AvoDerm Natural Cat Food, 5.5-Ounce Cans, Case of 24

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I adopted two very undernurished kittens from the Humane Society, whose on-staff vet said that AvoDerm dry and canned food is the best on the market for cats. When I took the kittens for their vet checkup 6 months later, my own vet also agreed that this is the best food available and was so pleased with the health of the kittens. My older cats have also seen a huge improvement in their coats -much more silky and shiny, shedding is reduced and their weight is easily maintained on this food. I recommend trying this food if you have finicky cats or they have health problems.

My cats absolutely LOVE all the Avoderm Select Cuts (chunky-style) flavors AND all the flavors of this pate-style food. The seafood flavors seem to be the most popular among the cats, but many vets recommend avoiding too much seafood for male cats due to the urine crystals it can cause. I started feeding the beef and chicken exclusively and they eat every last drop.

Bottom line: It costs more than your average food, but it's worth every penny (buying it by the case can give you a pretty good discount from most vendors). If you consider that it keeps them healthier, which can save you from expensive vet bills in the long run, then it's worth it. Plus, think of the time you'll save not having to clean up after their shedding! Also, I've noticed that this brand does not result in the runny, smelly poo that some other, cheaper brands do. Try this food out on your cats -you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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Pros:

-All of my cats seem to like it

-Relatively low ash content

-Cheaper than many canned foods of equivalent quality

Cons:

-Very smelly, both before and after cats eat it :-P

-Despite being called "chicken formula" it contains fish, which is bad news for cats with urinary problems

Since my cats like it so well I think I will stick with it for a while to see if the stinky litterbox issue continues or if their digestive systems adjust.

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I adopted two very undernurished kittens from the Humane Society, whose on-staff vet said that AvoDerm dry and canned food is the best on the market for cats. When I took the kittens for their vet checkup 6 months later, my own vet also agreed that this is the best food available and was so pleased with the health of the kittens. My older cats have also seen a huge improvement in their coats -much more silky and shiny, shedding is reduced and their weight is easily maintained on this food. I recommend trying this food if you have finicky cats or they have health problems.

My cats absolutely LOVE all the Avoderm Select Cuts (chunky-style) flavors AND all the flavors of this pate-style food. The seafood flavors seem to be the most popular among the cats, but many vets recommend avoiding too much seafood for male cats due to the urine crystals it can cause. I started feeding the beef and chicken exclusively and they eat every last drop.

Bottom line: It costs more than your average food, but it's worth every penny (buying it by the case can give you a pretty good discount from most vendors). If you consider that it keeps them healthier, which can save you from expensive vet bills in the long run, then it's worth it. Plus, think of the time you'll save not having to clean up after their shedding! Also, I've noticed that this brand does not result in the runny, smelly poo that some other, cheaper brands do. Try this food out on your cats -you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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My kitty is the opposite of finicky, but when she started not eating her (long-loved) canned food, I knew something was up. She'd had some weird bumps on the inside of her lip that a vet had seen and said it was just allergies (first showed up in springtime) and not to worry about it. As the summer progressed and she began compulsively grooming-to the point that the fur on her entire side (or leg, or where ever she was grooming) was wet with saliva, I began to pay closer attention. It was at this time that she began acting like she WANTED to eat the canned food, but that it might be painful. When she started chewing and pulling with all her might at areas, I knew it was time for some intervention. She has always been offered a high-quality and grain-free dry food (had just bought 2 bags of Blue. OUCH!) and the vet at this time said that food was fine, but that we needed to put her on Atopica for cats, which is Cyclosporine (a medication prescribed to humans, dogs, and cats for autoimmune disorders, which is what EG is) to help calm the chewing, itching, and what turned out to be rodent ulcers on the upper lip (go ahead, Google it; it's really does look ulcerated, and I'd already had one vet look at it and say it wasn't a problem! Needless to say, didn't take her back to that vet). To make a short story long, Boo Boo did NOT like the Atopica, and it DID. NOT. like her. Significant loss of muscle tone, severely runny stools (they actually spattered the wall), heavy drooling (and major guilt trips on Mom) immediately after dosing, and she felt just miserable--would crawl up into my lap and just make me hold her for hours on end, never played; it was very sad. She used to be soft as a mink, and her coat (before meds, to be fair) was not soft anymore.

Enter manic Mama who made the mistake of reading the leaflet insert that came with the medication and then had a mental breakdown (207 cats entered the study. Most never finished it. 'Nuff said), and I was looking for some home-grown alternatives. I quit giving her the meds, and please don't burn me in effigy, but I did not consult the new vet but trusted my own Mommy gut instinct on this one. I wasn't going back to the vet, because she had said our "only" other option was steroids, of a type and dose known to cause diabetes in nearly every case; that was simply not an option for me. I began searching for holistic vets that might be able to use some herbal formulas, started wondering if Kitty just needed a major detox or had some parasite, all that good stuff (found a vet an hour away... I dunno about yours, but my fluff doesn't like car rides. Still, good to have an option if my home-baked ideas didn't help). Found out that a lot of vets make their own food for animals with this condition, but was warned of the dangers of homemade food (getting lazy and leaving out key ingredients including enzymes, not having the proper ingredients to make it--cats NEED bones as part of a balanced diet, and I wasn't about to buy a $250 grinder just to fully pulverize chicken bones for kitty, because we all know to never feed whole or broken bones to kitties), and found a number of ready-made alternatives, including (and most readily available) Avoderm. I bought about 30 or so of the small cans at my local pet supermart, and after 2 cans a day, we're almost finished with that and getting ready to get some more. My Boo Boo? LOVES her food, all the flavors (let's face it, she's ALWAYS been a food hound, ever since that first baby bottle when she first came to me at 10 days old; BTW, if you ever have to bottle feed kittens, do yourself and your kitten a favor and NEVER feed Hartz kitten milk replacement, but use a good quality type such as KMR or similar, found at the trusty local pet supermart, or probably here on Amazon, not that I've looked), and her symptoms, which were controlled while on the meds, haven't returned. Granted, it hasn't been six months, but I am sold. ALREADY, her coat is mink-soft again. She is happy and EXTREMELY energetic, and has returned to her former rambunctious kitty self--which I thought I'd never see again due to her age and since it had so gradually left her starting over a year ago that I didn't even realize how much she had changed.

One thing I did see was that the 3 ounce flip-top cans might cause continued symptoms (not sure why the flip-top would make a difference, but several folks had documented their experience as such); however, I did see all Avoderm 5.5 ounce cans at my pet superstore that DID have grains so started and have had this success with the small flip-top cans myself--but PLEASE do check the ingredients if your furball is struggling with this horrid autoimmune problem to avoid grains! Also, I discovered in my research that dry food, even the high-quality stuff, can be problematic for cats--because it has to be shelf-stable, it is processed at extremely high temperatures, which cause all sorts of denaturing and other problems, especially when they add all the flavorizing agents, etc. Of the Avoderm canned formulas that don't have grain, some are a higher price point than others--I think it's the difference between the "wild" and the "natural" formulas? I've been giving her some of each, and recommend them.

Another reviewer had said commented about how even the chicken one has some fish in it (which can be problematic for other conditions) and how it smells... Yep, it does, but since Boo licks her bowl clean, after she's finished the smell is a non-issue for us(and I even feed her in my bedroom right before bed! The smell, while strong, does not linger for too long, even the sardines flavor).

FYI, hubby can't NOT give her a few morsels of the dry food in the morning (and if you've ever smelled Blue's Salmon recipe, you know that canned food isn't the only one to smell!), and this small amount doesn't seem to cause her any problems. If your kitty has the same condition, you might try ONLY the canned foods until the condition clears up, then slowly introducing other stuff again while watching for return of symptoms.

Basically, two paws WAY up on this brand in the grain-free formulations, and a kitty tail flag flying at top mast as well!

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AvoDerm wet is one of the few brands I'll feed my cat although he has no preference. I am extremely picky about the ingredients put into cat food; I will not feed him anything that has grain/wheat, high fructose corn syrup, sugars, and fillers such as vague and unspecified animal parts.

For now, I exclusively feed him AvoDerm Natural Chicken, a 5.5 ounce can a day according to my cat vet. My cat has such a beautiful, soft sleek coat that many people comment on when they see him. I truly believe that this is a result of feeding him a higher-quality cat food.

I've purchased other cat foods that were similar in ingredients and content breakdown (especially when I was on tough times), but when times got better, I always went back to purchasing AvoDerm. I find that AvoDerm doesn't have a weird, lingering after smell that the other cat foods tend to have.

Aside from getting a fantastic cat food, I don't have to go to the pet store to purchase it. With Prime shipping, I get it in two days! Moreover, Amazon's price is lower, so I save money buying it here, even when it's rarely on sale at the store.