Mixing cat food?

98jdougl

Hi,
I know that others have mentioned mixing dearer and cheaper dried food together and I was wondering if this is ok to do? Have some james wellbeloved and some burns just now.
Also, do you have to mix together same flavours or can you just whack it all in together?

downshifter

98jdougl wrote: »

Hi,
I know that others have mentioned mixing dearer and cheaper dried food together and I was wondering if this is ok to do? Have some james wellbeloved and some burns just now.
Also, do you have to mix together same flavours or can you just whack it all in together?

Bung it all in together, though if your cats are fussy they might complain but ignore that, they'll get used to it - but actually, unless you've already got some in, why buy an expensive one anyway? Cats can't read labels (it says on tv so must be right) and mine are in beautiful condition with cheapest catfood plus a few mice - yuk!

DS

rachiee

I would mix it, what harm can it do? We feed ours Asda's Tiger and Rufus £1.99 a bag and Farmways meat and they are in superb condition

lowis

i mix james wellbeloved and hills science diet together...have done so for about a year and nothing untoward has happened to my babies
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zzzLazyDaisy

I have been feeding my boy Royal Canin, but recently he has been turning his nose up at it (it was a big bag, so maybe it has gone stale?)

Anyway I got some James Wellbeloved on special offer, mixed the two together and he wolfed it down!

98jdougl

I buyer the more expensive stuff because of the ingredients in it rather than the really cheap stuff.

Have been mixing the first bags of wellbeloved and science plan that I had when it went in the bowl but was turkey and chicken so close enough.
Want to just buy a big plastic cereal storage and throw it all in
thanks for the help

He keeps managing to get into the basket where I keep the food and attacks the pouches!

downshifter

98jdougl wrote: »

I buyer the more expensive stuff because of the ingredients in it rather than the really cheap stuff.

Have been mixing the first bags of wellbeloved and science plan that I had when it went in the bowl but was turkey and chicken so close enough.
Want to just buy a big plastic cereal storage and throw it all in
thanks for the help

He keeps managing to get into the basket where I keep the food and attacks the pouches!

He sounds a right character, most cats are aren't they. My 2 are so different from each other.

As far as the ingredients in cat food are concerned, I've had cats for years and they all seem to live to a ripe old age and I've always fed them on cheap cat food (as well as the aforementioned mice, a few birds etc!!) Can't stand the fact that food producers use such cynical marketing tactics at pet owners - appealing to what the owners might want to eat rather than what might keep the pets healthy. Disgusting. Advertising makes me mad!!

DS

zzzLazyDaisy

98jdougl wrote: »

Want to just buy a big plastic cereal storage and throw it all in
thanks for the help!

Pet Planet have an offer of a free storage drum with James Wellbeloved, plus cashback through topcashback.co.uk if that is any good?

98jdougl

thats grand lazy daisy- have a load of food in at the mo- did a bulk order on pet supermarket so £30 poorer but have about 3 months worth of food now
they do the cereal containers in poundland so will probs just pick one up there.

98jdougl

downshifter wrote: »

He sounds a right character, most cats are aren't they. My 2 are so different from each other.

As far as the ingredients in cat food are concerned, I've had cats for years and they all seem to live to a ripe old age and I've always fed them on cheap cat food (as well as the aforementioned mice, a few birds etc!!) Can't stand the fact that food producers use such cynical marketing tactics at pet owners - appealing to what the owners might want to eat rather than what might keep the pets healthy. Disgusting. Advertising makes me mad!!

DS

I have never seen any advertising for the food I use. I had one cat who I fed on whiskas and she only lived to 12.
My older cat who stays with my mum is now 17, the only reason she has had to go to the vets in all the years is when she hurt her paw playing with the dog and she still acts like a kitten so that is all the 'marketing' I need and have gone on that as well as word of mouth.

but yeah he is a piece of work- currently using my legs to climb from the floor to the table!!!