Mine won't eat it either. I tried both canned flavors our TSC carries and no luck. They didn't like Taste of the Wild cannned either. Anything else they will eat even if it's obviously not their fave, they'll come back and eat it later, but not these two brands.
what is the deal with blue buffalo?
i'd think it would be a good food, if i could get my cats to eat it lol.
i've tried a lot of the canned varieties, but i found one yesterday that looks good and the cats are having none of it. healthy gourmet, chicken. wilderness, i think, i can't remember now and i don't want to dig the can out of the trash. i am not even kidding, i opened the can yesterday and diotima ate a little of it (accidentally--before i could move the dishes) because the other two cats ate a little the first time and then sniffed it and walked away the second time. d is always up for a nosh--she's the least picky cat and i'm glad for that. but i also erroneously gave some of the natural choice for mature cats to everyone, and they didn't seem wild about it. i bought it for her anyway, so it was okay the others weren't thrilled with it. but when i got out the BB they swarmed on her dish to eat the natural choice. baci ate plenty yesterday so for the evening meal since he wouldn't eat the BB, he didn't get anything. i figured he'd be sufficiently hungry this morning to eat it (it's my reasoning that if cat is truly hungry, it will eat what's there as opposed to "i'm not that hungry but i could eat") and nope. nobody wanted it so i threw it out. a three time refusal is all i'll make them go through. there are so many different foods that i don't think it's necessary to try to force them to eat something they hate. i even put some cheese on it and warmed it a little. baci picked the cheese out of his and houdini made the poop-covering pantomime.
so far weruva is the hands down winner but wellness is running a close second. it's a little odd to me that they are more apt to turn up their noses at pate-type foods but with all these new ones, they seem glad to eat them. wellness is pate, the duck BB was pate and they liked that. they usually like chunked food, but this must taste horrible.
anyone else try to feed BB and have a bust?
i've tried a lot of the canned varieties, but i found one yesterday that looks good and the cats are having none of it. healthy gourmet, chicken. wilderness, i think, i can't remember now and i don't want to dig the can out of the trash. i am not even kidding, i opened the can yesterday and diotima ate a little of it (accidentally--before i could move the dishes) because the other two cats ate a little the first time and then sniffed it and walked away the second time. d is always up for a nosh--she's the least picky cat and i'm glad for that. but i also erroneously gave some of the natural choice for mature cats to everyone, and they didn't seem wild about it. i bought it for her anyway, so it was okay the others weren't thrilled with it. but when i got out the BB they swarmed on her dish to eat the natural choice. baci ate plenty yesterday so for the evening meal since he wouldn't eat the BB, he didn't get anything. i figured he'd be sufficiently hungry this morning to eat it (it's my reasoning that if cat is truly hungry, it will eat what's there as opposed to "i'm not that hungry but i could eat") and nope. nobody wanted it so i threw it out. a three time refusal is all i'll make them go through. there are so many different foods that i don't think it's necessary to try to force them to eat something they hate. i even put some cheese on it and warmed it a little. baci picked the cheese out of his and houdini made the poop-covering pantomime.
so far weruva is the hands down winner but wellness is running a close second. it's a little odd to me that they are more apt to turn up their noses at pate-type foods but with all these new ones, they seem glad to eat them. wellness is pate, the duck BB was pate and they liked that. they usually like chunked food, but this must taste horrible.
anyone else try to feed BB and have a bust?
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Mine wouldn't touch it either. I finally gave up trying new foods once I found out they go absolutely NUTS over Weruva. I figured the cats and I were just stressing each other out trying to find a food they would eat. Not to mention all the money I spent on food they would take one bite if I was lucky then totally go on a hunger strike. So they now only eat Weruva.
Anytime I see food thread I have to push my favorite. EVO 95. Only $2.00 for a 13 oz can. No grains, fruits or vegetables. Other than various vitamins and minerals, it has only 4 ingrediest - Chicken, chicken broth, turkey, & natural flavors. - okay, I really don't know what the "natural flavors" are.
and I love their tag line "the ancestral diet". Yeah right, like lions were going around chasing chickens. - ain't marketing great?
and I love their tag line "the ancestral diet". Yeah right, like lions were going around chasing chickens. - ain't marketing great?
My kitten eats Blue Buffalo Dry. He attacks the tuna flavored wet and happily eats the chicken and turkey and indoor chicken flavors - just not as quickly as the tuna. I save the seafood as a special treat and buy the small cans.
I wonder if he'd go crazy for weruva if it's that much tastier. Someone on another site warned me about weruva because it was very low calorie to feed to kittens so I've been waiting to introduce it. Maybe I can just get a little to see if it's a hit or not.
I wonder if he'd go crazy for weruva if it's that much tastier. Someone on another site warned me about weruva because it was very low calorie to feed to kittens so I've been waiting to introduce it. Maybe I can just get a little to see if it's a hit or not.
I've not tried the Bb wet, but my guys love the dry BB wilderness.
For wet I feed the EVO 95. They love it. Even my guy who doesn't like wet is beginning to eat it.
For wet I feed the EVO 95. They love it. Even my guy who doesn't like wet is beginning to eat it.
My girls love the BB dry, especially the Blue Wilderness flavors. Not buying the canned anymore even if I have a coupon. They used to love the Wilderness canned - don't know what happened.
The 2 oldest love the BB dry except the rest of the crew won't touch it.
thanks all. almost everyone (including mine) like the BB dry. that's never been a problem, i just want to feed 100% canned if possible. i have some of the dry as an emergency back-up because sometimes i have to do it that way.
it just makes me suspicious of the chunked because it can't taste good if they won't eat it, and they refuse to even lick the gravy off it. it isn't the texture either because they love weruva.
and i'm not about to taste it to see lol. i just won't be buying anymore of the BB canned.
it just makes me suspicious of the chunked because it can't taste good if they won't eat it, and they refuse to even lick the gravy off it. it isn't the texture either because they love weruva.
and i'm not about to taste it to see lol. i just won't be buying anymore of the BB canned.
Yup. IMO it's the only thing to feed cats if you won't do raw. It's important to get the 95% formula though--there is a REGULAR Evo that has plant ingredients and I do NOT recommend that.Anytime I see food thread I have to push my favorite. EVO 95. Only $2.00 for a 13 oz can. No grains, fruits or vegetables. Other than various vitamins and minerals, it has only 4 ingrediest - Chicken, chicken broth, turkey, & natural flavors. - okay, I really don't know what the "natural flavors" are.
And it IS oddly low priced for the super premium food that it is! You can't get that much Friskies or other crap food for that price!
BB wet was a flop for me. I my tortie girl ate it, but she'll eat anything. It has to be approved by at least two of our four cats before it makes the menu. Sadly BB was a fail.
i tried to find this at petsmart but they didn't have any. it was one of the ones i wanted to try, so i ended up buying all the kinds of BB i had never tried, (there are one or two canned that my cats will eat, not ravenously, but they'll eat it--just definitely not the flaked variety) and wellness. i would like to try this but i order in bulk from doggiefood.com, so i don't really want 12 13.2 oz. cans of something my cats won't eat. i can't order just a can of it along with my regular order either, but it's too late right now anyway, i just spent 175.00 on cat food lol. (but i get free shipping and 10% off my order). next time i'll call the petsmart or wherever i'm going before i go just to make sure they have what i'm looking for. but i wrote it down. the chicken turkey 95% is the only poultry one they have, except for the duck and it's 37.50 for 12 13.2 oz, and the chicken is 21.99 (hey that's 1.84 a can, wellness is 2.37) (.50 a can might sound trivial but not so much when you're feeding three cats all canned @1.5 cans a day) i read on lisa pierson's site that it gives cats diarrhea for two or three weeks, and if so, i don't feel like dealing with that. that might just be the dry version though, if so, no problem because i won't be buying the dry. i think i read something about it being high in phosphorous as well so it might not be great for male cats but i'll have to go back and read again. i've read so much about cat food lately i can barely keep any of it straight. (but ancestral diet? LOL sometimes a food will have a marketing slogan that i hate so much i refuse to buy it. a lot of pet food manufacturers count on us anthropomorphizing our cats.)Anytime I see food thread I have to push my favorite. EVO 95. Only $2.00 for a 13 oz can. No grains, fruits or vegetables. Other than various vitamins and minerals, it has only 4 ingrediest - Chicken, chicken broth, turkey, & natural flavors. - okay, I really don't know what the "natural flavors" are.
and I love their tag line "the ancestral diet". Yeah right, like lions were going around chasing chickens. - ain't marketing great?
rightsaidfed: it's true that weruva is lower calorie (90 per 3 oz. can vs. 120 for most others) so you would have to feed more. the water content is high so that's good. your cats will love it but it's kind of expensive to feed 100% of the time so i'm mixing it up. at first i wasn't going to buy any more of the fish but two of mine are loving it so much i guess i'll have to. maybe. :devil figure your calorie counts and increase it proportionately, i don't see a reason to wait. just keep them on partial kitten formula of some other as well. it's awesome food.
Petsmart does not carry EVO. You can only get it in an independent pet food store.
figures. i couldn't remember if they were just out of it or if the girl told me they don't carry it. i'll score somewhere.
(i'm sure there's a pet shop over by wash park that carries it, if not one downtown somewhere.)
(i'm sure there's a pet shop over by wash park that carries it, if not one downtown somewhere.)
I want to try the Evo 95 too but I can only get it online by the case. I wonder if I can sell it on craigslist and get my money back if the cats hate it. One of the pet food sites had a variety pack of the Evo 95, 4 flavors. The duck and venison are more expensive than the chicken and beef though so I might be better off buying natural balance duck and venison like I have been. My cats absolutely love the venison, I'm not about to tell them they could never take down a deer on their own.
But the EVO is significantly better quality food.One of the pet food sites had a variety pack of the Evo 95, 4 flavors. The duck and venison are more expensive than the chicken and beef though so I might be better off buying natural balance duck and venison like I have been.
Go to the EVO website and use the store locator.figures. i couldn't remember if they were just out of it or if the girl told me they don't carry it. i'll score somewhere.
(i'm sure there's a pet shop over by wash park that carries it, if not one downtown somewhere.)
Hmmm, I did find a feed store about half hour away that carries Evo95 for cats. I called. I'll have to check it out. There's one place closer but they only have it for dogs.
Buy small quantities first. My cats did not like it at all. Even Alice (garbage gut) struggled with it.
there's one downtown here but it's rumoured to be more expensive because it's lodo (anything located on larimer st. is going to be more $$) but there's also a place in capitol hill and a couple on broadway that people seem to like a lot so all is not lost.But the EVO is significantly better quality food.
Go to the EVO website and use the store locator.
kty: don't you have any independent pet stores close to you? (obviously NOT lol or you wouldn't be talking about buying a case.)
that's why i went to petsmart and bought a bunch of cans of everything. well everything they had anyway. i've learned my lesson about buying large quantities of cat food that mine have never eaten and also pet supplies online that i've never seen in person.Buy small quantities first. My cats did not like it at all. Even Alice (garbage gut) struggled with it.
people seem to love "green buddies USA" (once they were able to discern that it isn't a marijuana dispensary and indeed a pet supply shop lol) and a pet's paradise.
dog savvy and zen dog are the two downtown and i'm not even going to bother. they're advertised as "doggie spa and boutique".
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