Sheba cat food: reviews, composition, manufacturer. Canned food for cats

Author: Olga

When choosing food for our pet, we want to be sure that we are giving him a dish made from healthy and natural products. Therefore, when buying canned food or a dry product, it doesn’t hurt to carefully study the composition and find out more about the manufacturer. Now we will look at Sheba cat food, veterinarian opinions and analysis of its contents, as well as reviews from those who have already tried this product.

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Review of Sheba wet food for cats

Every owner wants his cat to receive high-quality food containing a large amount of vitamins, minerals, fewer carbohydrates, more protein, and most importantly, that the product is natural, containing real meat, and not chemical additives and low-grade cereals. With the current variety of pet food, it is difficult to find the ideal option for your furry pet, so many cat owners are constantly in search of the “right” food. Dry or wet food, domestic or foreign, well-known or something you’ve never heard of – there are many options to choose from. There are also many slogans from advertising, one of them is: “Sheba. This is how cats understand tenderness.” So let's figure out what's so special about this food and what exactly tenderness looks like in a cat's understanding.

Sheba is a wet food produced in 85 g sachets. and jars of 80 gr. On the official Sheba website you can get acquainted with the range of products, find out the addresses of stores where you can buy food, read about the types of canned wet food and find out its composition. Sheba is a wet food only, only for adult cats over one year old.

This brand of food belongs to the company Mars, Inc., which produces a large number of products not only for our little brothers, but also for their owners (chewing gum, drinks, chocolate and other food products). Almost every person in our country is familiar with the products of this company. What is offered to a cat from this manufacturer, known all over the world?

Consistency

Sheba is exclusively wet food in sachets or canned food. Each sachet is a one-time serving, it is enough to satisfy the cat. So, the food always remains fresh. With Sheba cat food, the advantages are obvious over the dry food analogue, because it is a solution to the problem of urolithiasis in the animal. Of course, wet food can contribute to dental plaque in cats. But if you maintain oral hygiene and buy hard “toys” that your pet can bite, such problems will not arise.

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Composition of Sheba cat food

There are three types of food of this Sheba brand: Pleasure (available in sachets, consisting of meat, fish, poultry, processed with steam) Classic (from poultry and fish, available in jars), Fusion (a product from a combination of several types of meat, in the same packaging , as Classic).

Sheba Pleasure (with tuna and salmon) contains the following components: meat and offal, minimum 4% tuna and salmon content, minerals, taurine, proteins (11 g.), fats (3 g.), ash (2 g. ), fiber (0.3 g), moisture.

Classic cat food is presented in 4 options for meat combinations, 2 of which can be called fish, 2 – chicken. The Classic chicken food “Saute of Chicken Breasts” contains the following ingredients: chicken meat 45% (including 26% chicken breast meat, otherwise the composition is similar to the Sheba Pleasure composition, only the amount of nutrients changes.

Particularly chic both in appearance and composition is Sheba Fusion; this type includes 2 combination options: chicken with duck and chicken with beef. Moreover, the amount of chicken meat is 40%, and duck meat and beef meat are 4% each, the remaining ingredients are the same as in the above types of Pleasure and Classic.

Recipe for home balanced nutrition

Approximate composition: 3 kg of chicken thighs (the skin is removed from half the portion), 2 tablespoons of bone meal, a glass of water, 3-5 capsules of fish oil, 2 eggs (the yolk is raw and the white is slightly boiled), 50 mg of vitamin B complex, 268 mg of vitamin E, 2000 mg of taurine, which can be purchased at the pharmacy, 1 teaspoon of iodized salt, 100 grams of liver.

Meat, skin, liver, fish oil capsules are twisted, and other ingredients are added here. You can form balls of approximately 40-50 grams and put them in the freezer. Animals should not be given frozen food. It must be previously defrosted or reheated. A cat needs 5 of these balls a day. This amount is enough for one animal for 14 days. The price of food is about 800-1000 rubles, per month - about 2000 rubles. In order not to stand in the kitchen every day to prepare food for the animal, you can devote 2 hours once a month and prepare balanced food for 4 weeks in advance.

Recipe adapted from Dr. Lisa Pearson and not recommended for cats with chronic kidney disease.

Cons of Sheba cat food

Unfortunately, the high price of these feeds is a turn-off for the buyer. Not every owner has the opportunity to purchase Sheba, especially daily, no matter how high-quality its composition is. If your cat has health problems, you will have to look for other foods, because Sheba is food for a healthy adult cat. This food is also not suitable for kittens under one year old.

Some versions of this food (for example, Sheba Pleasure with veal and tongue) contain by-products. Particularly vigilant owners may be wary of this; sometimes everyone sees their own under the concept of “offal”. In addition, the manufacturer indicated the meat ingredients, but for some reason remained silent about the remaining components. But if the product contains up to 45% meat, what makes up the remaining 55% is a mystery. Why?

Allergy

In most cases, dry food can cause an allergic reaction in an animal, expressed by baldness, itching, and gastrointestinal disorders. However, do not confuse individual intolerance to any ingredient in food with an allergy.

Until now, a general picture of the allergic reaction of cats to food has not been identified. Initially, it is recommended to exclude from the animal’s diet those foods that it has recently eaten. If positive changes do not appear, then there is a possibility that the antigen is not food at all, but, for example, dust or synthetic bedding. Sheba cat food has positive reviews from veterinarians and pet owners in this regard. Although the product line of this brand does not contain special food for animals with a sensitive gastrointestinal tract. All foods are free of flavors and dyes.

Advantages of Sheba cat food

The most important advantage of this product is its composition. Every cat contains a predator, and predators are carnivorous animals. The good news is that there is a lot of meat in Sheba food, up to 45%, depending on which product the buyer chooses. It should be noted that there is a larger amount of chicken meat in these feeds.

For many buyers, it is attractive that the manufacturer offers a finished product in the form of a dish, rather than mixing together meat, grains, starch, flavor enhancers and other dubious components. These foods combine different types of meat; it is important for the owner to see that it is meat in the package, and in Sheba packages the meat is really visible. So the owner will receive aesthetic pleasure when purchasing such food, because the exquisite appearance of the Sheba food packaging and its contents really speaks volumes.

The food of this brand does not contain highly allergenic cereals, but contains the optimal amount of vitamins that allow the animal to maintain good eyesight, shiny coat, and control weight. Sheba food is a balanced diet suitable for daily consumption. Many veterinarians advise purchasing wet food rather than dry food, because they are not harmful to the kidneys and urinary system as a whole.

Malnutrition

A condition caused by insufficient or inadequate nutrition can occur in an animal when fed natural products. Do not forget that giving a cat only one liver or river fish means dooming your pet to kidney disease and thiamine deficiency. And feeding Murka from your own saucepan is also unsafe. According to their nutritional strategy, cats are carnivores, whose gastrointestinal tract is configured to process meat. But man is an omnivore. For example, cats cannot digest vegetable oil, although when the animal eats it, it becomes satiated earlier, which is why the body does not receive enough calories.

The animal’s diet should contain: calcium, phosphorus, vitamin E, potassium, zinc. This makes it difficult to prepare homemade balanced feeds. Canned food for cats is the solution to the issue of proper nutrition for your pet.

Reviews of Sheba cat food

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Most of the ones on the Internet are good. But there are also negative statements. Some owners admit that the cat did not eat Sheba, while other cheaper food is eaten with pleasure. The reason for this is unknown. Some argue that cats become addicted to eating food with taste and smell enhancers. Others attribute this to individual cat preferences. Still others try to find the secret of ideal nutrition for their pets themselves.

For example, Ekaterina writes a review about Sheba food

: “I try to cook for the cat myself, boiling meat and chicken. Sometimes there is simply no time or opportunity to cook. That's why I started buying Sheba. I am pleased with the composition, there is quite a lot of meat. The appearance is also decent, especially in comparison with the strange square cubes. You open the package and you see exactly pieces of meat. There are owners who switch their cat to a new food right away, and then complain about digestive problems. So this is the fault of the owners themselves, not the manufacturer. My Kuzya likes the food, which means I like it too. The price doesn’t seem exorbitant, especially if you don’t feed the cat only store-bought food.”

Another review of Sheba food from Natalia

: “The manufacturer indicates that it contains 30% chicken meat, but what kind of meat is unknown. I doubt that the meat is of good quality, most likely soy with a mixture of offal. All the Sheba varieties I bought smelled very unpleasant, not like meat, but like rotten liver. The view was also not impressive. The cat eats with pleasure, but for me the main indicator is the composition, and you can deceive the cat by adding all sorts of flavor enhancers to the food. I don’t believe that all the components of Sheba are truthfully indicated...”

Veterinarian advice

Advice and reviews from veterinarians, of course, are completely different, but we can say that most experts still recommend that cat owners feed their pets Sheba food. And only a small percentage will prefer other food better.

Particularly noteworthy is the presence of taurine, vitamin E and herbal components. It is important that the food is not only tasty and attracts cats with its aroma, because many simply refuse regular food, but it is enriched with vitamin and mineral supplements.

Veterinarians recommend feeding the animal one bag (85 g) of food per meal. For an adult animal weighing 2-4 kg, 3 servings per day are enough.

If the cat has a larger appetite and eats 2 packets at a time, then you can divide the daily amount by the appropriate amount of food eaten at a time.

Many people ask questions about animals “with special needs”, for example, is it possible to pamper your pet with similar food after treatment for urolithiasis or sterilization? In this case, you need to consult a veterinarian and get individual recommendations regarding feeding.

Is it worth purchasing Sheba food for cats?

As always, you should not completely trust the reviews of the owners. What one likes will repel another. If you believe the words of the manufacturer of this food, then Sheba is a high-quality product that contains meat. There are no harmful additives in the food, which is good news. But the composition indicated on the packaging is quite condensed; the manufacturer chose not to provide the buyer with an expanded composition. Perhaps so as not to scare away. However, Sheba is a quality wet food and cats love it. It was not possible to find any sharply negative reviews about this product; it will not cause serious harm to the cat (except for individual intolerance to the components). I would like to believe that cats find in this food a similarity with natural meat, and for this they love and get used to Sheba. We can say that Sheba is truly a premium food; it’s worth purchasing it, because both the composition and appearance are good and harmless, if what is written on the packaging is true.

Specifics

Considering such a feature as the absence of medicinal food in the Sheba line, it is highly not recommended to give it to sick or sterilized (castrated) cats, and it is also not suitable for kittens under one month of age. Due to the fact that “Sheba” contains a number of ingredients that support the condition of the pet’s coat, veterinarians recommend giving it as a daily treat to cats from the long-haired, Neva masquerade, Persian and chinchilla breeds.

A significant percentage of meat in canned food will be very useful for large cats of the Savannah, Serval, Maine Coon, and Caracal breeds. Thanks to the food, they will remain active longer throughout the day. Sami can become part of the diet of a cat of any breed: from the snowshoe and jungle cat to the bengal.

As mentioned earlier in the article, this cat food is not exactly a cheap product. Nevertheless, any person who is sensitive to their pet fluffy, first of all, chooses healthy and tasty foods for their pet, sparing neither money nor time in searching for treats. Many cat owners are guided by the physical reaction of their pets when choosing food, paying attention to how the cat’s body tolerates food and whether there are any problems with the gastrointestinal tract.

After studying reviews from veterinarians, it becomes clear what is needed to determine whether a given food is suitable for a cat or not. First you need to observe the behavior of the animal. If the pet is active, playful and in a pleasant mood, then everything is fine.