Petite Cuisine Chicken Pot Pie for Cats, 3-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24) | 
| Brand: Petite Cuisine
Category: Grocery
List Price: $28.80
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 26089
Number Of Items: 24
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7.9 x 2.9
Release Date: June 19, 2008
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 Pleasing for the cat and for me - a good alternative for my Fancy Feast Elegant Medleys addict December 23, 2008
My cat is addicted to Fancy Feast Elegant Medleys. It doesn't matter if I buy him expensive or cheap alternatives; he won't touch it unless it has those garden greens! When I saw the new offerings from Petite Cuisine, I decided to give it a try with him. After all, they have some veggie content, which I figured might appease his tastes.
There are a few things I look for in a wet cat food. First, I want it to have real ingredients listed. I don't like for it to have by-products. (FF:EM does, but he's addicted, so I suppress my concern by giving him great-for-him dry food) Second, I don't want it to stink. If it turns my stomach when I open a can, I don't care how much he likes it, I'm not serving it. Third, it needs to come out of the can easily.
Petite Cuisine met or exceeded all of my basic criteria. Next was the big question: would my addict take to this new brand?
With FF:EM, my cat usually begs for it, sniffs it, and then wanders off. He returns at his leisure at some point and chows down the whole mass in one sitting. Occasionally, he will wolf it down immediately. So, consider that the baseline behavior. He has self-feeding access to dry food, and he gets a 3-oz can of wet food at most twice a day (sometimes he doesn't seem to want the second can).
I fed him his first Petite Cuisine can from this box, in Chicken Pot Pie flavor, as his second feeding for the day. I was surprised that this flavor really seemed like a soup and had real (I'm assuming) pieces of carrot and corn. It really looks like people food. He seemed to really enjoy the "soupy" broth. This was his second daily feeding and yet he gulped it down for awhile before wandering off. He came back later in the evening and finished off the rest. Success!
The next day, I started him with a can of the Sesame Chicken. It smelled pleasantly like Asian food. His reaction was to sniff and wander off. After 12 hours, he hadn't touched it but had eaten a large helping of dry food. So, he was clearly hungry, but didn't want to touch this flavor. I washed the remains away and gave him a can of FF:EM. It was gone within a minute.
So, I wondered if he'd just been particularly hungry on the Pot Pie day. A few mornings later, I did Pot Pie for the morning feeding, and I observed the same behavior. He drank the broth right away and came back later to finish off the bits. I also re-tested the Sesame Chicken on a day when I knew he was hungry, and he ignored it steadily. Clearly, my kitty has preferences. I have tried some other Petite Cuisine flavors (Petite Cuisine Variety Pack (Yellowfin, Snapper, Tuna & Sole, Tuna & Shrimp) for Cats, 3-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24)) that are available on Amazon. He will chow down on Tuna & Shrimp flavor but generally doesn't seem to like the other seafood PC flavors (though he will eat them if left with them, unlike the Sesame Chicken reaction).
My point is that my cat is picky, and he will eat at least some flavors of this happily even though he's rejected MANY high-quality foods in the past. It is nice to have an alternative to the one brand. I'm also happier with him eating this food given the good ingredients and pleasant appearance and scent.
I do want to add/note that there are many folks who are mentioning that the food is more liquid than substance. That is definitely true for the Pot Pie flavor, but it is not true for Petite Cuisine in general. The Pot Pie is definitely made to resemble soup.
 It looks good, but is it good for the cats? December 17, 2008
My two traditional striped cats eat mostly dry Science Diet cat food with a few NuCat vitamins added. They also get Iams canned chicken, turkey, or beef once a day. Brownie prefers the dry food but will eat some canned food only when the can is freshly opened. Pi likes both. We tried the Petite Cuisine Variety Pack (Yellowfin, Snapper, Tuna & Sole, Tuna & Shrimp) and the Petite Cuisine Variety Pack (Chinese Chicken & Chicken Pot Pie) over the course of sixteen days. Each cat got about one-quarter can each day. I alternated cans of chicken and fish varieties.
At first, the felines were enthusiastic. After a while they tired of the chicken. Pi would only lick up the gravy, while Brownie refused to even look at it. The fish was better received. They like the yellowfin and the tuna & shrimp. The cat vote is for two of the six varieties.
There is, however, a question of mercury in ocean fish. A 1995 study in Japan found that cats that ate tuna had a higher concentration of mercury in their fur than cats that ate dry cat food. The study and its results are discussed in an article that you can find on the web by using the search term "all about tuna fish". I posted a question on the Petite Cuisine web site as to whether they had tested their products for mercury. I have not received an answer. My conclusion is that it may be ok to give the cats fish as an occasional treat but not as a steady diet.
Only the best for my Pussing Foot Kitties December 2, 2008
Petite Cuisine Chicken Pot Pie for Cats: This is an expensive bit of tomfoolery for my kitty cats. When the humans in the house get a special bit of food, the kitties do also. They are my all day companions and when the humans celebrate so do the cats. The biggest CON for the product is the cost, which depending upon the specials in force at the time make it about a dollar a can which is 3 oz--filet migion anyone??? But on the PLUS side, the kitties lap up the entire can without the usual bits of this and that left over depending upon how well they like the daily fare. ALSO, both of my cats are male which makes them prone to urinary tract problems. In addition to pure white meat chichen, this has a watery sauce with it which they "slurp" right up which adds to their daily fluid intake. After reading many books on cats and kittens, I decided that these male animals needed at least half of their daily fare in "wet food" to avoid urinary type probs. This really helps as cats are not noted fluid imbibers unless the fluid is sauce based (or is my lemonade which they make sure to contaminate--UGH!). So I love them and spend a little extra from time to time. The humans in the house make out well too!!!! Best wishes to all and hope this helps. December 2008
Cats went nuts over it! November 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All three of my cats are wild about the Chicken Pot Pie variety of Petite Cuisine. It's real chicken in a clear broth, and it actually looks like something you'd serve yourself. All the ingredients are "real" -- no meat by-products, wheat gluten, preservatives, dyes. There is actually quite a bit of broth, which concerned me when I opened the first can because I thought the can was mostly water. However, it's real broth and evidently pretty tasty, because my cats practically inhale it -- they love it! Once they finish the broth, they start working on the chicken and always clear the whole plate. I'll definitely buy more of this.
 My cat tried to bury this food. November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My cat and my neighbor's cats would not eat this food. I wound up giving the case to the cat rescue organization.
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