Nutrience Original Healthy Adult Cat Food, 18-Pounds, Chicken Meal With Brown Rice Recipe

Our cats seemed to like this food but they were always out of stock when we needed it so I switched to something that would be consistently available. Consistency is key with cat food, didn't feel like being forced to switch flavors or types (grain free vs. with grains) because the supplier can't keep up so I stopped using them entirely.

I can't judge this on taste ... since I'm not a cat ... and my cats puked it up. But, they puke most foods up. The only thing they don't puke up is the grain-free line of food by this same brand.

Made my cat sick. I don't know if it's because the food was bad, or it was just too fast a change for her. She is back on her old food.

My wife takes pet food very seriously (for her dog, a little too seriously!) so she was a bit skeptical when I said I had ordered this healthy cat food for our 3 cats (3, yeah, I know, seriously).Anyway, she pointed out that the first ingredient is chicken meal, which is better than some lower quality pet foods, but not as good as "chicken" because it can contain all kinds of odd chicken parts.The primary ingredients are:chicken meal, brown rice, green peas, whole corn, chicken fat, dried beef pulp, natural chicken flavor, and then a whole bunch of minor ingredients.Anyway... our cats are all adults, 9-12 years old. Two are in excellent health (although a little heavy... okay let's be honest, one of them is a real cow... but a happy cow) and one is a runt who is allergic to something in the Kirkland kibble we've fed her for years. She now barfs it up most of the time.The good news, is that our little old runt rarely "returns" this Nutrience kibble, and all 3 cats (again, I know, seriously, 3?) LOVE it. They're all moderately finicky and not often open to change, but now none of them want the Kirkland stuff anymore, they all want the Nutrience. This is like cat crack, only healthy. Our biggest challenge now is how to keep the two fatties from eating too much of this stuff.UPDATE: It's true that this stuff costs more than the cat food we have purchased in the past. We only got the first bag because it was offered to us to review for free, but now, after comparing it to other brands, and seeing how well our kitties like it, I've resigned myself to making this their standard brand. About to order my third bag. Darn little piggies.

My cat ate this food for about 2 days then stopped eating it. I mixed it about 50/50 with her old food and she sought this out. After the second day she only ate the old food and wouldn't touch the new food. She even went a day without eating any food when this was the only food in the bowl. I even caught her a few times pawing around for the old food and not eating everything during that day.

I wasn't familiar with this brand before trying this cat food, but I was pleased by the ingredients. The top ingredients are chicken meal and brown rice, followed by a large variety of vegetables including peas, corn, and carrots, as well as blueberries and cranberries, which I found interesting. The food itself comes in small pellet-like pieces that are larger and thicker than most cat food.I first put it in my adult cat's bowl by itself and she wouldn't eat it. Then I tried mixing it with her current food and she eat the pieces of her usual food and left the pieces of Nutrience. When all that was left was the Nutrience, she stood by her bowl and meowed for her usual food. After a few tries like this, I've given up. I still gave the food three stars because the healthy ingredients are a positive, but unfortunately, my cat doesn't like it.

My cats have been very happy and healthy using Nutrience.I do notice that there is a lot of broken pieces at the bottom of the bowl that they won' t eat, I'm not sure why that is happening because they are not broken when they go in. Maybe it's too brittle?

So the latest pet food fad is making sure your foods are "grain-free" or, worse yet, "gluten-free" and it seems pet food companies are taking advantage of it. Nutrience advertises stuff like "No bad anything" which means absolutely nothing and they fill their bags full of legumes which "contain a higher protein content". Like most pet food companies, they say "the first ingredient is chicken." Considering this bag only contains 28% protein, less than cheaper brands, I wonder how much meat is included?Cats are obligate carnivores and all of this marketing of grains being "a source of energy..." and legumes being "higher protein content" just makes me mad because you'll never see your cat chasing down a stalk of wheat or eating a bowl of peas. People, stop being fooled by this because all we're doing is feeding our cats indigestible garbage!A stray cat showed up on my porch and "deposited" three cats and managed to get herself preggo before I could get her spayed again. When I fed them this stuff, two of the cats started getting indigestion, or at least the symptoms of it. They would cough like they were about to cough up a hairball but whatever came up they'd swallow again. It's been happening off and on over the course of two weeks, now. While I can't be certain this food is the cause, I can say they weren't having these symptoms until I started feeding them Nutrience.I'll pass.