How does this food sound to you?

Hi! Our cat really doesn't like canned food, so I'm always on the lookout for something I can get him to eat at least occasionally. I just bought an Italian premium brand that several people recommended. It's called "Almo Nature", and claims that it has no additives and is nutritionally balanced and complete - I have my doubts about the latter claim. The ingredients are: 40% tuna, 35% chicken, 24% water, 1% rice; nutritional analysis: 83% moisture, 18% protein, 0.1% fat (!), 2% ash, 1% fiber. Does that sound okay to you for intermittent feeding? Jamie gets premium kibble, and eats one or two other brands of canned food (usually no more than 3 or 4 meals a week). Thanks for any feedback!

Ok well it sounds good but just out of curoisity is your cat a male or female? Also just as an FYI please be careful with switching foods, I did that and I have had some awful disasters! From what the vet tells me, different brands of food have several differnt kinds of PH levals. So sometimes it can be harmful. And well sometimes not. But they have also said that it does not affect femals as much as males. Oh, I love Germany. My husband and I were over there for 3 years, its beautiful. Valerie

Have you tried some of the tricks used for finicky eaters? Zapping the food in the microwave for just a few seconds? Sprinkling just a tiny taste of garlic on it? Cats like different textures and shapes, and if he is eating dry food and not wet, I wouldn't be all that concerned myself. Royal Canin has different blends that are all good to try.

Thanks for the replies. Jamie is a neutered male, and will be four on April 28th. Oddly enough, he insists on new foods - he will eat something for approximately 3 months, and then refuses to eat it for another 2 or 3 months. He won't eat the same brand more than twice a week, so I always have 3 or 4 different brands of dry food open, and have to sort the canned food so that he doesn't get the same brand & flavor more than twice a week. I've tried warming up his food, garlic powder, adding dried fish, and so on. He doesn't like RC, although that was the first brand I gave him after I brought him home (he got Whiskas for kittens before that). He "supervises" me when I'm filling his bowl, and for some reason he has totally ruled out pouches and cans that contain more than 3 ounces. If I fill his bowl when he's not in the room, he won't even sniff at the contents. He won't eat poultry unless it is mixed with fish (I worry about heavy metals), and doesn't like any canned food that has more than a 1.5% fat content. During shedding season he gets dandruff, and I've had to give him supplements because he's not ingesting enough fat. I give him lactose-reduced cat milk every day, which seems to help. He's not underweight (he weighs c. 13 lbs.), and I don't have a problem with his eating patterns, but my husband and our catsitter do. It would be easy to just give him premium dry foods, but I worry about urinary tract problems. The funny thing is that his littermates all love poultry and won't eat fish, and most of them will only eat canned cat food. His only sister is actually allergic to fish.

I sure wish they would label foods like that here! I would love to know how much of each ingredient is in the foods.

I've heard the same complaint here - that the European Union doesn't require that everything be listed, and that the U.S. and Canada do! Jamie generally prefers imported food like Nutro or Solid Gold, and they have everything listed, though the cheaper brands just seem to have "meat and meat by-products, etc." on the cans.