Taste of the Wild cat food?

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Hi everyone!

I'm new here. I'm glad I found this site! I've had cats my entire life and could never live without them, even though they do drive me crazy sometimes!
My husband and I have 4 cats and 2 golden retrievers. (Can't leave the golden boys out!) Sadly, we just lost our 12-year-old German Shepherd a few weeks ago.


Anyway, the main reason I joined this site is because I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with feeding their cats Taste of the Wild grain-free food. I have heard of it before, but we have never tried it. When we were at Tractor Supply the other day buying dog food, we saw that they carry both formulas of TOTW dry cat food, and for a very good price! I really like the looks of the ingredients and it sounds like a great quality food, but I wanted to get some opinions on it before we decide to make the switch from the Pro Plan indoor cat formula, which we have been feeding for several years. All of our cats are strictly indoor cats and they are all very healthy and active and none of them have any weight problems. Bailey, our oldest, will be 8 this summer, Scooter will be 6 this summer, Abby, our black Maine Coon, just turned 4 today, and our youngest and most insane cat, Eddie the Russian Blue, is 2. If any of you have used this food before, how did your cat(s) do on it?

I have to admit that I'm a bit paranoid about food. When I was 18, my parents had to put down one of our cats who came to us as a stray a few years before due to really bad crystals, which the vet thought might have been food-related. He was the best cat. Definitely don't want to go through that again! Maybe we should just keep them on the Pro Plan since they have always done well on it and have never had any health problems at all, but I'm just a bit curious about TOTW!

Here are the 2 formulas they have. I have NO idea which one to go with if we do decide to try it out, so any opinions would be greatly appreciated!


http://www.tasteofthewildpetfood.com...eline_formula/

http://www.tasteofthewildpetfood.com...eline_formula/
 

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Welcome to TCS!
(*cough cough* we love pictures & there's a picture forum if you're so inclined to share pics of your babies
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OK - now on to foods. TOTW is a good food, grain free. Like every food - you'll find some people love it/some people hate it. I feed it to some of my cats. I have a few who are intolerant to grains in their food & get itchy, so I tend to lean towards grain frees.

TOTW is a good priced grain free. I can find it locally (as opposed to me having to drive an hour to the nearest pet stores to get my other pet foods/supplies).

One concern w/ any fishy food is that they can be more likely to cause urinary issues in cats (my brain is foggy right now or I'd explain why). My kitties are on the fish formula, as they were "bored" with the other one. I've been feeding it close to since it came on the market & my kitties love it.

Oh wait - they didn't like the texture of the canned but do well on the dry.
 

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I have my cats on TOTW and they are doing great.
My elderly, skin and bones girl is putting on some weight, and they all have beautiful coats, poos that don't run us out of the house, and the younger two have regressed to kitten energy levels.

I switched my senior dog (13yrs, 65 pounds) over to TOTW canine about a year prior to switching the cats, and he's very active, and shiny. His dandruff issue cleared up in a couple of weeks.
 

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I feed TotW to our 7 kitties, and switched my dog over to it, also. No complaints other than the fact that the cats swarm me when I go in the backroom where the bowls are kept.
 

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I've tried it here, the fish formula however i am unsure on how "ok" a fish based diet is especially being 2 of my 3 are males.. so for now i have backed it off....

I do on occasion get TOTW for the dogs.. and it's well tolerated. It's not cheap here though...
 

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I've been feeding my cat Taste of The Wild, Venison dry. He love it. No problems at all. He's healthy, active. I think its a good food. I leave a big bowl of it out and he nibbles on it when he's hungry.

Would you mind posting a picture of Eddie the Russian Blue?
 

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My cats used to like it. I don't know what happened but when I let them try another brand, they switched to the new one and ever since disliked TOTW.
 

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My cats love it and do very well on it. Last month, I ran out of cat food and money at the same time (the money part was unexpected) so my best friend gave me some of her food. She loves her animals, but she buys crap food. I didn't have much choice in the matter, so I took the food. She gave me about the equivalent of a 5 lb bag. They ate it so fast! Like 2 weeks. 5 lbs of Taste of the Wild lasts me a month. They're back on the good stuff, but Fin still looks ratty. He's a big beautiful long haired black cat, but every time I feed crummy food, he starts looking like a feral cat.
 

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I am feeding it to one cat who won't eat the raw diet the rest of the crew are on. I used the dog Bison/Venison dry food for my dog for two yrs. I switched to grain free due to her skin issues but it did not help her problem. Her coat was not shiny but that could have been due to the skin issues.
 

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I have one cat on it and she likes it fine, but she will eat almost anything in the way of dry food. I started using it because it is lower in calories than most. I'm trying to transition her completely off dry because of her weight. The vet tells me Taste of the Wild is good as far as dry food goes, but all dry food has too many carbs for an overweight cat - even though there are no grains, it still has sweet potato and other carbohydrates. I now have her down to 1/8 cup in the morning and then a small can of soft in the evening - sometimes before I go to bed I will give her just a few little pieces of the TOTW and that seems to satisfy her. I use the venison, not fish. I tried feeding it to my other cats and they all ate it, but one vomited it up all the time because it is real small and she will swallow without chewing it, so I had to stop since they all eat out of each others bowls.
 

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Originally Posted by badkelpie

My cats love it and do very well on it. Last month, I ran out of cat food and money at the same time (the money part was unexpected) so my best friend gave me some of her food. She loves her animals, but she buys crap food. I didn't have much choice in the matter, so I took the food. She gave me about the equivalent of a 5 lb bag. They ate it so fast! Like 2 weeks. 5 lbs of Taste of the Wild lasts me a month. They're back on the good stuff, but Fin still looks ratty. He's a big beautiful long haired black cat, but every time I feed crummy food, he starts looking like a feral cat.
Uhh.. TOTW isn't a crappy food.. I think you are confusing it with something else...

My cat Loves TOTW but its too expensive for me, lololol.
 

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Originally Posted by Minka

Uhh.. TOTW isn't a crappy food.. I think you are confusing it with something else...

My cat Loves TOTW but its too expensive for me, lololol.
She didn't say TOTW was a crappy food, that's what she feeds her cats, she ran out once and her friend gave her CRAPPY food.
 

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Originally Posted by Momto3boys

She didn't say TOTW was a crappy food, that's what she feeds her cats, she ran out once and her friend gave her CRAPPY food.
ohhh, lol i see
 

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Originally Posted by jwemt81

Hi everyone!

I'm new here. I'm glad I found this site! I've had cats my entire life and could never live without them, even though they do drive me crazy sometimes!
My husband and I have 4 cats and 2 golden retrievers. (Can't leave the golden boys out!) Sadly, we just lost our 12-year-old German Shepherd a few weeks ago.


Anyway, the main reason I joined this site is because I'm just wondering if anyone has had any experience with feeding their cats Taste of the Wild grain-free food. I have heard of it before, but we have never tried it. When we were at Tractor Supply the other day buying dog food, we saw that they carry both formulas of TOTW dry cat food, and for a very good price! I really like the looks of the ingredients and it sounds like a great quality food, but I wanted to get some opinions on it before we decide to make the switch from the Pro Plan indoor cat formula, which we have been feeding for several years. All of our cats are strictly indoor cats and they are all very healthy and active and none of them have any weight problems. Bailey, our oldest, will be 8 this summer, Scooter will be 6 this summer, Abby, our black Maine Coon, just turned 4 today, and our youngest and most insane cat, Eddie the Russian Blue, is 2. If any of you have used this food before, how did your cat(s) do on it?

I have to admit that I'm a bit paranoid about food. When I was 18, my parents had to put down one of our cats who came to us as a stray a few years before due to really bad crystals, which the vet thought might have been food-related. He was the best cat. Definitely don't want to go through that again! Maybe we should just keep them on the Pro Plan since they have always done well on it and have never had any health problems at all, but I'm just a bit curious about TOTW!
Originally Posted by yayi

My cats used to like it. I don't know what happened but when I let them try another brand, they switched to the new one and ever since disliked TOTW.
I just erased, somehow, my original post detailing my cats' death. I spent an hour explaining what and how, and how much I miss him. I fed him Wellness, some Taste of the Wild , and some EVO CAT.

If you don't know about, or truly understand the implications and results
(death)of Wellness, Feb 28 2011 Voluntary Recall
Or as I perceive it Stealth recall------Quiet no FDA no Press coverage recall
for your cats sake you should follow up on various consumer sights.

To yayi My Boy did the same thing with Wellness and Taste of the Wild the month before he died. I thought he lost his appetite as he had been failing for 4 or 5 months. Vomiting, off and on for months, shrunken red rimmed eyes and twitching the last 2 months. He cycled for months between healthy, then sick .
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I thought he had lost his appetite again............
He cried when I offered him cat food took a few licks and then SERiously, begged for some of my turkey.
He was ravenous, I got sick to my stomach and threw up right there in the
kitchen.
What had I been feeding him? Had he been forced to eat that or starve, until he just couldn't stomach one more bite?
This is what happened. These were and are my thoughts.

yayi I Know what I wouldn't feed my love again. No matter, he wouldn't have eaten it anyway .TOTW is manufactured by DIAMOND EVO CAT was sold to BIG Pet Food --------- Wellness admits cats' could develop
thiamine deficiency if fed their food for a period of time. mine was, did and died a horrible drawn out death.

You owe it to yourself and to your cat to at least try to research who owns what. And what big company may have just quietly, bought a niche brand to exploit. I not picking, I'm grieving. A good way to start is by WIKI the brands and companies and look for connections.
Taste of the Wild is manufactured by DIAMOND. So when a DIAMOND related product is recalled, ask yourself " what could that mean to TOTW" in regards to the manufacturing plants, the source/country of ingredients used etc.
6 degrees of Big Pet Food can be and should be played with all brands.

If I had the chance to feed him again I would cross my fingers and try Honest Kitchen. if that weren't in my budget, Halo (I used to be Grain-free but I obviously didn't know sh** ) their products are species appropriate high protein, very little grain, the science appears sound but I'm no scientist.)

Right now I would be concentrating on keeping him alive and not poisoning him.
I was looking at Weurva but now they have a line in Petco called Soulstice so I'm back on the fence.
My sister and my best friend what/need me to help them choose a new/safe food. What if I'm wrong again.

You could make you own but you BETTER know what your doing.
You can't practice on a cat.

It's not like when we were kids and you could feed Spot and Fluffy whatever was convenient.

Just like anything else educate adapt evolve question
After he died a had a lot of time to review my choices, actions and responses.
 

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Originally Posted by Minka

My cat Loves TOTW but its too expensive for me, lololol.
What DO you feed your cat? TOTW is one of the least expensive foods I can get. . .cheaper than Purina ONE.

I feed a mix of 5 different dry foods. TOTW is one of them. But they don't like TOTW canned food. Wrong texture I think.
 

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Originally Posted by leanansidhex

I just erased, somehow, my original post detailing my cats' death. I spent an hour explaining what and how, and how much I miss him. I fed him Wellness, some Taste of the Wild , and some EVO CAT...(etc)
I think you are a bit confused. The OPs cats aren't sick, they just wanted to feed a different food.
Originally Posted by Willowy

What DO you feed your cat? TOTW is one of the least expensive foods I can get. . .cheaper than Purina ONE.

I feed a mix of 5 different dry foods. TOTW is one of them. But they don't like TOTW canned food. Wrong texture I think.
Where I live, TOTW is $0.33 per oz. I can find a TON more foods way cheaper than that. Currently I'm feeding whats left over of my Before Grain, and actively buying Authority and Innova. I also buy a couple of 3oz cans of flavors he hasn't had before to spice things up.
 

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I think you're a bit confused. OP Jwemt81 asked for anyone with experience feeding Taste of the Wild.
 

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My cats had been on TOTW for almost 2 yrs and all of a sudden stopped eating it. There is a post on this topic earlier this year. I bought several bags, different places, different dates. No one would eat it.. Posted on their FB page which they removed. Contacted Diamond Pet food and they "started" a inquiry but never heard back from them.

So I had to find another grain free and settled with Merrick Before Grain.
 

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I just started to add TOTW wet food onto my cats rotation schedule. They just love it and the price is less than EVO, Instinct and Core foods. I think it is a very, good quality diet.
 
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