I am having the same problems. I have always used Purina products. I will make my own cat food from now on. My vet told me he is flooded with complaints from his customers.

Please don’t feel bad about what you fed your cats. Frankly, I am around the top breeders in the country and CFA judges, and everyone has their own ideas about what to feed. No one is going to make their cats live any longer than anyone else on here. Have you looked at the their top ten list of canned/dry foods and what are A-rated? First of all, they’re beyond expensive/bougie to anyone who owns more than one cat. Two, what they consider at the top doesn’t even make “sense” nutritionally just because one food is “responsibly sourced” in New Zealand or wherever, but yet it has way more carbs than another food on a dry matter basis, and there really isn’t that much wrong with carbs as long you’re giving your cats high enough protein, with good quality ingrediients. For example, Wysong Epigen 90 makes an excellent dry food that’s very affordable at $22/ 5lb bag. The protein is 62%, and the carbs are like Dr. Elsey’s. It’s basically organic chicken, chicken fat, gelatin, and a trace amount of coconut oil. The reviewer on that day gave it a “B-.” However, go look at #1 dry food, Open Prairie Raw Mix. It has all kinds of added ingredients your cats don’t really need: apples, peas, chickpeas, dandelions, spinach. The carbs on that food is 40%! One reader on here questioned this and asked, “This makes no sense whatsoever. Is this due to something else at play?” (yep, and I quote from them, “Made with humanely raised and sustainably sourced ingredients.”) That is NOT nutrionally integral to my cat, nor should that make a cat food an A rated food or #1 on the list. If you have an indoor/outdoor cat, and my cats are only allowed on my balcony, do you think if they eat a mouse it has to be humanely killed? How stupid. ) Three, I’ve tried giving my cats their suggestions, and they hated those foods; they won’t touch them except for Dr. Elsey’s. Four, their cats are not going to live miraculouly to age 30. Sorry. As your cats become seniors, they will come down with illnesses and diseases like human beings. American breeds live on average between age 13-15 years, Asian breeds up to age 20. Of course there will be exceptions. You sound like an amazing owner, who’s doing whatever you can. If one food seems to now aggravate your cat, you try something else. Don’t believe the prescription foods unless your vet tells you to look for a food (for example, with a low ash count) which you can do all on your own, which I see you did with a different nutrient. Prescription foods are not the same as human meds or pet prescription meds-their ingredients are nothing special. I would recommend to you also (although I have not checked out the potassium levels) to try Farmina Wild Boar dry if your senior eventually needs to gain weight. People have reported that when they just want their cats to eat, it’s a great food to stimulate appetite again. A lot of kitties with kidney issues eat it, too. I feed it mine in their mix, and yes, it’s very expensive, but whatever. I mix it with other foods. You’re doing great!

Fancy Feast was a favorite of my cats for years. But for quite a while they will no longer eat the dry food. They smell it, then walk away. My cats never go outside. What they do not eat or finish, I give to the outside animals (birds, opossums, racoons, squirrels. But they will not eat it either. Obviously, the FF dry food is no longer quality food. One of my cat started to vomit after eating FF canned food. So I threw all FF products in the trash.
It is shameful what FF is knowingly doing with their products. Thank you for all the posts !

And here I thought it was just a rare occurrence when it happened to my cat after two consecutive purchases of the same boxes. I’ve found over the past five or so years that this lowering of quality by using cheaper ingredients, components, and such has been pretty much across the board with most everything, not just cat food. That and companies lowering the quantity and weights of food contents without changing the size of its packaging to give the consumer the impression that nothing has changed. Yet the prices have gone up, so you are buying less and paying more. I know I am not the only one who has noticed this horrid trend in the States, but what I find odd is there has been little to no mention of it anywhere or even in conversation with others. Are people just sitting back and accepting this trend? Back in my day when I was physically able, I and other got very involved in causes both social and political. Today it seems we’re… what? Stupidly lazy or just don’t really care. I don’t know. But it doesn’t bode well for our future.

Even after leaving the food there for as long as healthy to do so, it would remain untouched.

This is something he has never done before with no food I’ve ever given him. This response seems randomly limited to all the cans of one particular flavor within a box which changed from one box to the second that I purchased.

The first occurrence was a box ordered from Amazon and was limited entirely to each can of the chicken and beef pate.

The next box this occurred with was purchased from my local Walmart three weeks later and was with only every can of Tender Chicken and Liver Feast pate. Both boxes were purchased consecutively within the same month of October/Novermber 2024.

Upon noticing this, I checked reviews on Amazon and discovered that when changing the default sort for reviews from “Top Reviews” to “Recent” that there was a slew of complaints of similar occurrences. One person stated that they had to bring their cat to the emergency vet after eating a can from his most recent purchase of Fancy Feast.

The reason I’ve been buying Fancy Feast at all is due to the fact that it doesn’t include carrageenan. Now because of this most recent situation I am going to have to risk finding something affordable to replace Fancy Feast with.

The fortunate thing is that Charlie is by far not a fussy eater and will eat just about anything you put before him. However, finding a cat food that does not include carrageenan that is affordable is impossible. You would think, we were feeding our pets human grade food when you break down the pricing per ounce/pound.

In many cases, it is cheaper to simply buy regular chicken and make your cat food like our grandparents did. That is unless you want to stoop to having to buy questionable quality food that is priced so low, that it must have been made from the dregs left over after having been swept off the butcher room floor at the end of the day.

Wow. Sorry to hear about your cats. I’m glad they are doing better. Thanks for the news, it really helps imo. I think you may want to switch them to another brand completely. I’m glad it’s working fort then now, but there are more health issues coming with that food. Kidney and liver typically. Unfortunately I have fed that to many cats and I didn’t realize it wasn’t quality in any way. It’s not all your fault, it’s marketed like your don’t the good thing for your cats, but almost all cat food had so many artificial lab made vitamins and minerals, nothing is used correctly by the animals and they end up with too much of one and too little of something else. I’m feeding raw food right now. So far so good. Not 1 single lab made ingredients. Good luck to you!

There’s 1 reason for that, all the MSG in fancy feast. The health foods your trying can’t compare. They get addicted just like littl people and outs very unhealthy stuff. Natural flavor is almost always MSG but decide derived naturally. This is in it for that reason and its hidden in so many foods for pets and people

Exactly! Questionable phosphates is a nice way to put it. The synthetic phosphates aren’t used like real phosphorus from actual food. The cats body usually has some decisions about how much to use and where to distribute phosphorus. Not with the lab made kind. It all 100% goes straight through the kidneys putting unnecessary strain on them.