What's healthiest cat food

What an interesting variety your cats enjoy, EllanVannin! I was particularly tickled by the Sunday dinner served to old Tom! Delightful!

My cats do very well on Felix varieties with veggies/ doubles etc, never the same thing. Whiskas biccies with tasty filled pockets, varieties of those too. Boxes of Sheba on occasion as well when they're on offer. Unless the cats are pedigrees or on special diets, Felix is ideal. They have the odd tin of mackerel too as they like the tomato/ oily sauce. I have 3 cats who are very healthy.

The old stray Tom is 20 years of age at the very least and loves his dinners. He has a Sunday dinner too 2 pouches mixed with bits of meat potato veg and gravy, whatever I have on a Sunday. He had plenty of bits of chicken yesterday when I stripped it mixed with 1 pouch as there was quite a lot.

What are vet bills ??

Hetty raw food feeding is a very controversial subject indeed. It can carry salmonella and other nasties. I'm not going into detail as we can all use Google. I definitely would not feed my cat or my dog on a raw food diet.

I haven't heard that before fish - I will look into it. You say cats are 'carnivorous', surely fish counts as meat?

Not all supermarket food is 'crap' as you put it. I'm sure that the manufacturers employ nutritionists - it is a massive market after all; and pet owners are discerning and not stupid.

Your post comes across as very judgemental and unpleasant to be perfectly honest. As for calling everyone 'cruel' who buys their pet food from supermarkets, well that's just daft.

I don't normally make comments on others' opinions, but your post really got my goat Hetty!

Never give them anything from a supermarket. It's cruel, equivalent to feeding your children on pot noodles!

The vet in our family says that cats should not be fed fish. It causes painful conditions in later life. They are carnivores, after all, so should be on a natural raw-food diet.

Try www.nutriment.co.uk/raw-cat-food/. If you have to feed kibble, at least get something decent, such as AATU (available online).

They really don't need much - and there's no harmful crap in it. You'll spend more on cat food - and save a fortune on vet bills.

Avoid chemical flea control too (use DE) and they live in good health into their twenties!

My elderly cat became diabetic and the vet said to feed her a pure protein so I fed her tinned sardines and tuna fish which she loved. Now her younger friend eats the same but also has a decent kibble and biscuits. I bought 30 tins of sardines today at Lidl and I always say "They are for the cat" as I get some strange looks!

Thank so much for the advice on the healthiest food to feed my senior cat.Much appreciated.

Our senior cat has Royal Canin kibble food too - 1 meal a day, and 1 meal of Sheba Craft slices in gravy (chicken or duck).
The vet approves and the cat is fairly healthy for her age (13 years).

Royal Canin is very good
My aunty was a top breeder and she really rates it
It's what my Maine coon eats (the kibble). I mix it with Whiskas dry as it's pricey.