I'm trying to get my cat off Fancy Feast

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Yesterday I stopped into Whitie's Pets to get a couple of cans of high-end wet food. One can is Innova and the other can is Merrick's. She turned her nose up at both those cans and insisted that I give her her usual Fancy Feast chunky chicken.

She also prefers the FF Medleys shredded salmon. I need to get her off Fancy Feast because she's overweight - plus I know the FF is pour nutrition. I swear, FF must have some secret addictive drugs added it or something.

Her dry food is Blue Buffalo chicken flavor, but if I'm around, she orders me to give her her Fancy Feast.


Y'all recommend a high-end wet food that can compete with Fancy Feast?
 
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Originally Posted by OwnerOperator

Yesterday I stopped into Whitie's Pets to get a couple of cans of high-end wet food. One can is Innova and the other can is Merrick's. She turned her nose up at both those cans and insisted that I give her her usual Fancy Feast chunky chicken.

She also prefers the FF Medleys shredded salmon. I need to get her off Fancy Feast because she's overweight - plus I know the FF is pour nutrition. I swear, FF must have some secret addictive drugs added it or something.

Her dry food is Blue Buffalo chicken flavor, but if I'm around, she orders me to give her her Fancy Feast.


Y'all recommend a high-end wet food that can compete with Fancy Feast?
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Wow! I see you're from Clovis too! Maybe we are neighbors!

My oldest cat was addicted to FF, but I've recently discovered that she will eat Friskies Pate in various flavors. It's cheaper than FF, and since my Dusty has CRF and prefers wet food, it's just as well that she will eat the Friskies.
 
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FF addiction is a tough one. Try this-- slowly mixing in the good stuff with the junky stuff... and change the proportion over time... see if she will continue to eat the good stuff as you phase out the junky. I still have to mix in some FF with the better food to get my guys to eat it, but it is better than nothing.

They eat Taste of the Wild dry.
 
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I would also suggest mixing the FF with the other cans until your kitty gets a taste for them.

Soulisitic Good Karma Chicken comes in shreds.

My cats adore FF, too - so I mix a small can in with a larger one in each cat's portion. But keep in mind I'm also feeding multiples.
 
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Yes, FF addiction sometimes calls for an intervention
. Maia is a FF lover, she gets it maybe once a month, definitely special occasions. As a kitten she was extremely picky about her wet food, but FF was never part of her diet. Personally I have had the best results with a dry diet and canned is an occasional treat. There is always the big debate over what is healthiest, but I have had extremely great results from a basic Purina dry diet over the past 30+ years with my kitties living extremely healthy 16+ lives.
 
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Ok... I think I'm missing something here apparently lol... I think that this issue must've been covered before I came onto this site. Why is FF soooooo bad? I rarely feed it, only as like a special occasion because they consider that their "treat food" lol. Sorry if I sound like an idiot, I'm just missing out here.

I'm guessing that the reason it's not recommended is because there's a lot of useless, fillers and crap in it?
 
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Originally Posted by mismaris777

Ok... I think I'm missing something here apparently lol... I think that this issue must've been covered before I came onto this site. Why is FF soooooo bad? I rarely feed it, only as like a special occasion because they consider that their "treat food" lol. Sorry if I sound like an idiot, I'm just missing out here.
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It is filled with wheat gluten, soy flour, artificial flavors and colors and unknown by-products. And at it's pricepoint... I frankly think it should be a better food. When you price it out at a large 5.5 or 6 oz can it is over a dollar, depending on whether or not it's on sale. Authority at 68 cents a can for 6 0z is a much better food. The pate style cans are slightly better than the "gravy" ones.

ProPlan wet isn't much better and very expensive. I will only buy the tuna and sardines in aspic or the tuna and oceanfish pate (I think that is what it is called.)
 
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