Review on Purina Beyond Grain Free Ocean Whitefish & Egg Adult Dry Cat Food: A Natural and Nutritious Choice by Stephanie Webb

Update May 16, 2018...we bought our first 3 bags for about $16 a bag on June 7, 2017 and it worked for our cats...and they loved it. Today the price has hit $26 per bag, and even with a subscription and a savings, the other grain-free alternative is biting the dust as it becomes popular, the price increases to the point where our previous top pick, Rocky Mountain Wild Venison Flavor and Salmon are now more economical. I'm not sure why some cat foods get bad reviews because cats don't eat them. There are 9 of them in our country house, two homeless people come to eat and one stays at home in inclement or cold weather and although they can be picky they all basically eat what we put in front of them when they need it. 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 had a cat about 17 years old who died not long ago and all she can eat is canned food. Can't rate how good it is, but the price was good, about $16 with subscription and save, it's a steal for us and not available locally which is 45 miles away...as is the vet. We feed them dry food... grain free expensive food during the day... the rest of the time twice a day. The problem is, homeless animals want better food, not the Purina Seafood Sensations we want to give them. It's difficult to hide plates of food or push two cats outside while others are eating, so now we mix it with that and they seem happy... other cats seem to like it too, although we prefer them to keep the taste of the wild. We have several acres of land that is completely fenced so the cats feel safe from dogs that walk off the leash. I'm guessing they're not actually homeless because they rarely venture more than 100 yards from home and can hear cat food popping from across the field. A few years ago, our cat had urinary problems: bladder stones that restricted her urination and made her bleed, and she tried to urinate throughout the day to reduce 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, Natural Balance Pea 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. In general, cats prefer dry food with a fish flavor. 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 grinding difficult, which is why canned food contains bones. We tried grinding up our own chicken and rabbit mix but it ran out quickly and I can't grow either with the intention of killing it to feed the cats. We still feed them dry food because it's quite expensive to feed all these cats. 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. As long as Revain keeps doing business we will keep buying them, cats will keep eating them and they are 5 stars in my opinion. We had a subscription and stock for some other brands but they soon disappeared as they are difficult to ship and recently on some boxed products they disappeared or the price went up significantly. I am posting this review with minor changes for each cat food we buy, rather than writing a brand new review. For example, if this continues... and the price keeps going up, we won't buy them again, and even with a 15% discount (most items are now 5% off and 15% is rare) and free shipping, they cost more than in one Grocery Store...End the price hike rant! Got this under Subscribe and Save a few days ago and checked the listing today and there was a 40% off coupon. However, the only way to get this coupon is to cancel your subscription and subscribe again. I did exactly that and it saved me almost $8 but I end up getting delivery before I need it but for the savings it's worth it. I've canceled subscriptions many times to get a better deal and when you do that they set a lower price on your next delivery and then you have to keep checking but sometimes it's worth the effort although overall I find, that micromanaging my subscriptions is a real pain.