My cats are snobs!

drunkenmaster said:
The difference between dry and wet food is, well, wet food is 80% or more water, meaning if you add enough water to the dry food the numbers for Applaws dry make up 20% of 'normal' cat food. In other words, the 80% meat is 80% of the 20% that isn't water, or 16% meat. Meaning only it's only 8% protein when comparing to similar numbers for wet food.

For the record the Whikas dry food is 32% protein content, which likely puts the meat content at something like 60-65% range. THe ingredients are listed very differently, but they aren't anywhere near as far apart as you think.


In terms of dry food and 'cheap' Felix comes in two varieties, the cheaper one which has the following



or the more expensive one which is



Which is absolutely comparable to anything Applaws do in nutritional content.

The dry food is by far the worst thing Applaws do. Dry food numbers are misleading as hell, but when it comes to Applaws their dry food is mostly meat 'derivative' type meats(chicken meal means everything but beak/feet/entrails thrown a mincer and what comes out the other end, bone included, most people just call it meat derivatives, it just means left over junk).

Their wet food is far far better. If you look at their pouches like this one

http://www.applaws.co.uk/product/cat-tin-chicken-breast/

you see that protein is still only 14% but they list specifically chicken breast as 75%, rather than chicken meal or anything else.

Applaws wet food is higher quality, but a lot of it is seeing people wanting something better and putting nicer naming on the derivatives to make it sound higher quality(on SOME but not all their products).


Anyway, when it comes to our cats over the years, they go through fussy periods where they will reject the food they've been eating for years, but buy and large they get used to what you feed them at first then get mouthy when you try to change up on them.
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Applaws wet is rubbish, it isn't even complete nutritionally.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Only a dog owner could see that as a benefit. (And then they'll lick your face and you can smell it on their breath too. Lovely.)
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If mine did that, maybe it'd dissuade random strangers from coming bounding up and expecting to be greeted like they're old friends, just because I have a dog... but since I started feeding them proper food, they've completely avoided poo, for the most part.
Only time they don't is cow poo, in which one of them likes to roll... something about disguising her scent so she can hunt better, but also helps keep the randoms at bay!!

I've known cats do the same, so I assume for similar reasons.
 
My mum owns a pet shop and she laughed when she read this.

She flat out refuses to sell Whiskas and the like purely because of how 'rubbish' they are. She loses customers who refuse to buy anything else and will go across to the supermarket and buy it but its a principle thing. Whiskas and so on is akin to feeding them McDonalds every day apparently.

She definitely recommends moving them over to a much better cat food, they will turn their nose up at it but that is because they have been 'enjoying' Whiskas, (my mum even gets people trying to return cat food they have bought because the cat won't eat it!)

You have to put it down and they will eat it when they are hungry and realize the Whiskas isn't coming back. They will be better for it in the long run.
 
Being picky eaters are a good thing They dont eat random crap and regularly chuck it up. It doesnt mean you have to find the right food for your cat but generally that cats dont really like change
 
Our dog and cats are raw fed, assuming you have the freezer space for it, we order in bulk for 2 months worth and it's significantly cheaper than petshop food and more nutritious.

Only downside is you have to plan what you are going to feed the next day and get it out to defrost.
 
I've tried all sorts of wet cat food, but ours will only eat the junk that's full of god knows what. We supplement the wet food with decent dry food and the occasional tin of tuna to try to make up for it though. Arden Grange is quite good value from Amazon.
 
Ricochet J said:
I made the mistake of giving my wife's cat (gf at the time) Sheba cat food. The little bugger didn't go back to Whiska's after trying the creme de la creme of cat food.
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Hahahaha... no :p

All those supermarket brands are crap. Including Felix, which is the only thing my baby will eat. But I know it's crap.

Look at the ingredients and with all of them you'll find the advertised ingreident (chicken, duck, beef, whatever) is only 4% of the product. 4%. The rest could be minced monkey brain for all we know. And plenty of sugar to make the cats addicted to it.

There is plenty of high-meat content (70%+) stuff out there. Shame my cat won't touch it. Felix or nothing. And the moewing...

"I'm hungry, feed me! No, not that. I'm really hungry! Starving! No, take that away. You know what I want. Sooooooo hungry! Meow!"
 
My old cat was a fussy git. Used to turn his nose up at whatever brand was his current choice just as a I bought a large big box of it :p

Current little terrors have been living on dry food since the day we got them and they have been fine. Not fussy when it comes to food, fortunately. There has been the odd moment where the gf caves and gives them a mouthful of wet food but then soon regrets it when it's difficult to get them back onto dry!

Therefore wet food is reserved for medicine administration only! :D
 
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