I put Untamed cat food up against my three fussy cats, but what did they think? Read on to find out…
My three cats – Humphrey, Camille and Endeavour – have always been fussy eaters. It feels odd when they’ll happily eat an entire mouse, or fish a piece of buttered crumpet out of my mouth given half the chance, but there we are. Over the years I’ve tried them on all sorts of different foods, hoping to fob them off with cheaper biscuits, but they won’t have it.
(Remember years ago when I told you about my rule of second crappest? Well, the cats aren’t buying it.)
The only food I’ve been able to get them to agree on is a brand of prescription biscuits, which cost about four million pounds per bag. Not ideal. Still, they are all well and happy, which is the main thing.
Here they are as babies
Only then Humphrey – the bottom cat in the picture – got ill. At the end of last year he had an issue with his bladder and urethra, which involved a catheter and not a small amount of incontinence. It was a tricky time, not least for me, who apparently becomes hysterical whenever a pet is mildly unwell.
Sick kids? I’m fine, no worries. Cats? HYSTERIA.
As part of his treatment, he had to change his diet to include wet food, to keep him hydrated. Since then we’ve been doing a complicated arrangement whereby Humphrey is shut in one room, to have what I lovingly call his ‘peen food’ – (you’re welcome) – while Camille and Endeavour eat their biscuits and then wait outside the door just in case there are any leftovers.
All of this long and boring introduction is by way of saying wouldn’t it be nice if there was a wet cat food that I knew was good for them and that they all liked?
It’s at this juncture that Untamed get in touch and ask if I would like to try some of their cat food. Yes please, thank you very much.
A quick check of the Untamed website reveals that my feline trio are in for a treat – human-grade ingredients, 100% real, hand-shredded meats, no grains and B-corp certified. (Okay, they weren’t honestly fussed about the B-corp bit, but it’s nice for me to know.) They offer next day delivery and there’s no freezing or defrosting required, which is good, because the freezer is already full of dog food, and I barely remember to defrost that.
Here it is:
First impressions when our delivery arrived was that the cans are adorable. I appreciate that this is absolutely not the point, but they are very cute. Then I took a look at the ingredients and actually said ‘wow’ out loud. I’m not even kidding. They are not messing about with the ‘human grade’ bit – the chicken breast in jelly is 60% chicken, 39% chicken broth and 1% tapioca.
Look at it – you could make yourself a nice sandwich out of this:
Endeavour is already interested
For their first go they split some of the chicken breast and the wild tuna and salmon, which looked just as delicious. As soon as I started putting it into their bowls they could tell that something exciting was happening.
You can see from the picture that Humphrey, at the back there, is getting a bit of a wild look in his eye. He was Very Keen. In fact he couldn’t even contain himself until I put the bowls down on the floor.
They did all get their own bowl, although suffice to say that they mixed themselves up and all got the wrong name. And did they like it? Of course they did! It was literally chicken and fish. What’s not to like about that if you’re a person, let alone a cat. They absolutely loved it.
Clean bowls all round.
Untamed offer a range of meat and fish options, in jelly, gravy or broth options, so there’s something for everyone. I wanted at this point to be able to say something like ‘Humphrey’s favourite is definitely X’, but the truth is that they all loved all of them.
If you’d like to give Untamed cat food a go you can get a trial box of 12 cans for just £7, with free P&P.
We were sent a box of Untamed cat food for the purposes of this review but all opinions are my own.