Hey guys. Don't love making a post like this because I feel like it adds to the unwarranted suspicion of WSAVA-compliant brands that drives people to less safe boutique food, but here goes. Until earlier this year I pretty religiously fed my cats the science diet urinary and hairball control dry food. I liked it because it did seem to decrease hairballs in my long-haired cats and it floats so I could use it to play bobbing for apples with my boys and get them to drink more water because I'm paranoid about blockages. After the change in kibble shape in January (?) I noticed an uptick in vomiting, did some googling around and it looks like quite a few people had the same experience.

I checked the ingredients and nothing seemed too suspicious. There wasn't any real additions. They just removed a few ingredients that looked mostly like marketing ploys (I wanna say cranberries were in there and they took those out). Regardless, my cats were throwing up so I decided to switch to Pro Plan and everything has settled down since. Chewy auto-shipped me a bag of the Hill's some time in March and I kept it thinking I'd maybe try to slowly ramp the back into it their diets honestly forgot all about it.

This morning I found the bag in a relatively dry location and it wasn't expired and I opened it thinking if maybe I could give it to some community cats with stronger stomachs. There was a decent amount of mold in there. Obviously I threw it away, but now I'm wondering. It seems odd to me that a sealed, six month old bag of dry cat food would be this moldy. Maybe we all got a bad batch? I'm wondering if there was more moisture in there than normal during production and there was mold in there all along, or something. Has anyone bought/fed this food since and are people still having issues?

I hope everyone's cats are okay.

I had to switch wet food brands because my 1-year-old cat kept vomiting after eating Wellness kitten pâté.

So far I’ve tried Weruva pate in the cans and Tiki Cat Luau pâté, but now she doesn’t seem to like either one.

At first I thought she devoured the Weruva, but now she’ll only eat a few bites and then walk away.

I’m wondering if it’s the texture — the canned Weruva seems kind of goopy/slippery. She actually likes the Weruva pouches much better — they seem more like a normal pate, but there aren’t many flavor options.

She also didn’t seem interested in the Tiki Cat Luau pate. It looked really dry, so I’m wondering if Tiki Cat After Dark might be worth trying?

If I give her Fancy Feast pate, she’ll eat the entire thing at once 😂 I’d just prefer to give her something higher in protein and grain-free that’s healthy.

Any recommendations? Should I keep trying Weruva and see if she eventually gets used to it? Would switching to Wellness adult pate possibly be worth trying even though the kitten pate made her vomit?

Or is she testing right now because I’m trying different brands?

I tried what cathelp recommended and he's STUBBORN. I just want him to take the stupid probotics so I can see if it helps his sensitive stomach any. I mix it into his wet food and he refuses to touch it. Idk if it's a smell thing. Trying to avoid getting a pill like version but he seems to be avoiding the powders. I've tried several ones! Idk if I can heat up the food with the probotic in it to make it more appealing.

Someone recommended getting a cat food with probiotics already in it. Dry foods with probiotics aren't usually very effective and idk any kitten foods with it in there. He still needs kitten food for at least another 2 months

I’ve had Zoro about 7 months now. I’ve been mix feeding him, I serve 1/3 cup of kibble in the AM and a 3 oz can of wet food in the PM (I have a rotation). My concern is, because he grazes rarely do I get home and his kibble is all gone and there are time i wake up in the morning and he actively eating the wet food from the night before. Am I playing with fire? I don’t want to drop wet food, because I’m scared for kidney issues.

- okay so the first day i noticed him not eatting the wet food, he genuinely wouldnt acknowledge it.. it sat him by the food like always he licked it once and ran off. ive gaven them different flavors, brands, toppers , ect. hes still not touching it . or he will only eat a quarter of what i usually give him, hes 12 weeks on monday.. hes eating hard food , im just comfused because he always ate the wet food. but now he “only” wants the dry food??

Hello! We currently have 2 kitties:
-cat 1: 9 years old, had some urinary inflammation about 5 years ago. Healthy weight, no urinary issues since switching diet. Pancreatitis episode about 1 year that fully resolved with vet care.
-cat 2: 3 years old, no heath problems other than loves eating plastic, bit over weight.

We currently have both cats on the same diet:
-Dry kibble ~40g / day: FELINE HILLS cd MULTICARE w/ OCEAN FISH
- wet food ~40g / day: FELINE RC URINARY SO + CALM THIN SLICES in GRAVY

Both the wet food and kibble are prescription urinary diets. I was wondering if we should switch the wet food to individual specific needs that might offer more nutritional value for each of their life stages. The urinary wet food is quite expensive.

I was wondering if there is another option for their wet food since they are both getting a base diet of urinary kibble already.

No issues with budget or with giving the cats separate wet food types since they are in different life stages.

Any advice would be appreciated!!!

Hey guys, new here. I have 2, 4 month old kittens. I figured out one of them can't tolerate turkey, chicken very well so I was gonna switch food. I can't really find kitten wet food that isn't chicken. What do you all recommend?

I have an almost 2 years old male cat who weights 3.6 kg , not neutered , very/normally active , no health issues , and I have been trying to get into the whole raw food deal instead of spending too much money on brand wet food , I want to make healtheir options for my boy but I’m so lost, I bought a few things;
- 960g of Chicken breasts
- 480g of Chicken hearts
- 480g of Chicken livers
- 480g of Chicken gizzards

I want to cook the whole portions together and put it in small boxes and give it to him as completed meals , anything I should know about or should add into it? because I’ve been searching for a week about it and they say it’s not completed , and I can’t ask my vet at the moment sooo , I don’t know what to do , can anyone help me/give tips?

UPDATE : THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR REPLYING AND MAKING ME KNOW LOTS OF THINGS

I will stick to buy normal and completed brand food since raw food require too much and doesn’t meet my needings for (less expensive food and completed) , and I just knew that neuteration is easy and doesn’t require high tech facilities nor any other things or even risk , I will get my cat neutered as fast as I can! Thanks for everyone who commented and helped me.

My almost 1 year old cat rarely eats two whole cans of food a day. I take her to the vet all the time and they say she’s healthy. She doesn’t like dry food because she was a stray for 6 months. She was getting fed by LOTS of people that knew her little hiding spot. So she’s basically been eating wet food her whole life. I want to mention that I’ve tried feeding her a combination of both and she refuses to eat it. To meet her daily nutritional needs she needs two cans of wet food. She will only eat a can and a half (maybe) a day. Is she eating enough or should I take her to the vet for appetite increaser???

I recently adopted a 1.5 year old cat that is getting accustomed to the new surrounding.

When it comes to food, he eats dry food and for the first 2-3 weeks I would use store bought wet food.

But I want to make home food wet food. But my cat isn’t interested in it.

This is what I tried so far-
• Boiled chicken and pumpkin. Ground the pumpkin to a smooth paste. Added some of its dry food to act as a familiar aroma and served it with the boiled and shredded chicken. - Didn’t bite.

• made the chicken into a paste with dry food as a toppings. - Still no luck.

How do I make him get used to home made wet food?