Halo Spot's Pate for Cats Grain-Free Ground Chicken, 5.5oz/12 Cans

We had been feeding our 9-year-old Persian dry food for years, but recently noticed some odd behavior which led us to bring her to the vet where she was diagnosed with diabetes. If you're looking at this food because you too have a diabetic cat, make sure you read more information at the feline diabetes message board as I'm not trying to give medical advice here, but just explain how this food helped.The major problem for most cats that develop diabetes is that they are fed a high carb diet. This particular food (and there are many others), has a low carb count. Less than 10% of the calories from the product come from carbohydrates.The vets I dealt with had very little knowledge about how diet contributes to feline diabetes. One warning I must give if you're considering switching to a low carb food from a high carb food is to look into hypoglycemia. We switched my cat to this food and the change was dramatic and overnight. Since my vet was of very little help despite noticing a drop to 200 on her glucose levels, they advised me to continue treating the cat with insulin shots. This dropped her glucose levels to 30 and we had to rub honey in her mouth.I tested my cat's blood levels for about a month feeding her this food exclusively and after two weeks she was completely off insulin. We got very lucky with our cat as I know many others have a much harder time, but this food was one of the specific ones mentioned to help with feline diabetes, and it has improved the health of my cat tenfold.

First, let me say that I have never obsessed over my consumer choices more than I have over cat food. I'm always searching for wet cat food that is affordable, low carb, high quality ingredients... but most importantly, that my cats will eat (and do well on).Originally when I decided to switch my cats entirely to wet food, I fed them Evo 95% Cat/Kitten food. They loved it and it worked great, but for some reason it gave one of my kitties diarrhea. Then I switched to Wellness Core, which they also did very well on, but WOW... the price. I couldn't handle it. Finally I ended up buying Halo Spot's Pate and they LOVED it. Plus they were doing great on it - solid stools, shiny fur, and feeling full after meals (no begging for more food!) I fed it to them for months and they were doing well, but the downside that bothered me was the fact that it isn't available in 13 oz cans and is therefore a little pricey. So when I found Innova canned food, I tried to switch. My cats weren't crazy about it, but they would eat it eventually and I bought a case so I kept trying to feed it to them. Until I realized that one of my cat was losing hair on his face (!!!) which is a common sign of a food allergy.So long story short... we are back with Spot's Pate and the kitties are happier and everybody has all of their fur. Looks like we are sticking with it. Only downside is that I wish they used less veggies in it (cats! don't! need! vegetables!) and I wish they didn't use carrageenan. I may still attempt a switch to a food that is carageenan free (before my obsessive self eventually switches them to an all-raw diet).

This review was originally written for the Halo Ground Whitefish Pate. All Halo cat food both wet and dry is super high quality! My kitten Smarty Pants was eating half a can of the Whitefish Pate twice a day, and we leave dry Spots Stew Wild Salmon For Indoor Cats out 24/7. My 7 year old only eats the dry and they both love the dry as well. Wet food is great for cats since it gives them extra fluids & keeps them hydrated, especially if they are not big water drinkers. Smarty loved the whitefish pate. I wrote to Amazon in hopes of getting it added to the Subscribe & Save option. For some reason that flavor is not part of that option. However, one downfall of the Whitefish Pate flavor is the resulting very offensive litter box odor. Luckily, I had a few cans of this Ground Chicken Pate and after she tried it, does seem to love it as much as the whitefish. So I took advantage of changing to this Ground Chicken Pate instead. Now, I can use the S&S option, the litter box issue has improved and kitty and we are all very happy! Bottom line is all flavors/types of Halo are great products.

I selected this brand because of the ingredients. My inside cats would have nothing to do with it so I fed it to the outside cats. They ate it and I added it over some dry cat food. My inside cats are very selective when it comes to their food. They will only eat pate and mostly Friskies. I wanted them to have a larger selection of flavors so I tried Halo. I kept trying to get them to eat some of the Halo brand, but they would eat a few bites and quit eating. I left it out because they always came back and finished their breakfast or supper, but they didn’t eat any more of this cat food. Maybe if I had started feeding them this brand of cat food from the time they were big enough to start eating they probably would have liked it. The outside cats ate it right up and loved it. I ordered a case of three different brands hoping they would like them. Most of the flavors they like from Friskies are not available now and haven’t been for several months so I was trying to find a substitution for their favorite flavors. I would recommend this brand of cat food if the cats aren’t too picky about their food.

My cat was adopted at age 10 four years ago and is the pickiest eater I've ever had. After being fed dry food for his first 10 years, he now will only eat canned, grain free, pate and is very fussy about the flavor. He suddenly stopped eating Wellness brand fish and poultry mixes. This is his pattern so I wasn't hopeful.In desperation, I ordered the Halo chicken pate and was really astonished that he loved it. He actually woke me up and was crying while I dished out his meal. The smell is like real chicken, and he again dove right into the food.He should be on senior food but there are dew choices that don't cost a lot. I've been searching for grain free good quality food for him that won't break the bank. I tried this based on reviews and am surprised and lad I did. The Whitefish flavor is coming today. I'm hopeful he'll eat it!