Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: CC & The Pussycat Guys & Dolls on October 18, 2008, 14:23:41 PM
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Harry will only eat dry so I am needing some suggestions as which dry food is best. I have tried him with Purina one, which he loves, but the cost is a bit much for what you actually get. Also we have tried Iams light, the one in the green bag, this has not gone down well, and also Iams natural wellbeing, which has been accepted, sort of.
I need something thats good for him and has a high meat content. Although he loves Purina one it only has 16% chicken which I feel is expensive for that little.
So what do your cats eat, and any suggestions?
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Ours are on James Wellbeloved and they love it,I am going to look into the Pets At Home brand(premium one I believe) as its exactly the same as JWB but cheaper. At the moment they have the lamb JWB and its not going down too well therefore I am having to mix it with some whiskas dry for them to eat the lamb one,I am a cruel meowmy I know in doing this but I just cant afford to waste half a bag of jwb :scared:
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Well since this new food has been introduced my others will not touch whiskers dry lol I origanilly only bought this for Harry, but they think its good enough for the rouge so why not them lol.
I have also tried the pah premium and they didnt like it.
I just dont want to buy a big bag and they dont like it.
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Have you considered Orijen from Zooplus?
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Purina pro plan was on 3 for 2 at PAH last week, £14.99 per 3kg bag so it may just be best to stock up whilst its on offer. Its 21% meat so probably more expensive than purina one but tastier, my strays will only eat this after having had a few sample packets :tired:
Sainsburys have 25% off purina one at the moment.
Best thing to do is scrounge round the companies for sample packs and see what they like, its sods law that what you buy in bigger bags they wont like :evillaugh:
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Have you considered Orijen from Zooplus?
Altohugh it's great, It has just gone up by 33% at Zooplus to match Orijen's UK official seller price. Now £40 a bag - although worked out at 100g per day, that is still 70 days for £40 = 10 weeks. I don't think £4 a week is unreasonable to feed a good a quality food but some do.
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My Ragdolls love Purina pro plan.
The delicate version has 40 % protein and is a good quality food.
Its £11.99 for a 3kg bag in pets corner at the moment.
I think most good quality dry cat foods are all around a similar price range. You get what you pay for.
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I'm all for Pets At Homes premium dry food - it has almost identical ingredients to James Wellbeloved but is more suitable for my wallet!
You can go into a PAH and ask for a sample, that is what I did. Jameson loves all the flavours (salmon, tuna, chicken, lamb) - I think he prefers the Lamb flavor.
They often do deals at PAH too, all of my bags have so far been BOGOF, so very economical.
Since I started feeding Jameson this food I've noticed a difference in his fur - very sleek & shiny, and he looks more slender than before (when I fed him cheap supermarket bisquits)
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I use Royal Canin as my main dry food (and they do a variety for every type of cat imaginable!!) and I also use Hills in the winter as well. James Wellbeloved and Purina Pro Plan are also very good dry foods and JWB has the advantage of being hypoallergenic which is brilliant if you've got a cat with allergies ;D
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James Wellbeloved, Royal Canin, Pets At Home complete, purina pro plan are all good brands. With the Pets at Home brand, it comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee so if you buy a bag and your cat doesn't like it you can take it back to the pets at home store and get a refund or exchange so that option is no risk! Hope that helps! :)
Heather
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I feed JWB and Arden Grange and am very happy with both.
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Apparently Applaws will be bringing out a dry food with high meat content and no grains..............
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Well, bit of a contradiction in terms really - dry + good :evillaugh: anyway, some are better than others, but no dry in my opnion is suitable as the sole diet.
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Well ended up going to pets at home and getting Purely, it says it has 40% chicken, Its also a new product. So far they all like it :) I think it was £5.40 odd for a 2kg box.
Harry prefers to eat dry so this is why I need a good dry food for him. All of the others prefer to eat wet.
Oh and harry prefers his meat to be raw and fresh :sick:
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Oh and harry prefers his meat to be raw and fresh :sick:
:evillaugh: :evillaugh:
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JWB Turkey & Rice. They don't really like the lamb.
Also Science Plan Adult Chicken but much more pricey and not sure it's that much better
Just saw you gone ahead and bought CC but thought I'd post this anyhow
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Always open to suggestions. They change their tastes as often as the weather.
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I personally wouldnt feed the Purely on its own, I mix it with JWB, but I am lucky enough to be able to get mine for a good price
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I personally wouldnt feed the Purely on its own.
Why is this?
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The ingredients aren't that good, it isn't anywhere near on the same level as JWB (I e-mailed the ingredients without the name to someone who is an expert on cat nutrition and that was her recommendation - OK to mix with things, but not on its own), I just need some Senior JWB to mix with Zi's Senior Purely now - Mol has JWB and at the moment a bit of HiLife as a treat.
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Oh which part of the ingredients are not good? This is what I also need to understand about the rest not just the meat contents.
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This was her response - she highlighted the ingredients first, but dont think that will copy over
26 % of the RAW ingredients is chicken ... good but not great since it is so much water
Poultry meat meal is like about 23% ( since 4th ingredient of rice is 17%) ... My guess is this has 14% chicken meal to = 40% chicken... I prefer a NAMED meat but it is okay
maize = corn and is over 17% thus not making me happy but it is okay.. it also has gluten which get s a from me as to why
rice is okay but not happy corn is in front of it
GUESS that poultry oil is fat ... good
Fish meal I want to know what fish but a good ingredient
meat and animal dervititives is a NO NO
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Im sure its Purely with EC colourants in the ingredients, these are not neccesary IMO, preservatives do a job but colour is really not needed, do cats care what bits of food are brown or red!
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Or, more disturbingly, bright green. :sick:
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My lot would give a leg for some yellow, green & orange whiskas :sick:
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Purely does have coloured biscuits
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I am going to look into Arden Grange - anyone know if it's good?
They are eating the Orijen but still not too happy about it. I want them to enjoy their food as well as it being healthy.
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Dunno about arden grange cat Mark but Arden Grange dog is exellent and they dogs seem to love it too and also their coats are so much shinier on it,at the moment I cant afford it so my dogs are on chappie which they love also but a lot cheaper but Den feeds Memphis Arden Grange and she says its an exellent food :)
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I alternate Memphis between JWB and Arden Grange and he does excellent on AG. Molly has the dog version and it is brilliant food. I highly recommend it.
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I just looked at their site and it's cheaper than Hill's etc and they use ethically produced chicken. Do they sell it in shops? as I don't want to pay for delivery.
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Waitrose sells it.
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I havent seen it in Pets At Home to be honest but my local pet shop supplies it and also the in town small pet shop,I know that info is of no help to you though,sorry :-[
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:tired: The nearest is 18 miles from here. I am hoping they will open one here soon.
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I havent seen it in Pets At Home to be honest but my local pet shop supplies it and also the in town small pet shop,I know that info is of no help to you though,sorry :-[
I will just look around local shops. The one here in the High Street is useless and their main dry food is Iams - I never shop in there. I will check in the farm shop as they sells Burns.
It's a shame they don't have a postcode finder on their site.
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Its a very respected brand of food round here,up there with jwb definately according to the pet shop in town therefore I am surprised PAH havent baught bundle of it in as I am sure it would go :shify:
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http://www.ardengrange.com/uk-stockists.asp There you go Mark. They do local stockists as well as Waitrose. So you might be able to find somewhere closer.
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I havent seen it in Pets At Home to be honest but my local pet shop supplies it and also the in town small pet shop,I know that info is of no help to you though,sorry :-[
I will just look around local shops. The one here in the High Street is useless and their main dry food is Iams - I never shop in there. I will check in the farm shop as they sells Burns.
It's a shame they don't have a postcode finder on their site.
Also I find small shops are much more willing to get something in for you than larger shops are as they have to buy in bulk but as long as you promise to buy the product smaller pet shops will get it in for you,well round here they will anyway :)
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I think we should all sign a petition for PAH to start selling it :evillaugh:
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My lot got bored of it v.quickly and they arent the fussiest :Luv:
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Arden Grange is very good and the only reason I changed to Orijen was because I have got kittens and adults and would have had to use 2 different Arden Grange biscuits - when it was just the adults I used to buy the 15kg breeder sack and it was free delivery. If you go online and type in Arden Grange Free Delivery there are a few places that sell it. I know a couple of Bengal breeders who use it and get on very well with it
Once Teeko is 12months I am going to mix the Orijen with Arden Grange and see how we go.
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my boys really enjoy James Wellbeloved kitten Turkey & Rice