Cheap catfood dilemma

~Chameleon~

Almost all the usual brands of cat food you'll find in the supermarket, i.e. whiskas, kite-kat, felix, supermarket own brands etc contain only 4% meat derivatives, including the so called "premium" ones, such as Sheba, Gourmet Gold, Tesco Premium etc. The exceptions to these are the likes of Hi-life, Sheba Prime Cuts and Tesco Finest Succulent range which do actually contain up to 60% real meat.

A very good quality and most importantly cheap canned food is the Classic Chunks in Jelly/Gravy range, which is actually made by Butcher's, the same people who make Butcher's Choice Dog food, which has an excellent reputation and is highly recommended by vets

It's currently £2.04 for a pack of 6 x 400g cans at Tesco so that's 34p per can or 8.5p per 100g. I don't buy canned meat so don't tend to take much notice of prices in general but from what people have mentioned here that seems quite cheap to me.

rita-rabbit

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~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Almost all the usual brands of cat food you'll find in the supermarket, i.e. whiskas, kite-kat, felix, supermarket own brands etc contain only 4% meat derivatives, including the so called "premium" ones, such as Sheba, Gourmet Gold, Tesco Premium etc. The exceptions to these are the likes of Hi-life, Sheba Prime Cuts and Tesco Finest Succulent range which do actually contain up to 60% real meat.

A very good quality and most importantly cheap canned food is the Classic Chunks in Jelly/Gravy range, which is actually made by Butcher's, the same people who make Butcher's Choice Dog food, which has an excellent reputation and is highly recommended by vets

It's currently £2.04 for a pack of 6 x 400g cans at Tesco so that's 34p per can or 8.5p per 100g. I don't buy canned meat so don't tend to take much notice of prices in general but from what people have mentioned here that seems quite cheap to me.

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On the odd ocassion I treat my 2 from a deviation from dry I give them this.

retrocircles

lowis wrote: »

i feed my cat Hills Science Diet dry food.
It costs around £13 a bag from an online store.
the bag has 2kg of food in it, his daily allowance is about 60gms - so that is one month's supply of food...for £13 and it is a really good quality food.

you might consider slowly switching your cat on to a quality dry food...it is definitely more economical in the long run...if you do, be aware that 60gms of food doesn't look much so don;t overfeed, it is the recommended daily allowance and definitely fills them up.

yes, and buy in bulk!

2-3kg of good quality dry food can cost around £15 a bag. we buy iams in 10kg bags for around £35, which reaps massive savings.

MrsE_2

squidge60 wrote: »

i cant believe the difference in my cat so i guess being converted i wanna convert and convince everyone else

Like you I'm a real fan & sing the praises of premium dried food, but loads of people still want to feed tinned

I think its smelly sloppy stuff that attracts flys in summer:eek:

I KNOW premium dried food is the best food you can put down for your cat.

UKTigerlily

MrsE wrote: »

Like you I'm a real fan & sing the praises of premium dried food, but loads of people still want to feed tinned

I think its smelly sloppy stuff that attracts flys in summer:eek:

I KNOW they are the best food you can put down for your cat.

Or need? lol no choice for me! Also it's worth mentioning tinned shouldn't be left out long enough to attract flies, mine eats it right off x However the dog is on dried yay

MrsE_2

UKTigerlily wrote: »

Or need? lol no choice for me! Also it's worth mentioning tinned shouldn't be left out long enough to attract flies, mine eats it right off x However the dog is on dried yay

I'm thinking of summer when they appear instantly:eek:

Why can't you feed yours dry?

Have they no teeth:p

Hawthorn

It's worth giving the Burns people a bell on their nutrition hotline. I did this after asking advice on here (plus getting a behavioural specialist in for my dog) and they sent samples and money off coupons, plus a lot of info.
It actually works out cheaper to feed my dog on Burns, than on what we were feeding her. My girl wouldn't touch dried food.....the burns? She adored it.
Now, I know we're talking about cats here (lol) but the behavioural specialist told me what gets put in many wet foods (ie animal derivatives). This is something she has researched in much depth as a 'pet project' (pardon the pun) and, it ain't pretty. One of the things was animal hair. Another was ground up hooves.
I would imagine it's the same for cat food as it is for dog.

SnowyOwl_2

Just a passing thought - to anyone who feeds their cat solely dry food then please please please ensure your cat is drinking lots of water AND doing regular poos. My cats were on Hill's however one of them developed megacolon - he was drinking loads but because I wasn't paying attention didn't know he hadn't been pooing. The poor wee boy nearly passed out on the litter tray one evening and this prompted a trip to the vet. An x-ray revealed a massively distended colon full of totally dry poo.

It cost me a lot of money and I mean A LOT to save his life. I've dumped the dry food, have switched to good quality moist food, and while my wee Dylan is always going to be on medication he is having a good life now.

The vets say that megacolon is can happen for no particular reason - but in my heart I believe it was the dry food diet Dylan was on that caused it. While my other two cats did incredibly well on it I truly believe in my heart that Dylan couldn't tolerate it and that eventually it started to kill him because it was too dry.

My message - as I say above, watch your cat's intake and his/her output, especially if you provide a dry food diet.

UKTigerlily

MrsE wrote: »

I'm thinking of summer when they appear instantly:eek:

Why can't you feed yours dry?

Have they no teeth:p

I feed my cat inside so no flies appearing! And no she gets Cystitis if fed dry, but if fed wet never does & the Vet said to keep her on the wet food & not take risks, so far 2 years with no attack yay

MrsE_2

UKTigerlily wrote: »

I feed my cat inside so no flies appearing! And no she gets Cystitis if fed dry, but if fed wet never does & the Vet said to keep her on the wet food & not take risks, so far 2 years with no attack yay

I just have this "thing" about uncovered food & flys:rolleyes:

Its part of my mini-ocd:rotfl: