Wellness CORE Pate Kitten Wet Cat Food, Natural, Protein-Rich, Grain Free, 3 Ounce, 12 Pack (Turkey & Chicken Liver)

My senior very small cat was really thin. She’s small, so you can imagine how concerned I was when she lost a pound. She was roughly 7 lbs and she had been a little over 8! Her vet said to feed her 1/2 a can on top of her dry but switch to KITTEN food so she would receive more nutrition and GAIN WEIGHT. I had never given her wet food with the exception of giving her meds. This was rare, so I wasn’t concerned about Core. She was already on Wellness Core regular Cat food. So I switched her adult dry to the kitten version. Since I’ve changed her diet, she’s gained weight, is healthier and happier! This pate is easy to serve, it doesn’t stink, she loves the taste, the ingredients provide the proper nutrition the size is perfect. I can’t say enough positive this about the Wellness Kitten Pate! She loves different flavors of Wellness Core. I’m happier because I’m no longer worried about her health.

Wellness Core Kitten Wet Food: Turkey and Chicken LiverThis is the best quality kitten food I could find. I did a lot of research and from the available foods I found, this is the best diet I could find without going 'raw' or making my own. While 'raw' diets are supposed to be more nutritionally natural for a cat, there is the possibility of salmonella as well as a lot more work involved with refrigerating it, portioning it, and heating it. For the convenience of having portioned and fully cooked cans of food, I'll deal with the potential 'lesser' quality of this food. I can also order it from amazon and have it delivered to my door.This food does have 'chicken meal' which isn't something you necessarily want, but it's pretty far down the list of ingredients, so I'm not too worried about it. It also has cranberries, which are supposedly included for urinary tract health. I read that this isn't necessary for cats. I don't know for sure, so I'll mention it and not comment.This is fairly expensive food. It's currently $21.48 for 12 cans (3oz.). That's 1.79/can or 0.60c/oz. or 9.55/lb. Take that into consideration when buying. Around here, that's more per pound than about any good meat I could get for myself from a grocery store.The Wellness complete line is almost as good and is a decent amount cheaper, though still more expensive than something similar wet foods you might be more familiar with. In the end, I'm just buying it because it's the best I could find and I can afford it with my one kitten. I feed her (1) can in the mornings and supplement with the recommended amount of the complementary dry food of the same line. We had a cat growing up who subsisted on low end dry food, then was on Royal Canin S/O for urinary tract issues for the rest of his life. He only got the occasional pack of wet food or snack in the kitchen and he was healthy and trim till he died of old age at 16yrs. It'll be up to you to decide if the price is worth it, but I believe the quality is definitely there if you decide it is.Just as an extra note, my kitten was found abandoned at 2 weeks. I got her at 5 weeks and she'd been fed adult wet food. I switched her to wellness complete kitten pate and was feeding her two cans a day. I wanted to supplement with dry food because they said you're supposed to free feed till they're 1yrs old for growth. She didn't even realize it was edible at first and I'd sprinkle some over her wet food. She started eating it, (Royal Canin Kitten at the time) and developed a preference for it. She'd eat it all and have wet food going bad in the bowl. Then when I realized the Royal Canin wasn't that quality, I switched her over to Wellness Core Kitten Dry, along with the wet. She didn't like it nearly as good. I assume there is some kind of flavor sprayed on the Royal Canin to make it taste good to them and Wellness doesn't do that. She now eats all of her wet and won't touch her dry till I sprinkle just a little of the royal canin on top and mix it in. Kitten will develop preferences and like stuff that isn't good for them. Their diet will change based on those preferences. Just something else to keep in mind while planning what to get them. I can afford to buy the more expensive stuff, because instead of feeding multiple cans of wet per day, I feed one can and supplement with dry. They have feeding instructions based on this as well.

This was by far the best kitten food we found when our kitten first meew'd his way in to our life/yard one evening. We stumbled to the store and searched for food that we could feel good about feeding him and we found the smaller cans of regular Wellness which he then ate for the first month or so. We eventually had to switch, though, due to him eating a can or more of the smaller one a day.This CORE formula is similar, but comes in larger cans for not much more money. No brainer there. Our kitten loves it and wakes us up to be fed in the morning if we dare sleep in.We also leave some Wellness core kibble for him to graze on during the day while he's a growing boy, and while he eats a bit he definitely makes sure not to spoil his two Wellness CORE wet food meals each day.The primary thing I'd like to see is for this product to be organic. I had a really hard time finding organic kitten food, while there are certainly lots of organic options for grown cats. This seemed to be the preferred kitten food but I still worry about the non-organic poultry being used in this. Therefore we plan to switch him to organic food, or our own home made food if we figure out how to fit that in our schedule, when he's old enough to ditch the kitten formula.That said, this is probably the best food currently besides making your own that you can feed your kitten. He's growing up very healthy, the vet is almost surprised by how healthy he is (no worms, no parasites, perfectly soft fur, clean teeth, clean ears, etc.) I believe that this stems from a good, non filler, non by product diet lending to a strong immune system.Thanks Wellness, for making a good kitten food.

I just got a kitten in May and I really wanted to provide him with the best food I could. I started him off on Hill science diet, but he just wasn’t finishing all the food and he would eat it, but he never lick the bowl clean. I also did some research and found out that Hills science has corn And wheat and dairy and sugar in their food which animals do not need! My cat gets to eat gluten and dairy so I tend to stay away from it. Best I can. I stumbled upon this food on a YouTube website and decided to give it a try. I went and bought one can from Petsmart and my cat ate it so fast! He basically licked bowl clean so I didn’t even have to clean it , I got the chicken and salmon flavor and that has been his favorite so far, I haven’t tried the other flavors because I just don’t want to stick with what he loves best. I’ll definitely stick with this when he gets into an adult and I’ll find an adult flavor of wellness chicken and salmon. I highly recommend this, I always get many compliments on how he is very healthy growing really well and by giving him wet food he is staying hydrated. I even add a little bit of extra water or , carnivore bone broth to his food just to keep an extra hydrated!