Taste of the Wild 418652 Grain Free Real Meat Recipe Premium Wet Canned Stew Cat Food (Case of 24), 3oz

the cat totally likes this wet food. i tried many foods of different brands both wet and dry since getting her from a shelter on New Years Eve Day 2014. she gave few warm welcomes, and in those few cases, it was short-lived. i overall failed with every wet food tried and gave in to feeding her dry food only, with plans to look into wet food again at a later time. taste of the wild dry was her favorite grain-free food hands down, the only one she really wanted to eat, so i went with it. i had no confidence in her ever accepting any wet food long term, but began reading reviews for this one. without exception (that i could find) every cat i read about that likes the dry version of taste of the wild also likes the wet version of taste of the wild. turns out it is the same with my cat.but i also read a number of reviews where the cats only wanted to lap the gravy and would leave the chunks uneaten in what is apparently a new formula. same with my cat: she lapped up the gravy and turned her nose up at the chunks. but i was prepared with a plan of action, because one reviewer said she puree's the wet food right in the can with a little added water. i tried this using a stick blender, right in the can like the reviewer said, and it worked just fine with a little water added. now my cat doesn't leave anything behind. she cries for this, and seems to not even want her dry food anymore. i might transition her VERY SLOWLY to eating only wet food, haven't decided yet. but what i do know is that she loves this food. she cries for it--like animals do in commercials, i always thought that was fake or they starved the animals to get that response.there are amazingly few reviews for this product posted on amazon, barely a handful for the 5.5 oz can, but there are a lot of reviews for it on other pet sites. the preponderance of amazon reviews are for the 3 oz can, which really surprized me because a case of 24 of the 5.5 ounce cans costs less than $10.00 extra while you get almost twice the food: 3 ounces x 24 cans is 72 ounces of food for about $22, whereas 5.5 ounces x 24 cans is 132 ounces of food for $30, usually less than $8 for an additional 60 ounces of food. that is a huge difference in value for dollars spent.

I mostly feed Blue Buffalo, and my cats have done very well with it. With rare exceptions, Blue Buffalo is the only kibble that I feed to my cats. However, my cats appreciate some variety in canned food so I look around for different quality foods that I can rotate into their feeding regimen. Among the things that I look for in any cat food are primary ingredients consisting of poultry, fish or meat, and an absence of corn, soy, wheat, or gluten of any kind. Two of my cats just turned twenty-two, a third will be twenty-two in a month, and a fourth is ten years of age, so I include canned food in their diet twice a day, to ensure proper hydration. While I rotate between the various Blue Buffalo canned food choices, I add other quality canned food choices to the diet plan, as well. My cats are satisfied with the same kibble day after day, but they get bored with the same canned food more than a couple of days in a row.The Taste of the Wild Rocky Mountain Feline Formula in Gravy was well received by all four of my cats, and I am very pleased with its ingredients. The ingredient list is my first test, and if I don't like the ingredients, my cats never get to taste the food. I happen to know that there are some pretty bad cat foods on the market that my cats will nevertheless like the taste of, so I don't leave everything up to an animal that is unable to read the ingredient list. The first ingredients are as follows: Salmon, fish broth, chicken broth, chicken liver, chicken, dried egg white, ocean fish, peas, modified potato starch, natural flavor, roasted salmon...I am always curious about listed ingredients such as "natural flavor" - natural flavor of what? But that strange ingredient is listed tenth from the top, so there's probably not very much of whatever it is. Other than that, everything in the ingredient list is recognizable to me as being either a natural food, vitamin, mineral or other necessary ingredient.In summary, the ingredients are very good and my cats like the taste, so Taste of the Wild is a go in this family. It's not the only food that I'll feed them by any means, and Blue Buffalo will continue to be my staple, as far as kibble goes, but Taste of the Wild has earned its place in my canned food rotation.

The whole case was rancid. I didn't start opening the cans until the return date passed. Tossed every can. Obviously sat too long in poor conditions or was bad before they got it. Never again. I'll buy local.

My cat really seems to like this flavor/taste. And, this seems to have a good price point compared to others I've bought.

My cats love this food and it's sometimes difficult to find where I live, so I ordered online. The case of food arrived in a box slightly larger than the case, with no padding in the box other than a few sheets of crumpled paper. The box was damaged in transit, and a few of the cans were popped open by the time they arrived to me, and I threw them out. I won't be ordering online again due to the poor packaging.