to £40 (but not suddenly from what I remember, between 2021 and 2023). It then decreased again and the last time we ordered it at the end of last year it was £26, currently £28.80. (Cat’s Best cat litter also from Zooplus.) So I have definitely seen some big increases and that have come back down again nearly to what it was a few years earlier. Hopefully it will be the same for Animonda Carny. Just so strange that it increased by so much in such a short period of time.

 

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I had this on repeat order. It went up from £88 to £135, I've contacted them for a free return. It's so frustrating. Smila, Bozita and Wild Freedom are good alternatives, I always feed them an ultra low carb food, but they prefer the Carny. Another option is the Webbox naturals from Amazon.