cat food!

morg_monster

Do you mean the purely chicken pouches? I have found a few that have the same type of consistency. Our cats go through phases with them.
Hi life - either the normal pouches or essentials. These can be really cheap in wilko's and come individually so you can try them out easily.
There's a tesco brand one too which looks the same, it's either Luxury or Premium cuts. Luxury looks like it only comes in fish, so think it may be the Premium cuts sachets (I'm looking on mysupermarket at the mo)
I'm sure there's another one we've used which has the same look but I don't remember at the moment.

Probably not the end of the world to ditch the applaws, it's so expensive and also isn't a complete food (but that doesn't matter for you as they are getting other things too).
If you do go to wilko's see if they have the small tins of hilife premium pate, my cats LOVE that as a treat!

juliebunny

dizziblonde wrote: »

My indoor only mog (not at all overweight, in fact she's always had the tendency to be on the skinnier side of the normal bracket) goes between James Wellbeloved when I manage to get to somewhere to buy it, or Purina One which she ate fine for years... she lost a bit more weight than I liked recently so she's getting that topped up with just standard supermarket pouches, and of course when I bought more of them on special... she went back to the Purina more!

I can't give her Kitekat or Go Cat or anything dried like that level of food because she just throws it up again and cat sick barefoot when you go to the loo at night isn't a fun thing to stand in.

LOL that is soooooo true about the cat sick!

My cats also throw up on Go Cat - they are just about ok on kitekat and oddly they love Tescos (although it looks disgusting, you can almost see the offal in in!) - they rarely get this because as a veggie I find it too grose. I would love to know the difference between what goes in all these foods!

tinksy

morg_monster wrote: »

Do you mean the purely chicken pouches? I have found a few that have the same type of consistency. Our cats go through phases with them.
Hi life - either the normal pouches or essentials. These can be really cheap in wilko's and come individually so you can try them out easily.
There's a tesco brand one too which looks the same, it's either Luxury or Premium cuts. Luxury looks like it only comes in fish, so think it may be the Premium cuts sachets (I'm looking on mysupermarket at the mo)
I'm sure there's another one we've used which has the same look but I don't remember at the moment.

Probably not the end of the world to ditch the applaws, it's so expensive and also isn't a complete food (but that doesn't matter for you as they are getting other things too).
If you do go to wilko's see if they have the small tins of hilife premium pate, my cats LOVE that as a treat!

yes the chicken pouches, the 50% meat ones they adore. Will have a look for high life, they have had tesco's and they are not fans, I could just stick them on the PAH purely but I wouldn't want to eat the same all the time so why would they!

jessicamb

mine loves applaws dry but if I give her an applaws pouch for a treat then she cries for biscuits too. Maybe they arent very filling.

Rev

Applaws wet is only a complimentary food. But since you feed the purely dry too, it's not an issue.

Mine are hugely fussy too. If you have an asda near by, try their top life chicken dinner, it's bozita under a different name, and 93% meat. I also feed hilife pouches, which are 19p in home bargains, and are 60% chicken.

Mine decided to stop eating their wet food after a while, and taking a tip from petforum I stopped feeding wet altogether for a few weeks. Let them yowl and meow and just left down the dry.

Then after a few weeks put down the wet I'd decided on (the hilife), and they were so happy to be having wet food they ate it.

They've decided a few times since then to not eat, so I just don't put out wet food for a day or two and they're back to happily eating it when I put it down. Saved a fortune on buying food they just decided not to eat.

Also as a rule of thumb, if it's advertised on the TV, whiskas, gocat, felix etc, don't but it. It's 4% meat and 96% filler.

Pixiechic

Hi,

I have one indoor cat and he is very fussy, thats because I have pandered to his fussiness though . We have, eventually found some favorites that he loves. These are the new applaws pouches of chicken, he won't touch fish. He also loves the Gourmet Solitaire duck in garden veg, beef and tomatoe and the rabbit one. He always has dry food out which is either turkey and rice or duck which is by James Wellbeloved. He has a lovely coat and his weight is perfect as told by the vet. His teeth are good which is fab as I also use logic gel on them. Trying to avoid the later in life teeth issues.
Hi-life is great but mine won't go any further than a sniff. Natures Menu is good too but again, mine won't touch it.
My boyfriend jokes that our beautiful cat eats better than we do :rotfl:.

vl2588

Pixiechic wrote: »

My boyfriend jokes that our beautiful cat eats better than we do :rotfl:.

Could be worse...my mum feeds her guinea pigs prime organic veg :cool: