Fancy Feast Sliced Salmon & Chicken Feast - Will Your Cat do the Cha-Cha?
Written: Feb 20 '04
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Pros: Salmon and Chicken listed as second and third ingredients, tasty per my cat's epinion
Cons: less than premium due to use of artificial flavor, soy protein, by-products.
The Bottom Line: Recommend with caution. Not for daily, long-term use as there are better flavors of Fancy Feast available that do not use soy, by-products and artificial flavors.
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I admit to spending a fair amount of time in the grocery store, peering up and down the cat food shelves, looking for favorites, for could-be new favorites, for foods that match my lists of appropriate foods for cats with diabetes and chronic renal failure. I hope your reasons for spending a quick moment in this aisle are just to find a bit of a treat, or variety for your cat! Is Fancy Feast Sliced Salmon & Chicken Feast worth spending a little more for? Read on to find out!
~The Food
As with all Fancy Feast flavors, the food is packaged in a 3 oz (net wt.) recyclable aluminum can with a convenient and easy to open pop-top lid. Upon popping that lid, with the Sliced Salmon & Chicken Feast which comes in gravy, you will smell a pleasant (for cat food) smell of chicken. Sliced is not an accurate description, as what you will find are small cubes of chicken, with a gravy with a thin consistency, opaque, and pale beige in color. There is a high proportion of cubes to gravy, you do get your money's worth of protein.
~But Does it taste good?
I do not sample the cat treats and food. But...per Patrick, my sweet cream lynx point senior cat of the house, the gravy is excellent, and the cubes acceptable. He gives this a rating of 2 1/2 paws.
~The Company
Just in case you are new to having a cat live with you (soon to mold your household, daily schedule and vacation plans to suit their indecipherable purposes) Fancy Feast is manufactured by Nestle Purina Petcare Company (and you thought Nestle was only invested in chocolate?).
Not only does the label on each Fancy Feast flavor include the word "gourmet" but I think most folks believe a canned cat food costing on average 50 cents per can or more (unless you luck into a sale or shop at a pet warehouse store such as Petsmart), is a premium food.
Fancy Feast has an impressive selection of unusual blends of flavors (cod, sole and shrimp comes to mind as one)and the style of the foods range from sliced in gravy, fillet and pate - featuring two different consistencies in one can, minced, roasted (ground texture), grilled (features gravy). If you want variety or aren't sure what your new cat likes, Fancy Feast is more than likely the one company offering the largest range to select from.
~To The Nitty Gritty Details - The Ingredients
Poultry Broth, Salmon, Chicken,Liver, Wheat Gluten,Turkey, Meat By-Products,Corn Starch-Modified (I shudder to ask, modified how?)Soy Flour,Natural and Artificial Flavors,Soy Protein Concentrate,Salt, Tricalcium Phosphate, Titanium Dioxide Color, and a full complement of added vitamins and minerals.
~Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein...(min)11%, Crude Fat...(min)2%, Crude Fiber...(max)1.5%, Moisture...(max)78%, Ash...(max)2.7%, and Taurine...(min)0.05%. Each 3 oz. net wt. can provides your cat or growing kitten with (per the label)"complete and balanced nutrition". Feeding Guidelines are 1 can per 3 pounds of weight, feed growing kittens twice as much. Kcal per can information is not given.
~Final Thoughts
Fancy Feast is manufactured by company with the resources to do better. Since I am responsible for making the decisions for what food to feed, and handling the expensive consequences of vet bills if I choose poorly, it matters to me what is in this tiny can. I am pleased that the first four ingredients are "real" protein sources. I wish they would quit using flavorings - artificial or natural, and that they'd ditch by-product use and use of soy protein concentrate. I think the flavor blends such as Sliced Salmon & Chicken Feast could stand on their own, and be a superior food with a bit of tweaking on the ingredients list! Patrick likes it, and what pleases him, will cause me to look the other way once in a while and feed him this food, that is not premium when it has such ingredients. I can recommend but only with the caution that in my epinion, this should not be used as the sole food, but rather as a tasty appetizer, or favorite treat, rather like having a corn dog at the fair.
Your cat just might do the Cha-Cha to convince you otherwise...just hold firm. You are the one in control.
Thanks for reading!
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