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Hi Everyone, 

I was given a sample of cat food called hi-life I don't know if you can get it in the United States as I live in the United Kingdom. Any way i've just tested this 'Hi-Life' and I seen what It looked like and I was wondering if anyone had tried this with their pets as i'm thinking of changing my cat onto that brand. 

Many Thanks 

Cooksandpebbs x 

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Hi Everyone, 

I was given a sample of cat food called hi-life I don't know if you can get it in the United States as I live in the United Kingdom. Any way i've just tested this 'Hi-Life' and I seen what It looked like and I was wondering if anyone had tried this with their pets as i'm thinking of changing my cat onto that brand. 

Many Thanks 

Cooksandpebbs x 

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@Columbine and @MServant are two UK members that I know of who may be familiar with the Hi-Life brand of food.

Here are two threads that I found on Hi-Life:

http://www.thecatsite.com/t/321767/hilife-wet-cat-food

http://www.thecatsite.com/t/113285/hi-life-food

You can also look through these TCS posts for general UK food recommendations: http://www.thecatsite.com/newsearch?search=UK+food&type=35

Hi C cooksnpebbs

Which Hi Life food are you referring to? Some of them are pretty good, but others are definitely less so, imo anyway

If it helps, these are the foods I'd feel happy about feeding, along with where to buy them:-

From Zooplus (in no particular order):-

Wet foods

Grau
GranataPet
Catz Finefood (they also have a range called Purr that is limited ingredient/novel protein)
Bozita tetrapacks (in jelly or sauce - both grain free). Great budget option.
Animonda Carny
Feringa
Terra Faelis (low phosphorus)
Thrive Complete
Animonda Von Feinsten
Leonardo

There are a few other pretty good brands from there (for example Lily's Kitchen), but I feel they're either relatively expensive form the ingredients used, or they contain gums/similar (cassia gum, xanthan gum, guar gum, carrageenan), which can cause tummy upsets in some cats.

Dry foods (ideally should be fed VERY sparingly as they're both high calorie and can cause hydration issues unless you take extra steps to compensate for their dryness)

Applaws
Feringa
GranataPet (standard Adult range)
Orijin
Purizon


Foods from other suppliers:-

Wet Foods

Nature’s Menu www.naturesmenu.co.uk and various other suppliers
Meowing Heads - www.barkingheads.co.uk / Pets at Home and others
Wainwrights - the trays are a lot better than the pouches, ingredients-wise. Avoid the 'Light' version as it's much lower meat (Pets at Home own brand)
Hi Life Tempt Me (Pets at Home and various retailers, including some supermarkets)
Forthglade www.forthglade.com and various online retailers
Purely Holistic (Pets at Home)

Supermarket foods

Sheba trays in jelly only
Lily's Kitchen (tesco - actually a different formulation to their regular, non supermarket range. Exclusive to tesco)
Tesco's Finest in jelly only
Butchers Classic cans
Sainsbury's Delicious in jelly only
Asda Tiger trays - pate only
Sheba Fresh Choice in jelly only

I mostly use foods from Zooplus and Pets at Home at the moment, mostly because of convenience (and two VERY fussy cats ). Hope this helps