Anyone feed Aldi or Lidl cat food?

Air_Cooled_75

Babbawah, I got my first cat in 1996 as a 2 year old rescue from the RSPCA. She lived to be 17. The majority of her life she had Go Cat and Whiskas. Was never ill in her lifetime with me. We got an RSPCA kitten in 1997, he was also 17 when he passed. Don't be such a snob.

so_very_confused

My very fussy cat loves Aldis food. He also has dried complete and any fresh meat/ fish we are eating. He is 21 and given his medical conditions does require a lot of liquid in his diet. Frankly as someone on a limited income I am grateful that he eats Aldis as he nibbles then leaves his food the cost of this when he was on Whiskas was prohibitive.
His medication/ vet care comes in at least £80 per month and at times a geat deal more. The vet has said he is brilliant for his age so we do not worry.

Shoshannah

Is this for renal disease? There's a growing school of thought that low protein is not the best thing for cats with CKD now.

Personally I like to feed a diet with a high level of good quality protein for cats with CKD. This is especially important for older cats, who have much higher protein requirements than younger cats to start with.

You don't want to create a protein deficiency.

Being obligate carnivores, cats need a high protein content in their diet and you should aim to achieve this whenever possible.

Filey

Babbawah wrote: »

What do cats eat BTW.

Is there a cat owner left who truly knows?

What did they eat before all these tins of !!!!! started appearing on supermarket shelves?

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I am Very Old ! When I were a lass (during The War) I remember my mother used to buy fish heads from (surprise surprise) the fishmonger. She used to boil them up until they were cooked and then used to filter them by hand to remove the major bones and what was left was what the cats were fed. With of course other household leftovers. Boiled fish heads smell Awful!! but you have to leave the back door open to get rid of the smell.

I now have three cats. One prefers biscuits but will eat other stuff now and then. One is Very Old (like me) and has to be 'encouraged ' to eat and gets chicken thigh meat, raw and cooked, sardines but they have to be in tomato sauce not oil, cheese in small quantities, raw mince, and so on and so forth. The third cat isn't too fussy, thank goodness.

But let's face it, if they were hungry they would eat almost anything. If it's a question of keeping body and soul together they are not going to starve because they prefer this or that. It is us, spoiling our cats/children/whatever by pandering to their whims and fancies.

I get those Aldi little square tins because they are easy and convenient and good value. The actual amount of this or that amino acid isn't going to mean life or death. And the occasional tin of sardines or a bit of raw liver, or chicken. And they seem happy and healthy and I love them to bits. And, though I don't want to brag, they seem to love me to bits as well.

Which is what it's all about, really. And Oldest Kitty is about 20 years old, so i must be doing something right.

meritaten

I assumed that the OP was looking for a low protein cat food for a specific reason. Such as the cat was prescribed it by vet and OP cant afford the expensive packs from the vets.

be interesting if the OP says WHY they want to source a low protein food.

kerri_gt

November_2012 wrote: »

Good to hear it's palatable although luckily my cat isn't fussy, unless you offer him a fresh prawn in which case he looks horrified and dashes off! He's rather fond of tinsel though, having supplemented his dinner tonight with a few morsels :eek:

Mine hates prawns too, will sniff at them then walk off, same with crayfish. Is rather fond of crane flies and spiders though.

miss_kc wrote: »

Well i think my cat watches tv and is very high maintenance he was a stray when I got him he was grateful to fed then gradually he moved up the expensive ranks of cat food. Now if I am am lucky he will eat gourmet or just starve if i buy wiskers, felix or god forbid supermarkets brand. I swear when a new improved food is shown on TV he doesn't eat until I buy it. I truly believe i have found the master race

Ours was a stray too, one minute shes grubbing in the gutter, the next she's turning her nose up at whatever she was happily eating last week and have bulk bought. Oddly she likes the lidl basic pouches, the ones in gravy not jelly. Tried her on the more expensive ones there and she wouldn't eat those, and seems to also dislike whiskas after eating it for years.

Incidentally our prev mog got standard supermarket fayre, lived to 19. He did get diagnosed with CRF, tried him on quite a few of the special diet foods as he didn't like most (though our current cat kept trying to eat it). In the end it was a tumour that got him and he spent the last six weeks of his life merrily eating sliced chicken / ham, white fish and whatever else he wanted (vet agreed it really wasn't going to make any differnce to the inevitable)

Sorry OP, didn't mean to hijack your thread.