Ok, hit me with ideas please. I can’t afford to double the cost but am prepared to pay extra for European cat food, both dry and wet.
Anyone found good options? I’m in the UK which may limit my options
I went for Harringtons in the end as they seem to have a good balance between value:nutrition, are european and similarly priced going direct which helps.
I mention mostly to be told I’ve made the wrong decision for future learning lol
Have you looked at zooplus.co.uk or their “outlet sibling”, bitiba.co.uk? German company selling many German cat foods, such as Animonda Carny (my regular), MAC’s Cat (my cats’ favourite), or anything made by Matina Gmbh, such as the similar but cheaper wet food brand Smilla (varied acceptance by my cats, also has dry foods). All these wet foods have a rather “chunky spam” consistency, adding a bit of water and mushing it in may make it tastier (and add water yay!), but it also means it’s very nutrient dense. You only need about 200g/day/cat, whereas you need about 300g/day of eg. Whiskas, essentially paying for water. Bozita is Swedish… Probably others that I forget.
Fabulous response, I wish I could upvote you twice!
I recall those brands from a look a couple of years ago focused in food that was better for them so I’ll definitely take a look down this route.
The great thing is, my cats seem to hate food that they loved overnight so I’m not constrained by having to stick with their favorite lol
Aldi have what I presume is their own Vitacat range. They’re likely a pretty good copy of other more expensive cat food brands at a lower price and Aldi is a German company. I don’t know the specific country of origin but for standard things like that it is usually made in the UK or EU (a quick check shows they don’t list it these days, but used to - dairy products used to come from Ireland, for example).
Thanks Emporor, great shout actually as I feel reassured that I’m mostly spending in the EU by shopping own brands in Lidl.
Germany seem to have a good reputation for quality cat food albeit at quite high price. I just need to suck it up and take the hit for the cause
great shout actually as I feel reassured that I’m mostly spending in the EU by shopping own brands in Lidl.
Ah, I specifically mentioned Aldi for a reason. Another poster gave a breakdown of Lidl’s other activity and they are best avoided.
If you stop using big business based on us cloud usage you’re going to have a bad time, it will take them years to unwind if they need to and its a bit unreasonable.
Ultimately it’ll depend on your cat. Get her to try various different things, and see what she likes. I am gradually replacing whiskas with Sainsbury’s own and it seems to work. For reference I also tried giving her Asda’s own but all the biscuits I slipped in got untouched.
