Halo Holistic Indoor Dry Cat Food, Cage-Free Chicken Recipe, 3 lb

My two cats are so finicky when it comes to their dry food. One is an indoor/outdoor the other is strictly an outdoor TNR cat. The only thing I could get them to eat is Rachael Rays nourish dry food. I wasn’t crazy about its ingredients but they liked it. Well I bought a bag of the chicken Halo dry food and figured I’ll try it on them. OMG!! They ate it like crazy. They never finish their morning feeding and they didn’t beg for food all day til evening when they got more. This is great and the ingredients are so much better. All the other expensive healthy dry food I’ve bought them they’ve had no use for. They’d rather starve. lol. I didn’t even have to mix it with their old food. Amazing!

Great for my elderly cats.

We have been using this for about 3 years now. I started buying this because it has no grain in it. Cats are strictly meat eaters and have a hard time digesting grain of any kind. At the time I started with this, I had an old kitty that was always up chucking her dry food. I started by mixing this food with her old to gradually get her used to it. It took awhile as she was not too keen on it, but eventually, she started eating it loved it. Her fur became very soft and shiny and she stopped throwing up. Now I have two other cats that only get this for their dry food. It doesn't have all the chemicals and byproducts that other, cheaper food have. Sure, it costs more, but how much is your cat's health worth? My cats are full of energy, they don't shed all the time anymore, they have clear eyes and their fur is soft. They are the picture of health. I truly believe that all that grain and chopped and boiled chicken feathers can't be good for a cat. This has none of that. I suggest anyone interested in good health for their cat give this a try. I get this on a subscription with Amazon now.....it costs less than anywhere else and I get regular shipments to my door. Free shipping, too.

The first 5 ingredients are basically what most pet food critics use to review kibble. Above average content and appears to be recall free, not chemical free and no guarantee that the sourcing of products is clear of problems. That is something I watch since the 2007 recall. The largest recall of pet food in the history of the World revealed almost all pet food companies were using the same sources for their protein booster. The melamine used to inflate the rate of protein in pet food months later also caused a recall in baby formulas. I've followed the many lawsuits against pet food companies and the one woman criticizing the Pet Food Industry and AAFCO for their lack of regulatory control over pet food ingredients Susan Thixton. Her Truth about Pet Food, Petsumer Reports caught HALO using some cans that were not BPA free. I rate a food on the overall production quality of the company as well as the individual food because unknown factors are what killed 2 of my pets. It was a long slow death. I have one mom and her grown kindle. First, they all loved it. Second, I have UTI's amongst the group. To fight the cost of feeding all soft food I moisten kibble, then use a topper. The topper is often home cooked, even that has chemical problems. The issues of food safety for pets is so complex that I've come to think it very important that a company reveal the source that provided their extra food additives. Halo does not do that. In that regards they don't make me feel any more confident about their product than some of the formerly recalled companies. Halo is quick to become soft when distilled water is poured on it. I refrigerate it for the process and then pour something warm over it. That is a good thing for feeding a group of cats where more than one has repeat urinary tract problems. I purchased mine at a discount, again one reason I could afford it. I find it pricey. At full price this is in a price range that I can also buy Honest Kitchen. A company that does publicly post where all their ingredients are sourced. Their cat food is chemical free, to the extent any food is chemical free. Thumbs up but with precautions.

I switched to Halo Holistic Cage Free Chicken Cat Food to help my indoor cat maintain a healthier weight, and it’s been a great choice—she actually enjoys eating it (which isn’t always the case with “healthy” dry foods), and I’ve noticed she’s become a bit leaner and more active over time; I also feel better about the ingredient quality since it uses real cage-free chicken and skips fillers like grains, and the transition was smooth with no digestive issues at all, though it is slightly more expensive than other options, the quality and results make it well worth it.

Prior to giving my cat the Halo brand I was feeding her the "Merrick Before Grain #1 Chicken Dry Cat Food," but I noticed it would take her almost two days to eat 1 cup serving. I chose that brand because it was grain free and my cat has a sensitive stomach and it was the only brand she was able to eat without getting sick. Overtime I thought she would grow an acquired taste for it but after a couple of months she would eat less and less of this brand and take longer to finish her daily portions. I figured all grain free brands were going to taste bland no matter what. This past week I decided to give it another shot and have her try another brand. I gave my cat a small portion of the Halo brand as though I was feeding her a treat. I was happy to see how quick she ate the small portion I gave her. This made me realize I might not have to transition her into this brand of food by mixing the two different brands together. So I poured out her previous brand of food and poured one cup serving into her dish. I left for a couple of hours and upon my return I saw that her food was gone already. It's been a week now that she has been eating this product and so far she has not had an upset stomach. I definitely recommend Halo for your cat especially if they have a sensitive stomach and if they prefer brands that have more flavor.

My 18 year cat has CKD and this food is rated to have pretty low phosphorus levels. I'd rather feed him only wet food, but he's a food licker (vs. taking bites) and has a hard time finishing a full daily serving wet food. When he started losing too much weight, I gave in and began supplementing his diet with this dry food. So far, so good. Between his weekly IV fluids, a little daily lactulose (buy from dr. foster and smith) and some miralax in his wet food, he's had no serious constipation issues, which I'm so happy about. I know WAY too much about cat poop and cat enemas at this point and I was terrified that he'd be pooping dry little rocks with the introduction of kibble into his diet. PHEW. I'd actually say this food has improved his stool. .... Aaaaaanyhoo, enough about poo. Totally suggest giving this a try if you need to add some calories into your CKD kitty's diet. If you're cat is not CKD, you can afford a bit more and your cat will eat it, I highly suggest just feeding wet food though. It's believed that most older kitties suffer from CKD due to eating a kibble diet for most their lives, which does not provide enough hydration. Without hydration, their kidneys pay the price in the long run and they wind up needing to be on a special wet diet and/or need to be hydrated by IV with sub-q fluids daily/weekly... this can get all get pricey and stressful. My cat's health is worth it and it keeps him healthy and happy... but it's still a stress that could have possibly been avoided for the both of us.

For those of us with IBD kitties, it's tough finding a food that meets their needs and doesn't break the bank. Halo was recommended by several people in an IBD cat group I'm in, and I was so thankful to finally find something that she would eat and that managed her IBD.... then they changed the recipe... :( While I'm not opposed to pork, and neither is my IBD kitty. She'll eat Young Again's pork-based food and treats with vigor, but she is very strongly opposed to Halo's recipe change - she barely sniffs it before walking away and refuses to eat it, even when it's mixed with her equally smelly Purina Natural's UR formula. Fortunately, my IBD Cat group came to the rescue again and we're working towards the Young Again dry food option, but "grrrr, Halo!"