Canned food challenges - trying to find a decent back-up/rotation brand.

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Has anyone tried Sheba?

The ingredients are very good for the price, and those "Perfect Portions" are great for my cat, who has always been a pain with trying to get him to eat leftovers. They are also pates, and there are always coupons like buy one, get one free, etc.

When I first got my Little Buddy, he was skinny, he was sick, he had diahrrea, his coat didn't look healthy and he had a noticeable limp. I think he was the runt, and the people I adopted him from really didn't do a good job taking care of him. I started out feeding him Blue Buffalo, which is great, and within two weeks he was looking very healthy. He LOVED the turkey flavors.

Well, I still buy Blue Buffalo dried food and occasionally BB wet as a treat, but it gets ridiculous paying $1.79 or $1.49 for a single can. I was ringing up $60 just on food when I went to PetCo. I started using Sheba as my "back up" because it was available at my local grocery store, and it had the best ingredients out of all the grocery store options. Now Sheba has become the primary wet food I feed my cat, and with the Perfect Portions I'm not wasting any food.
 

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Has anyone tried Sheba?

The ingredients are very good for the price, and those "Perfect Portions" are great for my cat, who has always been a pain with trying to get him to eat leftovers. They are also pates, and there are always coupons like buy one, get one free, etc.

When I first got my Little Buddy, he was skinny, he was sick, he had diahrrea, his coat didn't look healthy and he had a noticeable limp. I think he was the runt, and the people I adopted him from really didn't do a good job taking care of him. I started out feeding him Blue Buffalo, which is great, and within two weeks he was looking very healthy. He LOVED the turkey flavors.

Well, I still buy Blue Buffalo dried food and occasionally BB wet as a treat, but it gets ridiculous paying $1.79 or $1.49 for a single can. I was ringing up $60 just on food when I went to PetCo. I started using Sheba as my "back up" because it was available at my local grocery store, and it had the best ingredients out of all the grocery store options. Now Sheba has become the primary wet food I feed my cat, and with the Perfect Portions I'm not wasting any food.
Yes , I have fed it to my cats before .  I think it is a very decent food and very affordable ..
 

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I'm sorry, when you say "is there a problem with it", are you asking if it falls into your parameters of high protein, low carb, etc?  On a dry matter basis, the protein of the beef is 43% and carbs are 4%.  Sounds pretty good to me
.   Have you seen this chart?  http://www.catinfo.org/docs/FoodChartPublic9-22-12.pdf  It's my bible when it comes to food shopping, mainly because I have one that needs low phosphorus, so I really need this!
The chart is good start but you have to read the ingredients too.  NV Instinct contains Montmorillonite Clay, is a questionable ingredient and can cause dry, stinky stools.
 

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Sometimes I open the dog food size weruva of paw licken chicken, I rinse the chicken in a strainer and give 1/2 can to two cats and 1/2 can to my dog (he gets fresh sweet potatoes and green beans added to his). I do the same with steak frites by Weruva. The recipes are the same for dog or cat. My dog has eaten Weruva for the last 7 years since I discovered it! Dog does not eat kibble either just Purebites freeze dried chicken another food he shares with cats.
 
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Sometimes I open the dog food size weruva of paw licken chicken, I rinse the chicken in a strainer and give 1/2 can to two cats and 1/2 can to my dog (he gets fresh sweet potatoes and green beans added to his). I do the same with steak frites by Weruva.
Just curious: are you straining the liquid from the Weruva food or straining and rinsing with water? If it's the latter, wouldn't you be rinsing away the supplements that Weruva adds to the food after cooking?
 
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Actually montmorillonite clay can act as a detoxifier to  help solidify stools, among other benefits. Several pet food companies use MC in addition to NV: Wysong, Nature's Logic and Primal.
 
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Sometimes I open the dog food size weruva of paw licken chicken, I rinse the chicken in a strainer and give 1/2 can to two cats and 1/2 can to my dog (he gets fresh sweet potatoes and green beans added to his). I do the same with steak frites by Weruva. The recipes are the same for dog or cat. My dog has eaten Weruva for the last 7 years since I discovered it! Dog does not eat kibble either just Purebites freeze dried chicken another food he shares with cats.
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... The recipes are the same for dog or cat. ...
Unfortunately, the recipes are NOT the same for the dog and for the cat.
A cat needs taurine... which the dog food does not include.

Just FYI! :catguy: :9:

doggies: http://www.weruva.com/dog-cuisine-paw-lickin-chicken.php
kitties: http://www.weruva.com/cat-cuisine-paw-lickin-chicken.php
 
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Just curious: are you straining the liquid from the Weruva food or straining and rinsing with water? If it's the latter, wouldn't you be rinsing away the supplements that Weruva adds to the food after cooking?
I run a little water over it only because I do not like the soupy consistency I add back in sweet potatoes and greens for the dog. The cats get it only periodically because there is no taurine, just like plain chicken breast.
 
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As t the texture, you can make anything into pate using either a Magic Bullet or Ninja type personal blender.  I use my Magic Bullet to turn Soulistic and Weruva  (with additional water or egg whites and whatever else I want to add) into pate because I have a licker just like you :rolleyes: .  I don't understand it, because she will eat freeze dried treats just fine, but will only lick, and lick, and lick and lick her canned food.  Her brothers will be done for what seems like hours and she's still licking :lol3:
 

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I wondered if you could do that with chunkier food. I have a licker as well as he only has 5 teeth and the NV has a courser texture that I don t think he likes. He can eat kibble but that is another story. He loves the Nutro Perfect Portions which are very lickable. Do you know if you could make a pate with just a blender?
 

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I wondered if you could do that with chunkier food. I have a licker as well as he only has 5 teeth and the NV has a courser texture that I don t think he likes. He can eat kibble but that is another story. He loves the Nutro Perfect Portions which are very lickable. Do you know if you could make a pate with just a blender?
I think with a blender, you might have to add quite a bit of liquid for it to work. All I can say is try it and see.   BUT, what I have discovered is that with many cat foods, you can simply squish the chunks with the back of a spoon and they will almost "dissolve".  Doesn't work with certain foods, but does with others.   Works with Merrick, doesn't work with Fancy Feast. 
 

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I know I tried it with FF . I hate foods with Carageen and most chunk types don't have it so I thought I could make my own pate. Guess I should invest in a food processor. What kind do you use?
 

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I know I tried it with FF . I hate foods with Carageen and most chunk types don't have it so I thought I could make my own pate. Guess I should invest in a food processor. What kind do you use?
We NOW have a Ninja Kitchen System and use the individual "glass" to do it.  But used to use our Magic Bullet until we killed it from over use
.  It worked GREAT for this purpose.
 

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I and my cats like nutro natural chunky chicken loaf it has no carageenan. Mine liked the core chicken & liver in the wellness but it has carageenan.
 
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What do you think about Nutro and Wellness brand foods.
Mine love Nutro...Chunky Chicken, Chunky Duck and Salmon, and Minced Turkey and Salmon, and Sliced Chicken and Tuna (or Tuna and Chicken, can't remember which
.  I'm very happy with the ingredients in Nutro.

Mine don't really care for Wellness, and depending on WHICH line of Wellness, I'm not too fond of the ingredients.  Core ingredients are fine, but some of the other lines have too many carbs for my taste
 

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Thank you Mrs. Green jeans. So far all we ve tried is the perfect portions so I ll try the others. What are your thoughts on carrageen ? I know some of the Nutro has it as one of the ingredients and I ve been funny about giving him that.
 
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