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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / November 2004New cat food results! Merrick!
I've been keeping track of how my three cats react to various foods (all canned) since I want them to eat quality food and hate throwing the (expensive) stuff away. So I buy a bunch of different brands from the big local pet store and keep a pad by the feeding station (bathroom). As each food is served, I write down how each of the cats react to it. General observation - there are far more kinds where they all hate it than that they all love it. However, there is one thing that I noticed that is sort of overwhelming. Merrick. A brand I never heard of before. I bought several types, California Roll, Grammy's Pot Pie, New England Boil, Thanksgiving Day, and a few others. All three cats like most of them. And a few other types are liked by at two. This is very odd. The ingredient lists look great. No byproducts, lots of yummy stuff. It's odd because they don't like much else. Only one other company (PetGuard) has at least two flavors that at least one cat doesn't hate. So, if you have a finicky cat, I say try the Merrick. Or the PetGuard. The author has no connection to either company. Oh, companies not faring as well: Wellness, Nutro, MaxCat, Triumph, Science Diet, Felicidae (sp?), AroDerm (sp?). A few others I can't remember right now. Not that I have anything against these but apparently the cats do. I think there is one Wellness that is ok, Chicken and Herring. Thus ends today's report. Your cats may vary. whats the price per can on merrick? i have 3 cats on wellness and a 4th that wont touch it no mattery how sneaky i get. if i mix it in with other wet food, she actually picks out the wellness or eats around it. > I've been keeping track of how my three cats react to various foods > (all canned) since I want them to eat quality food and hate throwing [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Thus ends today's report. Your cats may vary. >whats the price per can on merrick? i have 3 cats on wellness and a 4th >that wont [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >"dgk" <sonicechoes-spamless@hot-nospamp-mail.com> wrote in message I'm not sure, I bought about $35 worth of various stuff. All the premium cans are around 75-95 cents for the 5 1/2 oz size. Not much cheaper for the 3 oz size I notice. I don't mind too much if they eat it. It drives me nuts when they shnub it. Or try to bury it. They haven't figured out that tile is immune to scraping. > I'm not sure, I bought about $35 worth of various stuff. All the > premium cans are around 75-95 cents for the 5 1/2 oz size. Not > much cheaper for the 3 oz size I notice. I don't mind too much > if they eat it. It drives me nuts when they shnub it. Or try to > bury it. They haven't figured out that tile is immune to > scraping. I do the same thing (buy $$ of various premium brands) and just when I'm sure I've discovered something *good* for Shamrock to eat, he decides to bury it when I've bought up a month's supply worth. I'm trying to get him on Wellness canned, and while he loves canned food, he can be picky about the kind. He's a FF fan so I've been mixing Wellness into the fancy feast and gradually increasing the Wellness. Most of the time now he balks at first, tries to bury it, then comes back and eats it all. He's a bit pickier now more than ever since we've adopted 2 kittens this past weekend. They aren't integrated into the house yet (they're sick, and they're new) but he knows they are here and he's acting pissy. Meal-time seems to be when he stresses because he sees me fixing two other bowls of food that he doesn't get to sample from. (at least that's how I interpret it, but who really knows what goes on in their fuzzy little heads?). :)  SignatureCheryl >> I'm not sure, I bought about $35 worth of various stuff. All the >> premium cans are around 75-95 cents for the 5 1/2 oz size. Not [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >interpret it, but who really knows what goes on in their fuzzy >little heads?). :) I used to wonder about folks who couldn't find food that their cats would eat. I had a succession of cats that would eat just about anything. Justice has struck and I now have two cats that are pretty picky. Jackie will eat just about anything that doesn't have her medicine in it however. (...) > Merrick. A brand I never heard of before. I bought several types, > California Roll, Grammy's Pot Pie, New England Boil, Thanksgiving Day, > and a few others. All three cats like most of them. And a few other > types are liked by at two. (...) > So, if you have a finicky cat, I say try the Merrick. Or the PetGuard. My cats like this stuff a great deal too. However, Sherry pointed out recently that the company is run by two ferret-herders out of a muddy ditch in Rottingville, Texas and the food is entirely composed of mouldy sheep arses. Or, at least - the company looked a bit ... hmmm ... rinky-dink in her estimation. I also gather that Merrick won't release the nutritional composition of their foods, though I haven't tried to get this meself, like (yet). So there ye go. Steve. >My cats like this stuff a great deal too. However, Sherry pointed out >recently that the company is run by two ferret-herders out of a muddy [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Steve. You mean that stuff is exported to the UK?? <boggle> No offense to Merrick Pet Food Corporation, or its employees or affiliates or families or Kitty-connoseurs (sp?) of the product. But I"m just floored that this product has nationwide/international recognition. It's a little building down by the railroad tracks with a double-wide trailer that the manager lives in next to it in this tiny town of 1500 people. I read on their website they also have a plant in TX. I'm assuming this cannery, then, must be just a small part of their overall operation and the main part of it is in TX. I'm not knocking the product in any way whatsoever. It could be stellar cat food for all I know. I've never bought it. We actually have another cat food factory here, believe it or not. They manufacture cat food made strictly from Emus which are raised on premises. I don't know the name of *that* stuff. The cats would probably eat Emu Chow if they saw the picture of the Giant Mammoth Bird on the package. Sherry Sherry >>My cats like this stuff a great deal too. However, Sherry pointed out >>recently that the company is run by two ferret-herders out of a muddy [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Sherry I picked up a Merrick promo piece for dog food, full color glossy foldout thing, heavy paper stock, advertising their dog food. I'm getting hungry jut looking at it. Many of the names are the same as the cat products. "We pair fresh Fuji, Red, Granny Smith, or Golden apple varieties with the entre they compliment best". I wonder if they've tasted them to find out? "Tell your dog we said Howdy - That's Texan for hello." So I guess they do operate out of Texas. >I picked up a Merrick promo piece for dog food, full color glossy >foldout thing, heavy paper stock, advertising their dog food. I'm [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >they've tasted them to find out? "Tell your dog we said Howdy - That's >Texan for hello." So I guess they do operate out of Texas. I just can't bring myself to look past their "bent can" business here. They sell bent cans out of the cannery for way cheap. They have no labels, and are usually badly bent, or "reject" cans that are only half full, etc. This bugs me. Poorly canned food is downright dangerous for humans. The same has to be true for dog food. But obviously there's a huge demand for it. And FWIW I haven't heard of any dogs dying because of it. It's just creepy, and I'd never feed that to my dogs. Sherry >From: sriddles@aol.comkitty (Sherry ) >The cats would probably eat Emu Chow if >they saw the picture of the Giant Mammoth Bird on the package. >Sherry LOL! I was getting emu from a local farmer here and my cats really liked it. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecatjournal.com/articles/claws.htm >>The cats would probably eat Emu Chow if >>they saw the picture of the Giant Mammoth Bird on the package. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Lauren I've heard it's supposed to be pretty nutritious for people. They don't make wet food, just dry though, so I've never bothered to look into their cat food. Did you eat the emu meat too? Did you like it? Sherry >From: sriddles@aol.comkitty (Sherry ) >>>The cats would probably eat Emu Chow if >>>they saw the picture of the Giant Mammoth Bird on the package. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >food. >Did you eat the emu meat too? Did you like it? I never did, but I should have tried it. It's supposed to be like ostrich meat, and low in fat. One of these days I'm going to get some more of it and try it myself. Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecatjournal.com/articles/claws.htm > >From: sriddles@aol.comkitty (Sherry ) > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > it and > try it myself. Well, some use for emu has been found! Y'all remember the emu ranch and ostrich ranch craze in Texas some years ago? Breeders fetched incredible prices, I seem to remember 19,000 USD. But a market for the meat never developed. That didn't stop flipping breeders though. Then the craze crashed. The local paper reported an angry and broke emu rancher bashing their heads in with a baseball bat. Texas did not have a law against it. A lot of money was lost. Dick > Breeders fetched incredible prices, I seem to remember 19,000 USD. >But a market for the meat never developed. That didn't stop flipping [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Dick We saw a lot of that here in Okla. also. We'd find a stray emu in the pasture with the cattle with some regularity. Breeders just started turning them loose. Then a couple of investors opened a processing plant to sell emu meat, and manufacturing plants that produce dog food and cat food. Another plant that produces purses, boots, cosmetics, skin softeners and other stuff from the by-products of the emu. They're doing well with the endeavor it seems. Sherry (...) > You mean that stuff is exported to the UK?? <boggle> Doubt it - but I'm not in the UK. (...) > food for all I know. I've never bought it. > We actually have another cat food factory here, believe it or not. They > manufacture cat food made strictly from Emus which are raised on premises. I > don't know the name of *that* stuff. The cats would probably eat Emu Chow if > they saw the picture of the Giant Mammoth Bird on the package. Depends who the giant bird is, I suppose. Wahey! S. >(...) >> > >> You mean that stuff is exported to the UK?? <boggle> > >Doubt it - but I'm not in the UK. Oh, I'm sorry, I just assumed you were English because your addy ends in "uk". Sherry > (...) > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Steve. I believe it was Merrick who produced the food for the Canadian Company Go! Natural that was implicated in the liver failure deaths in the Bay area earlier this year. Nobody ever determined what the cause was. |
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