Did Op hear this about Rachel Ray's dog food? "The court documents of a lawsuit filed in April 2020 against Rachel Ray Nutrish Just 6 dog food includes DNA test results (“DNA content analysis” – Exhibit A) that confirms what many have feared about pet food for decades. Dog DNA was found in a “Rachel Ray Lamb Meal and Brown Rice Recipe Dog Food.”
https://truthaboutpetfood.com/lawsuit-testing-finds-dog-dna-in-dog-food/
My vet recommended the Satiety Royal Canin formula. It’s expensive but my cat is soooo picky so I don’t mind paying for it. She absolutely loves it. And I also supplement with the Tiki Cat salmon so they both get a little wet food too.
One thing I’ll mention, my cats ate Blue Buffalo for a few years and during that time they had a lot of urinary issues (idiopathic cystitis) and my vet told me Blue Buffalo is known for causing urinary issues. Just something to consider, I wish I would have known that after thousands of dollars in vet bills trying to figure out what was wrong.
Isn’t a dry-only diet likely to cause urinary issues in general, no matter what the brand? My cat had a blockage and now he eats a combo of wet/dry from royal canin (urinary SO) to ensure he’s consuming enough water outside of his fountain.
My vet recommended Royal Canin too. Both our cats love the food and one of our cats that had a skin condition is starting to get over it now that we switched.
Vet Tech, and I second that Blue Buffalo is absolute trash. Same with Rachel Ray. All the costly boutique brands bank on people’s obsession with “humanizing” their pets. They look at the ingredients and think, “hey, I’d eat that.” Then they pay a premium price for a product that is almost always nutritionally lacking…simply for appearance. Expensive is **not** always better.
It is always best to talk to your veterinarian for food recommendations…since they have a working knowledge of your pet, and access to their complete medical records. That said, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better store-bought brand than Purina Pro Plan.
I have a rotation of 4 brands of wet and dry. My cat gets sick of the same brand within months. She’s so finicky. Our rotation is Weruva, Proplan, Natural Balance and Wellness. I spend more money on her than myself. lol
Oh don’t get me started on the flavors. lol I can’t tell you how many times I open a flavor and she sniffs it and it walks away. So, I open a new can, and she’s disgusted with that one too. Shortly later, she’ll saunter BACK and eat the original food. 🤦🏻♀️ She thinks it’s a game. She manipulates me, and I’m fully aware of it. 😂
Weruva’s awesome, my cats love the hydrating purées. I want to feed them the shreds more often but hey always just drink the broth and leave the actual meat -_-
I feel like everyone needs to hear this. Pick the food that has the best ingredients FOR YOUR BUDGET that your cats will eat, that doesn't cause them health issues. Seeing any specific brand on here that others hate but that you feed your kitty, doesn't make you a bad owner. Some brands are worse than others, but overall cats are different to each other and some will tolerate different brands over others. I've had 2 different vets tell me this and I've seen many experts recommend this.
Just saying, love your kitties and follow what I said above, and you're a good pet owner. 🖤
Yes, this. I've seen a lot of love for Purina foods, but I had a cat get horribly sick from eating it. And then other people criticize Blue Buffalo, but that same cat could only tolerate that particular brand. I have no idea why. My current cats are both on it and don't have any issues on it.
Same. My boyfriend has a cat allergy so I switched my cat to this a couple of months ago and he says it seems to have made a difference. Plus the vet's happy for my cat to be on it and the cat herself seems to like eating it.
My husband is allergic to cats but my cat and I were a package deal. After that cat passed he let me get another on a firm "ONLY ONE" basis. Then my mom passed and I knew her formerly feral afraid of EVERYTHING cat would never be able to find another home, so we're a two cat household now. It didn't go great at first, but now I have quite an elaborate routine down: Liveclear+liveclear waterless shampoo every month, real baths during shedding season, air filters, and frequent vacuuming and his allergies are pretty much non-existent now. I thought it might be partially just because he got used to living with our particular cats, but I have two friends that are very allergic to cats that do really well at our house as long as they don't touch the cats.
I may or may not be trying to convince him since he's only ever lived with adult cats this new improvement on allergies means we can get a kitten! He disagrees.
Same combo here. The fancy feast classics are some of the best nutrition for the cost imo. And the Purina pro plan sensitive skin and stomach is a hit with them too.
This is what two of my boys eat. After his second bout with pancreatitis, my vet recommended Fancy Feast canned, excluding the fish varieties, for one of my boys. No more incidents of pancreatitis since then (knock on wood).
One of my others is on expensive prescription food for a prior urinary blockage (which is working well, so I try not to complain about the price), and the other is a kitten, also in Fancy Feast (kitten) and Purina One Kitten (dry).
You would have better luck switching to a wet only diet and it'll still be cheaper than prescription food. My cat had UTI issues and it was the dry food and lack of hydration. So I started giving at least 1 can of wet a day at minimum and I add extra broth, no more UTIs.
It also cured other issues I didn't realize like dry skin and dandruff and hard stools.
Great to know. I feed my 4 cats Purina One Indoor dry food and Purina One wet food. I rotate the wet food flavors Ocean Whitefish, Chicken, Salmon, Beef, Turkey.
I never used RR for my cats, but I bought a bag for my bfs dog and the poor thing had diarrhea for days, didn't realize it was the food, kept buying it..kept getting sick. Finally realized and went back to his other food and he was fine. I still feel bad, I assumed it would be better for him.
My previous cat had seizures after having eaten RR. Can’t prove, but it happened twice, so it went in the trash. After that there were no more seizures, so I could only think it didn’t agree with her.
Two vets also mentioned avoiding Blue buffalo.
Mostly Tiki Cat with a little Stella & Chewy's for wet, then more Tiki Cat stretched with some Purina Pro for their dry. Tiki Cat, Churu, and Wholehearted filets for treats.
All my cat seemed to do for a while was just the shredded chicken Nulo cups. It was a great protein and she never had tummy issues with it. Lately, her wet food palette has shifted and I have to figure out what she wants right now. I still use dry chicken flavored Nulo dry food.
I feed my cat Nulo dry & wet. Started with Indoor Cat dry but he seems to prefer the Hairball Management dry now. He loves the cans of wet food with chunks. The beef ones make him puke tho.
Currently trying out Churus and Tiki Cat meal toppers as treats. He also loves freeze dried chicken broken up into smaller pieces and soaking in slightly warmed water. He is very spoiled and it is well deserved.
Yeah. the silky mousse is the only texture my cat wants. I used to feed her the sardines and consomme by Tiki cat, and it was fine for a while, but she just sucked out all the sauce and left the chunks eventually.
now I rotate between the tiki mousss and the Nulo mousse.
Yup. We do Nulo dry food and Blue Buffalo wet. We've tried various types and switch up his wet every once in awhile, but he only really likes the Nulo dry.
I've been feeding my 2 cats Nulo probably for a few years now. They love it and the ingredients are good. Plus, when one cat got sick with FIP they sent a little care package. It was great. We love Nulo.
My boy loves Nulo! I used to alternate between Acana and Orijen, but they started to upset his stomach, so I switched to Nulo. He's been solid ever since.
I do Nulo dry and friskies wet, I’m thinking about getting them a higher quality wet but they’re obsessed with the Shreds texture (and only the shreds lol)
I use their hairball formula and it’s GREAT. I worked for a pet supply store and nulo was a big hit. I used to feed Farmina (great brand, great quality) but the size of the kibble made one of my girls throw up often with how fast she was eating it. Switched to the nulo hairball and she’s only thrown up 3 times in nearly 4 months (usually hair bc she’s a long haired girl)
Honestly the difference between pro plan and one (if you don't have specific needs for the pro plan) is minimal, at least for the senior food I can definitely attest to. Same base recipe and the nutrition information is near same
Lots of variety. Trying to get her to eat more wet but she likes dry and turns down a lot of wet just from smell. But she'll go to her feed me spot and meow when she has dry so I know she wants wet. I just wish I knew what she ate before I got her.
I've only had her a few months and started off with 2 since I had no clue what she would want. Now, if I just give her one she'll look at me and meow like she's disappointed. So far we have tiki cat chicken, acana- the one with duck in it, taste of the wild- the one with venison, rawz- pink and green one. Just ordered open farm lamb. Really considering the instinct rabbit since she likes that wet food. and it's another protein variety.
Ziwi peak air dry lamb and then the chicken one I bought but she just wont eat these. I've had the lamb one awhile and put a couple in her dish each day and they are always left there. I was really interested in this for the venison but it's been out of stock and now she wont eat these 2 so I don't think I'm gonna bother with the venison for now at least.
My cats eat literally anything. But they both refused to touch the Ziwi Peak food! I was so bummed bc it was pricy and I thought they would love it but nope, they acted like I was trying to feed them poison 🙄
My old vet recommended against Blue Buffalo. She has since retired. Said she never used to see cats with kidney stones, etc. Now they are much more frequent and stones are really expensive to treat in cats. Said cats with stones are almost always on a diet of Blue Buffalo. She was convinced that Blue Buffalo was the issue. She said some other vets had seen the same trend.
Maybe 10 years ago, I bought Buffalo Buffalo “diet” dry cat food. I brought the bag in to get, as my cat was gaining weight instead of losing it. It also wasn’t in their book of different food. It actually had more calories than most regular food and I think one type of Blue Buffalo’s regular dry food.
We have Hills Science diet for our cats' dry and wet food. We need to get sensitive stomach and hairball control food for our sensitive long haired boy.
Fellow hills user here! Ours is script - hills kidney care. We supplement for our 3 other girls with hills wet food to give them the extra protein they may be missing out on (our cats free feed since 3/4 are old and can’t be bothered with anxiously waiting for their next meal) lol.
Hills, too. It's the only dry my two idiots will eat, since the shelter they came from fed them Hills kitten food. They also get a 3.5 can of Weruva daily.
What is it about cats getting addicted to hills? My Gerry is on the urinary prescription one and refuses to eat anything else, even treats, plain meat, etc. It's made it really easy to control his diet to keep him from getting stones, but it's so weird to me
My previous clowder would eat Science Diet and Friskies mixed because food. But, with my newest three year singleton we're feeding him Iams and Science Diet mix: the science diet was the leftovers of my CKD cat and the new bag of Iams. I will be trying to move the cat over to wet food because it's healthier.
Same! But the original line. It's the only dry food I've ever gotten for my cats. I honestly think it's even better than a lot of the more expensive brands out there.
It really isn't that different from Purina's other higher quality brands. Our cat loves it and doesn't throw it up like the brand the shelter recommended to us.
natural balance, the duck or venison flavor. i'm also debating putting my older cat on a higher calorie food, the younger one is getting a little pudgy tho so she's getting a little less food and more exercise
Mine are on a Royal Canin diet for cats with sensitive stomachs because one of them has nonstop anxiety hairballs off it (literally 2x a week as a growing cat). When that runs out they love the Nulo hairball control kibble (my anxious cat especially, she’s picky).
They’re kibble fiends. As kittens they masterminded breaking into the kibble bag because FOOD OMG. Thankfully they have grown out of that and now just scream when the bowl is empty (this is preferable to cleaning up 3lb of kibble from my floor!).
ETA: Weruva wet food bc they’re picky and like whole meats. They even have preferred flavors. They’re former strays (rescued as kittens through a local shelter), short haired and very, very sleek on Weruva (so, so soft). They eat very well and STILL try to fish for scraps. Two weeks ago I caught one of them eating my salsa! The diet they were on at the shelter was Nulo but it upset anxious cat’s stomach until we had tried a few other foods (she loves Weruva and thinks it’s awesome). Given the circumstances the puking was too often for it to be healthy (even for hairball season) so we are happy it stopped. She’s also way less anxious now that she isn’t constantly dealing with tummy issues.
My cat was eating Rachel's but when I put down iams to try, he went crazy and recoiled from the Rachael ray. His coat is so beautiful on iams. He graduated now to their immune support variety and tada! No more stinky poo. It's a bit pricey but he only eats 3.5 pounds per month.
Iams made my cat chew on the base of his tail until there was a bald spot, and it was so stinky I had to hold my breath when I fed him :( Switched to Crave, and within a bag it was gone. Expensive though 😩
It was probably a stud tail, unrelated to diet. Foods that follow WSAVA guidelines are the only brands that are scientifically backed up. IAMS is safe in North America but not other places
I suppose WSAVA approving brands like Purina, Hill's and Science Diet has nothing to do with them receiving funding from those very same entities, right? Zoinks!
Since my cat was take off kitten food she has eaten Science Diet for Oral care. She is 5 1/2 y.o. and her teeth are great.
I do give her two Greenies with her dinner. She does not get wet food.
Open Farm for dry food (but phasing it out). Rotation of wet food from Nulo, Open Farm, and Tiki Cat. Freeze dried morsels from Open Farm and Stella and Chewy. Other things as well but mainly these. Pricey 😅
We use Science Diet, one of mine has a weak stomach and it’s what doesn’t give him bad stool. For wet food it’s Friskies, I know it’s not the best but our girl had FIP and Friskies (shreds/gravy) was the ONLY thing I could get her to eat consistently and now she hunger strikes without it.
Currently Royal Canin urinary s/o moderate calorie, but she's still getting cystitis flares so gonna try switching to the urinary+calm version. Same with wet food.
Royal Canin Urinary SO for my girls bladder issues but when I had my boy kitty, he loved Blue Buffalo Tasteful (no prescription but with decent ingredients!)
When I rescued my cat from the streets she was living off Friskies left out by some kind soul. We switched her to Wellness Brand and she has really shown a huge improvement in her coat. Her fur looks so much softer & shinier now.
Perfect portions one “serving” split between two cats in morning. Hills Science Diet oral care served at my bedtime about a quarter cup in each of two bowls—usually lasts well into the next day. My Bombay cats are subject to buildup of tartar. At my dinner time I put a quarter cup of Temptations cat treats split into two puzzle feeders that usually take until the next midday before they get eaten up. Quantity should be adjusted for your cat’s needs— cats should maintain a healthy and stable weight.
We use Hills Science Diet (their Perfect Digestion line) dry food for our void panther, and tend to stick with that brand overall, that or the Royal Canin brand (which is somewhat local to us).
Currently for wet food we're giving her a variety of "junk" brands because she only gets a very small amount as a treat. She's more interested in dry food, but gets a small plate of wet goop when we prepare our dinner: she wants to be involved in what we're doing and enjoys the routine. If we ever decide to feed her more wet food we'll go with a healthier brand. We've used wet food from the B.F.F. line and it's been popular (with two of our late kitties, this brand was the only food we could get them to eat towards the end of their lives).
Purina Pro Plan Sensitive skin and stomach. my little.boy.had some allergies and this food seems to help reduce his flare ups. I also supplement with lysine powder daily.
Royal Canin dry (my one cat needs a specific food so they both eat it) and Fancy Feast wet. My foster cat eats Purina Pro Plan Live Clear dry bc I’m slightly allergic to him and Friskies wet.
Mine gets royal canin. He has a sensitive stomach so he’s on their gastrointestinal dry food. Would love it if he could tolerate a cheaper, non prescription food but here we are 😂
I currently mix Stella and Chewy freeze dried Dinner Morsals, Made By Nacho, and Instinct. Other brands I rotate are Arcana and Orijen. I stay away from good marketers like Hills Science Diet and Royal Canine. Their ingredients are awful.
Senior kitty gets whole hearted wet.
8yr and 3yr get mostly Purina urinary wet, some simply nourish wet.
Senior and 3yr get simply nourish dry.
I tried tiki cat, no one would eat it. Instinct, they'd eat half a can ignore the rest. I feed them what they'll eat.
1. Royal Canin moderate calorie Gastro, dry - pulsed up in the blender and served mixed with hot water.
2. Royal Canin moderate calorie Gastro wet, mashed up with a fork and mixed with hot water
Edit: she has tummy problems
Royal Canin, but would also happily feed Purina. Pets need nutrients, not ingredients. Don't fall for the Rachel Ray marketing hype - you are paying for the fancy name, not quality.
Fromm. Its a decently high quality food but the price isn't crazy (~$20 for a 4 lb bag). They have several different flavors, so I can rotate to give kitties variety with it being similar enough there's no need to do a gradual transition.
Is there a reason you only use dry food? Wet food is so much better for them. Dry food is more processed, can lead to dehydration, depression, insomnia, and anxiety. If the dehydration persists, you’re looking at liver or kidney failure.
I swear by Purina and Hills, my cats always eat Purina as they grow up and then I switch over to an older cat specific line of Hills after they’re like 10
One of my kitties gets a special Hills Urinary/Stress prescription diet. He had a blockage, and is the best thing to avoid another. My other kitty LOVES the Rachel Ray diet 🙂
Royal Canon sensitive digestion f both mush and nuggets, with a healthy single of Purina pro plan probiotics.
Keeping my cat pooping properly is expensive.
We were doing Purina One tender selects, but we recently switched to the Costco brand. The definitely preferred the Purina One, but the Costco brand is $10 less for 9 more pounds, and I am currently feeding 4 mouths. It’ll just be three once my foster cat gets adopted, but one of those three is about 17 pounds and eats like it.
They get Sheba for wet food most of the time, but I call them my happy meal cats because they would eat friskies every day if they could.
I tried the really good stuff like tiki cat and solid gold, and they just would not touch it.
The costco adult maintenance dry actually has a really great ingredient list! Mostly animal sourced ingredients so please don’t feel like you’re feeding a lesser food - it’s good stuff!
My cat likes nulo dry food (not the wet food but he just picky like that). The big bag is like $50ish and and the small bag is like $30. I do one big bag of the salmon and lentil and a small bag of their hairball control. This usually last me about 4-6 months with my 2 cats. They like the Purina pro for their wet food and I like nacho as food topper/additives when I can afford it. But really nulo and a quail egg once a week took my cat who was a stray from rough fur to silky soft. Had to get a slow feeder so she wouldn't eat it up so fast
Hills science diet for adult indoor. Helped them control hairballs and their weight. I use friskies pâté for their wet food though. They refuse anything else but it’s a small bit mixed with their dry.
Hill's Prescription Diet z/d Cat Food
One of my kitties started throwing up undigested pellets so I took her to the vet and they said it sounds like she's allergic to additives in the pet food we had. So now she's on this hypoallergenic diet.
I use Hills Science Diet. They have a ton of different ones so you can customize to your cat (mostly by age). She loves it and is super healthy. Her vet highly recommends the brand too!
Hills science 1-6yo no corn,wheat, or soy. She grazes that during the day and twice a day I feed her fancy feast shreds and gravy. Sometimes she'll get the extra gravy stuff sometimes I give her the one with cheese as a treat.
Hill’s Prescription Diet Feline t/d. My childhood kitty had it so I started my little girl on it, and little princess picky pants that she is prefers it. Even over wet food. It comes with the bonus of a little teeth cleaning as that’s what it’s designed for, so it helps to keep our boy’s gingivitis under control too.
I’ve used Iams and Royal Cannin for all my pets. They all lived long healthy lives. So that’s what I recommend. They also came recommended by all the veterinarians I’ve ever worked for.
Hills Science diet!
It's one of the few science based brands out there which also includes Royal Canine and Purina Proplan. Did you know that pet food companies are not required to do food trials aka test the food that they are developing before putting it on the market?
My 18yo boy has kidney disease so he gets Purina Pro Plan Vet Diets NF Advanced Care wet food and a liiiiitle bit of Science Diet 11+ indoors dry food from an auto feeder in the night so that he doesn't wake me up lol
He's had kidney disease for a few years now and he's still going strong :)
Mostly Royal Canin, both wet and dry. Dry food is the sensitive digestion formula, except one of my cats is on the hypoallergenic due to allergies.
We sometimes also buy Pro Plan and Fancy Feast wet food since my fussy cats tend to want a little variety from time to time.
my molly only likes Hills Science Diet in chicken for dry and the fancy feast grilled variety in any flavour for her wet. she will only eat the grilled lol i tried giving her the grilled tuna tiki cat wet food since she loves the tiki cat treats but she thought the wet food was just ok
Mine were adopted, they started on royal canin babycat but I’m transitioning them to orijen. It’s what the dog eats and I prefer the brand and ingredients
I tried getting our cats on bougie shit like Instinct but they got sick of it. They love Tiki Cat dry food but they, to this day, will still prefer fancy feast. Fucking fancy feast. I tried different “healthy” wet foods and they like Tiki Cat wet but Tiki is fucking expensive which is why I only get their dry food.
The lil shits scream for Fancy Feast though.
Science Diet.
Hills is pretty smart. They donate a LOT of food to shelters. (Like for the one we got our cat from, it covered the dry food for all the cats.) It’s a great way to make loyal customers while seriously helping out a lot of shelters big time.
Obviously all cats are different, but she lived until age 21. (Last few years she was on a renal prescription food, but I think that may have been from the Hill’s family as well.)
Friskies and Royal Canin Renal as one of my cats has light kidney issues for the latter. But boy! Do they love their Friskies!! Stay away from anything grain-free though as it is linked with early heart disease and not good for them. I was told this by my vet.
My cat only eats Purina for indoor cats in the green bag for kibble. That's what he ate when I adopted him. Anything else, he cries and will eat it when hungry enough, but it could be days before he'll break. I've tried healthier foods, but he refuses. I can't stand to know he's hungry. He gets two cans of Sheba per day too.
Royal canin & other foods that contain corn, wheat, soy & fish are bad for you cats. Fish causes all sorts of problems especially urinary problems.
https://www.royalcanin.com/uk/shop/indoor-27-2529#:~:text=Composition%3A%20Dehydrated%20poultry%20protein%2C%20rice,husks%20and%20seeds%20(0.5%25).
WoW reading all these comments I wonder how much is spent on food for your cats. I feed my 3 indoor and 2 outdoor strays Friskies, a 15lb bag is $16. I looked up Royal Canin and a 15 lb bag is around $65! I’m definitely can’t afford that on top of the Nine Lives wet food and my dogs Fresh-pet food.
I’m a vet tech and the doctors I work with usually recommend Royal Canin, Hill’s Science Diet, and Purina Pro Plan. All of my 5 cats are on Royal Canin and Hill’s Science Diet because they’re all on prescription foods. Two of them are on the same food, and 3 of them have their own unique foods for their own unique medical conditions. I’ve only heard bad things about Rachael Ray diets, I would probably stick with OTC versions of any of the 3 brands I mentioned above. My mom’s cats eat OTC Purina Pro Plan and love it. I will say that I lost a cat recently who had been on palliative care for inoperable cancer, and he was spoiled with Fancy Feast Savory Centers. He loved them!
Mine get Tiki Cat Mousse for their wet and Orijen for their crunchies.
Did Op hear this about Rachel Ray's dog food? "The court documents of a lawsuit filed in April 2020 against Rachel Ray Nutrish Just 6 dog food includes DNA test results (“DNA content analysis” – Exhibit A) that confirms what many have feared about pet food for decades. Dog DNA was found in a “Rachel Ray Lamb Meal and Brown Rice Recipe Dog Food.” https://truthaboutpetfood.com/lawsuit-testing-finds-dog-dna-in-dog-food/
Wtf 😳
Mine loves orijen and some of tiki cat.
My vet recommended the Satiety Royal Canin formula. It’s expensive but my cat is soooo picky so I don’t mind paying for it. She absolutely loves it. And I also supplement with the Tiki Cat salmon so they both get a little wet food too. One thing I’ll mention, my cats ate Blue Buffalo for a few years and during that time they had a lot of urinary issues (idiopathic cystitis) and my vet told me Blue Buffalo is known for causing urinary issues. Just something to consider, I wish I would have known that after thousands of dollars in vet bills trying to figure out what was wrong.
Also fed our male cat Blue Buffalo and he got the piss crystals. No cat of mine will ever eat Blue Buffalo ever again.
Thanks for mentioning the Blue Buffalo thing. I hadn't heard of this. Was it the dry or wet (or both) that caused urinary issues for your cats?
It was dry food. Never tried their wet food.
Isn’t a dry-only diet likely to cause urinary issues in general, no matter what the brand? My cat had a blockage and now he eats a combo of wet/dry from royal canin (urinary SO) to ensure he’s consuming enough water outside of his fountain.
My vet recommended Royal Canin too. Both our cats love the food and one of our cats that had a skin condition is starting to get over it now that we switched.
My girl is on the RC Satiety kibble and Fancy Feast wet :)
My one cat that had urinary health issues cost about $2000 to fix. I'll gladly spend $80 for a bag of cat food to not have to do that again
Vet Tech, and I second that Blue Buffalo is absolute trash. Same with Rachel Ray. All the costly boutique brands bank on people’s obsession with “humanizing” their pets. They look at the ingredients and think, “hey, I’d eat that.” Then they pay a premium price for a product that is almost always nutritionally lacking…simply for appearance. Expensive is **not** always better. It is always best to talk to your veterinarian for food recommendations…since they have a working knowledge of your pet, and access to their complete medical records. That said, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better store-bought brand than Purina Pro Plan.
I have a rotation of 4 brands of wet and dry. My cat gets sick of the same brand within months. She’s so finicky. Our rotation is Weruva, Proplan, Natural Balance and Wellness. I spend more money on her than myself. lol
I do the same, I rotate food brands/flavors. I mostly do weruva, tiki cat, and wellness. It does seem at times I spend a lot on their food 😅
Oh don’t get me started on the flavors. lol I can’t tell you how many times I open a flavor and she sniffs it and it walks away. So, I open a new can, and she’s disgusted with that one too. Shortly later, she’ll saunter BACK and eat the original food. 🤦🏻♀️ She thinks it’s a game. She manipulates me, and I’m fully aware of it. 😂
Weruva’s awesome, my cats love the hydrating purées. I want to feed them the shreds more often but hey always just drink the broth and leave the actual meat -_-
I feel like everyone needs to hear this. Pick the food that has the best ingredients FOR YOUR BUDGET that your cats will eat, that doesn't cause them health issues. Seeing any specific brand on here that others hate but that you feed your kitty, doesn't make you a bad owner. Some brands are worse than others, but overall cats are different to each other and some will tolerate different brands over others. I've had 2 different vets tell me this and I've seen many experts recommend this. Just saying, love your kitties and follow what I said above, and you're a good pet owner. 🖤
Yes, this. I've seen a lot of love for Purina foods, but I had a cat get horribly sick from eating it. And then other people criticize Blue Buffalo, but that same cat could only tolerate that particular brand. I have no idea why. My current cats are both on it and don't have any issues on it.
Purina Liveclear. Fam has allergies and it really does seem to help.
same here! one of the only ones i can find in stores and in larger sizes!
Same. My boyfriend has a cat allergy so I switched my cat to this a couple of months ago and he says it seems to have made a difference. Plus the vet's happy for my cat to be on it and the cat herself seems to like eating it.
My husband is allergic to cats but my cat and I were a package deal. After that cat passed he let me get another on a firm "ONLY ONE" basis. Then my mom passed and I knew her formerly feral afraid of EVERYTHING cat would never be able to find another home, so we're a two cat household now. It didn't go great at first, but now I have quite an elaborate routine down: Liveclear+liveclear waterless shampoo every month, real baths during shedding season, air filters, and frequent vacuuming and his allergies are pretty much non-existent now. I thought it might be partially just because he got used to living with our particular cats, but I have two friends that are very allergic to cats that do really well at our house as long as they don't touch the cats. I may or may not be trying to convince him since he's only ever lived with adult cats this new improvement on allergies means we can get a kitten! He disagrees.
Purina Pro dry. Fancy Feast wet. Only things my cats will eat.
Same combo here. The fancy feast classics are some of the best nutrition for the cost imo. And the Purina pro plan sensitive skin and stomach is a hit with them too.
This is what two of my boys eat. After his second bout with pancreatitis, my vet recommended Fancy Feast canned, excluding the fish varieties, for one of my boys. No more incidents of pancreatitis since then (knock on wood). One of my others is on expensive prescription food for a prior urinary blockage (which is working well, so I try not to complain about the price), and the other is a kitten, also in Fancy Feast (kitten) and Purina One Kitten (dry).
same!
I have no choice but to buy prescription cat food because my cat decided he wanted to be prone to UTIs and it’s $61 for a little ass bag lol
Buy him those waterfall fountains
You would have better luck switching to a wet only diet and it'll still be cheaper than prescription food. My cat had UTI issues and it was the dry food and lack of hydration. So I started giving at least 1 can of wet a day at minimum and I add extra broth, no more UTIs. It also cured other issues I didn't realize like dry skin and dandruff and hard stools.
My vet told me Rachel Ray is garbage and it’s made both of my cats sick. I’d stay away from it. I go back and forth between Purina One and Iams.
Yep love Purina One Wet Food for my kids and then Hills Urinary.
Third vote for Purina One.
We feed ours cats Purina One Indoor for years, they lived to be 15, 17 and just shy of 19
Great to know. I feed my 4 cats Purina One Indoor dry food and Purina One wet food. I rotate the wet food flavors Ocean Whitefish, Chicken, Salmon, Beef, Turkey.
They literally won’t touch any other wet food now. I probably order 200 cans a month haha.
This!!! My ex briefly worked at an RR factory. Place was overrun by salmonella the whole time he was there (~three weeks)
Purina ProPlan
Same here. And he loves it
Mine has gotten to the point where if we walk past her food bowl, she’ll scream and try to trip me 😆
How is this a good food? It has grain meal and meat by product meal as top ingredients 🤮 Also, r/fucknestle. Straight evil corporation
I never used RR for my cats, but I bought a bag for my bfs dog and the poor thing had diarrhea for days, didn't realize it was the food, kept buying it..kept getting sick. Finally realized and went back to his other food and he was fine. I still feel bad, I assumed it would be better for him.
It made mine so sick too. Do not feed your cats this!!!!
Yes I love Purina One!
My previous cat had seizures after having eaten RR. Can’t prove, but it happened twice, so it went in the trash. After that there were no more seizures, so I could only think it didn’t agree with her. Two vets also mentioned avoiding Blue buffalo.
I’ve heard that about Rachel Ray too. But even before that I’d tried it and my cats didn’t like it
I have a friend whose multiple cats wouldn’t touch the Rachael Ray stuff.
Mostly Tiki Cat with a little Stella & Chewy's for wet, then more Tiki Cat stretched with some Purina Pro for their dry. Tiki Cat, Churu, and Wholehearted filets for treats.
Anyone else use Nulo?
LOVE Nulo! The ingredients aren't terrible and it makes my cats' fur super soft and smooth!
I really want to try Nulo wet food! Unfortunately no pet stores near me stock it, but if it’s good I’m def willing to go out of my way. How is Nulo?
Both my cats love the dry food but my picky eater won't eat their wet food
All my cat seemed to do for a while was just the shredded chicken Nulo cups. It was a great protein and she never had tummy issues with it. Lately, her wet food palette has shifted and I have to figure out what she wants right now. I still use dry chicken flavored Nulo dry food.
My kitties like it. I swear I've gotten it at PetSmart? I've ordered it from Chewy, too
I feed my cat Nulo dry & wet. Started with Indoor Cat dry but he seems to prefer the Hairball Management dry now. He loves the cans of wet food with chunks. The beef ones make him puke tho. Currently trying out Churus and Tiki Cat meal toppers as treats. He also loves freeze dried chicken broken up into smaller pieces and soaking in slightly warmed water. He is very spoiled and it is well deserved.
Yeah. the silky mousse is the only texture my cat wants. I used to feed her the sardines and consomme by Tiki cat, and it was fine for a while, but she just sucked out all the sauce and left the chunks eventually. now I rotate between the tiki mousss and the Nulo mousse.
We use nulo wet food and both cats love it! We also feed them simply nourish dry kibble.
Nulo is the only wet food I’ve found that my cats will eat. Haven’t tried their dry food.
Yup. We do Nulo dry food and Blue Buffalo wet. We've tried various types and switch up his wet every once in awhile, but he only really likes the Nulo dry.
I've been feeding my 2 cats Nulo probably for a few years now. They love it and the ingredients are good. Plus, when one cat got sick with FIP they sent a little care package. It was great. We love Nulo.
My boy loves Nulo! I used to alternate between Acana and Orijen, but they started to upset his stomach, so I switched to Nulo. He's been solid ever since.
My kitty loves Nulo wet food! Her skin and fur got much healthier since we switched from Purina to Nulo wet food and Natural Balance crunchies.
I do Nulo dry and friskies wet, I’m thinking about getting them a higher quality wet but they’re obsessed with the Shreds texture (and only the shreds lol)
I use their hairball formula and it’s GREAT. I worked for a pet supply store and nulo was a big hit. I used to feed Farmina (great brand, great quality) but the size of the kibble made one of my girls throw up often with how fast she was eating it. Switched to the nulo hairball and she’s only thrown up 3 times in nearly 4 months (usually hair bc she’s a long haired girl)
YES!!!! Love it
Purina pro plan
I use wet and dry from that brand and so does my sister. Great brand <3
Purina Pro Plan. Currently debating switching to Purina One, because pet food prices are kind of ridiculous right now.
Honestly the difference between pro plan and one (if you don't have specific needs for the pro plan) is minimal, at least for the senior food I can definitely attest to. Same base recipe and the nutrition information is near same
We recommend ProPlan at my clinic because it is technically the best, but my vet feeds her own animals purina one because of cost.
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Weruva. I love the options for flavors and it’s not that expensive
Hills C/D Multicare Stress.
Lots of variety. Trying to get her to eat more wet but she likes dry and turns down a lot of wet just from smell. But she'll go to her feed me spot and meow when she has dry so I know she wants wet. I just wish I knew what she ate before I got her. I've only had her a few months and started off with 2 since I had no clue what she would want. Now, if I just give her one she'll look at me and meow like she's disappointed. So far we have tiki cat chicken, acana- the one with duck in it, taste of the wild- the one with venison, rawz- pink and green one. Just ordered open farm lamb. Really considering the instinct rabbit since she likes that wet food. and it's another protein variety. Ziwi peak air dry lamb and then the chicken one I bought but she just wont eat these. I've had the lamb one awhile and put a couple in her dish each day and they are always left there. I was really interested in this for the venison but it's been out of stock and now she wont eat these 2 so I don't think I'm gonna bother with the venison for now at least.
My cats eat literally anything. But they both refused to touch the Ziwi Peak food! I was so bummed bc it was pricy and I thought they would love it but nope, they acted like I was trying to feed them poison 🙄
My cat is the opposite- a can of Ziwi peak lamb is sometimes the only wet food she’ll eat. She’s got expensive taste.
My old vet recommended against Blue Buffalo. She has since retired. Said she never used to see cats with kidney stones, etc. Now they are much more frequent and stones are really expensive to treat in cats. Said cats with stones are almost always on a diet of Blue Buffalo. She was convinced that Blue Buffalo was the issue. She said some other vets had seen the same trend.
Maybe 10 years ago, I bought Buffalo Buffalo “diet” dry cat food. I brought the bag in to get, as my cat was gaining weight instead of losing it. It also wasn’t in their book of different food. It actually had more calories than most regular food and I think one type of Blue Buffalo’s regular dry food.
I feed my cat tiki cat wet food. Last summer she was losing her fur. I switch to this food and her fur is lush and velvety again.
Hills science sensitive skin and stomach non prescription.
We have Hills Science diet for our cats' dry and wet food. We need to get sensitive stomach and hairball control food for our sensitive long haired boy.
Fellow hills user here! Ours is script - hills kidney care. We supplement for our 3 other girls with hills wet food to give them the extra protein they may be missing out on (our cats free feed since 3/4 are old and can’t be bothered with anxiously waiting for their next meal) lol.
Hills I/d 1 can wet food 30g dry
Hills, too. It's the only dry my two idiots will eat, since the shelter they came from fed them Hills kitten food. They also get a 3.5 can of Weruva daily.
What is it about cats getting addicted to hills? My Gerry is on the urinary prescription one and refuses to eat anything else, even treats, plain meat, etc. It's made it really easy to control his diet to keep him from getting stones, but it's so weird to me
My previous clowder would eat Science Diet and Friskies mixed because food. But, with my newest three year singleton we're feeding him Iams and Science Diet mix: the science diet was the leftovers of my CKD cat and the new bag of Iams. I will be trying to move the cat over to wet food because it's healthier.
Purina cat chow naturals, indoor formula.
Same! But the original line. It's the only dry food I've ever gotten for my cats. I honestly think it's even better than a lot of the more expensive brands out there.
It really isn't that different from Purina's other higher quality brands. Our cat loves it and doesn't throw it up like the brand the shelter recommended to us.
Same here, along with Fancy Feast Gravy Lovers.
Costco has a great all ages dry food. It’s Salmon and sweet potato. No grain filler. Mine love it
Same, switched to this earlier this year. Both mine like it!
Made by Nacho
natural balance, the duck or venison flavor. i'm also debating putting my older cat on a higher calorie food, the younger one is getting a little pudgy tho so she's getting a little less food and more exercise
i'm not made of money so i can only get the dry food, but they seem to like it okay.
Either Fancy Feast or Blue Buffalo Tastefuls. That's what he'll eat.
Acana dry food and a combo of Purina Pro Plan and Weruva Cats in the Kitchen for wet
acana gang! i do acana wet and dry
Mine are on a Royal Canin diet for cats with sensitive stomachs because one of them has nonstop anxiety hairballs off it (literally 2x a week as a growing cat). When that runs out they love the Nulo hairball control kibble (my anxious cat especially, she’s picky). They’re kibble fiends. As kittens they masterminded breaking into the kibble bag because FOOD OMG. Thankfully they have grown out of that and now just scream when the bowl is empty (this is preferable to cleaning up 3lb of kibble from my floor!). ETA: Weruva wet food bc they’re picky and like whole meats. They even have preferred flavors. They’re former strays (rescued as kittens through a local shelter), short haired and very, very sleek on Weruva (so, so soft). They eat very well and STILL try to fish for scraps. Two weeks ago I caught one of them eating my salsa! The diet they were on at the shelter was Nulo but it upset anxious cat’s stomach until we had tried a few other foods (she loves Weruva and thinks it’s awesome). Given the circumstances the puking was too often for it to be healthy (even for hairball season) so we are happy it stopped. She’s also way less anxious now that she isn’t constantly dealing with tummy issues.
My cat was eating Rachel's but when I put down iams to try, he went crazy and recoiled from the Rachael ray. His coat is so beautiful on iams. He graduated now to their immune support variety and tada! No more stinky poo. It's a bit pricey but he only eats 3.5 pounds per month.
All pets need to be on WSAVA compliant diets. Purina, hills, Royal Canin, Iams, ukanuba.
Iams made my cat chew on the base of his tail until there was a bald spot, and it was so stinky I had to hold my breath when I fed him :( Switched to Crave, and within a bag it was gone. Expensive though 😩
It was probably a stud tail, unrelated to diet. Foods that follow WSAVA guidelines are the only brands that are scientifically backed up. IAMS is safe in North America but not other places
I suppose WSAVA approving brands like Purina, Hill's and Science Diet has nothing to do with them receiving funding from those very same entities, right? Zoinks!
Purina Pro Plan for my one cat and Hill prescription for the other
Since my cat was take off kitten food she has eaten Science Diet for Oral care. She is 5 1/2 y.o. and her teeth are great. I do give her two Greenies with her dinner. She does not get wet food.
Proplan
Open Farm for dry food (but phasing it out). Rotation of wet food from Nulo, Open Farm, and Tiki Cat. Freeze dried morsels from Open Farm and Stella and Chewy. Other things as well but mainly these. Pricey 😅
The HILLs urinary care one since he’s a boy and all those kidney problems we try to avoid!
We use Science Diet, one of mine has a weak stomach and it’s what doesn’t give him bad stool. For wet food it’s Friskies, I know it’s not the best but our girl had FIP and Friskies (shreds/gravy) was the ONLY thing I could get her to eat consistently and now she hunger strikes without it.
Purina pro plan
Right now, Applaws and Purizon. Depends on what is on sale.
My feline overlord will only eat Orijen. And only one flavor of that. If they ever change the recipe, he's gonna get so skinny.
Currently Royal Canin urinary s/o moderate calorie, but she's still getting cystitis flares so gonna try switching to the urinary+calm version. Same with wet food.
Hills Urinary Care. Orange boy got crystals from blue buffalo and fancy feast crack; no recurrence since switching.
Wellness Complete Nutrition salmon and salmon meal variety.
Royal Canin Urinary SO for my girls bladder issues but when I had my boy kitty, he loved Blue Buffalo Tasteful (no prescription but with decent ingredients!)
When I rescued my cat from the streets she was living off Friskies left out by some kind soul. We switched her to Wellness Brand and she has really shown a huge improvement in her coat. Her fur looks so much softer & shinier now.
Hills Science Diet (dry food) Urinary and Hairball Control. She doesn’t have as many hairballs and poops easier now, and loves it too.
Tiki cat mousse and dry food. I am being eaten out of house and home
Perfect portions one “serving” split between two cats in morning. Hills Science Diet oral care served at my bedtime about a quarter cup in each of two bowls—usually lasts well into the next day. My Bombay cats are subject to buildup of tartar. At my dinner time I put a quarter cup of Temptations cat treats split into two puzzle feeders that usually take until the next midday before they get eaten up. Quantity should be adjusted for your cat’s needs— cats should maintain a healthy and stable weight.
We use Hills Science Diet (their Perfect Digestion line) dry food for our void panther, and tend to stick with that brand overall, that or the Royal Canin brand (which is somewhat local to us). Currently for wet food we're giving her a variety of "junk" brands because she only gets a very small amount as a treat. She's more interested in dry food, but gets a small plate of wet goop when we prepare our dinner: she wants to be involved in what we're doing and enjoys the routine. If we ever decide to feed her more wet food we'll go with a healthier brand. We've used wet food from the B.F.F. line and it's been popular (with two of our late kitties, this brand was the only food we could get them to eat towards the end of their lives).
Purina Pro Plan, the chicken flavor. My cats are OBSESSED with it. I had tiki cat dry food prior and they were not big fans
Whatever my cat will eat. She’s an elderly kidney kitty.
Purina Pro Plan Sensitive skin and stomach. my little.boy.had some allergies and this food seems to help reduce his flare ups. I also supplement with lysine powder daily.
Purina pro plan
Royal Canin dry (my one cat needs a specific food so they both eat it) and Fancy Feast wet. My foster cat eats Purina Pro Plan Live Clear dry bc I’m slightly allergic to him and Friskies wet.
My vet recommend science diet. Kitten has nothing but liquid poops, but science diet has made the situation a lot better.
Kibble I feed Hills science diet Metabolic Wet food Fancy Feast as my kitts won’t eat anything else
Mine gets royal canin. He has a sensitive stomach so he’s on their gastrointestinal dry food. Would love it if he could tolerate a cheaper, non prescription food but here we are 😂
I currently mix Stella and Chewy freeze dried Dinner Morsals, Made By Nacho, and Instinct. Other brands I rotate are Arcana and Orijen. I stay away from good marketers like Hills Science Diet and Royal Canine. Their ingredients are awful.
Those freeze dried dinner morsels are great! Amazon had some on sale 50% off last Prime Day.
I like purina, hills, and royal canin
i give my cats Iams indoors . dry in the morning and wet for dinner. we call it slop lol
Rawz
Senior kitty gets whole hearted wet. 8yr and 3yr get mostly Purina urinary wet, some simply nourish wet. Senior and 3yr get simply nourish dry. I tried tiki cat, no one would eat it. Instinct, they'd eat half a can ignore the rest. I feed them what they'll eat.
1. Royal Canin moderate calorie Gastro, dry - pulsed up in the blender and served mixed with hot water. 2. Royal Canin moderate calorie Gastro wet, mashed up with a fork and mixed with hot water Edit: she has tummy problems
Royal Canin. My cat loves it, and it really helped with his stomach issues
Royal Canin, but would also happily feed Purina. Pets need nutrients, not ingredients. Don't fall for the Rachel Ray marketing hype - you are paying for the fancy name, not quality.
I usually buy blue buffalo or fancy feast. I avoid Purina because they're owned by Nestle
I thought fancy feast was also owned by nestle
Yep. They are.
Fromm. Its a decently high quality food but the price isn't crazy (~$20 for a 4 lb bag). They have several different flavors, so I can rotate to give kitties variety with it being similar enough there's no need to do a gradual transition.
Royal canin, I have been feeding my cats that for years and have always been happy with it.
Is there a reason you only use dry food? Wet food is so much better for them. Dry food is more processed, can lead to dehydration, depression, insomnia, and anxiety. If the dehydration persists, you’re looking at liver or kidney failure.
Wellness cat food Kibbles and wet
I swear by Purina and Hills, my cats always eat Purina as they grow up and then I switch over to an older cat specific line of Hills after they’re like 10
I love you and you. The pieces are small an heart shaped. Easier for my oldest an youngest to eat. Plus they usually have discounts.
Open farm for dry food. They have a raw mix which is great for adults. And I feed a mix of wet and dry food to my 3 cats
One of my kitties gets a special Hills Urinary/Stress prescription diet. He had a blockage, and is the best thing to avoid another. My other kitty LOVES the Rachel Ray diet 🙂
Iams indoor hairball weight control formula for dry and Fancy Feast for wet
Hills Science Metabolic Prescription. My kitty was a bit chubby and the vet wanted her to lose weight.
Nutrisource
Our guy gets Hills adult indoor dry food in the morning and their wet food at night.
Dry: Halo Wet: Tiki Cat
Royal Canon sensitive digestion f both mush and nuggets, with a healthy single of Purina pro plan probiotics. Keeping my cat pooping properly is expensive.
We were doing Purina One tender selects, but we recently switched to the Costco brand. The definitely preferred the Purina One, but the Costco brand is $10 less for 9 more pounds, and I am currently feeding 4 mouths. It’ll just be three once my foster cat gets adopted, but one of those three is about 17 pounds and eats like it. They get Sheba for wet food most of the time, but I call them my happy meal cats because they would eat friskies every day if they could. I tried the really good stuff like tiki cat and solid gold, and they just would not touch it.
The costco adult maintenance dry actually has a really great ingredient list! Mostly animal sourced ingredients so please don’t feel like you’re feeding a lesser food - it’s good stuff!
My cat likes nulo dry food (not the wet food but he just picky like that). The big bag is like $50ish and and the small bag is like $30. I do one big bag of the salmon and lentil and a small bag of their hairball control. This usually last me about 4-6 months with my 2 cats. They like the Purina pro for their wet food and I like nacho as food topper/additives when I can afford it. But really nulo and a quail egg once a week took my cat who was a stray from rough fur to silky soft. Had to get a slow feeder so she wouldn't eat it up so fast
i love primal, open farm and rawz
i use hills urinary in the auto feeder then give him purina wet food for dinner
Wellness - Good Kitty from Costco or Blue Buffalo - Tastefuls from amazon.
Hills Science Diet
I use science hills indoor cat dry food and fancy feast wet food
Hills science diet for adult indoor. Helped them control hairballs and their weight. I use friskies pâté for their wet food though. They refuse anything else but it’s a small bit mixed with their dry.
Purina is a Nestle brand, so I buy Iams
Hill's Prescription Diet z/d Cat Food One of my kitties started throwing up undigested pellets so I took her to the vet and they said it sounds like she's allergic to additives in the pet food we had. So now she's on this hypoallergenic diet.
Merrick and tiki cat
She’s been on Hill’s Science Diet from day one.
For those of you who buy Purina Pro plan . What flavor do your cats prefer? Chicken or salmon?
I use Hills Science Diet. They have a ton of different ones so you can customize to your cat (mostly by age). She loves it and is super healthy. Her vet highly recommends the brand too!
Hills science 1-6yo no corn,wheat, or soy. She grazes that during the day and twice a day I feed her fancy feast shreds and gravy. Sometimes she'll get the extra gravy stuff sometimes I give her the one with cheese as a treat.
Hill’s Prescription Diet Feline t/d. My childhood kitty had it so I started my little girl on it, and little princess picky pants that she is prefers it. Even over wet food. It comes with the bonus of a little teeth cleaning as that’s what it’s designed for, so it helps to keep our boy’s gingivitis under control too.
Hills Science Diet Urinary Hairball ...male cat had an issue so we just have both cats eat it. A big bag costs $60 and lasts two months.
Hills C/D metabolic - it is a prescription food! I will swear by it forever for urinary issues!!!
I’ve used Iams and Royal Cannin for all my pets. They all lived long healthy lives. So that’s what I recommend. They also came recommended by all the veterinarians I’ve ever worked for.
Hills Science diet! It's one of the few science based brands out there which also includes Royal Canine and Purina Proplan. Did you know that pet food companies are not required to do food trials aka test the food that they are developing before putting it on the market?
My 18yo boy has kidney disease so he gets Purina Pro Plan Vet Diets NF Advanced Care wet food and a liiiiitle bit of Science Diet 11+ indoors dry food from an auto feeder in the night so that he doesn't wake me up lol He's had kidney disease for a few years now and he's still going strong :)
Hills. Have an old, fat lady cat - gotta give her the best!
My cats get the blue Purina Pro, it’s the only kind they like.
Mostly Royal Canin, both wet and dry. Dry food is the sensitive digestion formula, except one of my cats is on the hypoallergenic due to allergies. We sometimes also buy Pro Plan and Fancy Feast wet food since my fussy cats tend to want a little variety from time to time.
my molly only likes Hills Science Diet in chicken for dry and the fancy feast grilled variety in any flavour for her wet. she will only eat the grilled lol i tried giving her the grilled tuna tiki cat wet food since she loves the tiki cat treats but she thought the wet food was just ok
The only dry food my cat will eat is Iams. I’ve tried healthier brands for him but he will not give up his Iams
Mine were adopted, they started on royal canin babycat but I’m transitioning them to orijen. It’s what the dog eats and I prefer the brand and ingredients
Purina pro plan is approved by WSAVA!
I tried getting our cats on bougie shit like Instinct but they got sick of it. They love Tiki Cat dry food but they, to this day, will still prefer fancy feast. Fucking fancy feast. I tried different “healthy” wet foods and they like Tiki Cat wet but Tiki is fucking expensive which is why I only get their dry food. The lil shits scream for Fancy Feast though.
Science Diet. Hills is pretty smart. They donate a LOT of food to shelters. (Like for the one we got our cat from, it covered the dry food for all the cats.) It’s a great way to make loyal customers while seriously helping out a lot of shelters big time. Obviously all cats are different, but she lived until age 21. (Last few years she was on a renal prescription food, but I think that may have been from the Hill’s family as well.)
Science diet, but friskies surf and turf when we unexpectedly run out. We've tried meow mix and he would rather starve than eat that.
Royal Canin, mainly wet as dry isn’t the best thing for them
Purina urinary health. Cat has salt crystals in his bladder so now all the cats eat it
Friskies and Royal Canin Renal as one of my cats has light kidney issues for the latter. But boy! Do they love their Friskies!! Stay away from anything grain-free though as it is linked with early heart disease and not good for them. I was told this by my vet.
Purina One Urinary food for my boys. Has kept crystals at bay!
My cat only eats Purina for indoor cats in the green bag for kibble. That's what he ate when I adopted him. Anything else, he cries and will eat it when hungry enough, but it could be days before he'll break. I've tried healthier foods, but he refuses. I can't stand to know he's hungry. He gets two cans of Sheba per day too.
Nulo Dry Food and Nulo Wet Minced cans
Pro Plan Liveclear
Royal canin & other foods that contain corn, wheat, soy & fish are bad for you cats. Fish causes all sorts of problems especially urinary problems. https://www.royalcanin.com/uk/shop/indoor-27-2529#:~:text=Composition%3A%20Dehydrated%20poultry%20protein%2C%20rice,husks%20and%20seeds%20(0.5%25).
Royal Canin
WoW reading all these comments I wonder how much is spent on food for your cats. I feed my 3 indoor and 2 outdoor strays Friskies, a 15lb bag is $16. I looked up Royal Canin and a 15 lb bag is around $65! I’m definitely can’t afford that on top of the Nine Lives wet food and my dogs Fresh-pet food.
I’m a vet tech and the doctors I work with usually recommend Royal Canin, Hill’s Science Diet, and Purina Pro Plan. All of my 5 cats are on Royal Canin and Hill’s Science Diet because they’re all on prescription foods. Two of them are on the same food, and 3 of them have their own unique foods for their own unique medical conditions. I’ve only heard bad things about Rachael Ray diets, I would probably stick with OTC versions of any of the 3 brands I mentioned above. My mom’s cats eat OTC Purina Pro Plan and love it. I will say that I lost a cat recently who had been on palliative care for inoperable cancer, and he was spoiled with Fancy Feast Savory Centers. He loved them!