9Lives Cat Food Reviews

I've strays fed 9Lives to a TNR colony. It's cheap and I can afford to feed them daily. I do add supplements, though as it's not a very nutritious. But they deserve something other than dry food. Lately a few cans have come dent in the 12-pks. Food moldy. This morning I opened a can, dented, and it was the what over seen. I immediately tossed it. I just may be switching to a higher price product as I'm just throwing my money away now.

9 lives killed my cats. How can you sell this poison to people? I'll see you in court. Caroline **

Nine Lives plus care was a great food that was working well with my feral cat and stray cats. Now of course they have changed the formula because it looks totally different than the old food. On their website it says they only changed the bag but that is incorrect. My cats will not eat it now and it looks totally different than the other food that I used to get with the same name in a different looking bag. Good Way to mess up a good product. Good going nine lives. You're out of here.

I have fed and teusted 9Lives daily essentials to my cats for years. Not anymore. Now as of 2/2/26 it has given my cats chronic diarrhea. I do not know what they changed in their in ingredients but this is not ok. I trusted their brand to feed my fur children but not anymore. What a shame. This is not ok. Do Better or Don't sell it. People trusted your brand.

Something has changed. I have 6 cats and yes, they are picky eaters, but I could always find a flavor they were ok with until now. They will not touch any 9 Lives product, plus they all have been vomiting if they do consume it. What’s up?

I've tried different brands, but always come back to 9Lives. Both my indoor & feral cats love it. I would sometimes have to mix with other brands, but the cats would pick out 9Lives to eat.

I'm checking to see if anyone else's cat is all of a sudden throwing up after being fed 9Lives Daily Essential. The store was out of the cat food that I usually buy so I got this and ever since I started feeding my cats this they started throwing up and they prefer not to eat it.

My indoor cats won't eat it! Neither will the feral cats I feed. The possum and raccoon that come at night to finish off anything the feral left never eat it. I don't think it's very good. But they all love the daily essentials..

It’s so bad my cats keep having diarrhea and vomits and I’ve tried other food, but this is my first time using the dried one, although I have used the wet one and the same results still. Please be careful when buying it, yes, it’s cheap, but it’s bad.

My husband's black cat Cicero was four years old and very healthy, he had been switched off and on of 9Lives Cat Food and grain free. Well I couldn't find the grain free cat food and gave him the 9Lives back in January this year. He ate it and such, woke up the next morning to find that he had seized in his sleep so badly his body was contorted in a odd position. It broke my Husband's heart. We had him since eight weeks old. They gave us a five dollar check for the price of the smaller bag of cat food. I wasn't paid any incentive either. They suck.

My cat has gotten the mange from ingesting your product in the feline world. 999 Trillion lashes for every piece of cat food ingested to the owners and the family.. Sincerely, Thee Prince of Darkness… P.S. Every Lash will be accounted for!

Terrible. It made my cat sick and looks like the pieces have hair stuck in them? Quality control issue? I should have noticed sooner but I didn’t, I am definitely going to a different brand and don’t recommend.

If I could give negative stars I would. The kitten food wet killed my baby. Worst garbage. Love your cat? Feed it something else. My momma ate the food after baby. She vomited. Baby was dead by morning. Looked like she seized and died.

I fed my two cats 1/2 a can of Super Supper. Wow, what a mess. I woke up to this a.m.! One or both of them got very sick and I'm still cleaning up the awful mess now. Diarrhea galore! This is not the 9 Lives Cat Food I once knew!

My cat threw up multiple times a day when eating 9 Lives Indoor Complete. It took me a few days and talking it over with others to figure out it was the food. Since switching, she hasn't thrown up once. I also want to add that I had to have my couch professionally cleaned.

This cat food can cause gastrointestinal problems in cats. My cat ate some of it and now has a 3rd eye lid protrusion. This is so sad. I did research on this because of her eyelid and found it causes vomiting, diarrhea and lethargy. All these side effects can cause the 3rd eyelid protrusion. Please do not give your cat this food. I'm praying she will improve and this will go away by never giving her this food.

I AM DISGUSTED AND DISTRAUGHT. I fed this to my kitten and she stopped eating and drinking all together, and by the time I figured out it was the food, it was too late. I had assumed it was the water since she was dehydrated so I switched to spring water. She only became more and more lethargic, throwing up foam and saliva. I'm so upset and disgusted that this brand is sold at all, NEVER AGAIN.

Nine Lives dry food makes my cat throw up every time she eats it, all of it, not just a little. My other cat got diarrhea and became lethargic. He's usually very playful. I'm getting rid of the whole bag.

I would give 9 Lives a zero star. Would not ever recommend and now I'm upset because I needed to get a cheap cat food option and it poisoned my baby. He has been throwing up for multiple days. Has diarrhea. He's being super needy and I have to carry him with me everywhere or he will just yowl in agony! Please don't feed your cats this.

Been using 9Lives for awhile. I recently got a bag of it and the food bits look bigger than to the usual small pcs, my cats are throwing up passing bloody stools smelly vile farts. It's no good we depend on a cat food company to know what our fur babies need. But they don't!!!! I'm getting new cat food today and NOT getting 9 lives!!!

My experience was much the same as others, it just took a bit longer for my cat to start exhibiting the effects. I was feeding her 9 Lives for about a week, in the last two days she has thrown up six times. She would hiss at nothing, yowl like she was in pain, then start hacking. I looked up reviews for this brand and immediately saw nothing positive. I feel stupid for not doing any research before buying this brand, but I am extremely broke right now and just went with the cheapest option on the shelf. Well, you get what you pay for with this brand, I guess. First ingredient is corn. There's red dye 40 in it - why is that necessary? A cat doesn't give a damn what color their food is. They need nutrition, not fun colors. They aren't human toddlers. I just gave her some wet food my roommate had lying around, and will continue to monitor her condition, but after reading SEVERAL reviews with the exact same experience I had, I feel pretty confident in blaming it on the 9 lives. I threw the rest of it away. Not worth saving 1-2$ over the next cheapest option.

With cat food becoming so expensive I thought I would try a less expensive brand. I tried 9 Lives. My cat was sick and throwing up, lethargic and quit eating. She was howling in pain and I thought she was going to die. I wasn't sure why. When she suddenly started feeling better again I gave her some more 9 lives not knowing that it was the problem. She immediately got sick again!! I went to the store to buy her a different cat food and there was a woman looking at the cat food. I overheard her saying that her cat was sick. I asked her what she was feeding her cat and she said 9 lives!! Since I started feeding my cat a higher quality cat food she has been fine. 9 lives doesn't care about your cat!! It is disgusting that all they care about is PROFIT. It's all about money for them. Please beware if you love your cat!!

I recently discovered that Nine Lives Meaty Super Supper pate' contains lots of sharp bone fragments and I even found a sharp claw in it! These things can cause severe health issues in cats, i.e., punctured throat and esophagus, perforated stomachs and intestines, causing bloody vomit and stools and intestinal infections leading to death. It should be recalled and taken off the market. The photos in this review were taken by me, of some of the fragments I found in cans I purchased from Walmart in Oct., 2024.

If I could leave 0 stars, I absolutely would. I have a stray cat that I adopted, and my dad and I have been feeding her 9 lives sometime before bringing her in, however, when we first brought her in, she was throwing up and having diarrhea, but we then switched from the wet food to the dry food. The dry food is not doing her any justice, she's doing her business like a cow. My baby is not a cow, she's a cat! The worst part about this food is not only the way it looks but the way it will have your cat passing gas and the smell after they do their business is so nauseating, that you can tell it's definitely poisonous. The smell is so vile, you can smell it all over the living room, and literally throughout the house. Beware if you are a cat owner, this is definitely not for cats, and the fact that this brand has been in business so long since the 1970s is appalling as it is concerning.

We ran out of my cat’s usual food so I stopped at Walgreens on the way home & picked up a couple cans of 9Lives. We fed him half a can & went to bed. Within 3 hours he violently threw up (he’s never thrown up) & was extremely lethargic. He’s been sleeping all day, has no interest in food, & has thrown up bile & had diarrhea. I feel dumb not googling the food before I bought it. How is this company still in business? Disgusting. Never again!!

I went on vacation and my asked my mom to buy my cat her food, she got a bag of 9Lives and it’s been about three weeks since my cat started eating it, she got sick vomiting after her meals. I couldn’t understand what it was and found out a lot of bad reviews on this brand. Thank gosh she is okay. They should banned this product!

I have 20 feral cats. I like to feed them food they will like and I am retired do I need food that is good and will work in my budget. I had been giving them a mix of food with the 9lives tuna and egg. Then I came across the Morris's catch. They ate the dry food mix good before, but now they really go for it. When I put it down for them to eat, they jump on it like they are starving. I think this food is just as good as any other. I like it and my cats do too. Thank you

It's been a year now and I'm only finding out these reviews. Everything that everyone described from finding bones in the can just before taking him to the ER to throwing up to after every meal and the fact that he developed kidney problems ... all in hindsight makes sense. It's been a year since my cat died and we could never pinpoint the cause. How 9Lives gets away with murdering so many cats is beyond me. It's not as though they don't know.

I recently bought a case of can food for the many strays around my house. Only one cat ate and all others turned their nose up. After reading other reviews about cats getting sick and dying, I will not buy 9 Lives can food again.

5 of cats have ate this food to come home after work after a few days of eating the cat food to find them all dead on the floor. The only cats remaining are the 3 that refused to eat it. Please don't buy this product. Family isn't worth losing like this.

I have given my cats 9Lives for years without any problems. I now have 3 cats with severe diarrhea, vomiting and lethargy. After several hundred dollars treating them for parasites and a trip to the vet I realized this started after the food packaging changed. After a little research I discovered there was a change in ownership. Since then numerous people have complained it made their pets very sick and even death in some cases. Please do not give your pets this food.

I purchased 9Lives Cat Food twice and both times it made my kitten sick. The first time him started vomiting and the second time he had diarrhea and was lethargic. Do not buy this food for your kittens.

I had 5 8 week old kittens. They was healthy before I started feeding them 9 Lives and they started to get sick and 2 has passed away after eating the food. I will not buy it anymore and hope others stop buying it.

All 3 of my cats started having diarrhea which turned bloody. I switched their food from 9Lives and 5 days later none of them have diarrhea. My older cat was so sick I thought we were going to lose her. She's now back to normal running and playing as before I started feeding her 9Lives.

It is too rich for my cats. Within five minutes of eating they will vomit the food back up. Generally this is on the pates, but the hearty chicken cuts can bring the same results also. In the pates it appears the supper super makes them vomit the most.

I am absolutely disgusted with 9Lives. I buy this for my 3 cats, went to get them fresh food and there were clumps of mold in the bag. I have been feeding this to them for 2 weeks. They can get sick. Never again will I buy from 9Lives.

I normally feed my cat special kitty can cat food. I broke my ankle and had to go to Family Dollar for cat food.. I got 9 Lives can.. A few minutes after she ate it she was throwing up and then had diarrhea.. Don't buy this cat food.

I always buy 9 Lives Meaty Pate with Real Tuna and Shrimp. It is bought as somewhat of a special treat food for my 2 cats. They love love it. Or at least they did until this afternoon. I opened a can from a new delivery and it just wasn't the same at all!!!! I gave it to them, maybe I am wrong, and the 2 of them didn't even come near the bowls. It's still sitting there. I know know that this is not the same product. What can I do?? I am so mad. I bought a lot from Chewy. How can I return heavy amounts of food. I really need an answer. Maybe they mislabeled the cans. HELP.

My cat is a beautiful healthy indoor 9 year old who has never been sick! My cat was HEALTHY AND FINE in the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds leading up to eating that poison of a can this company calls "food." I bought a can for my cat because the shop I was in didn't have his regular cans. I thought why not, he's had the 9Lives dry food plenty of times. When his 9pm dinner time (Wednesday.) approached I gave him quarter a can and let him be. 15 minutes later I came back to pick his bowl up and found him laying there with vomit surrounding him. His head was wobbly, his eyes were going back and forth. He got up and couldn't walk straight. He was stumbling and falling over himself like he was drunk.

Normally, I feed my cat Friskies, but I found Tuna & Egg by 9 Lives and thought my cat might like it. I gave it to her, and she started vomiting shortly after. She has started itching all over and has sores on her skin. She is just not herself. I decided to look on the Internet to see if other people had this experience with 9 Lives. My heart is broken. So many cats have been sick and suffered due to this food. I called my cats vet, but they can’t get her in until the end of the month. I’m so scared. I don’t want my cat to die. Something is wrong with this food and this should be stopped.