Petco to Stop Carrying Fancy Feast Products?

Local Petco, not last cal Petco.

Just order them on Amazon.

What R2 said.

Cats love these kinds of foods because they're like junk food. I won't let my cat try them because she will get addicted. You should try and get them on something healthier but also agree amazon for the diabetic cats pills.

Is that just a piece of tuna in a package with a picture of a cat?

My cats won’t even eat non-fish foods which I’m sure is no good for them, but it’s better than watching them starve. I’ve tried ALL NATURAL INGREDIENT, NO GRAINS cat food and they won’t go near them. Plus, since when do cats eat peas & sweet potatoes, which I’m seeing in cat food ? At least Fancy Feast Pates are low carb. One of my cats was diabetic but was “cured” after being put on Fancy Feast pates. His blood sugar is perfect now.

I’ve tried beef, duck, chicken, turkey, rabbit cat food but.... no dice

My cat loves smoked salmon as a treat. You should try that.

I used to call it FANCY FECES.

Oh yeah, and pork.

For some reason, they hate salmon

r8 yeah, and don't you wish you hadn't?

You probably need not resort to Amazon. Don't the Petsmart and Pet Express chains, and/or local firms (pet supply or supermarkets), carry Fancy Feast? And if you must order for delivery, can't you use Chewy.com? I'm not opposed to Amazon for the same reason Trump is (because Bezos also owns the Washington Post, which I love), but I'd rather not support the firm that drove so many local independent bookstores out of business.

Around here, you can get Fancy Feast at Pet Supplies Plus, PetSmart, Walmart, Meijer, Target, and Krogers (grocery). You'll have lots of options for brick and mortar if you're not a fan of Amazon.

R11, you beat me to it! Well said!

Another vote for Chewy.com. Sign up for account and you’ll get frequent promo codes via email. Their delivery time is great.

My cats saw the commercial and now insist on Fancy Feast.

I’m just surprised Petco is ditching Fancy Feast. It’s a huge seller nationwide. They’re going to lose a lot of cat owner customers.

They gave my husband coupons for some new food they’ll be stocking in its place.

If PetCo dropped the Fancy Feast line because of questionable ingredients, you might want to check that out before continuing to buy the same product from other companies and possibly continuing to hurt your cat.

I haven't had occasion to use Chewy.com but neighbors and the people at my vet's office love it. Someone told me that, if your pet doesn't like a food you've ordered from them, they'll refund the purchase price and ask that you donate the unused product to a rescue group or shelter, rather than requiring that you return it to them. Sounds like a good place to do business.

It’s true R18. Chewy supports many shelters and give a lot to animal charities.

I also like them because they carry a lot of hard to find products that my cats like.

Lots of Chewy promo codes here.

You can Google for more.

Good to know about chewy.com. Going there now.

There's a Petco at a shopping center a block away from me. Last week I remember seeing some new promotional on their window that said "natural." I didn't pay much attention because I don't shop there (Target and Walmart are cheaper). Out of curiosity, I checked out their website for Friskies wet food and got the message that they are discontinuing the product because it has artificial ingredients. Also searched for Cesar dog food and got the same message. It sounds like they're eliminating some of the most popular dog and cat brands in favor of "natural." I suspect that they Petco is going to lose remaining customers who don't shop online. In my neighborhood it's particularly stupid, because we have three independent pet stores that sell natural and grain free foods at very competitive prices.

You're welcome, OP!

Just go on Fancy Feast's website and use their store locator to see where it's sold locally.

[quote]Fancy Feast Filets.

You must be rich.

Petco has slowly been moving to healthier options. About the only good thing is they take returns. My cat loves kitty crack that Petco stopped carrying and I was forced into an expensive, healthier option that my cat would rather starve than eat. Petco took the food back with no issue.

OP said he needs the filets to get his diabetic cat to take her shots.

I’m not rich R25, but I buy what’s needed for my pets.

r25 they're only $2 apiece on Amazon.

Just put out any food and they refuse to eat it fuck em - if they get hungry enough they’ll eat it.

i order my fancyfeast christmas tree ornament every year

[quote] they're only $2 apiece on Amazon.

That's $2.00 for one snack. Sorry, that's expensive to me.

Another fan of Chewy

It's a freakin animal, they don't live long so make em happy and buy the damn fancy feast if you can afford it. We kill ourselves with our food why should our pets be any better.

Does Chewy deliver to Canada?

Pet Smart?

Moron get your cat on REAL cat food like Weruva are you trying to kill him???

In a letter from Petco’s CEO, Ron Coughlin, the retailer announced a plan to discontinue, and remove from store shelves, any dog and cat food or treats that contain artificial ingredients beginning in January of 2019 with a completion date in May.

Coughlin joined Petco as their Chief Executive Officer earlier this year and is already making big changes in the name of improving pets’ lives.

“We’re raising the bar and stepping out ahead of the industry. Not because it’s an easy thing to do, but because we believe it’s the right thing to do,” he wrote. “Our goal is better health and wellness for the pets we all love. And setting new standards for nutrition is just the beginning.”

This is a massive undertaking, but not the first big move by the major retailer to make feeding our pets easier and healthier. In 2014, Petco became the first national pet-specialty retailer to put pets before profits when they discontinued sales of all dog and cat treats made in China.

[quote] with a completion date in May.

Ah, so no discounting until then. I went to the Petco in my neighborhood last night hoping to find Friskies on sale, but it was still the same price. (before you hate me for feeding my kitty crack, I've tried Core Wellness and Dave's wet food in many flavors and she refuses them)

Aren't pet specialty chain stores like Petco supposed to have better prices due to the volume of sales? The Friskies is the same price next door at the grocery store right next door and 15 cents less at Target and Walmart.

Fancy Feces

If PetCo is worried about your cat's health, maybe you should be worried, too. I'd be looking for a healthier, more nutritious food.

My dog began itching and scratching last year. I felt she was suffering from food allergies. I shop at PetSmart and replaced her food with better qualities, which means no wheat, soy or corn. I also make some of her meals as well. She stopped itching, lost some fat, looks trim and is energetic. My belief is that this diet switch will add years to her life. An accumulation of bad foods will take its toll on your pets (you, too!).

If you run out of Fancy Feast, OP, feed your cat paté!

Really drama-OP, Fancy Feast is available at every grocery. I've even seen it at freaking Walgreens!

So what is a good cat food? I just got a cat and she hates Royal Canin (looked straight at me and mines burying it), and Friskies. She will eat some flavors of Blue Wilderness, Nutra and Solid Gold.

I asked the vet and he was skeptical of any brand that has a lot of marketing like Solid Gold. He suggested Iams and Royal Canin. This cat hates Royal Canin with the heat of a thousand suns.

She’s pretty young and I don’t want to get her hooked on a bad food. Any ideas?

I should have said, I was feeding her Royal Canin Intense Beauty. Either she doesn’t want to be Intensely Beautiful or she figures she can do it in her own without any help from Royal Canin. She’s pretty cute already but I wanted to help her out because she was really skinny when I got her.

Yeah, those specialty foods are also much more expensive than Fancy Feast! Of course, Petco Hope's you switch! Grocery stores, Kmart, Target, Walmart carry Fancy Feast! I am glad Petco doesn't carry pet treats made in China anymore!!! Those were horrible--and I still see them in 99 cent stores!

My cat also doesn't Royal Canin. She loves Core Wellness Turkey and Duck, though. It's grain free.

Petco should just change its name to Whole Pets.

I don't get what's artificial about the ingredients in their tuna filet's. Their website states:

"Skipjack tuna, tuna broth, celery powder, salt. "

I have a vet appointment in the morning for my cat's senior wellness visit and will ask him what he knows about FF changing its formula. In the past he told me it's balanced nutrition and not to feel bad about feeding it to my cats. It's what he recommends for cats who have no appetite.

For the Fancy Feast fillet buyer, instead of $2 per package, how about poaching a chicken breast and giving that to your kitty? You could a week's worth of snacks out of that. My supermarket sells frozen salmon fillets for $1 each, I sometimes give my fella that as a treat.

Have you thought about trying some of the frozen raw foods available? My very fussy Pomeranian refused all dry food, but she loves her NW Naturals frozen raw food. The dog and the cat both love lightly boiled chicken livers, long-simmered chicken hearts, and plain broiled chicken thighs. Those are all dirt cheap.

I think Fancy Feast gets unjustifiably dumped upon by pet-food snobs. Its ingredients, even compared to a lot of premium brands, are generally pretty good.

For example, if the flavor is salmon, the first ingredient will be salmon. It won't be meat and/or fish and/or poultry byproduct. Nor will it be wheat gluten or corn (though some of the sliced-things-in-gravy varieties do contain wheat gluten).

Another point well worth noting:

A few years ago, when many pets died and massive pet-food recalls occurred because of melamine contamination, Fancy Feast was one of very few brands that did not require a recall. Purina (Fancy Feast's parent company) makes its own products, rather than outsourcing to the manufacturer that contaminated dozens of other brands with poisonous ingredients.

Pet food snobs? Nevah!

My cats will not eat chicken, beef, duck, turkey, rabbit or salmon. Only tuna, cod & whitefish. Occasionally they’ll eat shrimp, but not often.

One of my cats is so strange that she will only eat Temptations treats if she finds them lying on the floor or in a bowl. If I take Temptations out of a bag or box in front of her, she refuses to eat them. She only eats them if she comes across them already in a bowl, not having seen or heard them coming out of a container.

Two cats were diagnosed with diabetes. One was a mistake — he only had high sugar because he was so upset on the way to the vet. Now we have the vet come to the house. The other cat who was diagnosed is diabetic , but when we switched to Fancy Feast patè, her diabetes became controlled. It’s very low carb. The vet just had me drop her insulin dose from 3 units to 2. I think eventually she won’t need insulin anymore. She is allowed to have only 3 Temptation treats a day.

My male cat is skinny as a rail & eats like a hog. He’s been tested for everything & is always negative. My vet says he’s perfectly happy & I shouldn’t worry about him being bony & perpetually hungry. His kidneys, pancreas & thyroid are fine. He has no FIV or anything. I give him lots of Temptations to try & keep him from getting even skinnier. All my cats are indoors.

My sister fed her cats nothing but Friskies dry food & they lived to be in their 20s. Unfortanately, my cats won’t touch it.

I googled felineliving.net for their top 10 list of cat foods. On the wet food list, the best is Wellness Core, followed by Nature's Logic, Halo and Ziwi Peak. There is a lot of cat care information on the site. A couple of people above mentioned poor results with Royal Canin. It's no surprise as it is poorly rated.

A couple of brands I use for my dog are Blue Wilderness and Nutrish. Also as mentioned above, cooking things like chicken livers is cheap and healthy for your pets. A carrot and pea combo, and potatoes, are also good to mix in. Once you understand what foods are good for your pets, and what to stay away from, you may be making the same tasty and healthy meals for them and yourself.

Grandma lucy's freeze dried foods. Walmart currently has a typo on its site for 4 pounds bag for 12 bucks. usually closer to 30.

[quote]One of my cats is so strange that she will only eat Temptations treats if she finds them lying on the floor or in a bowl.

That's cute, R53! A friend has a cat who is quite obese (and lazy, as well). To help him get SOME exercise, she hides his treats here and there, so he can only eat what he finds by himself.

One of my cats used to be like yours, but with water. When I filled his water dish in the morning, he would turn his nose up at it. After my shower, though, he loved jumping into the tub and lapping up the bit of water that collected around the drain. I guess he figured hunting was better than being served.

These wet foods for your pets are comparable to snack foods for kids. My dogs and cats eat a high-quality dry food but they always get a nice heaping spoonful of Friskies and Alpo because I consider it a snack and they love the stuff.

My cats love FF so I use it to entice them to eat the healthy, no grain stuff they don't like as much. They never get FF alone, it's always mixed into the healthy food. Between two cats, they get no more than a 3oz can each week. Same applies to Friskies, another favorite. I stick with the pates for FF and Friskies. They're the best of the junk food. And FF Classic Pate is grain free though they don't advertise it that way.

At the end of the day, you feed what your cats will eat. Some cats, I know mine do this--would rather starve than eat something they don't like. It goes against all survival logic but that's cats for ya. I leverage their love of the junkier food to get them to eat mostly healthy food. And a can of FF or Friskies wet food is better than any other fancy dry food. The latter is what my cats would eat all the time if they had their own way.

And OP, yeah, Petco not carrying FF has literally zero impact. FF is sold everywhere else.

Fancy Feast classic is grain free and my cat gets it sometimes because he is incredibly picky and needs to eat even if it's not the best food out there. It'll be irritating to not get it at Petco because they have different flavors than my grocery store.

R51,. I was giving my cats Purina One dry at the time and they all got sick, and Purina was cagey about it when I tried.to report it. The lady on the phone actively refused to take the lot number of the bad food down even though I wasn't asking for a refund or anything, she just kept saying the food was fine and there was nothing to report.

I absolutely do not recommend anyone give their pets Purina. The experience was eye-opening.

[quote]"Skipjack tuna, tuna broth, celery powder, salt. "

That's also my douche recipe.

I was at Walgreens tonight and they have Fancy Feast. I read the very long ingredients list, and one of the ingredients is PORK PLASMA. Can somebody tell me what this is? Thanks.

r43 My cat loves Orijen. They make a freeze dried meat treat that she's addicted to also.

Pork plasma is the plasma from pig blood. It's thick and can be used as a binder on wet food, and also keep it from drying out.

Yum!, R64

My cat keeps kosher!