Fancy Feast

The kibble is terrible. Very little meat, lots of corn and glueten and by products. High carb content. I would never feed their canned. Some of their cans contain glueten but there are a few that actually have high levels of protein and I hear it is good for the diabetic cat. I just can not get passed the artificial flavors and its loaded with by-products. The worst is the meat by products well what kind of meat? That scares me.

The only thing fancy about this food is it's marketing. The canned food is merely average, with the original formula Gourmet Chicken Feast containing both "meat by-products" (and if they can't tell you what animal these byproducts came from, the possibilities are horrifying) and "poultry by-products." By-products are waste product, folks. Animal bits unfit for human consumption. They can range from slaughterhouse scrap to blood clots to diseased carcasses to downer livestock to roadkill. Yes, roadkill. The dry food is even worse. Cats are obligate carnivores. This means that all of their vital nutrition is meat sourced. Cats in the wild eat exclusively meat, and domesticated cats in captivity need meat based foods. High protein, high nutrient, high quality meats. So what fancy meats does Fancy Feast start off their Savory Chicken and Turkey dry food formula with? Free range chicken? Wild turkey? Nope. Brewers rice. Little tiny broken fragments of rice considered was... Read more

My cats go NUTS for this stuff. All I have to do now is show them the Can. They freak out and stalk me like mad until I feed them!!

My cats seem to like it, but it causes my fat Calico to throw up.

Purina FancyFeast Gourmet - Cod, Sole and Shrimp (Pate)           Ingredients: Cod, liver, meat by-products, fish, fish broth, sole, shrimp, artificial and natural flavors, guar gum, added color (Red 3 and other color), potassium chloride, salt, thiamine mononitrate, Vitamin E supplement, calcium phosphate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, niacin, Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, calcium pantothenate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Vitamin D-3 supplement, folic acid, potassium iodide, biotin. Ingredients wise I rank this product a 2.. Doesn't smell bad.. Bailey my kitten ate it up (not a picky eater - has eaten everything ive given her so far - which earns this product a rank of 3..) But Liver,Meat By-Products and fish outranking Sole and Shrimp is a concern.. I don't recommend buying this food as daily supplement.. Only feeding quarter of a small can, a... Read more

Ingredients: Brewers rice, poultry by-product meal, corn gluten meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), ground yellow corn, soybean meal, animal liver flavor, fish, shrimp, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, natural and artificial flavors, potassium chloride, salt, brewers dried yeast, choline chloride, added color (Yellow 5, Red 40 and other color), natural filet mignon flavor, zinc sulfate, taurine, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.I remember the old commercials for Fancy Feast wet cat food, where a person would clink a deluxe crystal glass with a fork, and this gorgeous fluffy white cat would come and eat Fancy Feast out of ... Read more