Merrick Cat Food Reviews

I have a cat that's allergic to fleas, and use to loose all his fur (the gray long haired). My cats and dog have not needed a flea medication since I started buying Merrick hard food. When I took one of my cats for her yearly check up, they swore she couldn't have been more than a year old, she was 4 years old. My fur babies have zero tartar on their teeth. Both my cats and dog have been nothing but healthy. All of this and they LOVE their food!

I've been feeding my cat, who has food allergies, Limited Ingredient Turkey Pate for about a year, alternating with a couple of foods from another brand. She's always gobbled the turkey pate like candy, until today. I autoship from Chewy, and opened the first can of a 24-pack this morning. It looked like a completely different cat food. It's usually a fine-textured little pate loaf that pulls away from the side of a can a little. This looked like a thick slurry with visible meat. It didn't smell bad, so I gave it a shot. She went without food all day rather than eat it, and refused both the rest of that can and a new can tonight. I was really excited at finding something she liked so well at a reasonable price, but I'm listening to my cat and tossing the rest of this. Has anyone else had this experience?

Merrick changed the recipe without notice to its consumers causing a lot of discomfort for our cats. After a little research it can be known that the company has a history of doing this every couple of years.

About 2 months ago, my female cat began to lose weight and refuse to eat. Her condition is now fragile. Since she is a very healthy cat, normally, this caused me great concern. After much evaluating, and monitoring, I could see that the problem was the Merrick Limited Ingredient Sensitive Stomach dry food, which all four of my cats have eaten for years. But no more, as the last bag I purchased will not be eaten by any of the four, and even the local ferals won't touch it.

My cats had been eating Merrick cat food for years. We’d give them a variety of the Purrfect Bistro chicken, turkey, duck, tuna, and salmon. Starting maybe end of 2019, early 2020 we noticed one of our cats being oddly picky about which kinds he was willing to eat - sometimes only tuna, sometimes only chicken. Our other cat would eat only small amounts and walk away, but ask for more frequently, and started hanging out constantly by her water dish. We thought it was just them being weird with us being home all the time, or maybe we got a few odd batches and the next would be acceptable.

We raised Archie on Purina Beyond Grain Free Whitefish dry cat food since 2014 and this is the only cat food he would eat until about a month ago when Purina did something to their formula. The smell is horrible and the texture looks like dog food and does not have the same look to it either. Archie will only eat dry cat food that is made with fish and we preordered $300.00 worth of food for him because he used to love it and now we are stuck with all this food he will not touch, so we decided to go with Merrick’s Salmon grain free dry food and we put it in his bowl and he got a whiff of that and ran for his life. Would not even go near the food.

One of my cats' favorite flavor is Merrick's Purrfect Bistro Thanksgiving Day Dinner. She's the picky one so we cater to her flavor preferences and my cats have been eating it for years (besides other flavors/brands). Recently (and by that I mean for the last two months) Chewy has been "out of stock". I called them, they had no information. I called Merrick and they said something about "supply chain issues". Hmm, okay. I ordered Chicken Casserole flavor instead. THEN MY BOY KITTY (Benjamin) STOPPED EATING, would dry heave and spit out bile. I freaked out, took him to a veterinary urgent care location (Bond Vet, they were fabulous). They did bloodwork, urinalysis, gave him fluids and ** (anti-nausea shot). $586.86 later, he went home. It took him several days to regain his normalness.

I have been feeding Merrick wet food, several flavors, for about six months, about 75%, remaining 25% is Wellness. They love it. Great, healthy ingredients. I am shocked reading all the negative reviews and really put some question marks behind them. Vomiting?? Never. Merrick got worse reviews here than Purina and Fancy Feast, both known for junk food. One caveat: Merrick is now owned by Purina, so it has to be followed closely, although they promised they would not lower the quality. At this point of time I can absolutely recommend, it is, without a doubt, by far the best cat food reviewed on this site.

We had been using Purrfect Bistro for our rescue cat, Luna, for over 4 years. Her favourites were Rabbit and Turkey. About 9 months ago, she started rejecting the Rabbit, which she used to eat in case loads, but would no longer touch upon smelling it. In late-December 2020, she started throwing up violently after a couple of times eating Turkey. We switched her to Purrfect Bistro Salmon, but she continued to vomit for 2 days after each feeding, ranging from a brown paste to blood-tinged bile. We rushed her to the Emergency Vet Hospital on December 24, where the vet diagnosed her as suffering from food poisoning, loss of weight, dehydration, lethargy, and disorientation. Because Luna occasionally goes out, we thought that she might have eaten something outside.

I've had the same experience I'm reading over and over here. Vomiting. Have used Merrick Limited Ingredient can cat food for years. Something has changed, looks different, smells different. All 3 of mine started vomiting. When it's one kitty vomiting I don't jump to conclusions but when all three get sick together right after I've noticed the food I'm feeding them looks and smells different... well. And vomiting the weird red-ish color of the food (turkey) for 12 hours: my sensitive girl was REALLY sick. I know I read the company was bought out a few years ago ("all about cats" website states: 2015, Nestlé Purina announced its buyout of Merrick Pet Care).