Which Good Quality Canned Food Does Your Cat Always Eat?

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We feed her nutro natural choice kitten, and occasionally fancy feast... we also leave out dry kibble (blue buffalo wilderness) but she rarely eats it... she loves the wet food. 

I don't plan on always leaving out the dry, but she's still a very young kitten, and I don't want her to be hungry.  I've read they need quite a bit of food when they're young.

Tomorrow we are going into town and I hope to get some more high quality canned food.  We live about an hour from a petstore and only go once every two weeks. :)
 

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My 6.5 year old cat eats Nature's Variety Homestyle Stews in Turkey, lamb and the Instinct in rabbit, lamb , duck and venison. He also gets Almo Nature in various flavours ( mostly the chicken ones very rarely the fish as a treat) and Weruva in the flavours other than fish. I personally don't like feeding fish to cats because 1, it's not natural for cats to eat fish amd 2, it is preserved with ethoxyquin. Weruva may not add it but in some areas it is required to oreserve fish with it so their supplier could use it. Plus , weruva's fish flavours contain that substitute for vitamin k.

My crf cat is the pickiest cat ever. He used to get the Natural Balance LID canned, Wellness Turkey, Holistic Selects in Turkey & Barley, Chicken & Lamb.

Lately he has been getting a/d or some rx food because he refuses everything now.. sigh
 

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I rotate natural balance ultra, weruva Peking duck, innova cat and kitten, merrick duck pate, halo spot stew chicken, chicken soup for cat lovers soul, soulistic chicken karma and aromatic chicken,felidae chicken & rice, wellness CORE chicken, natures variety instinct rabbit, I like to change daily in case of a recall they will not get too sick. I also use dry for treats orijen or natural balance pea and chicken Lid. Orijen is healthier but natural balance gives the crunch they like. I think switching also prevents boredom and allergies. Mine like chicken, duck and rabbit. They also prefer foods with brown rice in them so I try to alternate grain no grain.
 
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I just adopted 2 cats last week so I don't have too much experience yet! But I do have some... they were eating dry food at the shelter, and I'd like to eventually switch them to raw food, and my vet said the best way to transition to raw is to first move them onto canned. So I went to the pet store nearby and after much time deliberating and reading ingredients I picked out Wild Calling. I think I took home about 20 cans of various flavors since I've heard cats can be picky, and it can be difficult to get them to switch.

Much to my surprise they took to it immediately! Sinbad especially; he sucks it up like he's a vacuum cleaner. He'll actually climb into his food bowl to ensure he licks up every last bit.

So far they like all the flavors (except one - Sinbad won't touch the turkey, but Tempest eats it happily), although both their favorites seem to be the triple delight, which is a blend of lamb, salmon and chicken. 
 

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I'm in Kansas. Here's their website if you want it: http://wildcalling.com/

I know nothing about general food availability, these 2 cats are my very first! But there's a store locator on their site. I picked wild calling because the vet told me that cats can't digest grains or veggies and it was the only brand that had neither.
 

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Yeah, I refuse to shop at Petco or Petsmart. So by nearest pet store, I went to the nearest small shop. I guess it'd be like a boutique for cats and dogs.

Mine love the rabbit, too. The problem is that the rabbit doesn't have enough calories in the can and my darlings spend all day telling me they are starving and begging for food when I feed that formula to them, even when I mix it with something else to fill it in. Unless I open 3 cans and make them a custom blend triple delight of the rabbit, duck and salmon. lol

Though I'm hard pressed to say anything but "they love it" to ALL of the wild calling formulas. We've now tried every one and (aside from Sinbad and the turkey) are hard pressed to determine which they like more. It especially amuses me to feed them the buffalo. I have this image of house cats riding a rampaging buffalo as they try to take it down.
 

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My cats had Blue Buffalo for the first time. It was the chicken and turkey pate. Only two cats ate any. The others walked away. I will be returning the chicken, im sure it tastes the same.
 

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My cat gets tired of certain foods after a while, she gets bored easily. At the moment she likes nutro natural choice chunky chicken or turkey loaf. She also likes wellness duck or chicken pate even though it has carageen.[emoji]128008[/emoji][emoji]128062[/emoji][emoji]128008[/emoji][emoji]128062[/emoji]
 
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