Gnawlers Smooth & Creamy Lickable Cat Treats - 20 x 15g - Mussel

Gnawlers Smooth & Creamy Lickable Cat Treats in the twenty-tube box: the same wet, creamy paste as the small pack, at a third less per tube. At up to 90% moisture these are a practical way to get more water into a cat, and the box lasts a few weeks at one or two a day.

Key Features

• Twenty tubes per box: AED 2.00 a tube against AED 3.00 in the four-pack, so a third cheaper if you already know your cat likes it.
• Up to 90% moisture: Mostly water, which matters more for cats than most owners realise.
• Mixed-flavour option: This box size offers a mix, which the four-pack does not.
• Taurine added: For eye and heart health, which cats cannot make enough of on their own.
• Single-serve tubes: Tear, squeeze and serve -- nothing to store once opened.
• No gluten or artificial preservatives: Per Gnawlers.

Why A Wet Treat Is Worth Having

Cats evolved to get most of their water from prey, and they have a weak thirst drive to match. A cat living on dry food often runs mildly dehydrated without ever looking thirsty, and low water intake is one of the things linked to urinary and kidney trouble later on. A treat that is mostly water -- Gnawlers put the maximum moisture at 90% -- is a genuinely useful way to get more fluid into a cat who will not drink from a bowl.

What Is In It

• Fish or meat first, depending on the flavour, in a potato starch and konjac gum base that gives it the creamy texture.
• Taurine, an amino acid cats cannot make enough of themselves. Gnawlers add it for eye and brain health, which is what taurine is genuinely needed for.
• Green tea extract, which Gnawlers include for digestion and immune support.
• Brewers' yeast, a common palatability ingredient.
• Gluten-free, with no artificial preservatives, per Gnawlers.

How To Serve It

• Tear the top off the tube and squeeze it straight out -- most cats will take it from the tube while you hold it, which is half the appeal.
• Or squeeze it into a bowl, or over the top of their usual food.
• It is a good way to get a reluctant cat to start eating, or to hide a powdered supplement.
• Use one tube at a time and throw away what is left. It is wet food, so it does not keep once it is open.

The Flavours

Gnawlers make this in five options, and the two pack sizes do not carry the same line-up -- worth knowing if your cat has a favourite.

• In both packs: salmon, mussel, bonito and crab.
• 4-tube pack only: chicken and liver.
• 20-tube pack only: a mix, which gives you an assortment in one box.

The Value Of The Big Box

Twenty tubes at AED 40.00 is AED 2.00 each. The four-tube pack is AED 12.00, or AED 3.00 each. If your cat already has a flavour they like, the box saves you a third. If you are still finding out, start with the four-pack -- there is no point in twenty tubes of something your cat turns its nose up at.

Who Makes Gnawlers

Gnawlers is a brand of Foshan Phoenix Pet Products Co. Ltd, a Chinese pet chew and treat manufacturer founded in 2002 and based in Foshan, Guangdong. Gnawlers say the plant runs to 30,000 square metres and that they export to more than 50 countries.

Good To Know

• Gnawlers say these are not suitable for kittens under six months.
• One or two tubes a day, per Gnawlers.
• This is a complementary treat, not a complete food. Whatever the flavour, your cat's actual meals still have to do the nutritional work.
• Use a tube in one go and throw away any that is left over -- it is wet food.
• The mix and the salmon are out of stock at the time of writing, and bonito is down to single figures. Mussel and crab are available.
• Introduce it gradually. A new treat on top of a full day's food is the usual cause of a loose stool, and that is not the same as an intolerance.
• If your pet is already overweight, or on a diet your vet has set, count these in and take the equivalent out of their meals rather than adding them on top.
• Keep fresh drinking water available.
• Not for human consumption. Keep it out of reach of children.