Purina Fancy Feast Classic Pate Collection Feast Adult Canned Wet Cat Food Variety Packs
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "The fact that you're reading a cat food review tells me you like to do your research. So then you probably know that cats are obligate carnivores, which means they only eat meat. They hunt hundreds of species of bugs and birds and small rodents and mammals.\n\nSo if you want to save money on vet bills, you gotta feed your cat wet food. Just look at the ingredient list, fancy feast is the cheapest wet food with protein as the main ingredient. Don't bother with grains and starches. I've been feeding my cat fancy feast for his entire life, everyone always comments on how soft and healthy his coat is.\n\nFor a while i was going crazy and buying frozen raw food, but I worried about bacteria and contamination. I looked into making food (obligate carnivores, just give them some meat, right?) wrong. Remember when I mentioned they hunt like 237 species? They eat mostly meat, but they also need crazy stuff like taurine and other weird things cats get from eating bugs and spiders and birds I guess. Anyway it's hard to get the balance right and you could very easily make your cat sick if you're not extremely careful. My cat has tried all the meat seafood cans and he seems to love chicken and turkey the best.\n\nIf you can afford to go with the organic free range all singing all dancing stuff, you probably wouldn't even bother reading this. But if like me, you love your cat and are also on a budget: go with the ingredient list, go with the price per can. Do the math: it's always been fancy feast."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I spent three and a half years (and a small fortune) trying the most expensive grainfree, raw, organic, and prescription diabetic cat foods wet and dry available. I tried everything even whole ground raw rabbit. Gross. I wanted to get my diabetic cat in remission and off of insulin so bad.\n\nI am an RN so I checked her blood sugar a couple times a day. I was skeptical when I saw all the reviews saying it stopped type 2 diabetes in cats from progressing and even reversed it in many cats and it took my cat a good 3 months to get used to eating pate only diet.\n\nI was amazed that in the first few weeks of being on this food her blood sugar was too low to need insulin several times a week and after 4 weeks on this food I was able to take her off insulin all together. My vet follows my old cat closely and was amazed that of all things it was an over the counter grocery store brand food that did the trick after all this time. The classic pate ones are the only ones that didn't spike her blood sugar.\n\nShe is 17 years old now and weighs 9 lbs instead of 14. She has been off of insulin for almost a year and has not needed frequent vet check ups or bladder infection treatments or insulin once.\n\nIt took me this long to be convinced that it was truly going to keep her out of diabetic trouble and I am so so grateful to have finally found this!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'It smells but the cat loves it! My cat has extra long canines, and while it seems that he\'d be great at chunky meat, he\'s not. He has problems chewing shredded/chunky wet cat food, and has a gluten/grain allergy (yeah, he\'s a pain in the ass but we love him). This is like pâté & he has no probs scarfing it down. Although he has raunchy breath after, he\'s happy.\n(Edit) Reading another review, I figured out why he barfs up (if you\'re buying cat food & have a cat, they barf, so don\'t go "ewww") the Fancy Feast Grilled varities... There\'s gluten in them besides being chunky shreds. So he has issues chewing it & digesting it. Lesson learned & pâté only for Boo Boo kitty.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'My cat has very strong feelings about Fancy Feast, and I never pass up an opportunity to tell a story about my cat.\n\nMy girl had to have some dental work done and they told me she would need canned food for two weeks afterward. I thought for sure this was going to be a major challenge because for years she had refused to eat anything but her favorite dry food a good 95% of the time. Once in a while she liked the wet food she used to eat when she was a baby just for a change of pace, but most of the time she just didn\'t really care for anything but her crunchies. Well, she had absolutely no problem eating this stuff.\n\nAfter two weeks I thought she would be thrilled to get her dry food back, but I shook it into her dish, she looked at it, then she walked over to the box with the rest of the canned Fancy Feast. She made direct eye contact with me and started rubbing her face on the box and making pitiful mewing noises. She did not want her dry food back, thank you very much. She was able to eat it one day when we had a shipment of Fancy Feast coming and it was delayed, and she does eat some crunchy and chewy treats without an issue, so I know it\'s not a matter of her mouth bothering her, she just plain doesn\'t want kibble anymore. And she\'s had no interest in it since. Fancy Feast is the thing now.\n\nShe doesn\'t want her old wet food anymore either. I tried to give her a container of it again recently and she just looked at me, and looked at it, and looked back at me, like, "you can\'t make me eat this slop." I asked her, "what? You lived on this almost exclusively for the first 2 years of your life. It\'s gross now?" But then suddenly I had a flashback to my mother arguing with me when I was in my twenties, telling me I obviously loved beets because I had loved beet flavored baby food. My tastes had changed since infancy, why couldn\'t my cat\'s? So apparently by comparison, yes. According to my cat, Fancy Feast is now the bomb, and everything else is disgusting.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Frannie cat she's 20, her current favorite flavor is beef ...... She's still going !!!!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I fed this cat food to my previous cat for 19 years. It kept her weight in check and helped her to live a long life with no issues. Since then, about 10 years has passed and I now have 3 cats (1 male with diabetes and 2 females). This food has helped my male to maintain his diabetes and a healthy weight. Prior to switching back to this food after so many years, one of my females suffered from chronic pancreatitis. After switching to old faithful (fancy feast), she has had no flare ups. I am very pleased with this product because it is consistent with what was produced so many years ago. I am only disappointed that I never started them on this food from the beginning. I will continue to feed this food to them for the rest of their lives. Customer for life!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This three-flavor variety of 24 cans just arrived yesterday (Poultry & Beef) and so far, all four cats gobble it up!\n\nThis is amazing to me because for the last three weeks I\'ve been trying to get our four cats to try better food due to the eldest recently being diagnosed with diabetes, so I\'ve had them try several different brands so far without much success (all expensive high protein & fat but very low carbs).\n\nThey had been eating Friskies canned (pate - 5.5 oz cans-one can divided up four ways, once per day) and until about a year ago they were eating Blue Buffalo Indoor (Dry), but I changed it to Purina One Sensitive Systems (Dry) because one of our cats often upchucking his food (possible allergy). The Purina One did help that problem, but I\'ve since learned that it is too high in [bad] carbs, which IMO likely exacerbated our eldest cat\'s system (diabetes). Most dry food is too high in carbs & not recommended as a primary source of food.\n\nBut I\'ve found several cat health web sites with so many people stating that they had switched to Fancy Feast classic with great success, especially with their diabetic cats because of the amount of protein / moderate fat / low carbs. So I decided to give it a try with our cats.\n\nUntil I can find something better (& more expensive!), this will work.\nOur (rescued) eldest cat is about 16 or 17 years old and only just started insulin (1 unit 2x per day)...my goal is to get him regulated with food only-no insulin.\n\nAs for the dry food, I\'ve temporarily put out three different small dishes to see if they even need/want it during the day (Purina Vet DM / Instinct Ultimate / Blue Buffalo Wilderness duck). The Purina DM is through our vet, and although it\'s supposed to be for diabetic cats (or any cat) it\'s very high in carbs so I\'m not understanding that. Perhaps because the protein is really high that the extra carbs is needed to digest the protein(?)\n\nUPDATE:\nOur cats still love Fancy Feast. We\'ve expanded from these three flavors to other available flavors, but sticking with the Classic pâté flavors.\n\nBut, I\'ve continued to try them on other canned food brands that are considered "better for our pets" (high protein/moderate fat/low carbs) and they just won\'t eat them: Instinct Ultimate Protein / Natural Balance / Dr.Elsey\'s / Purina One Vet DM / Wellness CORE Natural Grain Free Wet Paté / Nutro Perfect Portions.\n\nI will continue to try other brands of canned food, but as long as we can find a good mix of brands/flavors that they like & are high protein/moderate fat/low carbs, that will do.\n\nAs for the dry food to have available in between Fancy Feast meals, I still haven\'t found one single brand/flavor that our cats like & that\'s "good for them". They "sort of" like Instinct Ultimate Protein Grain Free Chicken and Walmart\'s Pure Balance Wild & Free Turkey Grain Free.\n\nWet food needs to be the primary food source because most dry food really isn\'t "good" for them.\nI just need to keep a small dish out for them for in between the canned food meals, especially if we aren\'t home from work yet.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I have a male cat who's 19 years old. His kidneys are failing and he stopped eating his regular food that he loved. I've always seen the ads on TV for Fancy Feast I thought I'd give it a shot. It is a pate and we always add water to it and Mash it up a little bit. My cat is now eating again and Fancy Feast is the only thing he will eat right now. As long as he's eating it and is happy that's all that matters right now."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Best product for older felines ! My two 18 year old male cats have been thriving on Fancy Feast pate for several years. None of the usual health problems that aging cats are prone to.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'For the price the “Poultry and Beef” Classic Pate Collection by Fancy Feast is a half way decent inexpensive “grain free” cat food. There are no fillers or wheat gluten in this line of food (however other flavors of Fancy Feast do contain those ingredients so check the labels.) There are some questionable ingredients including meat by-products, but this is still much better food than 9 Lives or Friskies which contain a lot of by-products and any wet food is better than dry kibble no matter how expensive it is. I used to feed my cats the more pricey brands like Instinct and Merrick but I can no longer afford it since I am now trying to feed my 2 cats more wet food than dry. It gets expensive quickly. I’m still trying different brands that do not contain grains and with minimal by-products and so far the cats seem to like this stuff. One loves it, the other is just so-so right now. I’d probably buy this again. The food looks pretty good and doesn’t smell too bad either.'}]