yet another food question; Katz-N-Flocken Solid Gold?

Any opinions on Katz-N-Flocken Solid Gold? I admit I bought it already, and I'm gradually blending it into the dry Hill's z/d, which my cats aren't tolerating at all, even though we are in week 6 with it. Their reaction to the Hill's gets worse every week. 

I also bought canned food, Wysong's Au Jus to try. They didn't have the Call Of The Wild supplement to go with it, but have ordered it for me. I plan on going raw over the course of the spring/summer, but I need to get off the Hill's sooner rather than later.

I decided to try the Katz, and put out three or four of the kibbles alone just to see if the cats would turn their noses up at it. They seemed to love it. When I added a few more kibble bits to the Hill's for their regular dinner, one of my cat's only ate the Katz kibble.

 In reading reviews on it online tonight, there are mixed opinions (which is normal). I was just wondering if anyone here had first hand experience with it.

 Thanks!

I don't have any experience with it myself, but I did a search here at TCS (at the top of the page) and the recent opinions weren't too good, for what it's worth.  Apparently the company used to be very good, but was sold and has gone downhill since then, from what I read.

I think it's a good food (I haven't heard anything about them being sold or changing the formula?), but it is quite low in fat and my cats all got dry skin/fur on it. If your kitties need a lower-fat food it should be fine.

Thanks for the responses - sorry I didn't get  back sooner, but since changing to google chrome, I'm not getting notifications of postings on some forums I belong to...

 So far, they love it. Also, there has been no vomiting on it (but it took a week for vomiting to start with the Hill's). I hear people rave about Hill's z/d dry, but each week my cats had progressively worse digestive issues with it. By week six, they both were vomiting their stomach contents multiple times a day within 10 minutes of eating (to the point I didn't think they were keeping 20% of the food down daily) and if they weren't vomiting, they had explosive, liquid diarrhea. Fortunately all the diarrhea was in the litter boxes, because it was shooting out of them like a busted hydrant! I was worried about loss of nutrition and calories, and dehydration.

 The new food (the Solid Gold) has a lot of ingredients I just don't get - and could cause allergic responses I'm sure - like blueberries, apples, cranberries, lentils, quinoa, etc. But it's also lacking wheat, corn, soybeans, salt, etc. So I think I might still be going in the dietary direction my vet wanted to explore. No brewer's rice like Hill's but it has brown rice listed as the forth ingredient.

 All of this experimenting is to see if Taz, with the chronic rodent ulcer, will respond positively to  a different diet and reduce the severity of the ulcers. Poor Zazu is just along for the ride - lol. Thank goodness for me, Zazu never met a food she wouldn't eat. I've always said if a hippo tripped & fell into her bowl, she'd try to eat it.

 They are both indoor-only cats and could benefit from lower fats, but I'm also going to try EFAs  since I've read it's helped some cats with chronic ulcers. It would be so much easier to apply the EFAs to wet food, and I don't want to put them off the new dry by adding the EFAs to it. I did put a bit of the wet Wysong 95% meat down (turkey), and they both looked at me like I was crazy! lol It was about a 1/2 a teaspoon. When they wouldn't touch it, I mixed the dry Katz in it and they ate it, but grudgingly. I bought one can of each flavor - turkey, chicken, and beef. I started with the turkey but I probably hold off and should wait the 12 weeks the vets wanted me to do the Hill's for, to see if the change helps.

 Speaking of EFAs, my vet sells them in capsules for about $30.00 (I don't remember how many capsules are in the bottle). The health food store I get the food from has a bottle of liquid EFAs for cats for $18.00 - I can't remember the brand name now. Are they all the same?

I remember now! One EFA was Grizzly - I think it was mostly salmon oil, and the other was Halo, it was a mix of fish (cod, I think) and veggie oils...

I think cats will absorb animal-based EFAs better than plant-based. But if you can find a good fish oil that's cheaper, go for it. You can also give them some sardines once a week. Sardines are an excellent source of EFAs.

Well, chopping up a sardine and putting it on their plates is a lot easier than trying to get them to eat an oily goo on their food! They love tuna (I used to give the juice from water based tuna as a treat now & then) so I hope they'll take to sardines if small bits are slowly added to the tuna water treat...thanks for a great idea!

If they like tuna, I'm pretty sure they'll like sardines. Yummy! I have a cat riot on my hands whenever I open a can of sardines. Make sure to get the kind packed in water, not oil or mustard or hot sauce (sometimes you have to read the label carefully. . .I know I've accidentally bought the wrong kind a few times). And low-sodium is a plus, but not entirely necessary (since it's not a big part of their diet).