Schesir After Dark Patè Chicken with Quail Egg Wet Cat Food - 3 x 80 g

Schesir After Dark Patè Chicken with Quail Egg Wet Cat Food - 3 x 80 g is a complete and balanced grain-free wet cat food in a smooth patè, which Schesir puts at 52% chicken.

Key Features

• 52% chicken with quail egg: Lower chicken than the plain recipe because the egg takes up some of the room, and at 82% moisture it is the wettest of the four.
• A smooth patè, not chunks: Minced and smooth all through, which suits a cat that leaves chunks in the bowl and an older cat with poor teeth.
• Organ meat as well as fillet: Heart, liver and gizzard are in the recipe rather than muscle meat on its own.

This Is A Complete Food, And Not All Schesir Is

• Worth being clear about, because Schesir sells more than one kind. After Dark is complete and balanced, so it can be the whole diet.
• Schesir's Complements line is a complementary food. Its own label says so. A complementary food is a topper, not a diet, and a cat fed only on one will come up short on taurine, vitamins and minerals over time.
• If you are buying one Schesir tin to feed and nothing else, buy from this range or from Complete & Balanced Nutrition. Ask us and we will point you at the right shelf rather than let you guess from the front of a tin.

Why There Is Liver, Heart And Gizzard In It

• A cat that catches its own dinner eats the organs as well as the muscle, and the organs are where much of the nutrition sits.
• Heart is one of the richest natural sources of taurine. Cats cannot make enough taurine themselves and have to take it in from food.
• Liver carries vitamin A in a form cats use directly, which is why a small amount of it does more than a large amount of muscle meat.

Patè, Mousse Or Broth: Pick By Texture

• Three textures across the range and it is the main reason a cat accepts or refuses a food. Patè is smooth and minced. Velvet Mousse is softer and whipped. Wholefood In Broth is shredded fillet in liquid.
• A cat that licks the gravy and leaves the meat usually wants the mousse. A cat that wants something to chew usually wants the broth.
• Older cats and cats with bad teeth tend towards the mousse. Buy one of each before you commit to a case of anything.
• A cat raised on muscle meat alone may refuse organ meat at first on smell. If that happens, try the mousse, where it is blended through rather than sitting in recognisable pieces.

Wet Food And Water, Which Matters More Here

• A wet food is roughly three-quarters water. In this climate that is water going into the cat without it having to choose to drink, and cats are famously bad at choosing to drink.
• It also means you are buying water by weight. That is the honest reason a tin looks dear per kilogram next to a bag of kibble.

Opened Tins, In This Heat

• Cover an opened tin, refrigerate it, and use it within a day or two.
• Let it come back to room temperature first. Cats refuse cold food, and you will think they have gone off it when they have only objected to the fridge.
• Do not leave wet food down for hours in a warm room. This matters a great deal more here than it does in Italy, where it was formulated.

Good To Know

• Grain-free. Schesir states potato-free on the variety packs but states only grain-free on the single recipes, so if you are specifically avoiding potato starch, ask us and we will read the pack for you.
• Cats are far more stubborn about new food than dogs. Put the new tin beside the old one rather than swapping the bowl in one go, and do not take one refusal as the answer.
• Egg is a complete protein and an unusual one in a tin. It is also a common enough allergen that it is worth knowing it is in here.
• Ask us for the composition panel and we will photograph it for you. The front of a tin is not enough to compare two foods.