Wellness CORE Natural Grain Free Whitefish Salmon & Herring Pate Canned Kitten & Cat Food

My Goolyamo and Aubree just suddenly stopped eating their wet Fancy Feast. I had ordered at least a couple of months supply, and that was all that I had on hand for their wet food. Since they would not go near the FF, I did some research, and found CORE to be even better for them. So I ordered it, and they LOVE the Whitefish, Salmon and Herring Pate, so much so, that it was completely gone in five minutes.

When the canned kitten food I was originally feeding my foster kitten, Iggy Furome, was out of stock literally everywhere, I had to find another option. With an adult cat in thre house with sensitivity to chicken, I try to avoid bringing anything in he may get into that could be an issue so I tried this food. After slowly transitioning him using the last of the other food, Iggy started gobbling this up and the big cats love to do cleanup. The smooth texture made it easy to water down and use a syringe when he needed help getting enough food in too. It's hard to find anything for cats without chicken. I love having a couple choices now in case something is out of stock.

I'm not sure how "use by" dates are calculated, but according to that date, the cans of this recipe that I got in my recent order were about 2 years more aged compared to the turkey/duck cans I got in the same order. And you can tell. Visually, by the fact that the food itself has shrunk and there is a gap between the food and the side of the cans when opened, and the fact that this flavor is usually my cats' favorite, and they won't touch this stuff. It's also darker colored than usual. This is a compelling reason for me to find a local retailer. Really the only major disappointment I've had with Chewy since I got my cats several months ago.

I was looking for very soft paté to make eating as easy as possible for two of my cats who currently can't have dry food (one has a toothache and one has a laceration on her tongue). They really like the regular Wellness Paté so I was excited to try this, as it's even softer, almost mousse-like, and the ingredients seemed more curated. But it must taste or smell strange to them. Sometimes they will eat it and sometimes they won't. This kind of pickiness is new for them (usually if they like something, they will always eat it, and when they don't like something, they will never eat it). It's the same story with the Chicken & Salmon flavor. Other reviews have mentioned the product's inconsistency I was looking for very soft paté to make eating as easy as possible for two of my cats who currently can't have dry food (one has a toothache and one has a laceration on her tongue). They really like the regular Wellness Paté so I was excited to try this, as it's even softer, almost mousse-like, and the ingredients seemed more curated. But it must taste or smell strange to them. Sometimes they will eat it and sometimes they won't. This kind of pickiness is new for them (usually if they like something, they will always eat it, and when they don't like something, they will never eat it). It's the same story with the Chicken & Salmon flavor. Other reviews have mentioned the product's inconsistency; I haven't noticed anything particularly different from can to can, but maybe that's it. Somewhat of a mystery. … more

I have 7 rescue cats, they all love seafood brands so I thought I would try this as a treat. It is an awful greenish color and NONE of the cats will touch it. Don't know if there is something wrong with this batch or what. They love Wellness Signature

Bought this food at a pet store for my cat to try before buying a case. She loved it, scarfed it down. So I went ahead a bought the case and now she hates it. Will look at her food, sniff it and walk away showing no interest. Disappointed. Not sure if it’s the food or just my cat being picky

Our finicky cat with IBD loves this food! He will pretty much only eat seafood flavored pate. We have used other foods for him in the past though and he would eat it in 2 sittings, even if we adjusted his portion size. With this food, he eats almost half a can in one sitting, which is huge for him.

My first review of this product was “meh,” because of the color and consistency, and my cats not taking to it strongly, but then as I continued to offer it to them, it turned into their go-to favorite! So now I give it 5 stars, because it agrees with both of their digestive systems too, and it is so very rare to find one food that both cats enjoy that doesn’t cause either of them any digestive trouble...one of my cats gets constipated from the addition of extra-high-protein foods to his diet, the other gets diarrhea *without* an extra-high-protein food in her diet. This recipe seems to strikes the right balance.

I always purchase Wellness brand wet food for my insulin resistant cat and am always looking for new flavors. I usually check all the ingredients in the food before I order, however, this time I just assumed the food would be of the same quality as the other varieties. I was shocked to find potatoes in this formulation. Fortunately, I have another cat that will eat this food but I won't be ordering this food again.

My cats really turn their noses up at this one, even though there's salmon in there which they like.