"They will behave better" - any evidence for that? They're cats after all, they pretty much do what they want. :smiley:

You know what else is abuse? Not feeding the thousands of starving animals that need homes. This food is more than adequate for any animal and contains enough meat and protein. Wet food is 80% water anyway.

The best food for an animal is one you can afford and one they will eat. No need to guilt trip or talk down to people who don't feed the same food as you.

That cat food makes my cats' poo absolutely noxious. Or it would if they ate it anymore but they'd literally rather starve. Imagine if you lived off 12p meals, do you think it would be good quality?

Seriously. Stop feeding your poor cats such an excuse for food. Start paying £10 a week for James Wellbeloved/Lily's Kitchen/Green Pantry/Canagan and your cats will adore you, their fur will be a million times softer, they will smell nice, they will behave better. Feeding cats supermarket food that contains about 0.1% meat is animal abuse IMO. Not joking.

I have this exact box in my room at the moment, which I bought for the same price. Whiskas tins were also half price, aswell as ~10kg bags of IAMS and Pedigree for dogs half price (around £12 instead of £25) which is a great price. Other things reduced too like cat litter and small animal stuff. Worth having a look, this was the Mansfield tesco extra store.

If only cats could taste sweetness. :wink:

That's because the cheap food is full of tasty additives and sugar and is difficult to resist. Like humans and Mcdonalds!
It can take time to introduce cats to new food so that is probably why they are hesitant at first.

The fact is if you google how many people yes humans die of starvation each day it's 21000!!!!!!!! So get off your high horse and stop complaining about my cat eating 12p a pouch cat food, she eats better than some humans.

nationwide ?

Yep very educational with your assertions and no judging, sense of superiority or guilt tripping involved. :stuck_out_tongue:


This is what I meant with regards to starving animals. There are animals that need homes but the ones that have homes that may be on a tight budget are apparently being abused with cheap food and shouldn't be in that home.

I would eat it but I don't like the taste. There are human taste testers though. Pet food is regulated quite well and is technically edible because it's made from things that are suitable for human consumption but we're not that keen on eating. This means it's cheaper because there's a smaller market for it but it also reduces waste. Similar rules apply to livestock feed.

I'm surprised you recommend James Wellbeloved which can contain turkey meal - "a high-protein commodity used as a major component in some pet foods. It is made from grinding clean, rendered parts of poultry carcasses and can contain bones, offal and undeveloped eggs, but only contains feathers that are unavoidable in the processing of the poultry parts". Sounds like a delicious, high quality and expensive ingredient. :wink:

If there was one best food everyone would buy it and there would be no competition. There is because we fall for marketing and believe human traits like preference of variety apply to animals. If you give a mouse or a bit of chicken breast to a hungry cat it will eat both.

"She gets our left over chicken and fish during the week so I'm sure that ups her meat intake to adequate"
"Except that our food is too salty and sugary for cats so no"

Plain white fish and chicken breast are too sugary?

Not quite as bad as the vegan and vegetarian crap that's available on the market for the poor carnivores but this is just adding to a slow painful death for them. Scrap the crap and the kibble and give them some good quality raw meat. Tesco have some cheap lambs hearts (3 for £1.50) and some chicken wings and livers for about the same price and will work out the same cost per meal if not cheaper and will be a million times better for them.

Those rankings are far from scientific, and I wonder how that site is funded. For what it's worth, I work at RSPCA and we happily feed Whiskas etc to the cats. It's certainly better than giving them human food, and we'd much rather they were adopted by someone who'll feed them Whiskas, than *not* adopted by someone who can't afford to feed them James Wellbeloved or some gourmet brand that nobody's ever heard of.

​'the best care that you can' is the sentence I pick up. If that is the best you can afford, then that is what you feed them. I feed my cat on wet pouches, dry food and also cooked chicken/fish (without seasoning) whenever we eat it. She prefers to have a wide range of different foods, rather than only one. I have tried her on many foods, and she wont eat pate and the only Ellas Kitchen stuff I put down for her smelt the worst of any cat food ever and was not even tried by the cat.

Take a look at this site for nutritional value. Most of what you are feeding your cat is worthless with a brand like this. http://www.petfoodratings.org/quick-cat-food-reference-table/ Do the decent thing and educate yourself and then choose

I'm not talking down or guilt tripping anyone, I'm educating :laughing: you're welcome:

"any evidence for that? cat's do what they want" - Yeah they do what they want but they can still be trained like any other animal. I don't have the time or resources to do a study and I can't be bothered to look on Google for one so just trust me (or don't but) diet is relevant to behaviour. Maybe especially so for Cat's because after being neutered, food is one of very few pleasures in life for cats.

"you know what else is abuse? not feeding starving animals that need homes". I'm really not sure what your argument here is? Was that just a string of random words? Are you saying that you can't buy good quality cat food because you donate all your money to shelters? If so, fine, I'm only trying to inform, you can prioritise your money however you like. Other cats over your cats. That's fine. I don't have the answer to worldwide hunger and homelessness. :confused: confused.

"this food is more than adequate for any animal" - yeah, you could eat it. Why don't you? Because it's disgusting. It might keep you alive (barely) but it is disgusting and your life would not be the same. My point is, we could eat a 12p pouch of slop for every meal of the day, it might keep us alive but it wouldn't be a life worth living. We choose to pay more for better quality food for ourselves, so why not your cat? Why should your cat be victim to your cheapskatery?

Except that our food is too salty and sugary for cats so no, that does not make up for the slime you're feeding your cat. I'm not having a go at you specifically, I just hate how uninformed cat owners are. "There's not a chance I'd pay £10 a week for cat food!" is how the majority of cat owners feel but why? Why get a cat in the first place if you're not prepared to give it the best care that you can? You wouldn't have a baby and then feed it the cheapest dirt imaginable, why is a cat different? lol

Cats are precious creatures, if you love your cat please try one of the brands I've mentioned. Even if you don't love your cat, you probably will after you start feeding it real food. It's not £10 a week if you buy in bulk online and it's worth every penny. I'm 23 and can't afford £10 a week on cat food but I find a way to afford it because I really don't accept the alternative, which is to feed them pouched poison like Whiskers and god forbid, Purina.

Going to the link , get deal , on this cat food offer brings up graphic for Valentines Meal for two !

Might be worth buying just to chuck in that donate to a cat shelter cage they have near the exit. Wish they had one for dogs too though.

Nice find, I posted the individual pouches this morning, but my local ( Chelmsford) still had the large boxes at full price. I wonder if they will get reduced later on , starting to think they are / will be discontinued .
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/tesco-cats-choice-cat-pouches-shelf-edge-reduction-from-40p-15p-each-2393329