Best cat food brands of 2023 

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I say this for ALL your videos.......THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR RESEARCH AND HARD WORK

@ 1:40 ( To the Right of the screen ); " Look at That Kitty " ! " Such a Puss " !

Thank you Jess you're idea of crumbing the freezedry raw gave me an idea to ween my cat off kibble. (She's 12 and she refuses to eat anything else) Took me 2 weeks but now she happily eats the Quest freeze dry raw food! Started off by crumbling then added a nugget in then 2 then 3 then she accepted one as a snack & now she loves the food.

Thank u Jess like always giving us the best info love your videos .❤

Cranberries is good for UTI problems in cat. Cat hunts for meat but they too get stomach problems and they eat fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables is good for dogs and cats!!

I appreciate all of the knowledge you share. I’m trying to feed my cats healthier food and it can be very confusing. Thank you for breaking it down for us 😻

tysm for these videos!!!

Thank you this is so helpful

With freeze dried...my cat start accepting Orijen and then he rejected it...from the same packed!! With Viva raw, he eats all the flavours, beef, chicken, turkey, rabbit, duck... I'm really happy with Viva raw +Alnutrin..

Her Cat from 1;40 to 4;52 Was Very Amusing ! But beside THAT; The Best Cat Food I Found for Those "Little beasts" is a brand called; " Supreme Choice " ! They Start with No Fillers And Solid Meat Ingredients ( No I Get Nothing for Saying This ) They add a certain Seaweed Product That is Very Beneficial in Every Way, Look them Up And Compare them w/ other Brands !

4:19 love this panning action 😂😂😂

And I just signed up and placed my first auto ship order for “Just Food For Cats!” (Using your affiliate link) TYSVM! 🐾❤️🐾

Hello Jess & Jericho! 🐾❤️🐾 I am on my fourth month of transitioning both of my extremely finicky adult rescue cats. I am completely sold on “Raised Right!” My 5 year old male has always had digestive problems since rescuing him, I have changed his food 3 times. He was on the verge of severe IBD. I went against my veterinarians advice and was shocked with her advice to change him originally from Wellness Core to Royal Canin Digestive Health. 😩 Since ordering Raised Right (using your discount code Tysm) he has just completely improved in everything. 🙏 My 8 year old female rescue has also shown improvement! 🙏 Both cats are at 80% - 20% and although these two are hyper finicky, I can’t even imagine going back to any commercial brand cat food. I hope to get them both at 100% in the next few months but just as you stated in this video, they’re both prone to fish argh lol 😂 I am going to try and mix both “Raised Right,” & “Just Food For Cats.” 🐾❤️🐾 Tysvm Jess! You have helped me to understand the labels and how I can help improve my cats lives! ❤ I’ll definitely support your mom! ❤

Hi thanks for the amazing video. I am trying to feed my cat better quality food that I can afford. Any thoughts on Dr Elsy's and Carna4?

Your research is remarkable!! Thanku for this life saving information.

Your videos have been such a big help in my search for better food for my kitties. I was interested in Smalls, but I'm wondering how you feel about the Tricalcium Phospahte that's added in?

hello jess what do you think about the tikki cat food brand as a whole.

Great video. Jericho and The Voice, keeping us informed! I like your shirt. Is that your design, I didn't see it on your website. Colbie and Panda get a tin of sardines, once a week. Packed in water, no salt added. Panda seems to be over her problem with chicken. So I will be bringing back fresh chicken thigh meat to their diet.

Do you have to add any supplements to this food?

Hi Jess, Do you have a video with a recommendation for kittens? We have a 5 month old kitten that we would like to start slowly transitioning to a better diet. Thank you!

great reviews on eat of the Raw Diet and Freeze Dried Raw Diet.. i'm all about a company who has it all together so I can just either thaw and serve with the proteins, supplements, etc.. all in one. Thank you for the video!!

Is there a specific food you suggest for urinary health?

Hi Jess, I am currently feeding my kitten Quest freeze dried after watching some of your videos. I just want to make sure this is good for kittens? Also having a hard time finding the coupon code

I just submitted some Blue Wilderness cat food to Midwest Laboratories in Omaha as well!! I didn’t know how well known they were

Which smalls product did you use in the video that looks like it’s got gravy. My cats won’t eat anything without gravy. They hate pate

Do you have any suggestions for a male cat that’s been on prescription food for over 10 years, he’s on Royal canin urinary SO. And I’m pretty certain that there are plenty of better options out there!! Any suggestions?

I appreciate your videos. We have a 13 year old cat, and just got 2 kittens, and I want to feed them better than canned. I'm taking it slowly (and notes) because as you pointed out some of the above options are not for kittens. Do you know where I can find reliable (non propagation) information on how long kittens need specific kitten food? I'll keep looking but so far I saw 1 year to 18 months. Thanks again for the videos.

Great video thanks. Im really reluctant to give my cats any fish as from my understanding it isn't good for them. If you feed your cat fish do you supplement with some to counteract the enzyme deficiency it causes???

You talked about the transparency and testing and facilities with a couple of the brands, but not the ones that were higher on the list. Does hare today have the usda human grade facility also?

I don't see the discount code for Smalls - did it get taken down? :(

Kisses to Jericho !!!😻😻😻😻😻. I LOVE CATS, I ADORE CATS, I THINK I'M PART FELINE MYSELF !😻😻😻🙊

Have you heard of the brand called Muridae? They have cans of cat food called Mouser. There's mouse and another protein such as chicken or another in it. Just found out about it. What are your thoughts?

And if you are new here, Viva Raw now makes 5 complete meals for cats, with bonus proteins when available. Yay!!!!!

What wet food do you suggest for seniors. Protein cannot be high and less carbs

I was doing the Vive raw had great luck with it and my last order I ordered like 20 bags of it and now they won't touch it😢

Please suggest foods for cats with poultry allergies. Mine has been eating Open Farm and now is bored with her food

Can you feed Quest cat food just dry?

I love the options here, great video! I guess the Smalls company is not persistent on their products which is a huuuugggge problem I think. The only options right now are either grounded or smooth. There is no shredded, there are no broths or anything like that available as of this moment (April 2023) so the fact that they can't be trusted to consistently have the same products available is a big issue if your cat ends up liking this product and then all of a sudden that product is no longer available... So far we've only tried the grounded and my cat won't touch it. But she's liking the "just food for cats" brand a bit more. I question Smalls brand, only because if your cat becomes reliant on this product there is a big chance that the product may not be available anymore, and that's just too big of an issue for me to ignore. Thank you for your great video! You're content is so very helpful! 🙏❣️

Hi Jess thank you for your video. I see Just Food for cats uses salt, Potassium Iodide and Potassium Chloride in their food, isn't that bad for cats? Thank you!

Not a food question but where did you get the cat tree from? I think it might of been at your mom's house? I guess she has the 4 cats? Im sorry, I love your videos and I use Smalls.

I’ve never heard or seen any of these brands in supermarkets

Great list. Too bad they are not available in Canada. I wonder if there is a list of what is available in Canada?

I’m getting two new kittens and I am wondering what is the best kitten food. The current owner is feeding them Royal Canin Kitten dry food.

I bought raised right for my 3 cats and none of them would eat it. Wasted $160.00.

My cat started when I got him 3 months ago liking beef, chicken and Turkey. Now he only eats chicken and Smalls being only brand he eats. Thanks!

What is the phosphorus level of each of these?

I just switched my car to quest!!!! Glad to see it on the list.

I can't find any of those in Canada. I hate that our cats don't matter as much as American cats. :(

I tried to get my cat some Rachel Ray cat food and my cat won't touch it. I wanted him to have some real good food.. My cat eats anything but Rachel Ray cat food.. I was tempted to eat the Rachel Ray wet cat food.. It looked like some amazing tuna salad. It looked like I could make a sandwich with it.

Am confused..I just adopted two kitties, same age-5 months old. From the start I have feed viva raw mixed with warmed bone broth…they clean their bowls! However, there was no supplement. I was under the impression from my discussions with them their foods include supps. Not so? Also my vet consultant recommended raw chicken necks or wings or sheep necks for maintaining clean teeth. Does Hare Today offer these?

Hi Jess, I really enjoy your videos and how you share your knowledge. I struggle to understand when you say about cats "preferring routine and like predictability. Can you elaborate more about this, as nature and wilderness lack pretty much of these two factors? I also remember once discussing about food with another cat lover in regards of those seeds that companies add to cat food, where my point of view was " cats do not go to hunt chia seeds, etc" , but she said " Cat eats birds, and those birds have seeds in their stomachs at the time of being eaten. Your feedback is very much appreciated. Regards

Our cats are picky as hell. They dont even eat human cold cuts, steak, etc. However, I gave em some Optimeal chicken/turkey bits and they ate that down to the last morsel. They went cuckoo for coco puffs over the stuff. Then I recently got some Wellness brand chicken morsels and they turned their nose up to that outright. Soooo, yeah. I guess ill get some more optimeal lol. But its a bit pricy lol.

My cats are turning their nose up to all the canned food they used to like. IDK if they are sick or if there is something different about the formula of these brands. They only eat dry food and treats. They won’t eat meat that I cook for them like ground meat sardines and gizzards and liver. They will eat tuna. I don’t know what’s happening.

What’s the quality of the meat tho. Is it chicken that’s dosed with antibiotics and hormones? Is it better to just cook pasteurized human grade chicken and fortify it with ingredients cats need?

I've thought about this but both my cats are on vet prescription food. Dante has kitty IBS so he's on Gastrointestinal formula so I'm worried if I tried to switch him, it would make his condition worse. My other cat Kawii is on hydrolyzed renal formula since she's got skin issues and her kidneys are starting to fail since she about 14. Royal Canin is the brand.

I slowly but surely got my boy over to freeze dried raw. He has always been a wet food boy but did enjoy crunchy treats when he first came to me. Got him eating the freeze dried dry(as treats and free feed) and slowly integrated it rehydrated. Now it's three out of his four meals a day. I rehydrate it when it's feeding time and don't store it rehydrated. Took some time but was well worth it. Expensive 😂 but till I can get him on homemade raw it's worth it, he's worth it.

I have great results with Viva rawpets. With Raw paws pets food my cat refuses to eat some of their mixes. With Viva he finished any of their mixes. Also the Alnutrin supplement is well accepted.

What is alnutrien? Never heard of that.

my cats alternately get fresh raw meat with bones or short-cooked meat/fish, once a week an egg yolk, crushed cuttlebone and coconut oil. never commercial canned or dry food. since 3 years no vet needed

Thank you Jess! I'm going to transition my two cats from kibble and wet food. I like the information you share very much so I've subscribed to your channel. There is something I'd like to address. Human-grade ingredients, low carb, and BPA free packing are all very important, but far from enough! I especially have a big problem with "human grade". A HUGE problem! Because most of the HUMAN GRADE food sold in the U.S. for human is harmful. And so would also apply to our pets. The birds, mice and lizards, etc. that cats catch and eat in the wild aren't raised in cages, injected with hormones and antibiotics, and fed genetically engineered grains. The fish they eat in the wild aren't farm-raised, fed genetically engineered soy pellets. A great majority of meat sold for humans in the U.S. is from animals raised and fed in those ways. 😢 I would not feed my cats any food that is only "human grade". 😢 Yet in your videos you always say a food is human grade as if that's great. Of course, it's A LOT better than cat food with animal by-products, etc. But it's not that great all by itself. Yet, you said in the video when refering to "Human Grade", "You can't really beat that." 😢 Uh uh! We must "beat that" for the sake of our cats' health! I'm looking for key phrases like "cage free", "pasture raised", "grass fed", "wild caught". ❤ Those mean a great deal to me and should be important for anyone choosing food for their pets. (As well as for themselves and their families, which includes pets because they're family, too.) The USDA organic label or saying organic carrots, organic pumpkin (examples), on the ingredient list is also important because many cat foods include vegetables, sometimes fruit. And most of the vegetables and fruits grown and sold in the U.S. are not organically grown. They're grown and/or harvested using toxic pesticides, like glyphosate. 😢 And grown with artificial fertlizers. 😢 There can also be biosolids and/or toxic wastewater in the soil. 😢 I don't think I'm going to find anything I can buy for my two cats ❤ that will fit all this criteria and not be dry or wet food or ultra expensive. Currently feeding them Tender and True wet and dry cat food, but will be changing that little by little. Will look into Raised Right, Quest, Viva Raw and Hair Today (not Raw Feeding Miami because of the farms!). But, will probably need to prepare their food myself. And that's OK, too. You have lots of videos about doing that. Thanks! ❤ Although you don't talk about things that I think are very important in pet food (and human food) (hope that you will in the future), I like your videos and learn a lot! ❤😃

As always great info from The Maskless Catwoman 😂

Is royal Canin a good food?

So if the cat prefers the Quest not rehydrated is it ok to just feed the crumble without rehydrating?

My cat would not even try Small’s

What about Tiki?

I love your channel❤ started raw with quest frozen raw chicken ..got a second bag and for some reason it wasn't as good and she got sick. Then tried smallbatch chicken and she got sick again. Now she's eating freeze dried whitefish from Quest Steve's real food and had no issues but don't want her just eating fish. Trying to have her try quests beef frozen raw. Ideally, I'd like to switch to something like viva raw or Darwin's. The experience has been stressful but just want the best for my senior kitty❤Hope she will eventually eat the beef 🤞

Are you on carnivore diet? I was getting “Paul Saladino “ Vibes lol

CARAGEENAN IS A KNOWN CARCINOGEN. READ YOUR LABELS FRIENDS.😊

Smalls 😺💖🙏

I wish it were easier to get actual healthy food . I wish pet stores carried all of these . It’s a pain getting subscriptions and having to order stuff , but I also want my kitty to be healthy

Great video thank you for the information. It’s actually hard to find a good video that’s not secretly sponsored by a cat food and pretending to be an Indy review .

A carnivore you are, eh! Good job, thanks for sharing. I want to transition my two cats from dry to freeze dried (for storage and better quality sake).

What’s wrong with Iam’s? Never heard of any of these. Are you in the US?

My Siamese cat will only eat human flesh

Have anyone tried rebel raw?

how do you know so much about cat food?

My cat hates everything except Fancy Feast 🤦🏻‍♀️ I go buy a bunch of higher quality food, raw, etc. she likes it once and then never again…

Watch out for phosphates!

90% of the food we eat in the US is not safe they dont look into what the chickens etc eat and what they spray on the crops ... ok you know your stuff no oils theyre all Bad dr. Erik Berg DC has a link to some Great olive oil you can order from Italy .. I give my little girl 1 wild caught sardine a week but she mostly eats chicken wet food and I use N&D for her treats we do games shes 16 n loves to play those .

Since cats are obligate carnivores, why is your cat off of wet food ?

I guess a giant cat might Wop a coconut around,.... WOP ! _______________________ O ''

Is that a stuffed cat, next to her ? No , Wait I believe I seen it move at last but it got right back in the same position so maybe it’s a mechanical cat. 🎉😊

Lol none of these are available in my country (Asia)

I was feeding my cats Smalls, they all rebelled....until they had no choice. They were not .much on wet food to begin with. Up til this point they free fed dry food. I was good with Smalls, and they were fine after a bit, as well. Their Dr was really happy with All four's over ten year old health compared to previous years. I think I got either lazy or poor for a it leaves my mind. A d, y the way, get to know your cat...I've been laid unfortunately a couple months and watching my cats....they are, two af the four, not at all who I thought they were!@! And I thought they are!!!

Unfortunately, all 3 of my cats did not like Smalls.

Sardine is what they use inside cat traps lol. It smelly and they smell it a mile away.

Wow! That “Just Food For Cats” is expensive! $100.00! Saw that on Chewy. At least it’s made in the USA! 🇺🇸🙂 Not some Asian country.

You are cute!

What about smallbatch food? Heard they are pretty good. I have tried their Beef, Pork and Chicken.

I like your voice

Never heard of any of these brands. Too pricey and limited availability make them a no go for me. Thanks anyway.

Just one question. Why are we all soooo concerned about what we feed our cats or dogs when we hit the grocery store for chips, cola, icecream, fast food, etc. We don't eat a balanced meal day after day, we eat a diverse diet. I know cats need to eat a species appropriate diet, in the wild they don't get a balanced diet each day. They eat what they can catch that day. So, isn't it better to feed our cats a variety of protein sources and a good vitiman mineral supplement?

The pet food industry is sickening and it's all based on recent "fads". Some Cat foods are better than others just like anything just make sure the top ingredients are "quality" ingredients. Most of the time you get what you pay for. Also some Cat foods might be more expensive and have terrific ingredients but also can be too rich for your Cat. The problem with making you own raw food at home is that you may end up with an imbalance or "lack of" a specific nutritional requirement. Just because it's "raw" doesn't mean you Cat isn't going to still end up with health problems. There is no "purrrfect" Cat food out there. I've seen Cats live long lives on low cost food and high end food.

I shop at Walmart and their to high in prices. I love my cat but let's be real I will not have another because of rape you prices. No more rescue. Humans comes first.

I Dont do SUBSCRIPTIONS !

How come there isn't food with rodent meat? A cat in the wild will be eating small birds and rodents not cows...

Not into no one with all the cats no sn Aries with cats an or gillie with the cats

I would not feed my cat any of those brands, because cats are obligate carnivores and do not eat peas or carrots or yucca root. What I do is I buy raw turkey, raw chicken thighs, raw chicken breast and raw chicken livers along with some clam juice for moisture. Then I run it through a meat grinder. Then I will mix in some pink salmon and a can of sardines in water. Stir it all together and feed. No plant based anything in there. What is left over I will freeze for later use. I understand some people actually feed there cats a vegan diet. I think these people should be brought up on charges for animal cruelty. I know that cats in the wild will eat the stomach contents of a mouse, so I'm not totally against a low level of carbs for cats, I just choose not to as I think it's contraindicated in a feline diet. I have 3 very healthy cats all from the same litter. 2 males are in excess of 12lbs. and lean muscle mass and Molly the female is around 10lbs. All very healthy. Overall great video! Thanks!

Too much talking!