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Feeding your dogPortions, switching over, fussy eaters Chicken & OatsThe gentle everyday one Beef & BarleyFor big appetites Turkey & PumpkinShared with the cat
Feeding your catPortions, taurine, hydration Salmon & PeasThe one they run for White Fish & RiceGentle and light Turkey & PumpkinShared with the dog
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Feeding your cat

Cats are not small dogs. They need more protein, they need taurine from their food, and they will not drink enough water to make up for a dry diet.

A tabby cat and a grey and white cat sitting together on a sofa

How much does your cat need?

Cats are worked out on energy rather than body weight percentage. Give us a weight and we will convert it into grams and tins.

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Taurine, in all three

Cats cannot make enough taurine themselves. Without it in food they go blind and develop heart disease. Every recipe a cat can eat has taurine added on top of what the meat and fish already carry.

Water they will not drink

A cat's thirst drive is famously poor, a hangover from desert ancestry. Our tins are about 78% moisture, so a cat eating wet food takes in most of its water at dinner without trying.

Two meals, not a full bowl

Wet food should not sit out all day. Split the daily amount into two, and take away anything left after half an hour. Most cats settle into this within a week.

Portions by weight

An adult cat needs roughly 50 kcal per kilogram a day. Our food runs at about 85 kcal per 100g, which works out like this.

Daily food by cat weight
Your cat weighsA dayTins a dayA tin lasts
2 to 3kg120 to 175gAbout a thirdThree days
3 to 4kg175 to 235gHalfTwo days
4 to 5kg235 to 295gTwo thirdsA day and a half
5 to 6kg295 to 355gThree quartersA day and a bit
Over 6kg355g upwardsNearly oneAbout a day
Kittens under a year eat far more for their size, sometimes double. Older cats often eat less but need it to be tastier, which is where the salmon earns its keep.

Switching a suspicious cat

Cats are neophobic about food, which is a polite way of saying they distrust anything new on principle. Go slower than you would with a dog.

  • Start with a teaspoon of Snaffle mixed into their usual food. Build up over ten days, not seven.
  • Warm it slightly. A few seconds out of the fridge is not enough, it wants to be room temperature at least.
  • Use a wide flat dish. Whiskers touching the sides of a deep bowl genuinely puts some cats off.
  • Move the bowl away from the litter tray and away from a wall, so they can eat facing the room.
A grey and white cat stretched out on a sunny windowsill

The three for cats

A tin of Snaffle Salmon & Peas Cats

Salmon & Peas

The one cats come running for. Oily, soft flaked and full of omega 3.

Read the recipe A tin of Snaffle White Fish & Rice Cats

White Fish & Rice

The gentle one. Plain, light and kind to a sensitive cat.

Read the recipe A tin of Snaffle Turkey & Pumpkin Dogs and cats

Turkey & Pumpkin

The peacekeeper. The only recipe both species can share.

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