I looked at my wellness core cans and found no spearmint or green tea???Of course wet food is best, but my girl won't touch it anymore. She was on Wellness canned cubed until they added spearmint and green tea back in January 2014.
I gave her Orijen and she loved it, but she would sometimes barf it up a few hours later.
I started giving her Acana on the advice of Orijen because it has less protein and wouldn't upset her tummy. No barfing for three months now. Orijen and Acana are made by the same company.
She loves all three favors of Acana. I tried giving her a small amount of Orijen during some meals just to get rid of the bag and she will no longer eat it.
I offer 3 meals a day and I pour water on the dry. She eats it within 5 minutes.
I still offer various canned food, but she won't touch it.
I read it here http://petfoodtalk.com/catfoodreviews/wellness-cat-food/I looked at my wellness core cans and found no spearmint or green tea???
. Bravo well said, I have thought time and again why are we disecting ingredients like by products and carageenan when dry food is what's making our cats die younger than they should with a miriad of health problems. I compare it to people who buy organic food and smoke cigarettes. What is the point?
. Wow live prey what do you feed them?I used to feed my domestics and hybrid exotic cats, Orijen dry cat food. The formula, I used to use was: Orijen Cat and Kitten (http://orijen.ca/products/cat_kitten). All my cats, did very very well on it :nod: . However, it got too expensive for my liking. So, now my cats, are eating Evo, the Turkey and Chicken formula dry (http://www.evopet.com/products/1441). Plus, they are given, whole live prey twice daily .
I agree with some of the others that you can't exactly trust what vets tell you to feed your cat/pet. Apparently, they don't know much about what pets' proper diets should be. It's actually the same with doctors who are not taught much in medical school about human diets and/or supplements, vitamins or medications. Salespeople are a huge problem. If vets get kick backs from Hills or anyone else, most will push that food so that they can profit.I'm sorry but you all seem to be making this harder than it is. Call your vet and ask what food they would suggest. At the end of the day a mix of dry and wet food will be perfectly fine for the vast majority of cats. My boy almost died last December because of urinary issues. Since then I switched to purina one chicken and turkey dry food and Sheba wet food. I also mix half a crushed up tablet with his wet food. Dry food is the only food that doesn't make him vomit so he can only get a spoonful of wet at a time. The vet looked my boy over recently and said that he is extremely healthy and has a lot of muscle making up his body weight. That can only come from high protein diets. Dry food really isn't an enemy and being expensive doesn't make it better.
It could the the protein that she doesn't like in the Orijen. I would try the Regional Red, or the Cat and Kitten (chicken and turkey), and see if that boosts her enthusiasm! My cat loves the Cat and Kitten from Orijen! Seafood doesn't sit well with her, so the chicken and turkey (which still has a some fish content) works great!Hello,
I'm curious if anyone has had the same issue but I decided to switch to Orijen from Blue Buffalo. For a while my baby was eating the Blue Wilderness Rocky Mountain Red meat and Trout flavors. I was doing some hunting on pet food lines that use reliable resources in their food and Orijen seemed like a highly qualified brand on what I was looking for. I bought a bag of the Six Fish and my baby instantly loved it. Soon she started ignoring the six fish and would not eat. I had a little bit of her Blue buffalo left and mixed it in with the Orijen and she would eat only the Blue kibbles. I'm wondering if I should try the Regional Red considering that she loved the Red Meat Blue brand. Has anyone else experienced their cats rejection to the Six Fish and been successful with a different flavor?
Just thought I'd update on this - Orijen wasn't agreeing with her stomach unfortunately. It ended up giving her runny stools. I've switched to Acana, Orijen's sister brand. She loves the Acana Wild Prairie! She's on 100% canned, with the occasional kibble bits on top, or as a late night snack. So far Acana has been greatI recently made the switch to Orijen roughly a month ago, and noticed a few things as well. I noticed she was drinking more water than usual, and she gained a bit of weight/looked bloated. I was giving her 1/4 cup at dinner time. Her breakfast is a wet, grain free, high protein canned meal. I've cut back slightly on the Orijen, just under 1/4 cup (not a heaping scoop anymore, slightly below the level), and that has seemed to bring her back to normal. She doesn't look as bloated, and looks like her lean self again.
However, I'm going to venture into trying to switch to 100% canned/wet diet. She definitely prefers her Orijen though so this is going to be tough!!