[onca]

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 😐

 

[Willow+Jess]

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.

 

[Summercat]

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!

Have a look for pure meat foods - pure chicken - pure turkey etc.

Mjamjam do them but they are not the cheapest but Amazon UK sometimes has deals.

I think Catzfine Foods on Zooplus have a pure range - might be worth comparing prices.

Venandi also have a pure range. They are generally less expensive than Mjamjam. I have bought them from both Amazon and Petsvilla.
Again you can often find on offer.

 

[Willow+Jess]

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?

 

[onca]

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.

 

[Arny]

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.

 

[Willow+Jess]

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.

 

[Arny]

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.

 

[onca]

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!

 

[Arny]

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

 

[onca]

at this rate, I'm considering making my own

 

[Calvine]

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. 😿

 

[Willow+Jess]

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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[liannalondon]

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.

 

[jenzjewels60]

If you look now , it is £34.99 for 12 tins. The price is increasing every 2 weeks. I have written to them. I have been using this food for 10 years but the recent increases are alarming.

 

[Willow+Jess]

Let us know what they reply. It’s bizarre how much the prices have been fluctuating. They had gone back to £28-29 after the discount code finished but sounds like they’ve put them back up. We won’t be buying it any more if prices don’t come back down again.

 

[onca]

The prices are down now to £23.99 for most varieties. That's still significantly more than the old prices. We're still looking at £5/kg when it was £3.something/kg before. Let's hope the prices continue to decrease.

 

[pipski]

Zooplus was bought up by private equity a few years ago, so increase in prices are very likely due to that. Much like private equity buying up vet businesses and then massively increasing fees.
Got to pay their shareholders.
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Zooplus backs improved 3.7 billion euros bid from private equity duo:
https://www.reuters.com/article/bus...plus-backs-improved-37-billion-euros-bid-from-private-equity-duo-idUSKBN2HF0B2/ October 25, 2021

There’s thread on private equity / vet businesses on the forum: https://www.petforums.co.uk/threads...ity-vets.535782/?post_id=1065734167&nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#post-1065734167