Dry cat food - 4 cats

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

We have one tiger, Monty, who eats us out of house and home. He has cheese, whole, full mature. Whiskas, go cat, anything left on a plate, chicken, broccoli. He even licks marmite soaked plates after crumpet.

He is free to a good home, pm and collect.

valk_scot

Currently I've got two adult cats (both around 6 Kg)and an adolescent kitten that eats more than either of the two big ones, despite him being a looooong and skinny object. One of the big ones eats only dry cat food, the other eats a mix of wet and dry and Mad Kitten only eats wet.

I've started buying the big cans of Whiskas, the % ingredients on the back of the tin look identical to the standard sachet Whiskas and a 50p tin holds about four sachets so less than half the price of sachets. Currently Tesco is selling 2 x 6 tins of this for £6 so it's not much more than the supermarket brands. So the wet food eaters get a tin of this between them. For dried Fussy Cat will only eat Purina One, it's normally £10 for 3kg of this. Mixed Food Cat likes it too so that's what I buy. A bag lasts about a month I think.

So for the three of them it's (30 x 50p) £15 for wet food and £10 for dried per month. £25 in total. Is that expensive for three cats?

Incidentally 27kg /4 = four very big cats of almost 7kg each. Given that I get ticked off by the vet when either of my adult ones go over 5kg...and they are both big boned males....are you sure your cats are not (ahem) a bit too fat? Maybe one way of saving money on food would be tighter portion control? There will be a feeding guide on the back of every box or tin of cat food giving the recommended portion size per kg. I weighed out the recommended amount of dry, found a scoop that held this exactly (was a Rosemary Conley Portion Pot, lol, best use I've found yet for it!) and don't go over that amount even when the bowl is emptied. Feeding on demand and by eye usually means feeding them more than they actually need.

rising_from_the_ashes

Griizelda wrote: »

I (usually) feed my cats Feline Fayre Simply Complete Menu (hope this link works) http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/brands/feline_fayre_in_asda.html

It's on offer in Asda at £2.00 for a 950g bag at the moment. Not as good as the Porta, but looks reasonably ok and a lot cheaper.

*sigh* can we swap cats?

Got some of that to try the other week when I saw the offer and neither of the [STRIKE]sods [/STRIKE]darlings would eat it..... are mine particularly fussy?:mad:

tiny_atoms

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »

I would never recommend feeding cats dry food. If your strapped for cash, Butcher's Classic wet cat food range is great value & is a good supermarket food.

My friends cats were fed on dry food for a couple of weeks and developed cystitis if they don't get enough wet food they can get really sick and its really painful as they can't wee!

gettingready

valk_scot wrote: »

Incidentally 27kg /4 = four very big cats of almost 7kg each.

are you sure your cats are not (ahem) a bit too fat?

Teddy alone is 9kg, Fred is 7.5kg , George is 7kg, Macius is 3.5kg

They are not fat, they are honestly just very big....

I remember when I took Teddy to the vets, vet picked up the basket with Teddy inside and started lecturing me on letting cats get too fat.... I said nothing... We opened the basket, Teddy started coming out slowly... took him a while..... Vet's eyes popped out and he said - Jesussssssssssssssss, what is THAT? Is THAT gonna eat me or what?

Teddy calm as anything took injections, tablets, went back into the basket....after being checked over and the vet saying he is not overweight but he never seen a cat THAT big LOL

rita-rabbit

Burns - dried - chicken or fish - excellent quality, no additives. I buy mine from Animed - they don't charge for delivery either & are quite prompt. Many moons ago I used 2 feed Go-cat. Burns however - like all quality food - means less `whiffs' & less stuff in the litter department too. It's a bit bland so I recommend starting them with mixing it with whatever you are feeding them currently so they get used to it. Cured one of mines `dander/dandruff' too.

http://www.animeddirect.co.uk/

http://burnspet.co.uk/products/burns-natural-cat-food-products-for-adult-cats-and-kittens.html

gettingready

Used to buy Burns but 1) none of my 4 wanted to eat it 2) works too expensive with 4 anyway...

rising_from_the_ashes

rita-rabbit wrote: »

Burns - dried - chicken or fish - excellent quality, no additives.

Burns very kindly sent me some samples a couple of months ago:T

*sigh* - they didn't touch that either!:mad:

Honestly, what is wrong with my 2 ..... is there something in the RC that isn't in other brands? (or something not in it as the case may be)

Fire_Fox

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Burns very kindly sent me some samples a couple of months ago:T

*sigh* - they didn't touch that either!:mad:

Honestly, what is wrong with my 2 ..... is there something in the RC that isn't in other brands? (or something not in it as the case may be)

Yes loads of things ... likely sprayed with meat digest as per the meat-flavoured corn flakes brands. Noah didn't like Burns and he was the grub king, not really that high meat content either.

missmontana

My lot ( I am now up to 6 + 2 rescues at this moment in time... ) have a mainly dry diet, I tend to chop and change as to what's on offer.
Zooplus , as you know, is good as they do trial packs, special offers etc. Make sure you are signed up for the newsletter.

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/specials/cats/trial_specials#topa

They've tried most things form there, Smilla is quite a good mid-range food, you can buy a trial pack of 3 different flavours.

http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/cats/dry_cat_food/smilla/221667

Also tried the Porta Finest which they all seemed to like aswell!

I will do a thread and update you all on the gang as I've not been on here for ages!