I primarily feed all of mine wet food. However, I want them to have a snack a couple times a day, so I bought a timed feeder for dry food. However, I can’t find a dry food that is grain free and relatively decent for them that they will actually eat. They’ll eat the Meow Mix dry foods all day long! So far “grain free” has been met with rampant disapproval.
Any recommendations for a highly palatable good quality dry food? What do your picky eaters love?
My 2 picky- can’t agree on one food- both gave thumbs up on Blue buffalo. Give it a day or so for them to eat it.
I mostly buy indoor hairball type but they both ate BB wet and dry.
I feed Taste of the Wild. The green bag.
Acana or FROMM
I wonder if changing up the delivery method would help? One of those rolling slow feeder things, or the little mouse ones? If they’re playful and curious, they might be more interested in the food if they have to “hunt” it.
I use a timed feeder with wet food.
I feed Fussy Cat dry and Wellness wet. My old picky cat loves both.
I second the Fussy Cat! I went through so many barands until I found this!! My picky eater loves both the canned and dry!
I have had cats do a pretty good job of eating Simply Nourish dry food. It is a Petsmart brand, so only available at Petsmart. It comes in both a grain free formula and chicken and rice.
Thanks all! I’ll try a few different brands that have worked for other posters’ picky felines. They do have a slow-feeder toy thing, but since they don’t actually want the food inside it, it’s not much of an incentive. My SO did get a kick out of watching ME roll it around for them, and then cleaning up the nuggets of food that fell out…all while both cats sat and watched. #slaveto3cats
Do you mean Fussie Cat?
Cats have no dietary need for carbohydrates, and due to their physiology, they have difficulty digesting plant matter.
you’ll never find high levels of carbohydrates in our foods
Two quotes from the Fussie Cats website. https://www.fussiecat.com/?page_id=5&lang=en
Little gap in the logic link, yes? Why include ANY levels of carbs when cats have NO dietary need for them? Why include sweet potatoes when cats have difficulty digesting plant matter (another page on their site names sweet potatoes). Sounds about as “logical” as Blue Buffalo telling people grains are bad for cats and then filling their foods with fruits (which cats don’t need either).
Do you really trust a cat food made in Thailand?
It’s sort of an under the radar brand, great ingredients.
My cat mugs me for fruit, so there’s that.
What do you feed and recommend?
I just found a post where you say you feed 9Lives. Have you read the ingredients?
Ingredients: Whole Ground Corn, Chicken By-product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Soybean Meal, Whole Wheat, Beef Fat(Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Meat and Bone Meal, Animal Digest, Salmon Meal, Salt, Phosphoric Acid, Choline Chloride, Titanium Dioxide (Color),
Wow, I’m being researched and quoted on the Internet!
I don’t know whether to feel famous or stalked! You must have worked hard to find that seeing as how it’s not on this thread. Are you practicing to be a detective or are you just naturally nosy and mean-spirited?
I don’t even remember posting about 9Lives, BTW. And like a lot of other people who think the worst canned food is better than the best dry, IMO the best canned food is one my cat will actually eat.
ETA: I wasn’t discussing what I feed. I was discussing Fussie, a food you say you feed but can’t even spell correctly! :lol:
Please. Get over yourself. You posted you fed 9 Lives two weeks ago.
Also you only posted on this subject to correct my typo. So perhaps it’s you that is stalking me? Or does that make you my fan?
Well, technically this is dry but it is ridiculously expensive . I leave it out for the boys if they feel they can’t live until they get fed: https://www.chewy.com/vital-essentials-chicken-mini-nibs/dp/152721
This stuff isn’t really “dry” but it’s also not a wet food, and some of mine have found it palatable:
https://freshpet.com/cat/freshpet-select-cat/tender-chicken-garden-vegetables-cat-food
You can find in grocery stores, often in the dog/cat aisle in a refrigerated case. It’s a little better than most dry food.
I use Natural Balance limited ingredient- the one my cats like best is the duck one
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