Do any cat owners feed the cats Whiskas Pate, Fancy Feast Appetizers, Wellness Duos, Meow Mix Topper

it seems like no cat owners feed their cat Whiskas Pate, Fancy Feast Appetizers, Wellness Duos, Meow Mix Toppers, or Nature's Recipe, but they have the most shelf space at grocery stores and petsmart and petco.  yet no one online talks about them - are they healthy?  unhealthy?  to ashamed to admit they feed these brands to their cats?

Garrett

It probably depends on where you live, as far as what brands "have the most shelf space at grocery stores". I have never even seen any Whiskas Pate or Wellness Duos, (though at least one person on here has talked about feeding the Wellness Duos to their cats).

I like Fancy Feast Appetizers as a treat, but they're too expensive to feed often, and are not a complete food anyway. I sometimes use Meow Mix wet foods to entice a cat that won't eat other foods, but I don't like the ingredients for everyday feeding.

Before I knew any better, I used to feed my cat the Whiskas wet food seafood variety. This was for about the last two years of his life. He was a senior cat that had stopped eating and this was the one food that he would eat. I was young and knew nothing of cat nutrition. He began having frequent urinary tract infections and had to be hospitalized three times due to a severe blockage and crystals. He was on numerous medications, and the vet never attributed his problems to his diet. She just said that he had problems because he was an "old cat." He lived to be 19 years old, but he probably could have had a better quality life had he been on a better food. Now, I know better and feed my current cats better food. So no, I would not recommend feeding Whiskas, or Meow Mix, for that matter, because they have similar bad ingredients. Whether the food is pâté or morsels, the ingredients are about the same. I don't know about Nature's Recipe, but I do feed canned Wellness, and my cats are doing well on it. I have not tried the Divine Duos though--just the sliced varieties. I have only fed Fancy Feast a couple times. It was fed to the senior cat (R.I.P.) that I mentioned above and the result was diarrhea. I guess all cats are different though.

My cat likes the chicken/duck combo in wellness Devine duos. I like it because it has no carageenan or by products or grain. I do not feed the others.

I tried Whiskas pate with my cats and they didn't take to it at all. The texture is off, it looks and smells cheap, and it smelled awful once it wound up in the litter box. For a relatively comparable price and availability, I can get Friskies wet which the cats prefer. Generally I avoid Whiskas and Meow Mix because I haven't been pleased with any of their products' ingredients, especially knowing the great lengths they go to with marketing instead of quality.

Nature's Recipe looks like a good food, but I haven't bought it before. I usually don't buy "in broth" foods since I water down the food anyway, so I feel like it's not worth it to pay for broth when I can make my own and pay for more food in the can instead.

wow - thanks everyone for the replies, whether you feed your cats these food brands or not.  this is SUPER helpful!

i have an 18yr+ old cat who stopped eating dry food 2yrs ago, and i started with friskies wet, which seemed mostly OK.  then she started getting a few UTIs.  Then she started meowing late at night and in the morning, for which food mostly seemd to solve that.

now i've submitted a patent for a pet feeder that opens these types of pull top plastic food containers and built prototypes that feed my cat twice a day when we're asleep at 5am and 2p when at work.

that said, i can't seem to find any pet owners who buy these food brands in these specific container types, even though i see them at every grocery and pet store.  don't misunderstand, i'm not advocating these food brands be the only food a cat should eat exclusively, but somebody is buying these brand foods, and i can't seem to find them to see if my feeder would be of interest to them.

garrettmarvel said:

wow - thanks everyone for the replies, whether you feed your cats these food brands or not.  this is SUPER helpful!

i have an 18yr+ old cat who stopped eating dry food 2yrs ago, and i started with friskies wet, which seemed mostly OK.  then she started getting a few UTIs.  Then she started meowing late at night and in the morning, for which food mostly seemd to solve that.

now i've submitted a patent for a pet feeder that opens these types of pull top plastic food containers and built prototypes that feed my cat twice a day when we're asleep at 5am and 2p when at work.

that said, i can't seem to find any pet owners who buy these food brands in these specific container types, even though i see them at every grocery and pet store.  don't misunderstand, i'm not advocating these food brands be the only food a cat should eat exclusively, but somebody is buying these brand foods, and i can't seem to find them to see if my feeder would be of interest to them.

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I prefer foods in tab pull cans for obvious reasons

garrettmarvel said:

 
it seems like no cat owners feed their cat Whiskas Pate, Fancy Feast Appetizers, Wellness Duos, Meow Mix Toppers, or Nature's Recipe, but they have the most shelf space at grocery stores and petsmart and petco.  yet no one online talks about them - are they healthy?  unhealthy?  to ashamed to admit they feed these brands to their cats?

Garrett

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The Wellness Divine Duos is Lilith's favorite so it has a permanent place in our rotation. They both eat it but Lilith loves them. I give them the chicken/duck one and the chicken/turkey one.