Features of use and types of food for cats “Friskies” (“Friskies”)

Friskies food for cats was developed by experts from Nestle PURINA®*, a company that has been producing food for pets for over 85 years. Complete, balanced food offered by this company is suitable for feeding animals of any age and gender, as well as for feeding sterilized and neutered male cats.

Review of Friskies cat food

Friskies cat food is a budget option. This is one of the cheapest feeds, since its production uses by-products - in other words, waste - and a large amount of grains.

Friskies packaging is easily recognizable by the image of a cute red cat or playing kittens. The contents of the box, bag or pouch are no different from other economy options: multi-colored pads of dry food with a specific, easily recognizable smell or slices of wet food in gravy.

There will be no problems purchasing this food: unlike premium food, which can be purchased either in a specialized store or by ordering online, Friskies is sold in all supermarkets in our country.

Friskies in the Purina food line

Purina's Friskies line was one of the first to appear. The packaging of Friskies dry and liquid food is painted yellow, with ginger cats depicted on it, happy with their lives. This is an excellent marketing ploy because... these tones are associated with the sun's rays. One gets the impression that eating the food will make your pet healthy and cheerful.

As the manufacturer assures, when creating the Friskies food line, it takes into account the age, lifestyle, and health status of the animal. Each product is made using a special formula that is designed to meet specific cat needs.

Product range

One of the important advantages of Friskies products is their wide range. The line of food includes food for babies, older cats, and adult animals - both non-castrated and those that have undergone the sterilization procedure. The choice of flavors is also pleasing: even if your pet is very scrupulous in choosing food, you will certainly be able to choose the one that he likes.

Dry food for kittens

For our little pets, Friskies produces a special food that provides an easy and painless transition from mother cat milk to “adult” food. This is a complete, balanced diet that is suitable for kittens and adolescents in the first year of life.

The meat of domestic chicken, vegetables, vitamins and microelements contained in this type of food provides babies with all the nutrients necessary for their age:

• protein necessary for the development of bone and muscle tissue;
• taurine, beneficial for vision and the cardiovascular system;
• Vitamin D and minerals that help keep your kitten's teeth strong, sharp and healthy;
• vitamin E, which strengthens the body's resistance.

Wet food for kittens

If your pet is too small and weak to handle hard kibble of dry food, or he absolutely does not like it, you can offer him soft food with chicken, grains and fish.

In addition to the above components, Friskies wet food contains:

• vitamins A and D;
• amino acids;
• minerals;
• sugar.

The basic composition of dry and wet food is almost identical, so by choosing any of them, you can be sure that your baby is getting all the nutrients he needs at his age.

Dry food for adult cats

This is a complete food for animals over 1 year of age. The composition of dry food for adult cats implies the presence of:

• cereals;
• meat and offal;
• vegetables and their processed products;
• vegetable protein;
• oils;
• fats;
• yeast;
• vitamins;
• minerals;
• antioxidants.

In addition, there are dyes and preservatives, which are essential for economy-class food.

Wet food for adult cats

Your pet will certainly love the appetizing pieces in a fragrant gravy or tasty jelly.

The nutritional value of wet food intended for feeding adult animals does not differ from the same indicators for dry food.

Dry food for domestic cats

Complete nutrition for animals living in an apartment includes:

• chicken meat and offal;
• cereals;
• green peas (dry);
• vegetable proteins;
• oils;
• fats;
• vitamins;
• microelements;
• yeast;
• antioxidants.

And, as usual, when producing a budget version of cat food, it was not without dyes and preservatives.

Dry food for sterilized cats

Castrated cats and sterilized cats need less calories compared to their unoperated counterparts and, especially, young playful animals. This is due to hormonal changes that are inevitable after sterilization. Even previously very active animals become much calmer, more sedate, slower, and of all the available entertainment they prefer to sleep peacefully in the sun. Lack of physical activity negatively affects the health of cats: they quickly gain excess weight, which leads to heart problems and puts additional stress on their joints.

To avoid such problems from your pet, you need to provide him with sufficient physical activity and give him the right food.

Friskies for sterilized cats is a complete nutrition with:

• dietary rabbit meat and offal;
• cereals;
• vegetables (dried green peas);
• vegetable protein;
• oils;
• fats;
• vitamins;
• minerals;
• yeast;
• antioxidants.

The calorie content of this food is significantly lower than others, but it saturates very well.

Dry food for hairball control

Cats are amazingly clean creatures. No matter how much you comb their fluffy fur, no matter how clever furminators you use, our favorites will lick themselves for hours, bringing their coat to perfection. This property has one negative point: while licking itself, the cat swallows a little hair and it gradually clumps into dense clumps, clogging the stomach and causing sudden vomiting and problems with stool. Unfortunately, we are unable to prevent this phenomenon, but we can and should help the animal get rid of hairballs.

The specialized food option offered by Friskis is a combination of:

• cereals;
• meat and offal;
• beet pulp;
• vegetable protein;
• oils;
• fats;
• yeast;
• antioxidants;
• vitamins;
• minerals.

The high amount of fiber contained in this food promotes the natural elimination of hairballs from the body.

For everyday feeding

When choosing food for daily nutrition, the owner should first of all take into account the age of the animal, the pet’s health status and its activity.

Wet food

For adult cats that do not have health problems, the Friskies brand recommends using the following products:

1. Friskies dry food for domestic cats with chicken and garden greens. Designed specifically for cats living in apartments. To prevent animals deprived of adequate physical activity from gaining excess weight, the developers reduced the calorie content of the food by adding garden greens to it. The advantage of this product is that the additional dietary fiber helps remove hairballs from the stomach.
2. Friskies dry food with chicken and liver . It has a balanced composition, quickly eliminates the feeling of hunger, and saturates the body with beneficial vitamins and minerals. This food is recommended for cats older than 12 months.

Another advantage of Friskies food is that it is available in different packages ranging from 350 g to 10 kg, so every breeder will be able to find the best option for themselves.

Feed composition

Let's look at the composition of Fiskis food, taking as an example any packaging with this product.

What do we see first? These are cereals. The manufacturer does not specify what exactly: corn, wheat, or maybe barley? Our pets are by no means herbivores. They can happily eat a couple of spoons of buckwheat with the addition of chicken and even pumpkin porridge with rice, but if you feed them only cereal dishes, this will negatively affect their health. For full functioning of the cat's body, meat is needed.

This component comes second and is evasively called “meat and its processed products.” What does it mean? Laboratory tests show that there is very little actual meat (including chicken) in the food, and what is passed off as it is ordinary by-products.

Not everything is clear with the next component – ​​vegetables. The composition specifically contains only beet pulp (up to 4%, which is too much) and dried green peas, everything else is also processed products (in all likelihood, trimming and peeling). There is nothing wrong with this, of course: many of us have more than once noticed how the fluffy beauty purrs with delight while eating cucumber skin or cleaning up an ear of corn after its owner. Another thing is that they are of little use.

Next are vegetable proteins, oils and fats (these are sources of fatty acids) and yeast. The last component is actually important: it improves the condition of the coat, which is what all cat owners talk about.

Unfortunately, there are very few vitamins and minerals. In order not to encounter signs of vitamin deficiency one day or not to discover that your cat’s teeth have begun to deteriorate, you will have to promptly take care of purchasing a vitamin complex - at least inexpensive - and periodically give the animal raw eggs (preferably quail) and fresh vegetables.

As for antioxidants and preservatives, manufacturers do not specify which ones specifically, which raises doubts about their naturalness and safety, otherwise this information would be indicated in the composition.

Ingredients: what is healthy in the food?

Purina Friskies is produced and belongs to the economy class, competing with such food products as Whiskas and Kitekat. Friscas food includes the components shown in the table:

What food to choose

If you decide to pamper your pet with a handful of Friskies and would like to study the composition of this food in more detail, you will have to be disappointed: you will not find this information anywhere, even the official website hides the exact composition of their diets. You will have to remember which of the things you treated the animal to before that he especially liked, and focus only on this.

This is what Friskis offers to our favorites.

For kittens

Food for animals up to 1 year old contains:

• dry food - chicken, milk and vegetables;
• wet food - chicken in gravy.

Please note: approximately a quarter of the volume of wet food consists of processed meat and poultry products, of which only 4 percent is chicken. This food also contains fish (in small quantities), cereals and sugar.

For adult cats and kittens

Judging by the label on the packaging, dry food for adult animals contains:

• meat, chicken and liver;
• chicken, meat or rabbit with healthy vegetables.

Wet food (in jelly) is available in the following varieties:

• beef.
• In the gravy:
• beef;
• beef with carrots;
• beef and lamb;
• rabbit;
• chicken;
• turkey and liver;
• turkey and carrots.

For animals that move little and live in a city apartment, specialized dry food has been developed - with chicken and garden greens. In reality, these are processed meat products mixed with cereals and dried green peas, and some vitamins.

Friskies offers cats and cats that have undergone sterilization a low-calorie food with rabbit meat and vegetables, a third of which is protein, and about 8 percent is fat. This, according to the manufacturers, is quite enough for the cat to satisfy its legitimate hunger, but it will not be able to gain too much weight (this is a problem for all sterilized animals).

Daily feed requirements

It is not recommended to feed your pet Friskies food daily. After analyzing the composition, it became clear that there was little useful in it.

If you have to give your pet Friskies for some time, each package will indicate the daily amount of food. For example, wet food is recommended in the amount of 3-4 sachets per day, divided into 2 feedings. The dosage is designed for an adult weighing up to 4 kg, living in conditions with optimal temperature conditions, leading an active lifestyle.

Advantages and disadvantages

Friskies food is considered one of the most popular among economy-class products. Despite the fact that many cat owners consider it not very healthy and nutritious, it should be noted that this food has its advantages. Let's take a closer look at both of them.

Advantages

The main advantages of Frikis cat food are its prevalence (if you go to any supermarket, you will definitely see easily recognizable packages with red cats) and incredibly low cost (Friskis is almost five times cheaper than most not too expensive food). Unfortunately, this is where the advantages end.

Flaws

Why is this food bad?

First of all, the extremely low quality of the composition. It doesn't smell like real meat. Everything contained in it is production waste, not only meat, but also vegetables. Only dry green peas and beet pulp are specifically indicated, and even then without an exact indication of their content in percentage.

One of the first ingredients listed are cereals, which means that they form the basis of this food. Again, it is not specified which ones or how many, but judging by how quickly animals fed Friskies gain weight, it’s quite a lot.

Vitamins and minerals are present, but in very small quantities. For animals kept in an apartment, this is completely insufficient.

The packaging does not indicate which antioxidants and preservatives are used in the production of this type of food.

Manufacturers do not hide the fact that dyes are used to give the product an attractive color, but they do not specify which ones.

Cost and replacement products

Cat nutrition must be balanced, so it is better to give up economy class and switch to super premium or holistic. They, of course, cost more, but are much healthier for animals.

What to replace

All of the good feed substitutes listed above are available only in dry form. By the way, read whether you can feed your cat only dry food. Some good wet diets include AATU, Leonardo, Applaws, Animonda, price 100-150 rubles. per 100 grams.

The price of Friskies dry food is approximately 180 rubles. per kg. The cost is significantly lower compared to super premium and holistic class products. However, you should not skimp on food for your pet. It’s better to overpay than to watch your pet suffer from various diseases due to poor nutrition. Friskies should only be given to cats as an exception.

Price and where to buy

You won’t have any problems purchasing Friskies: this food can be found everywhere – from metropolitan hypermarkets to small rural shops.

The cost of this food will also pleasantly please you:

• You can buy a 270-gram box for only 70 rubles;
• one and a half kilogram package - for 260-280 rubles;
• a ten-kilogram package costs about 1,500 thousand, but it will last your pet for a long time.

Wet food costs a little more: a 100-gram bag starts from 20 rubles. If you want to save money, buy 20 spiders at once; it will cost only 130-150 rubles.

general characteristics

The manufacturer produces dry granules and wet canned Friskies.

By purpose, there are foods for kittens, adult animals, as well as a specialized line of products for sterilized cats. For pets who spend their entire lives in an apartment, a low-calorie diet has been developed to prevent obesity. Long-haired cats are recommended a diet that prevents the formation of trichobezoars - lumps consisting of hairs and intestinal contents swallowed by licking.

Types of Friskies food

Reviews of Friskies cat food

To find out the opinion of veterinarians and cat owners about Friskies food, just look through any forum. There will be approximately equal numbers of positive and negative reviews. Everyone, without exception, likes its low cost. As for the usefulness of this product, dry food causes many complaints, which cannot be said about wet food: many owners feed their pets (usually outbreds) with this type of food and are quite satisfied - after one or two weeks the cats’ stool returns to normal, and After about a month, most animals' coat condition improves significantly.

Assortment and features of feed

The range of Friskies food is quite wide: both dry and wet food are presented. The basic composition is almost the same for all types of products; they differ slightly in the added substances.

Table: composition and range of Friskies feed

Photo gallery: varieties of Friskies food

The difference between Friskis and other Purina brands

As mentioned above, “Friskies” is the most budget food among all the manufacturer’s brands. The nutritional value of other foods is higher (with the exception of Felix, which has an almost identical composition to Friskies), but their price is also high.

Video: review of Friskis food

Reviews from veterinarians

Veterinarians do not recommend feeding animals dry Friskies - only as an exception and no longer than one or two weeks in a row. At the same time, your pet should drink a lot. Make sure there is always fresh water in his bowl, and if you leave home for a long time, leave another container of water “just in case.”

Attention! This food should only be stored in a dry place. With high humidity it deteriorates very quickly!

As for wet food, it is much healthier, although it is equally unpretentious in composition. Veterinarians advise using it as a daily diet, periodically supplementing the animal’s menu with a small amount of raw chicken, seasonal boiled or stewed vegetables and vitamin complexes.

If your cat eats Friskies, monitor his well-being, regularly take him to the veterinarian for examinations and do not forget about vitamins. Health and longevity to your pets!

Veterinarians' opinion

Friskies is popular among consumers. Cats rarely voluntarily refuse an offered treat: the food is eaten with pleasure. And experts believe that the manufacturer is not honest enough, indicating the composition in general phrases. Therefore, reviews from veterinarians about Friskas are very restrained. Experts advise feeding your cat family premium food. But in the end, the owner has to make a choice, focusing on his capabilities. The main thing is to monitor the behavior of your furry pet for several days. At the slightest suspicion of malaise, it is necessary to urgently remove the product from the diet. Veterinarians recommend that your cat be examined annually at the clinic, and also follow the rules for feeding animals with dry food. 24/7 access to a bowl of water. Kibble is a dehydrated substance made from various ingredients. While eating, dry crumbs stick to the intestinal walls, which contributes to the occurrence of inflammatory processes. It is necessary to soften them with water. Veterinarian reviews recommend initially soaking Friskis for kittens until it becomes a paste. You should feed your pet no more than 3 times a day. Extra snacking leads to overeating. Economy class food should be supplemented with vitamin complexes for cats. You should not change your cat's diet. It’s better to stick to one type of product, because cats don’t need a constant change of taste. This will reduce the likelihood of an eating disorder.