Now, Eagle has investors coming in the exact same way. It will be interesting to see what happens next.
I don't know who they are. I do believe Wellness changed something last summer. I had 5 cases of canned food, all different flavors and from 2 different stores. The only common denominator was they all came from the new plant in Boston. All 9 of my cats refused to eat it. I have never had one cat even refuse a brand new food much less all of them refusing a food they normally eat and love. That is when I changed to Eagle Pack.
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Did it say who had bought the companies, or why?
Makes one wonder why...was it to do away with competition, or were these companies having $$ difficulty?
I'm bummed by the news...hadn't heard it before. Wellness has been one of
the best quality cat foods available, one of the few with no grains in their
canned food and less grain in the dry food than most others. In the PM I feed my
cats a raw-based diet that I make, myself, most of the time but do keep some
top qualilty canned on hand when I can't get all the ingredients or don't have
time. In the morning, to save time and $$ I feed a 50/50 mix of Wellness
Turkey & Salmon and Nature's Variety Chicken and Rice. The furkids all like it
and are doing well.
Some of my older kittys are decidedly finicky with the canned foods and I
have to be able to offer them a choice. Wellness and Nature's Variety are
canned brands with no grains. Most of them like both of those as well as Innova,
Calif. Natural, Newman's Own and Evolve, though some flavors better than
others. Recently, a store where I get lower prices on most brands started carrying
Merrick, another top quality brand with some interesting flavor combintions
and one of my finicky geriatric girls loves their California Roll. My two
youngest will eat anything they can stick their noses into.
Innova recently came out with a dry dog food formula with NO GRAINS, and it would be great if they would do the same for cats.
I had not heard those companies had been sold...Guess I will have to pay more
attention and keep reading those labels religiously.
Sally in San Jose
