Friskies Reviews

Been feeding my cat Friskies for years. 4 years to be exact. However, one day a bad batch encouraged my cat to throw up for day on end. It broke my heart to see my cat like that, nearly at a loss of all the energy that had coined him a troublemaker. Instead he just slept. And slept. Until one day I fed him another brand of cat food, and he went a day without throwing up. Then another. And another. He was active again, and causing trouble just like he had been the week before. I will never in my life recommend this brand to anyone.

I have 15 total cats inside and outside feral. I bought two cases of Friskies from Costco $43.00 each. The first week the smell of their poop was so so bad. Then I noticed a couple throwing up. Not thinking much about it, maybe a hairball.. As days went on the smell of the food is not normal, one poop in the cat box literally makes my nose burn like nothing I’ve ever smelled. Thinking maybe it was just that flavor. Every single can makes my nose hurt and burn, it’s a smell I can’t describe. I have to rush to scoop it it and it’s diarrhea 98% of every poop. This is absolutely not normal. They never have squirting diarrhea like this and I’ve fed them Friskies for years. It’s like a chemical smell, one of the feral that never turns anything down won’t touch it as won’t one of my inside cats.

I realize this food is more affordable than other brands out there, but I will be switching due to all of the cats having loose stools. They've been dewormed, and I've tried other remedies with no changes. It's obvious that cheap equals low quality, but I figured it was better than nothing since I feed outdoor stray cats. (And yes, I do take them in to get spayed/neutered as I can.)

Our fur baby cat loves the Friskies dry and wet gravy foods. But every time we order the cans they are always dented. Is this still healthy for our baby to eat? We want to make sure no bacteria is in there that could be harmful. Sometimes he goes to his bowl and won't eat it. So we throw it out but just want to be on the safe side and see if any of these dented cans need to be thrown out or a refund is possible? As they aren't cheap. I'd still recommend the gravy ones but the thumbs up not allowing me to press it.

I have been feeding my two indoor/outdoor cats and one indoor cat Friskies canned food for about a year. Just recently 2 months or so none of them rake eating it. Doesn’t matter the flavor or texture. They want nothing to do with it. What has been changed? Kind of worried after reading previous reviews my cats could develop a medical issue.

I have lost 5 cats within the last year and half. 2 outside cats and 3 inside only cats. Liver failure, and kidneys. I have ONLY ever fed all of my cats Friskies for the last 18 years. My oldest was 18 when she passed in 2021. I've noticed the change in the wet food as of lately. My cats also. Salmon dinner Pate has always been their fav. Now they smell it and walk away. I have now have 13 cats. After reading all the other reviews, I'M PISSED!!! Sorry, my heart is breaking. What is Friskies doing to their wet food now? They need to step up and go back to the way it used to be.

Canned seafood rejected now by my cat as of 2025 January. I have not been offered any refund. I have a case left over. I have been a customer of Friskies for 5 years. Why didn’t we receive a notice of this change? I’m sure the manufacturer knows that cats may reject their formula change! They misrepresented their product by not clearly relabeling the product. Some people refer to this practice as “bait and switch”. I want my $32 refunded.

We have been buying Friskies Salmon Pate for years and never had a real problem until this month. Our auto ship with Chewy comes with a case of it. When we opened the cans that hadn't suffered significant damage, they were dark brown, slimy and smelled rancid, more like beef dog food than went bad. I ask for a replacement case and ended up with the same thing as the original order. Same dark brown, smelly Pate.

I have 7 cats that I've fed Friskies Seafood Sensations to since they were kittens, they now range from a year old to 6 years old. They used to love the food but since this last 30lb bag I bought, they've all been throwing up within about half an hour of eating. I'm glad I found these reviews because I will now be changing their food. I don't know what was changed in the food but now cats are getting sick because of it. Purina should be ashamed of themselves.

Both of my cats got sick from feeding them this poison. It is the cheapest food on the market for a reason. It will kill your pets. Think twice if you care about your fur babies. It will cost you and them in the long run just to save a couple bucks.

I have 5 inside cats and 6 ferals. Been feeding Friskies and Fancy Feast for years. Recently like since Jan it’s hit or miss. One box they eat fine and the next box they won’t touch it. I’ve bought at Walmart, PetSmart, grocery stores thinking it sat in a hot trailer or something to make it bad. I’ve had same thing happen with Meow Mix can food. Friskies can food, Fancy Feast cans. It’s not just my cats. I'm not so sure this isn’t intentional malice.

My kitty has been throwing up the Friskies dry cat food. She just got over the loose bowels. Today she ate four pieces of the Party Mix beachside crunch and within about five minutes she threw it up. I read about all the wet cat food but she is 7 years old and has always eaten dry cat food and NO wet. I am taking her off all Friskies for now and will see how she does. Is there anyone else having a problem with the dry cat food.

I have fed Friskies for years and never had a problem. Then just bought a new box of wet food and within an hour I have a dead cat and 2 that are not doing well! They are thinking it is micro toxins and are not sure what they can do about it.

I think I might know what is wrong with the Friskies wet food. I bought 12 cans of Friskies ocean white fish and Tuna. I feed it to feral cats. Every can I opened the bottom of can popped up and down and the food was rank smelling. Nothing close to what it normally smells like. The cans were not dented in any way but was not canned right so the food spoiled. I had to throw all 12 cans in the trash. I knew they would get sick if I fed it. I will not buy Friskies again. I can't afford to spend money on rotten food. Nor will I.

Something has been going on with Friskies wet food. My cat got bloody diarrhea, my little dog also got into the wet food and got bloody diarrhea, the vets were stumped. We got every test they offered but all tests came back negative. We will never purchase friskies again, we changed to the Tiki cat. We haven't had any issues since.

I used Friskies for years, but whatever the recent changes that were made, my cats will no longer eat Friskies. They try to bury it, tried different flavors, same thing, had to go to a different brand. Friskies needs to go back to the old style of food before they go out of business.

Friskies canned food for cats is a very low quality cat food. You can verify this yourself and compare. Just open a can of Wellness brand chicken for cats, then open a can of Friskies chicken for cats. Side by side you can SMELL the difference. You can SEE the difference. The Friskies can food actually smells offensive. And my cats have repeatedly noticed the difference. At one point I just had to stop buying Friskies can food. It's too cheap. Too low of quality.

My cat has had diarrhea watery for a long time. I did not know it was Friskies until I got something else. It's not diarrhea watery, it's sold so please fix your food trouble. It's watery food to much watery stuff in it use to be. We get the gravy now. Nope watery. I am sorry I put cat through this because of the trust I had for this brand that is hurting cat's belly. It's cat food I can get over looks but watery needs fixed. He will eat friskies and a second later hard food. He did not do that before. Please fix

I have a very finicky eater and when I found the Lil' Gravies and he liked it, I was ecstatic. But now, you have changed the recipe and he refuses to eat it, not even the feral cat outside will eat it. The smell is horrible. I would not recommend this product to anyone and I will not be buying it anymore. Are you guys cutting corners to save money, at the expense for our cats. Shame on you Friskies.

I have been using Friskies salmon dinner with no problem but then I gave my cat friskies saucy seafood bake indoor meaty bits with greens wet food and my cat started sneezing uncontrollable many times in day after feedings. I finally figured after stopping it for one week no sneezing then back on it and sneezing began all over again and my cat became lethargic! I then knew it was this food! Buyer beware if cat begins to sneeze, it's allergy to an ingredient in it. Not sure of other indoor foods!

I've lost 3 of my cats (3-4 yrs ago)... The first one the vet said was Felv. The other 2 I assumed the same. Now reading these comments I'm not too sure.. I've noticed all my healthy kitties are vomiting every time they eat their Friskies dry food. We switched the flavor (still Friskies) and the same. It started with my senior kitty I found outside a year or 2 ago, I brushed it off because I know he's old. But now it's concerning... My poor cats are all vomiting. (2, 3, 15+ yr olds) I can't see it being anything else. It happens within 30 minutes of eating. Looking back, my babies that passes were vomiting too beforehand... Reading these comments confirms that I will NOT be buying Friskies again. I'll spend the extra $ to keep my babies healthy.

I have 19 cats that I feed with this food. Inside and outside. They smell it and walk away. Something has changed. The label and color of food. I pay .078 cents per can and open 22 cans a day. Then I wind up trashing all left overs. I have cats that died. Maybe this is why. There is a number on can that I am going to call to see what they say.

My young male cat got suddenly sick and passed within hours. Vets told me it's the Friskies I fed him. Caused some kind of crystals in his urethra, which caused a clog or infection. If this is has rampant as the vets said. Why is this not told to everyone? They said another one year old male died the same way earlier in the day. Thank you Friskies for taking a beloved family member from us.

Like a lot of cat foods that put absolute 💩 in their products this one has gotten worse as reviews tell that story. I see this cat food has nothing but bad absolute disgusting ratings. My cat is throwing up eating this garbage lately whereas she didn't before. I don't know what they did to it but I hope you lose a lot of customers selling this crap. Bought this stuff forever. Now it's over. Switching cat foods. Keep selling this crap and see what happens. Again, I've never seen so many bad reviews on any cat food in my life. Good job Friskies. You suck.

My cats have been eating Friskies since they were a month old. Suddenly, after 12 years, one by one, they have been vomiting all of their food for days on end. It was after a $800 vet visit, lab work, x-rays, liquid IV, anti-nausea medication and antibiotics, that I realized Friskies was poisoning them. Their liver enzymes aren’t good, there’s gas in their intestines, etc. my vet is certain, it’s something they are eating. I only put 2 and 2 together when all THREE cats were vomiting.

But now the flavor & color of the food is much the same. For example, Salmon pate had a salmon color, now is pale & like a lot of the other pâtés. Beef & Salmon filets used to have a beefy color, my cats loved it. It now doesn’t have the color or the flavor, my cats won’t eat it. And the filets are now huge chunks, I have to try & cut or mash them, cats can’t eat them! I don’t want to change foods, but I can’t afford the waste of them not eating it now. Please go back to the previous recipes for all the wet food.

Friskies, “Gravy Swirlers,” dry food customer here. Been feeding the babies this for over six months now with little to no concerns (even the sensitive stomach baby didn’t have issues with it) until this most recent bag (16lb). For some reason they won’t go near it for most meals, and if they do eat it, they’re either vomiting it up, having loose stool, or both…like en mass…not just one cat…each of them. Frankly, I’ve noticed that even the feral strays that had no problems with this food before are all of a sudden walking away from it or only eating the wet food I put on top and barely touching the dry. Something seems SERiously off about this food right now, and I don’t know what they’ve changed, but whatever the difference(s) in their process(es) is/are, it’s wreaking havoc on the fur babies. Perhaps it’d be prudent to consider a different brand for now. =/

I been using the Friskies wet variety pack 40. The seafood now has all little bones in it. Let the makers of friskies eat it. Not my cats anymore. I am changing to most likely Fancy Feast or Iams. It a same they're one of the only that has the 5.5 oz cans but never again after reading the reviews. I thank god my cats haven't gotten sick.

After feeding him Friskies Pate. My cat hasn't eaten in almost 2 days aside from nibbling dry food, vomiting and behaving generally off, avoiding food, sleeping and less active, he's become very sick very fast, avoid Friskies esp the pate.

I have come to have 7 cats in total. Three are indoor/outdoor. In the past few months the cats have not been wanting to eat the Friskies food, which is what we have always used. At first I chalked it up to the outside cats hunting and eating and then not being hungry, until I realized it was all of the cats avoiding the food. They walk away from it most times, and I notice vomiting in them all which is unusual. This review asks for a receipt to make you a verified buyer. If I had kept all the receipts of purchases of Friskies wet cat food, it could be made into a book.

My boyfriend has been feeding his cat Friskies wet food for years. Out of nowhere the cats got very sick. Throwing up, not touching their food, acting off. Don’t know if it was just a bad batch or if they changed something with their food but I definitely recommend to not buy Friskies food right now for your cats. I’m seeing people having the same problem too right now. Lucky he caught it early on. DON'T know how much more damage it can cause.

We have rescued and socialized ferals for quite some time. Have mostly always fed them Friskies canned cat food, all varieties, as well as Purina Indoor dry food and Purina One hairball formula. Currently almost all of our cats (double digits) have been throwing up. This has never happened before and is troublesome. We buy big boxes at BJs and the rest from PetSmart and Walmart. We recently noticed that the new packaging claimed there were no artificial colors and the beef shredded is no longer brown and in fact all shreds look the same now. I know it sounds weird but what if the removal involved some process that is making them sick? And not just beef. The Pate color is just about all the same and the texture is different too. So we’re at a loss right now not knowing if it’s happening to others out there. So right now I wouldn’t recommend Friskies canned.

I've had 2 cats get sick from eating Friskies variety pack pate Friskies cat food. The 1st cat got very ill, horrible stools and very smelly. I had the vet run 2 kinds of special stool samples trying to pin down the cause. The food smelled ok. But my cat was so sick even antibiotics and probiotics didn't help. Now my other cat is starting to show the same symptoms, runny stools that smell horrible. He's refusing to eat the food, even though it looks fine and has no bad odor. I can't go through the heartache of losing another, so I will no longer feed or buy this brand again. Something is obviously wrong with this food and I think it should be tested before other cats become ill.

Would rate zero if it was an option. My 3 cats will not touch the wet food, any kind. And, regardless of the 'type' they all look the same. They all smell the same - nasty. Waste of money. Years ago I used this food but then switched. I tried this again and the product is not the same as it was before. Reading through the other reviews has convinced me that the company sells so much that they don't care about quality.

I'm so disappointed in your meat bites. I order my food from Chewy because it's cheaper and I ordered the variety pack that came with gourmet grill chicken dinner and with beef. All three cans look like the same food. None of my cats will eat it. I don't know what y'all are doing but it needs to stop. Your food is crap. The feral cats outside won't even touch it and the recalls y'all had shameful.

The extra gravy cat food has very large chunks. Is it lack of knowledge thaT MAKES your flakes so big. 1/2 inch is too large. It would be better with smaller flakes. Bear is a 22 pound male. He has a hard time with the large pieces. Try reducing meat size. You won't regret it

I've been feeding my cats Friskies for years. The past 2-3 weeks my adult cats have been so sick. I've been fostering 2 kittens, but noticed they're not experiencing any symptoms. Then I realized I was feeding the adult cats friskies pate which resulted in my search of any ingredient changes. I was alarmed by what I've read. Though some people seem to have favorable reviews of friskies, but I'm convinced it's the food. I've been using this site for years & have found the information credible. Thank you for providing this platform of reliable reviews.

I have been giving my cats Friskies cans for years with no issues, they all love it. Last week I fed my four cats a can and two of them just sniffed it and walked away. One took a few bites, and one ate a lot of it. The two who ate it, began to vomit it up within 20 minutes. The one who ate a lot, threw up violently. Two days later she was lethargic and had bloody diarrheal which has gotten worse and worse. She may not make it at this point. Multiple organs in her digestive system have severe issues and she is now fighting for her life on 6 different meds. Right before she ate the Friskies she was running around and playing. The one who only ate a few bites also has digestive issues still but are much less severe. I am certain it is because of bad food.

I have been feeding Friskies can cat food for 51 years. The quality has drastically changed. I have 8 cats and they have been rejecting the food lately. They refuse the pate completely now. They are starting to do the same with the shreds in gravy. Either there is very little gravy in the can, or the gravy is separated and looks odd. Having a problem with white fish and sardine. 7 out of 8 refuse it and the 1 that eats a portion of is gets diarrhea. Trying others brands now. Very disappointed with Purina products. Stopped feeding dry food from Purina a year ago. Using hills now.