What Do You Feed Your Cat, And What Do You Wish You Could Feed Your Cat?

wrenboii

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I feed my cat Instinct Original in the Chicken flavor and Tiny Tiger Pate/Sheba Pate/Miko Consomme. I wish I could feed him duck (any brand) every so often, so that he could have some variety, but it seems to be too fatty for him.
 

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Hi!
My boy gets a rotating menu of Blue Wilderness dry, Nutro dry, Fancy Feast dry and some of their canned varieties, Friskies, Merrick Backcountry and Natural Balance pouches, Tractor Supply's Paws N Claws pouches, and some Tiny Tiger from Chewy although he seems to be giving up on this one.

Just a few weeks ago, I would have said that I really really wish I could get him to eat pate, however Sound The Trumpets he's actually eating Kasiks :yess: :hyper::wavey:
 
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I feed Tiki Cat, Weruva, American Journey, Sheba, and Tiny Tiger mostly, with a bit of Nature's Variety Instinct canned and Wysong dry.

I wish I could feed Fancy Feast! My picky girl snubs most of it. I also wish I could feed more flavors of Tiki Cat and Weruva as she dislikes almost all fish except salmon.
 

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My cats get Nature's Variety Instinct Chicken Grain Free kibble and Wellness Chicken Grain Free canned food.
 

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We feed:

Tiny Tiger
Fancy Feast Classic pates
Fancy Feast Gourmet Naturals
Abound
Only Natural Pet Rabbit and Pork
Redbarn lamb

What do I wish we could feed? Any sort of commercial raw diet that ships to your door (Darwin's, Balanced Blends, etc). Unfortunately, that just isn't economically feasible with 3 cats. :(
 

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Raw food, and fancy feast, and occasionally a pre mix.
I wish we could feed all organic or grass fed but that's just not going to happen anytime soon.
The only bad part is prep day, and it takes almost all day. We chop, grind, and hack things up and place into bags. We don't even measure anymore, we just have "cat/dog" bags, fill them up and thaw because with the size of our tribe, it doesn't take long to go through a thawed gallon bag.
 

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Mine mostly eats Dr Elsey's chicken Cleanprotein kibble, but I've been getting her to eat some wet food by sprinkling crushed Temptations on top. She seems to like Natural Balance Platefulls and rejects any strong-smelling wet food. I wish I could get her to enthusiastically eat any poultry-flavored wet food, and to finish her portions when I put her plate out, but she prefers fish.

My boyfriend's cats will go absolutely nuts over Friskies wet food, and aren't picky about what they're served as long as it's shredded. I wish Smo liked wet food this much but you know what, I'll take what I can get. She eats about 3/4ths of her wet food now which is so much better than what she used to do - sniffing wet food in disgust then walking away, lol.
 

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Mine eats homemade raw, Stella and Chewy freeze-dried as a treat, and American Journey dry. I wish I could use organic, free-range local meat for the homemade, buy Hare Today occasionally for variety, and use store-bought raw when I run low. For the dry, I wish I could use Cleanprotein (too expensive and she hates it), Tiki Cat, and Ziwipeak.
 

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I feed them dr elseys chicken,Turkey, and Turkey duck, koha duck lid, evangers beef tips in gravy, canidae pure chaparrel
Canyon,canidae pure frontier traill , miko chicken turkey
Canidae pure is no longer sold at most companies so it is hard to find
What I would like to feed them, the list is too long
 

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I'm feeding Friskies Shreds & Pate. I'm trying to switch completely to the Pate for wet food. We'll see how it goes. They get Cat Chow Complete in the blue bag for dry food. They refuse everything else.

What I wish I could feed-- just Friskies Pate, but Demi would leave home. He has to have his kibble.
 

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Instinct chicken and duck for dry. Fancy Feast pates in classic and naturals. Natural Balance pouches. They also like Fussie Cat. If you're near a PetValu store the Performatrin pates alsowork for my guys.
 

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Mine are eating Crave Chicken dry food. And Wholeheartedly tuna/tuna and sardines for wet, and purina proplan turkey & gravy.
I *wish* they would eat, Dr Elsey's clean protein, and any really high quality wet food, preferably pate. And they would get A LOT more wet food than they do now, it would be at least 2/3 times a day, currently they are splitting a packet of whole heartedly at night.
 

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Only feed wet, very little dry as a treat.

Right now I am feeding a variety, just trying find what my cat will eat. Weight gain is the main goal. So we want whatever he will eat the most of.
- blue buffalo, halo, 4health crave, royal canin, sheba, fancy feast

Would like to try Dr. elseys clean protein, fussie cat, Evanger's, try more brands that have less fillers (grains, potatoes, etc.) Without going to a raw diet (lots of work).
Would to feed more of the minced cups that Instinct makes, but they are pricey.
 

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Rawz Turkey (canned), Stella and Chewy's Turkey (canned), some freeze dried raw, some commercial frozen raw and some homemade.

I wish he would eat more of the homemade but he's lukewarm on it. I usually mix some in with his canned. But I'd really like to get him to eating 50% of his calories from the homemade. I'll be trying a different supplement soon and see how it goes. But whether that works out or not, his diet is pretty good right now.
 

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We feed Friskies, FF, Weruva and Wellness right now...oh and Pecurrean Go. All wet food. Sometimes they get Authority.

I wish I could feed all the awesome sounding affordable foods available in the States! Sheba, Tiny Tiger, Rawz...I could go on and on. We are so limited in Canada. Also wish I could order from Chewy.

Budget wise it would be nice to be able to feed a lot more Tiki Cat after dark....but with two cats on an all wet diet, that would cost an insane amount!
 

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Earlier I used to do one meal of dry food and one wet. The past few months I’ve been doing mostly wet in order to get Juliette to lose weight.

I rotate between FF, Sheba, Tiny Tiger, Luvsome, and Trader joe’s.

If I could I would love to feed homemade raw. I try not to overthink with the cat food that are available or I’d go crazy and get depressed ...

 

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Earlier I used to do one meal of dry food and one wet. The past few months I’ve been doing mostly wet in order to get Juliette to lose weight.

I rotate between FF, Sheba, Tiny Tiger, Luvsome, and Trader joe’s.

If I could I would love to feed homemade raw. I try not to overthink with the cat food that are available or I’d go crazy and get depressed ...

There's nothing wrong with feeding what you're feeding, she looks happy, healthy and loved. It's good she likes her wet food, stick with that and I think you'll be just fine :wave3:
 
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