Wellness Turkey Dinner Grain-Free Wet Cat Food, 5.5 Ounces

This is a great product, healthy ingredients, and best of all, my cat never gets tired of it

I only feed my cat grain free pet food. Preferably wet canned cat food. My cat (who is finicky) really likes this food and I feel good about giving it to him. No grains to make him overweight. No byproducts to make him sick.

We switched to Wellness minced canned a decade ago and our cats are all perky, shiny eyed, glossy with thick warm fur, and healthy. One problem with this brand is that there isn’t always the same amount of moisture in each can. Cats really don’t drink much in nature and get most of their water from the food they kill, so even though we always have bowls of water for them, when we get cans of food without enough water we always mix in extra so that the food has a gravy which they love and forces them to drink enough water which is extremely important for their health. Aside from that I’ve never seen happier healthier cats, and I’ve had 5 of them, all from the humane society, and all began only in so-so shape. Our latest kit was about a year old and had already had 7 kittens herself and had been through a hysterectomy right before we took her home. After two weeks of this food the shaved part of her coat has grown back the first layer, her fur is glossy, her eyes are bright and sparkly, and she has a lot of zest.
I know a lot of cat foods have come out over the years but this one is made in the USA and seems to be doing a great job and as long as my cats like it and are as healthy as can be they will be getting it. And, best of all, they love it.

IT’S ESA’S VERY FAVORITE FOOD

No longer an issue with their digestion problem.
This product agrees with them.

I have two cats who have eaten nothing but Wellness wet food for over 10 years now. They were fed Wellness kitten food from 6 weeks old and now refuse to eat anything else but their respective favorite flavors of Wellness. I used to love giving them Wellness as it actually smelled like the protein source written on the can. (The chicken herring really smelled like chicken with herring added, the beef smellled & looked like beef, etc.) The food smelled appetizing, like something I would eat. Through the years we had to change flavors and Wellness products a couple of times when Wellness changed their recipes, but I was always able to substitute a slightly different flavor or product (such as the Healthy Indulgence pouches) and for the most part it was still better than any other cat food on the premium market…that is, until the latest Minced Salmon order from Amazon. I had noticed the change in labeling but hoped the change was purely aesthetic. When I opened the can this time, however, not only did it NOT smell like salmon, it didn’t smell edible! It smelled rotten, with an odd plastic odor underneath! The consistency was different too. The bits of food were an odd grey color and ground up much smaller than usual. I thought it might just be the one can and so I opened another – same nasty smell, color and texture! I opened several cans and to my disgust, all were the same.

At this point I thought that perhaps the package from Amazon had been left outside in the sun for too long so I called my husband and had him pick up a few cans from Petco on his way home. He called me from the store to tell me the labeling on the minced salmon cat food had changed; did I still want it? I did. Unfortunately, the cans he had brought home contained the same stinky grey substance. So this was Wellness’ latest change in the recipe. Just to make sure I was not going senile I spooned some into my cat’s bowl anyway. He looked up at me disapprovingly, turned up his nose and walked away…

We bought several other flavors (for our other cats) with the “new labeling” that had also undergone a change in consistency, smell and (judging by our cats’ reactions) flavor. I don’t know whether alternative meat sources are being used or if the company has recently changed ownership, but perhaps they are trying to shave costs and maximize profits. This has happened with several “premium” pet food companies lately and it upsets me… I wish we could be given the opportunity to just pay a higher price. Cats are such finicky creatures! I’d rather pay the higher price than spend money buying new foods in order to find another one they’ll accept. I wish I had just fed homemade from the very beginning but unfortunately, my 2 oldest furbabies won’t accept Mama’s home cooking 🍳 .

So the search for a cat food similar to the old Wellness formula continues… If anyone finds such, please let me know. Sorry so long! Thank you!