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Review on 🐱 Top-rated Purina Friskies Gravy Wet Cat Food - Premium Shreds with Chicken - 24 Cans (5.5 oz each) by Dina Harvey

Revainrating 5 out of 5

7 cats are rated high with 7 paws!

I don't understand why some cat food gets bad reviews because cats don't eat it. There are 7 of them at our country house, plus a few tramps who come to eat and although they can be picky they all basically eat what we give them when they are hungry. They are fed three times a day and canned food is the morning meal, so perhaps the lack of food between 6pm and 6am makes this quite attractive. We have a cat that is about 17 years old and all she can eat is canned food. I can't comment on how good it is, but at less than 45 cents a can (including shipping), it's less than the local grocery store, which is about 45 miles away. like the vet. We feed them kibble (expensive grain free) for two more meals a day, so canned food is a bargain too. Our cat had some urinary problems: bladder stones that limited her ability to urinate and made her bleed, and she tried to urinate all day to relieve her irritation. The vet stated that the reason for the stone formation is the bad ingredients in some dry cat food because the cat cannot process enough liquid to digest the food. He wanted to put her on a special diet of Science Diet Urinary Tract Dry Specialty Blend and then on one of her regular foods for life. It seemed a little useless because initially we fed the cats a decent food like Purina One. We did some research and found that most of the filler in most dry cat foods is actually grain, which is difficult for cats to digest. The diet we found included homemade cat food consisting of shredded rabbit and chicken pieces with some added vitamins. I tried it and it worked, but it was a hassle to make, the rabbit isn't cheap or easy to find, and takes up a lot of freezer space. Going back to another search, and a viable alternative turned out to be canned cat food with some caveats and grain-free pellets. There aren't many fillers in canned foods, and the most important ones for us are poultry, fish, and meat in pie or gravy form. Cats are using this now and the kidney/urinary tract problems are gone, their coat is better, their urine is more but they urinate less often now because they don't need to consume as much water to process grains and they like them really what they eat. We feed them Friskies & 9-lives in cans and Blue Buffalo Wilderness, Merrick Before Grain, Felidae or Taste of the Wild dry. Dry food is getting more expensive, packaging is getting smaller and free shipping offers are disappearing, so it's getting harder to get a deal now, but when we do, we buy more. I can't say enough about how well this new diet is working and every trip to the vet saved is worth more food. What we do is based on information from Lisa A. Pearson, DVM at Making Cat Food (catinfo.org), and she believes cats need bones, which makes chopping them difficult. We still feed them because it's quite expensive to feed 7 cats plus a couple of homeless people. It's a shame that the packaging is getting smaller, but the prices are staying the same or increasing. We buy grain free kibble from Merrick and Wild Buffalo and the packets now weigh 11 pounds. everyone. However, if you do the math, canned foods are still cheaper per serving. Thank you for your comments. As long as Revain keeps doing business we will buy it, cats will eat it and it's 5 stars. I think. We have a 'Subscribe and Save' feature for some products, but it will probably disappear soon because it is difficult to ship and recently disappeared from some packaged products or the price increased significantly. I post the same review for every cat food we buy, rather than editing each one for a specific brand. Update: Revain's gravy-based 9 lives appear to be a lot drier than previous purchases. The sauce is almost a gel-like substance where the local storage jars are still quite damp. Not sure what's here, but all glasses are within the date range. If this continues. and the price keeps going up, we won't buy them anymore, and even with 15% discount and free shipping, they are more expensive than supermarket. About $10 for a 24-pack is about the same as what we pay at the grocery store, although we pay a little more just to have it in a case.

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