Wellness CORE Kitten Dry Cat Food, Natural, Grain Free Kibble, Turkey Meal and Chicken Recipe, 5 lb Bag

This is the best food for a good price. Not just grain-free, but better quality meat sources as well. I did tons of research and have owned many cats my entire life. I also used to work at a locally owned exotic pet store, and we also sold top shelf cat a dog food, this was one of our brands. We only sold the best of the best. But that’s not where I’ve done my research, I have compared invented and their sources for pretty much all brands, many times I update the research to make sure the ingredients stay the same. Nowadays I use ChatGPT I know I know, ai is bad for the environment but it cuts my research time to just a fraction and gives me all the sources so I can check, as well as gives me side by side comparisons of all the brands I input into the ChatGPT app. There are better (albeit much more expensive) food options out there, but if you want the best of the affordable food out there, this is it. 🌞 I highly recommend Wellness Core cat food. ———————————— Also, (nothing to do with Wellness brand, but as a word of advice for any pet food, or human food for that matter) note that lots of brands will say “grain free” but actually have other stuff in their food that isn’t great and/or will have poorly sourced meat products and other fillers, giving your pet similar if not the same low quality as grain foods because the advertising label is not telling you about the rest of the stuff inside. TLDR: “Grain-free” labels on super cheap pet foods are often there just as advertising but still aren’t actually good. Do your research about the ingredients even on “Grain-Free” labeled foods.

After trying so many different brand kitten dry foods this one is my cats favorite. She always turns away from everything else, but Wellness Core Kitten is her favorite besides Duck. No Diarrhea. O getting sick. Good quality. Last her a long time. Her coat is shiny and soft. The taste satisfies her.

Wellness Core Kitten Dry: Turkey and Chicken Liver I did a lot of research when I got my new kitten. It's my second cat and the first one had care decisions made by my parents because they were footing the bill. After researching I came up with two high quality dry foods. Wellness Core Kitten Dry and Orijen. Orijen is supposed to be better and I've read all kinds of reviews and places that say it's so. However, I came across information that says cats are getting sick from eating it. Further research indicated that this is a canadian company and owners had glowing reviews of the food when it came from their canadian facility, but they opened a facility in kentucky and all american purchases come from this facility. They reported vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, dry looking hair, etc... I can't say how much of this is the Orijen food and how much is outside factors, but they coincide to closely for me to take a chance. Instead I went with my #2, which was Wellness Core Kitten dry. I don't feed this exclusively, but per directions and supplemented with the same flavor and line of kitten wet food. My kitten was abandoned at an acquaintances house at 2 weeks old. I got her at 5 weeks. She was on an adult wet food. I did my research and switched her to Wellness Complete Kitten Pate. They said that you need to give a kitten multiple meals a day or basically free feed till they're 12 months old, because they need it all to grow. I can't do multiple meals a day because I work. Instead I bought wet food with the assumption that she'd eat a little when she finished her wet food and got hungry. I considered it a supplement that she wouldn't eat too much of. Apparently, I was wrong. She started eating more of the dry food and leaving the wet food in the bowl to turn. I was throwing out a decent amount of fairly pricey wet food. Knowing that Royal Canin wasn't nearly as high quality as I wanted, I looked around and found that the best brands of dry food were this brand and Orijen. Orijen was considered the superior brand every where I looked. However, while everyone had glowing reviews of what came out of the Canadian facility, they've apparently built a facility in Kentucky and everything you buy in the USA comes from that facility. People reported vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, and lack luster coat. You could consider that these might be cause by a third factor, but there were too many similar reports for me to trust it. I didn't see any issues with the dog version. The issue I ran into, and it's not really a bad one, was that my kitten apparently prefers the taste of the Royal Canin. I took a week a transferred her over to the Wellness Core Kitten Dry, but I'd taught her to sit for food and she'd sit near a full bowl of dry and when I'd look at her, she'd sit, indicating she wanted food. Since the bowl was full I can only surmise that she didn't like it. As soon as I sprinkled a little Royal Canin over it, she dove into it and ate it all. Occasionally, I'll see here do this when she's eaten most of her food and the little left doesn't have any of her old food mixed in. The upside of this is because she had no problems with the change in flavor of the wet food, she now eats it in a timely manner and I don't have to throw any out. With her only getting (1) 3oz can per day and 1/2 cup of the dry split over two feedings, per their directions based on age, I can afford to buy her the more expensive Wellness Core Kitten Wet 'Turkey and Chicken Liver'. That's good, because I think she became fatigued of the chicken pate flavor. She didn't seem to really care for it. Once I gave her the option of the turkey and chicken liver, she dived right in. I think she just needed a change. Overall, I think this is a high quality food, though without artificial flavor enhancements, your cat may not be in love with the flavor. I'm having minor weight issues with my cat as well. She's not heavy, but is leaning in that direction. It's partially because it's winter and her activity levels have reduced because she doesn't go outside as much, partly because she's slowed down from her spastic kitten energy levels, but also because this food has an 18% fat content. There average cat food is 12% and weight maintenance is 10%, so she's getting almost a double ration of fat in this kitten food. I do limit her food to the recommended amount and she doesn't get snacks. I'm hoping that when she's switched to an adult food her weight will drop off. I also hope that with different flavors she'll eat just the food and not need the other sprinkled on top.

Absolute best food for my kitten, she loves it and has had no problems after swapping. 10/10 highly recommended

My kitten loves this food! The turkey and chicken formula is grain-free, high-quality, and very healthy. She has lots of energy, her coat looks shiny, and she’s growing strong. The 5 lb bag lasts a good while, and I feel confident she’s getting great nutrition.

Love what is in this food, but I am afraid I will have to change after this bag. My cat eats it, but only a few non enthusiastic bites at a time. She is not thrilled with the flavor, and she is not a picky kitty. Also, she has had a lot of tummy rumblings and tootie toots. I give it A+ for the ingredients, but my kitty just does not care too much for it. Yours might love it. It has a fair price point, worth a try.

I have spent a lot of time researching different types of cat foods and the cost of each. I have an adult male cat who I was consistently feeding Wellness Core adult food indoor and adult formulas. I recently got a kitten, so instead of trying to separate the two, I transitioned my adult cat (he is almost 2) back to kitten food so he and the kitten didn't have issues with eating separate foods. Let me tell you, both of them had a rather rough transition to the new food associated with a decent amount of diarrhea/loose incredibly awful smelling poops, even though the transition was done over a couple of weeks. It has now been 3 months since both of them have been only eating this kitten formula, and now both of their poop have normalized, but it still smells REALLY bad. I never had an issue with my older cat being stinky before, and I am hoping that the higher fat and protein content of this kitten version versus the adult version has something to do with it. We stuck with this formula because even though they are stinky, it is high quality food, we knew we wouldn't be using for forever, they both really like it, and physically they have a lot of energy, and their coats look beautiful and healthy. Overall, we plan to transition both of them to Wellness adult formula in the next coming months and have our fingers crossed that that will alleviate the stinky poops!!

So I just noticed how shiny my cat is. Like literally looks like he is sparkling so I looked it up and basically says its probably cause he’s really healthy and diet related. We first got him blue buffalo as a baby and that made him really sick, so we needed something else. Since he’s been about a month or two old, he has been eating this food and he looks and feels soo soft. He’s very healthy. I think it’s this food! We also like to put a topper from this brand (wellness) as well. They are very pure and basically protein. He loves them. I put the toppers right on top of the kitten food. I hope the adult food is as good as the kitten food for when we have to switch him over. He’s about 8 months old now.