Just for fun: Share your cat's current food rotation

I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone else feeds in rotation (or 24/7). Not to say if the food is good or bad, but just for fun.

Also, that way if someone sees a food listed they haven't heard of or that they have questions about, they could ask that person for feedback or know who to PM.

I hope I posted this on the right area and that it's something others would be interested in.

Chowder's Current Foods:

Dry :: Nutrisource Pure Vita Salmon - about two meals per week

Wet ::
EVO 95% Chicken/Turkey
Friskies Pate, various kinds (the 48 pack from BJ's)
Innova Cat and Kitten
Precise Holistic Complete Wild at Heart
Trader Joe's Turkey and Giblets
Natural Balance LID Chicken and Green Pea
Various other single cans

Treats ::
Natural Balance Perfect Bites Rabbit
Natural Balance Perfect Bites Chicken

I have 3 kinds of commercial raw food I rotate daily at any given time.

Right now...

Primal Rabbit (I always keep some kind of rabbit in there for a high protein/low fat food)

Nature's Variety Duck

Nature's Variety Venison

Her choice for "most nomable" out of this batch seems to be the venison. She usually likes poultry better, but she sucks that stuff down!

When I start to run low, I also start mixing some Primal Quail in there, which I have had for a couple months because she's not an enormous fan of it. But she's eating it, slowly but surely.

And yes, 80% of my freezer is cat food.  

I feed my cat Nutro Natural Choice in the 3 ounce cans. His favorite flavors are: minced chicken, minced cod, sliced turkey and sliced chicken & tuna. He's 16 years old and sleeps more now in the daytime than when he was much younger and he weighs 11 pounds. He normally consumes 1 1/2 -2 cans per day so he basically gets between 4.5 ounces to 6 ounces of canned cat food a day.

I feed him a can of chicken first. After he consumes the can of chicken, I feed him a can of cod. After he consumes the can of cod, I feed him a can of turkey. After he consumes a can of turkey, I feed him a can of chicken & tuna. After he eats the can of chicken & tuna, I repeat the whole process over again.

This way, he doesn't get burnout from one constant flavor.

I'm also trying out some Sheba non pate flavors, since he won't touch pate, in the 3 ounce cans too.

Homemade raw is about 70% of their diet. lt's usually chicken- or duck-heavy, with the odd bit of turkey, beef, pork or venison thrown in for variety.

Once a week they get sardines.

Recently l added freeze-dried Primal to their rotation.

Canned:

EVO Kitten & Cat

Fancy Feast pate

Merrick's Cowboy Cookout and Turducken

Friskies pate (only the 2 that don't contain fish)

Wellness GF (including one fish flavour)

lf l see these on sale l get them, but that's rare:

Blue Wilderness

Go!

Tiki Cat chicken

Weruva (3 flavours)

No treats

I feed raw also but occasionally I will feed some canned and commercial raw.

Raw:

- Chicken

- Turkey

- Rabbit

- Quail

- Pheasant

- Duck

Canned:

- Fancy Feast Classics

- Trader Joe's Turkey and Giblets

- Tiki Cat Puka Puka Luau

Commercial raw:

- K9 Naturals Feline Naturals Freeze-dried Lamb and Chicken

- Stella & Chewy's Freeze-dried Duck Duck Goose

Toppers/Treats:

- K9 Naturals Freeze-dried Lamb Green Tripe

- Whole Life Chicken

- Bonito flakes

- Egg yolks

- Chicken necks, gizzards, hearts

All my kitties get the same food, but in different proportions.

Innova EVO cat & kitten, EVO chicken & turkey, and EVO venison twice a day mixed with their Lysine and other supplements.

Hannah & Daisy also get Taste of the Wild and Blue Buffalo (grain free) dry, less than 1/8 cup spread throughout the day.

Tumbles can't tolerate an entirely grain free diet, so he gets a mix of Royal Canin Gastro HE, TOTW, and BB in his cup, about 1/8 cup daily.

I have two cats, Lily & Callie, Lily is extremely picky, Callie eats everything.

Here is what callie will eat on a regular basis.

Sheba cuts in gravy

Merrick Turducken

Fancy Feast Chicken & cheddar cuts

Fancy Feast Kitten OceanFish

Purina One Turkey cuts in gravy

Dry food: Simply Nourish Turkey & Chicken grain free

Temptations treats

Lily- Simply Nourish Turkey & Chicken grain free hard food

Purina One Turkey cuts in gravy

Temptations treat

Most of the foods listed above are not available in Europe , but for other European members:

My voracious eaters have:

Bozita

Kattovit

Grau (the grain-free line)

Animonda vom Feinsten select (complementary)

Animonda carny exotic (cause cats eat ostrich, buffalo and cangaroo)

Terra Felis (has some vegetables)

and whatever they can steal from

Sophie, my fussy eater who will only have:

Applaws (complementary)

Schesir (complementary)

Thrive (complete)

so she also gets Royal Canin dry food, full of grains and carbs (working on that ).

None of them liked Animonda Carny (none of the flavors except for the exotic line) or Catz Finefood.

I always feed the same dry(TOTW), in the mornings. I do canned in the evenings which I do rotate. Usually friskies pate, wellness, 365(whole foods generic brand), Fancy Feast, and TOTW.

For treats I give CatSip Cat milk, and dehydrated meats(either homemade or the PureBites brand)

Main food

TD prescription biscuits without rotation.  AM and PM.

Treat

Thrive: freeze dried fish.  Daily, 2 - 4 bits.  (He'll do pretty much anything for these)

Poultry toothpaste. Daily AM and PM

​Lysine gel. Daily AM and PM - tried mixing it with his wet food but it was too much of a hit or a miss whether he got his dose.  Prefers to lick it off his toothbrush!

Wet food

A tea spoon of one of the following in the evening (if I can get him to eat it).

Sardines in spring water.

Thrive complete chicken

VitaCat chicken pate

ETA: this is a great thread...it does a good job of illustrating that raw or feeding high quality food is not all-or-nothing.   Really interesting to see the range of things people are feeding.  Makes me want to pick up a few cans of Friskies or Fancy Feast to mitigate the $7.00 a lb. lamb I've got thawing out....

Dexter aka "Meat Hoover" (eats anything)

Raw:

Rabbit + chicken - topped with a few chicken gizzards for chew (Dr. Pierson recipe)

Chicken - topped with a few chicken gizzards for chew (Dr. Pierson)

Lamb (TCFeline added)

Beef (TCFeline added)

Beef (Call of the Wild added)

Lamb + beef combo (Call of the Wild)

Salmon oil added a few times a week.

Plus: any canned stuff Boo aka "Little Miss Picky-Poo Pants" turns her nose up at - he's a dumping ground/disposal.

Snack at noon: Momentum freeze dried poultry hearts (1-2) - I've used both turkey and duck.  Highly recommended, made in the USA (Wisconsin) and a real deal if you order directly from them:

http://www.momentumcn.com/

Boo aka "Little Miss Picky-Poo Pants"

Nutro Natural Choice, Soft Loaf in - Duck, Catfish, Turkey + Cod.

Some salmon oil added a few times a week.

Period.  Don't even TRY to give her anything else...it usually ends up in Dexter's dish.

This is the current rotation.  I tend to change things now and then. 

Wet Food: Breakfast

Instinct Nature's Variety: chicken, beef, venison, lamb

Weruva - Cats in the Kitchen: Fowl Ball, Lamb Burger, Chicken Frick'A Aee, The Double Dip

Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul - Adult Formula

Natural Balance - Original Ultra, Premium Indoor, and Venison Green Pea, 

Fancy Feast Classics - various, rarely seafood - maybe a couple of times a month.

There is also one which I got of rabbit, but can't remember which brand I was using for the life of me right now.  I know it wasn't Instincts.

Dry Food: Dinner

Origin Grain Free Cat and Kitten (the poultry based one).

I switch up dinner sometimes by giving wet, but usually it's kibble.

Treats:

Origin Dog Treats - Lamb (I break them up)

Pure Bites - Freeze Dried Chicken

Bonito Flakes

Freeze dried lamb lung - I don't remember the brand right now.

Egg yolk

Sardines

Raw:

When I'm cooking for us, I will throw them a treat of raw whatever I'm cooking; chicken, beef, salmon - or very lightly cooked with no seasoning.  I've found that Cocoa especially enjoys chicken wings; Casper is more into chicken breast.  

mine here it goes <im low on money thats why they have this

Blanket 50% diamond naturals dry 50 % natures variety dry mixed together and a friskies wet/true value kroger wet

the othere 19 cats i bought these drys on sale when i was vary low on money and had no food

dry

diamond maintence

good life recipe

kroger

speciel kitty

wet

friskies

true value kroger

I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading what everyone is feeding. Thanks for participating in the thread, guys!

Mogli is on European prescription single-protein canned food for his digestive problems, so basically meats, not brands, are rotated, although I've been adding some grain-free commercial canned and some cooked meat recently. He gets a different meat every day.

Vet-Concept: rabbit, kangaroo, reindeer
Sana: horse
Catz fine food: veal, rabbit & lamb

He gets a little (

All my cats are on wet food (finally!).

For Diana, she gets:

Wellness Cubed Chicken Entree

Wellness Beef and Chicken

Tiki Cat Puka Puka Luau Chicken

Nature's Variety Instinct (Beef, rabbit, duck, and lamb-when the store has it)

And since Trixie & Honey are pickier, they only eat the Nature's Variety Instinct Beef as well as the rabbit one. I'm still trying to find another food they like from another brand. Thankfully Diana seems to like everything, but the other two are so picky.

Edit: I forgot to add that all three get Stella & Chewy's Freeze-Dried Chicken Dinner as a treat. They love it!

My cat eats raw and this week is eating duck, mice, cornish game hen, chicken, turkey and grouse.  She usually eats rabbit as well but it's buried in my freezer somewhere. 

We have two 6 to 7 month old kittens, girls. We feed wet Merrick Thanksgiving Day Dinner and sometimes wet Merrick Grammys Pot Pie. Our kittens also get Wellness Kitten formula, dry, throughout the day. Is this ok?

Might be a stupid question, but can you mix their foods up from one day to the next? Is this what you all do? I thought this would cause digestive upset or diarrhea? Am I wrong? These are our first kittens/cats. We also have three dogs that we've had for years. Thanks for your answers! Great question btw!

psl8675309 said:

We have two 6 to 7 month old kittens, girls. We feed wet Merrick Thanksgiving Day Dinner and sometimes wet Merrick Grammys Pot Pie. Our kittens also get Wellness Kitten formula, dry, throughout the day. Is this ok?

Might be a stupid question, but can you mix their foods up from one day to the next? Is this what you all do? I thought this would cause digestive upset or diarrhea? Am I wrong? These are our first kittens/cats. We also have three dogs that we've had for years. Thanks for your answers! Great question btw!

Click to expand...

i dont see a problem switching up the wet she is young if you start that earley she wont have a problem later she might have upset at first if you worried you can do example 1 brand on mon and 1 and 2 mixed brand on tue then 2 brand on wed for awhile to see how she goes if she does good you can try to just switch on and off from 1 to 2 brand and if you want to add 3 4 5 example do the same with them but that probably be more complacated

cats do better in my opinion if you do a veriety of food wet flavor,brands dry flavor and or brands cats do better on switching from one to another brand and flavor when there younger then 1yr 

wet in my opinion you can switch that on and off from one day to the next i do it my cats dont seem to have a problem with it.

now dry that should be a slower process if you want to feed different brands like im going to use 2 example brands here you dont have to do the brands or amount of brands this is just to give a idea what i do,, i do this with my cats but with different brands due to i buy whats is cheaper and better then the next that is available at the time and

week1 100% NVI

week 2    75% NVI 25% wellness

week3 50%NVI 50 %wellness

week 4 25%NVI 75%wellness

week 5 100%wellness

and so on with different or same brands

i started to do it with my kittens they seem just fine actually they seem better then what there older siblings did on just one brand when they was kittens probably what martys problem is i waited tell he was 1yr + to give a different brands

you dont have to do this i just wanted to say what i do

Thank you for the examples. I think we will stick to the one brand of dry for now until they are one year old, then probably switch to an all wet diet. As for the wet food. That's what I was thinking...one whole can of the same wet food, they Half and half of each then the new food, right? Thank you!