Is Meow Mix Canned Foods Healthy?

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I know most of the Meow Mix canned/cup foods are sea food based, but are they considered healthy? I don't feed Meow Mix kibble anymore and my cats are fed a grain free kibble, raw, and canned food but is it healthy every now and again? Can it compare to Fancy Feast or Friskies? I feed all of those foods every now and again.
 
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Truthfully the best canned cat foood at the store would be fancy feast. I have seen some bad issue cats have with other brands over the years and learned my lesson to just stick with fancy feast and i have had about 8-10 cats over the past 10 years and all of them worked well with fancy feast compared to others. 
 

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I've just had a quick look at the ingredients for several Meow Mix varieties. To be honest, the biggest thing that jumps out at me is that they all seem to have artificial colouring in them, and many have artificial flavouring too. Having said that, Friskies have both in too, and Fancy Feast has artificial flavouring added.

For myself, I'd rank Fancy Feast 1st, with Friskies and Meow Mix being equal 2nd. Personally, so long as the fish is part of a complete and balanced food, I don't have an issue with feeding it occasionally. My boy in particular ADORES fish, and I'd hate to totally deprive him of it. [article="31650"][/article][article="29707"][/article][article="33544"][/article]
 

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Unfortunately, I have to resort to the Meow Mix cups often.  Wurp is getting worse and worse the older he gets about being picky.  And, I will go to about any lengths to prevent him from eating dry kibble because it makes him vomit every single time he does.  And he just won't eat rather than eat something he doesn't want/like, and if he doesn't eat he vomits too, so it's a catch-22 with me.

We go back and forth with FF pates, meow mix cups, and friskies pates.  I try the FF chicken & turkey ones first, and resort to fish if all else fails. My two either get a FF can apiece or I split a can of Friskies between them.  The meow mix fishie-nasty-flavor cups are the last resort, because usually Wurp will eat those if he refuses everything else.  I keep them on hand all the time just in case.  They stink to high heaven though!  Man, they are nasty-smelling!!

And...he is like my husband...he flat out refuses any "healthy" food.  I've spent no telling how much money on expensive brands to no avail, he won't even eat the Royal Canin that everybody else says their cats love.  I gave up.

If it takes Meow Mix, so be it.  They also make pates in the cups now, we've tried a few of those with great success when all else fails.
 

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hbunny hbunny - I really wouldn't worry too much. As you say, the most important thing is that Wurp eats, and if that's what he likes, then that's just fine. My number one rule is always the best food for your cat is the one that they'll happily eat! :winkblue:
 

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HAHA @Columbine   I've taken that advice.  I read through the CKD cat links and even that says as long as they eat it, it's a good food for them!

I just wish he wasn't so stubborn.  I open 3 cans some evenings just to see if I can get him to eat something.  The bad thing is that Shortstack is on a diet, and part of his evening meal is some dry prescription formula Royal Canin diet food that I get from the vet.  Wurp would climb mountains to get to that bowl of dry kibble!  Wurp has scaled baby gates and hit the floor HARD on the other side to get to that kibble.  It must be particularly tasty!  Wurp is starting to get that elderly cat slenderness around his shoulders, so I don't want him filling up on that low cal stuff.  It is an ongoing struggle over that cat's food.
 
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