Review on 🐱 Grain-Free Dry Cat Food by Whole Earth Farms by Katie Payne

We have been buying this food (no grain recipe from Whole Earth Farms, salmon flavor) since August 2017. Initially I would have given it a four or five star rating but in We've had one problem after another for the past two or three months. It started with our red tabby throwing up huge piles of this food 2-3 times a week and our longhair cats throwing up hairballs. Otherwise nothing has changed in their diet (we don't feed treats and only one of our four cats gets wet food). Noticing these changes, I attempted to switch from that food to a slightly more expensive Merrick food (Whole Earth Farms is a subsidiary of Merrick), Purrfect Bistro, with better ingredients that are still sourced from the US. Strike for two days, and when I googled their strike solutions, I saw how dangerous fasting is for cats, especially the overweight cats that are the two of us. So I bought Merrick's second formula, their limited ingredient diet food. The hunger strike continued so I put her back on this diet and over the last six to eight weeks it has only gotten worse. I'm starting to suspect it's a Whole Earth Farms quality control issue because every time we open a new bag of this food (same recipe, same taste) the vomiting and eating cramps start up again like I had them made a gift different brand than the ones they are used to. Now that our orange tabby is throwing up heaps of this food several times a day and our longhair is now getting hairballs once a day, I'm switching back to the Blue Buffalo Sensitive Stomach formula. I hate it because I love it when Merrick uses local ingredients (until I discovered Whole Earth Farms, it didn't even occur to me that pet food ingredients were sourced overseas). The shipment is on its way and I hope her gastrointestinal problems will subside soon. As a side note on this brand's flavors, when we first started feeding them last August, my attempts to diversify them were unsuccessful, although our cats originally loved Salmon-flavored Whole Earth Farms: They didn't touch chicken, chicken, turkey, and duck from Whole Earth Farms.