Alternative to Hi Life cat food

Fen1

My fussy cat really loved the old Hi Life fish ( the gloopy one with squid.) The new formulation is OK, but not a patch on the old one.
Does anyone know of a substitute? I can't seem to find a gloopy fish flavour. He likes Thrive and Applaws which are fish flakes. He's not keen on very solid or mousse.
He doesn't eat raw; I've tried.
I would prefer the formulation to be grain free as my other cat has to be grain free ( the supermarket usual suspects are therefore out.)

littleredhen

My cat gets fussy on dry food so I change it every now and again, when I used to feed my previous cats on wet food we tried everything, supermarket brands etc but in the end my cats love a tin of tuna flakes in spring water, we put very small amounts of food down and remove after 10 mins

Fen1

I always keep a variety of foods as my two definitely get bored eating the same stuff. It would be great if I could find a wet food that was similar to the old Hi Life.

esmy

Have you contacted HiLife? It's the only food my allergy-prone cat can have and when they changed a formulation I contacted them and they sent me some samples of their other cat foods to try. For a while I could find the old formulation in the discount shops (B&M, Home Bargains etc) but that seems to have dried up now.

KiKi

Fen1 wrote: »

My fussy cat really loved the old Hi Life fish ( the gloopy one with squid.) The new formulation is OK, but not a patch on the old one.
Does anyone know of a substitute? I can't seem to find a gloopy fish flavour. He likes Thrive and Applaws which are fish flakes. He's not keen on very solid or mousse.
He doesn't eat raw; I've tried.
I would prefer the formulation to be grain free as my other cat has to be grain free ( the supermarket usual suspects are therefore out.)

Hi, mine are Thrive and Applaws fed (although they've gone off Applaws recently). They LOVE Almo Nature (I think it's a slightly tastier recipe than Applaws, but very similar in make up) - the chicken, tuna and ham Almo Nature one is their favourite. The Chicken and Liver Thrive one also goes down well, if you're looking for something other than tuna flakes.

I don't know about Hi Life, but for a different consistency, try Meowing Heads. It looks almost moussy, but it isn't (mine won't touch mousse or pate), it's quite gloopy in texture. It's grain-free as well. Not quite as high quality as Almo, Thrive or Applaws (meat / fish content is closer to 70% than 95%) but mine really like it. Which surprised me, given how different it is to the flakey ones!

HTH
KiKi