Thread: Fancy Feast feeders... best price?

Originally Posted by Meredith

Where do you buy Fancy Feast? Where is cheapest?

Can Fancy Feast be bought in bulk anywhere? I'd love to buy a box of 100 or 200 or something!

Thanks in advance!

I thought you weren't going to feed Fancy Feast because it was akin to McDonalds?

Walmart is cheapest here: $.74/can for Medleys, $.47/can for regular. Comes in only 3oz cans. There are various boxes of 12 or 24 cans, slight discounts sometimes. The cases that get put out on the shelves are boxes of 24. You can certainly buy quantities online, but shipping is always a killer on canned pet food. Never seen it end up as cheap as local Walmart when I looked, but I have not scoured the Internet.

Petco has reduced their prices on it finally: $.89 for Medley's and $.59 for regular. They periodically have it on sale for $.80 and $.55, and carry flavors that Walmart does not (though I actually counted the other day and our Walmart has around 55-60 flavors). Supermarkets are similar in price to Petco.

Never tried the Target brand (Target is 30min away). Any idea who makes it? People often don't like Purina, but at least I know who makes Fancy Feast, they claim to test all their wheat gluten, etc., and they do actual feeding tests to confirm nutritional sufficiency.

Incidentally, I saw a Purina Dog Chow commercial tonight that mentioned some study of dog food, so I looked it up. Turns out it was 14 year feeding study conducted by Purina in St Louis:
LongLiveYourDog.com - Life Span Study - Overview

Highlights:
"First completed study of its kind to last the entire life span of a larger mammal."

"Treatment for certain health conditions was delayed in the lean-fed Labrador retrievers who received 25% less food than their littermates in the control group. The median age at which 50 percent of the dogs required treatment for certain health conditions was 12.0 years among lean-fed dogs, compared to 9.9 years for the control group."


I know many pet owners and most people that run "boutique" pet stores have nothing but bad things to say about the big pet food companies. Have any "high end" pet food companies carried out or funded any 14 year feeding studies? In fact, do any "high end" pet food companies ever carry out or pay for any feeding trials?? I have checked the labels of every high end food I have ever seen and not a single one claims the nutritional sufficiency has been confirmed by actually feeding it. No, all they do is chemical assays to see that they meet the federal nutrient standards. Let's hope the tests and the standards are all correct!