Bulk buying cat food?

trying-my-hardest

Hi all,

I have 5 cats...they are my babies and i love them!lol..yes i am a crazy cat lady...
The problem i have is the expense of feeding them all. They range from 1 yr old to 19 and prefer fishy jelly rather than gravy.
My old boy who is 19 seems to be constantly hungry lately, even straight after eating, i'm not sure if this is because he is forgetting that he has eaten or something more worrying:(
I feel like i am constantly having to go to the shops just because i have run out of cat food and end up spending on things i don't really need..
So i really need to find the cheapest place to bulk buy tinned cat food, maybe online?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated:)

rita-rabbit

Raw is cheaper than tinned, as is dry.

Asda sells good quality tinned (feline Fayre & another one - name escapes me currently) & Butchers Choice (Sainsburys sells this I believe but not Tesco for some reason!) is better than most (Felix, whiskas et al). Pets @ home have started online sales.

Personally for wet food I prefer Bozita - I think it's vastly better (ingredients & price) than anything you can buy in the supermarket - the link for this is on another thread

Greatgimp

I bet you need a lot of cat litter too!

rita-rabbit

oh - I forgot to say with raw & dried less `waste' so less £s spent on litter - that's of course of your moglets use that (some lucky folk have gardens so don't need it!)

trying-my-hardest

Thanks RR I will have a look now!
and yes we get through lots and lots of cat litter! I just use the tesco value litter though, so nice and cheap!

Sillystudent

We also have 5 cats! We buy in bulk when the special offers are on in the supermarkets for wet food. Ours also prefer jelly to gravy. We also feed iams dry cat food and they have this ad-lib. Again we try to buy this when it's on special offer as it is quite expensive otherwise! As for litter, we have a large 1 acre garden but a couple of the cats prefer to use the litter. The cheap stuff is false economy because you end up changing it a few times a day whereas a slightly more expensive one absorbs the odour and doesn't need changing as often.

Greatgimp

trying-my-hardest wrote: »

Thanks RR I will have a look now!
and yes we get through lots and lots of cat litter! I just use the tesco value litter though, so nice and cheap!

Thanks for buying cat litter - I mean that. Only wish you were my neighbour and not the one I've got!

trying-my-hardest

My cats are free to wander...but they choose to come home and use the litter tray! i think they like the privacy!lol:rotfl:
I was thinking of trying a more expensive cat litter, my friend uses catsan and she says it lasts for ages, so i may give it a go. Which brand do you use Sillystudent?

rita-rabbit

Hi-life wet food

Lidle & Aldi Clay litter (under £2)

Petsathome are doing a v reasonable priced clay litter which I mix with Cats Best (not worlds best - the fat one of mine eats that!)

Rev

The majority of super market foods, whiskas, iams, felix etc are shockingly bad quality. Very little actual food in them, usually 4% actual meat content, and for an obligate carnivore like a cat, that's a bloomin joke.

Check out Bozita, super cheap considering it's about 90% meat content, no crap, no fillers etc. And super cheap considering you get a 370g carton for about 90p. It really is great food. (When reading the ingredients please don't confuse the 4% flavour of bozita for meat content, if it's, say, lamb flavour, 4% will be lamb, the rest of the 90% will be made up of chicken, so it is genuinely a super high meat content food)

Check out zooplus for bulk packs (64 cartons for £51, 54 cartons for £47, plus smaller packs)

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/canned_cat_food_pouches/bozita

paulwf

If you can get them onto dried food you can usually get bags upto 7kg online. With dried foods as the bag size increases you pay proportionately less, e.g. a 1.5kg bag might be £10 and a 3kg bag £15. With dried food it's a lot more concentrated form of food, you're not paying for lots of jelly which doesn't contain much.

Our bill for 4 cats was around £400 a year (so just over £1 a day), although our new cat seems to be singlehandedly going through that on his own

I use Viovet as delivery is free over £60, and they are a proper UK based company so any questions or delivery issues you can just pick up the phone. There are plenty of others of course so look around.

It would be worth asking the vet about your 19 year old, at that age they might need a build up food as they do seem to have trouble keeping the weight on, he probably can't eat enough of the tinned food to get enough nutrients from it.