8 Out Of 10 Cats prefer....

*onlyme*

Our 4 cats used to be fed on Whiskas dried food and sachets (won't eat anything that comes out a tin!)...then we received a load of Purina One samples and they LOVED it...

so much so they refuse whiskas now, dried or sachets....

and when they use their litter tray, it doesn't smell compared to when they were on Whiskas.

They aren't constantly begging for food either.

A 3kg bag (£10 a bag) lasts us about 10 days...that's to feed 4 cats which is 25p a day per cat....

Much healthier and better for them, they are much more settled, not constantly hungry and no god awful cat poo smell.

scrabbles_2

If you have a Costco nearby you can buy their complete cat biscuits for about £17 for 11kg. My cat loves it, but if yours doesn't, they have a no-quibble money back guarantee.

Alton_Towers

My 3 cats also love the Costco cat biscuits and a sack lasts months! Wet food they prefer Felix as good as it looks but will eventually eat other brands if they get hungry enough. I recently have gone back to tinned as its cheaper and Classic seemed to be acceptable. Then I tried Lidl and the tinned in jelly didn't go down to well but the gravy appears to be met with approval.

My cats are definitely a fussy bunch, one of them however prefers fresh kill. Nothing like coming down the stairs in the morning to a scene from CSI with mouse entrails....yew!

antoniarose_2

The only dry food my cat will eat is Iams, but she eats tonnes of that!

As for wet food, she'll eat it for a few weeks then get bored.
Tescos own she won't go near.
Whiskas Simply she'll eat half a pouch roughly each day.
Whiskas in gravy she'll eat a pouch of each day, but only once the dry food is gone.
Sheba she eats an entire pouch in the morning and one at night, and seems to love.

Finally found one she likes, and its the most expensive. Snobby persian.

poppy23

My 2 cats like a mixture of wet food, but they're not really fussy about what they have, as long as we mix it up every few weeks.
With dry food it's only the kitten who eats it, as the 15 year old has weak teeth now, but she seems to love wilkinsons own brand, though she is pretty much a dustbin. As long as it smells yummy she'll eat it

Edwardia

This thread goes to prove that cats are more discerning than dogs as my labrador will eat any dog food put in front of him. I buy him Winalot £3 for 6, Ocado or 2 for £1 in Poundland if they have the duck and rabbit he wags hardest for.

Cats sound expensive !

NoGoodNamesLeft

We give our cats a grain-free high protein dry food (Applaws is their favourite) and they always seem to enjoy it, even the really fussy one. It's more expensive, but we buy in bulk online and they only seem to eat tiny amounts before they are full. When we gave them the cheaper food they needed a lot more of it and they weren't in such good condition.

green_hat778

Reading all your posts has made me smile my moggy is trying very hard to get between me and the keyboard as I type!

We feed her a mixture of wet and dry. She seems to quite like the pets at home own brand crunchies that come in 4kg bags, on offer 2 for £10 pretty much all the time as far as i can tell, bought two bags a while back and they've lasted ages!

She's more fussy with her wet food though! Wont eat anything with fish and seems to like one brand for a while then suddenly go off it- (yay she's lost interest in the keybord and gone off to play with something shiny, she's heavy!) so we tend to buy a mixture of brands and put them all in a box in her food cupboard so its a lucky dip each day, she seems to like that!

I know who's boss in this house, and it isnt me!:o

KxMx

Lily is happy with whiskas pouches (the green box contains 4 flavours she will eat so I always buy that one) and sainsburys dry food.

Odd sahet of Gourmet or Felix agail as a treat.

She thrives on it, but the only problem with sainsburys dry food is it opens like a cereal nox, no pouring flap at the side, which I am still getting used to as i'm on my second box since they changed it.

Katzenjammer

Hi all.

I'd have commented here sooner but for two good reasons:

1. Dreamies are fairly new on the market, and

2. I only found this thread today

But okay, here's my contribution, for what it's worth.

My cat Queenie prefers dried food to the canned variety. Up until recently I'd buy it in bulk; a 2kg sack of Whiskas Adult Dry retails for as little as £4.

Then Mars Petcare alerted me to their Dreamies range. Most of you will be familiar with them; Mars have been running a prominent ad campaign featuring a moggie who'll burst through brick walls to get at her favourite treats.

So I took the plunge and bought several bags of Dreamies for Queenie. She liked them so much that soon she was turning her furry back on her ordinary dried food. I wouldn't mind too much except that Dreamies are rather expensive. A 60g packet costs £1.19 in Tesco.

When doing the weekly shop I decided to try an experiment. I bought a box of dried cat-food: 950g of Purina Go-Cat Complete for Indoor Cats. This retails in Tesco at £2.50.

Feeling very devious, I emptied a packet of Dreamies and replaced the contents with Go-Cat. Queenie ate it with gusto. Clearly she tasted little or no difference.

Odd, I thought, and made a quick investigation. Here's what I found when I compared the ingredients of Go-Cat and Dreamies.

Protein
Go-Cat: 33%
Dreamies: 34%

Fat content
Go-Cat: 10%
Dreamies: 20%

Inorganic matter
Go-Cat: 7.5%
Dreamies: 9.5%

Crude fibres
Go-Cat: 5%
Dreamies: 1%

Now, I'm no chemist and therefore have little understanding of the remainder of the ingredients. However, it's clear to me that Mars are charging a ridiculous amount for 34% of meat as opposed to Purina's 33%.

By my reckoning, a kilo of Go-Cat costs £2.64, whereas a kilo of Dreamies costs a staggering £19.80.

That means that Mars are charging the pet-owner seven-and-a-half times the price for 1% extra meat.

Time to buy shares in Mars?