High meat content cat food from supermarket

aless02

Hiya - I'm on a quest for AFFORDABLE higher meat content wet cat food that can easily be bought in a supermarket. Right now our kitty has decided she's going to turn her nose up at the standard 4% meat stuff and only eat things that have 14% or more - which at the moment comes in at Whiskas Oh So Fishy pouches at £7.80 for 24! Consider that she used to eat KiteKat at £2 for 6 400g cans, our wallets are really feeling the pinch.

Are there any other cans/pouches/trays that I can buy that are cheaper than this? I'm scared of buying something online and having her not like something I've spent £20 on...unless someone can specifically recommend something? We're at a loss here - I grew up with cats that would eat supermarket-brand dry food!

(wet food only, please - she's old & has teeth problems & cannot eat dry food)

rita-rabbit

You can moisten dry food with water - much more moneysaving than any wet food.

However if you must buy wet - the Hi-life sachets are v good.

Bunny

Not from a regular supermarket but the purely tinned cat food is good from pets at home.

UKTigerlily

Asda do a food now called Asda Tiger-Select which is a high meat content in most forms (A few are lower), you can read about it on their website if you go shopping on there (No need to buy, just go on as if to shop). I know you can buy it in pouches, 4 for £1 right now.
http://www.asda.com/asda_shop/sys/web_deep_link.jsp?link_type=product&aisle=Home+%26+Leisure&section=BBQ&shelf=BBQ+Accessories&product_id=2469716

SnowyOwl_2

I bought my kitties the Tiger food from Asda - it was £1 for four tins (small tins) and they lapped it up. It was 70% actual tuna which is fantastic compared to most of the other products on the shelf. I'm going to empty their shelf next time I'm in.

GonzoAston

Sainsbury's Perfectly Meat & Poultry Cat Food 6x85g

Price £1.90/unit

Rich in Chicken & Turkey: Meat And Animal Derivatives (Chicken min. 14%, Turkey min. 14%),

lostinrates

Tescos stock a more expensive wet food: I think its called nature's menu. Its much harder to find high meat content food in UK. . It might be worth checking some of the websites, particularly those that are EU based, the delivery used to be free over a certain order and it might work out cheaper than than buying good quality wet food in UK. Which is ridiculous!

Princess_kate

Dry food is very important for a cats teeth, maybe you could introduce it slowly, wetting it a bit to start with?
My boy has the Asda Tiger (he's called tigger) chicken & ham pouches & he loves it, I like i when you can see shreaded meat rather than brown lumps of god knows what! He doesnt like the tuna one though which they have started doing in big tins for around 50-60p....typical!

lostinrates

Princess_kate wrote: »

Dry food is very important for a cats teeth, maybe you could introduce it slowly, wetting it a bit to start with?
My boy has the Asda Tiger (he's called tigger) chicken & ham pouches & he loves it, I like i when you can see shreaded meat rather than brown lumps of god knows what! He doesnt like the tuna one though which they have started doing in big tins for around 50-60p....typical!

I am not saying you are wrong, but many people feel dry food is not brillinat for cats. Especially some people dealing with CRF in cats, diabetes, or grain allergies. Cats are obilgate carnivores and weren't really designed to eat dry food. Though there are excellent dry foods available we choose to wet feed and also used to feed balanced raw. Our cats have regular chicken wings, and my vet, though reluctant to endorse this at first admits my cats teeth are excellent. Raw feeding teh whole diet is a whole nother thing, and not for everyone at all, I've stopped ATM but will go back to it in the future, its not something I would recommend to the average family pet owner because of the time etc.

I'm not saying that dried food is wrong or bad, Im saying it isn't thje only, or even bnecessarily the best. I'm pro catfood choice.

chez22

I feed my mogs both wet and dry food, like the OP mine are mad on oh so fishy, when it's on offer I buy tons of it. They like felix as good as it looks and marinades as well. The only raw food they eat is mice!

I can see both sides of the wet vs dry food argument, one of my cats died from renal failure and for that reason I will always feed my mogs both wet and dry, but I have friends who only feed dry food and their mogs thrive on it. I also think dry food is better during the summer as it doesn't go off or attract flies. I am about to start fostering cats for the blue cross and they only feed hills dry food.

lostinrates

chez22 wrote: »

I feed my mogs both wet and dry food, like the OP mine are mad on oh so fishy, when it's on offer I buy tons of it. They like felix as good as it looks and marinades as well. The only raw food they eat is mice!

I can see both sides of the wet vs dry food argument, one of my cats died from renal failure and for that reason I will always feed my mogs both wet and dry, but I have friends who only feed dry food and their mogs thrive on it. I also think dry food is better during the summer as it doesn't go off or attract flies. I am about to start fostering cats for the blue cross and they only feed hills dry food.

Sure, as I said, I'm pro cat food coice, I just feel wary when people suggest cats 'need' dried food.

re leaving wet food down, we don't, but its only easy if you don't work. I give the cats meals morning (sometimes they want seconds about half hour later) and evening and late evening, which they finish and they ask me through the day if they are hungry. They also have access to outside where we live and hunt. Ilike the convenience of dired food, though, you are absolutely right about it being easier, especially in summer