Wellness Cat Food

bonesofsteel22 · Jan 25, 2006

My 3 1/2 old cat just came home today from a hip surgery but is doing well. I was feeding him Purina Canned food because that was the only kind he really likes and I dont want to give him Iams! I did some research and a lot of people told me to try Wellness canned foood. Has anybody had any experience with this food? They claim to have my by-products but I would like to here some opinions. thanks

white cat lover · Jan 25, 2006

If I remember right, someone here told me Wellness has Garlic in it. I think that's bad for kitties. Somebody else can tell you more about that.

My kitties don't mind the wet food, but they prefer cuts, not pate. The dry food went over really well with a few HS kitties.

sharky · Jan 25, 2006

There are many high end food with out "by products" those can be internal organs( all of them) heads feet undeveloped eggs... yum...

I dont feed wellness due to garlic( I had tried it by accident) and the kitties didnt like.. If you want a list search this site for food and youll get everyones opinion

lionessrampant · Jan 25, 2006

One of my cats absolutely loves Wellness and is doing fantastically on it. Garlic is low enough on the ingredient list for my sake...but I, needless to say, keep a very close eye on both of my cats. If any changes were to happen, she'd go to the vet, and if these were because of her food, I would not hesitate to change her diet. That being said, the same is true for my other cat.

ghostuser · Jan 25, 2006

My cats did not like the canned wellness at all. I tried a few different flavors. They did like the dry though, but I switched to Eagle Pack dry as it is lower in magnesium and ash and I have a cat that gets crystals.

bonesofsteel22 · Jan 25, 2006

I find it so hard.. I just want to get him on a good wet food. What is a good brand of wet food without TOO MANY by-products? I don't mind paying the extra money. thanks

sharky · Jan 25, 2006

easy to find no by product foods ... some have dry only others have both

Nutro
Royal canin
Natura ( innova cal natural and some others)
Natural Balence
Authority
Blue spa
Feline cavier
I know there are others that I cant think of but Nutro and Royal Canin can be found in Petco and petsmart as well as many small pet stores

squirtle · Jan 25, 2006

Dori eats Merrick wet (www.merrickpetcare.com ) and Innova Light dry (www.naturapet.com ). I also did not go with Wellness because of the garlic. With so many other great foods out there I decided it wasn't worth the risk.

savage destiny · Jan 25, 2006

I used to like Wellness a LOT, and fed it to my cats, but after one of my cats got a urinary tract infection, I started researching the food more. It turns out two people I know have cats with Struvite crystals, and got the crystals while on Wellness, and my vet said he's been seeing a lot of UT infections and crystals in cats who are eating Wellness. I now stay far away from the food- I feed California Natural dry to Ewu and Monster, and Innova dry to Puck. I feed Ewu CA Natural wet with her food, and Puck and Monster Prarie Nature's Variety wet.

I LOVE Prarie's wet food. It's expensive, but it has sooo many varieties. Monsty, who is a very picky eater (she won't even eat raw!) licks her bowl clean now that I feed her the Prarie wet.

menagerie mama · Jan 25, 2006

Where can you get Prairie food?

savage destiny · Jan 25, 2006

Originally Posted by menagerie mama

Where can you get Prairie food?

I get it at a specialty store called the Pet Express, which is local to our area.

I looked at http://www.naturesvariety.com/ and they have a Store Locator on their site, so you can find a store in your area which sells it. :3 You can also browse the varieties and ingredients of the canned food, to see if it's what you want.

menagerie mama · Jan 25, 2006

Thanks! It actually located the store I go to!

Duh..

sharky · Jan 25, 2006

Looked good till clay and garlic I knew there was a reason I did nt do Nature variety... the girls didnt like there raw either

vanillasugar · Jan 26, 2006

I was feeding Wellness wet before switching to raw. I loved it. My cats loved it. I didn't freak out about the small amount of garlic in it. It's grain free food, and has an excellent ingredients list otherwise, so I love it

savage destiny · Jan 26, 2006

Originally Posted by sharky

Looked good till clay and garlic I knew there was a reason I did nt do Nature variety... the girls didnt like there raw either

What is wrong with garlic for cats? I've never heard of garlic being bad before. D:

squirtle · Jan 26, 2006

Originally Posted by Savage Destiny

What is wrong with garlic for cats? I've never heard of garlic being bad before. D:

Here's the best thread I found with information related to garlic

http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=62654&

hareting · Jan 26, 2006

Originally Posted by Savage Destiny

I used to like Wellness a LOT, and fed it to my cats, but after one of my cats got a urinary tract infection, I started researching the food more. It turns out two people I know have cats with Struvite crystals, and got the crystals while on Wellness, and my vet said he's been seeing a lot of UT infections and crystals in cats who are eating Wellness. I now stay far away from the food- I feed California Natural dry to Ewu and Monster, and Innova dry to Puck. I feed Ewu CA Natural wet with her food, and Puck and Monster Prarie Nature's Variety wet.

I LOVE Prarie's wet food. It's expensive, but it has sooo many varieties. Monsty, who is a very picky eater (she won't even eat raw!) licks her bowl clean now that I feed her the Prarie wet.

i'm pretty shock reading this. becuz my cat was dignosed with crystals in her urine shortly after I adopted her fromthe shelter. when I change her food to wellness cans, her crystals were gone. Do you know if those who got crystals while eaing wellenss, do they get dry only?or dry and wet? and anyone else heard about cats getting crystals cuz they eat wellness???

rang_27 · Jan 26, 2006

My cat's loved wellness, unfortunately after about a month it gave them horrible diarreah. Recently I tried some Inova canned, which also contains garlic, & they boys did fine, but it gave Maggie bloody stool. So I'm sticking to Nutro Natural.

lionessrampant · Jan 26, 2006

Originally Posted by hareting

i'm pretty shock reading this. becuz my cat was dignosed with crystals in her urine shortly after I adopted her fromthe shelter. when I change her food to wellness cans, her crystals were gone. Do you know if those who got crystals while eaing wellenss, do they get dry only?or dry and wet? and anyone else heard about cats getting crystals cuz they eat wellness???

I tried to do some research on this and even called a friend at the emergency vet and they said they had never heard of crystals being caused by Welless...UNLESS it was a male who was being fed seafood flavors consistently, in which case, the best fish-flavored food in the world would still cause crystals in some males.

sharky · Jan 26, 2006

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

I tried to do some research on this and even called a friend at the emergency vet and they said they had never heard of crystals being caused by Welless...UNLESS it was a male who was being fed seafood flavors consistently, in which case, the best fish-flavored food in the world would still cause crystals in some males.

.... from my research crystals can be as much genetic as environmental... I will note that I have no male animals at this time but those in my past have never had crystals ...

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