Comments on: Wellness Complete Health Turkey and Salmon Recipe Cat Food

By: M. Long

M. Long — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:46:23 +0000

I alternate between buying this and Newman’s Own brand cat food. I appreciate that the primary ingredients in Wellness are actually meat rather than filler like “Chicken Meal” or other ingredients that are not as good for cats.

I have one cat who eats anything and another that is very picky — both love this food. However, I have never fed either of them especially junky foods so they may just not know what they are missing.
Rating: 4 / 5

By: S. E. Rigley

S. E. Rigley — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:12:56 +0000

Until I am able to make my own raw diet for my cat, I purchase this food for her, and I've been able to tell a noticeable difference in her health and energy levels. I used to feed her Purina One dry food, but after a ton of research and questions, I'm slowly figuring out what she really needs to thrive. Wellness uses human-grade ingredients, and while I don't care for the Guar Gum or Carageenan additives, it's still a product worth buying.

With regards to the one star rating, shame on you for buying from a breeder, and for passing up "health food" for your pets. Just because they can survive on cheap food that doesn't use natural ingredients, doesn't mean it's good for them. Children can survive on a diet of sugar cereal and cheeseburgers, but no responsible parent would feed that to them, either. If you love your kids, you make them eat their vegetables.

In conclusion, it may take a little while for your kitty to accept natural food that isn't filled with nasty additives and flavorings to make it stinky, but when they do you will see an improvement! I also recommend Natural Balance canned food, another good quality diet. Raw food is best, but high quality canned food is still head and shoulders above dry kibble diets. Rating: 5 / 5

By: HTBK

HTBK — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:45:15 +0000

The pet food industry can be one of the most infuriating as you start doing research and discovering what trash manufacturers (and the vets who get paid off by the manufacturers) push onto the unsuspecting public. For reference, don’t ask your vet – do some Internet research at sites like, for example, petfoodratings.net. What you’ll find is that even the supposed “high-end” lines from basically every major supermarket label are horrible for your fuzzy friends. People who trust the marketing or trust their vets overpay and feed their cats foods that are full of carcinogens, cheap ingredients that are inappropriate for a cat’s digestive system, and byproducts that provide nothing of value and are basically a way to make cheap profit off of literal garbage. It’s a tragedy, as these same cats end up with shorter lifespans, kidney problems, UTIs, cancer, and a host of other issues, all of which could have been avoided by a high quality food.

This is an A-Grade food. What you’ll find here is very high protein content, many meat meals, potatoes, salmon oil, flax seed, and no grains, which is great as a cat is not an omnivore, it’s a carnivore, and it simply does not need grains. It has 50 percent protein, which is among the highest you’ll see in cat food. The first 4 ingredients are all meats.

What you will NOT find here is the kind of junk you’ll see in things like Purina One and Science Diet – byproducts (aka beaks, feathers, bird feet), brewers rice (aka the waste product from making beer), wheat flour (a leading cause of pet allergies), corn gluten (a cheap waste of space), and things like “liver flavor” (because they don’t want to pay for the real thing). I didn’t just pull those ingredients out of the air – I was reading the ingredients list of Purina One. It’s pathetic.

Don’t feed your cats trash. Pay a little more to feed them good food now, and they’ll lead longer, healthier, more satisfied lives as a result. It’s worth it.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Georgia Vallejos

Georgia Vallejos — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:33:06 +0000

I only bought this because the breeder where I bought my cat said she wouldn’t eat anything else. I’m surprised my cat didn’t starve to death, because she wouldn’t touch this stuff, nor would my other cat. I donated it to the Humane Society.
Rating: 1 / 5