Real Goodness For Life™ - Hound & Gatos®

Cats are obligate carnivores and need to eat protein! There are so many types and brands of cat food on the market and it's difficult for the person who shares a life with cats to know what is best. 

I'm always searching for high-quality, high-protein food for my Persian Cats. 

Hound & Gatos® is a new brand I discovered at Global Pet Expo this year. They focus on animal protein-focused nutrition and boasts that their 13 canned recipes are formulated with 98% real meat, plus a precisely balanced vitamin-mineral mix. The food is completely grain-free and can be fed as a complete meal of mixed with kibble to enhance the flavor and nutrition.

Brulee presenting the Hound & Gatos wet food (rabbit flavor)

Hound & Gatos is from Gott Pet Products which is a family-owned company that has been providing healthy, natural rewards, and training treats for decades. The Hound & Gatos line is made in the United States and is available through pet specialty distributors nationwide.

The Hound & Gatos wet cat food is available in a range of flavors that are complete and balanced for all ages and breeds. The wet food comes in single and multiple protein options for every cat's dietary needs. Available flavors are:

• beef
• chicken & liver
• duck & liver
• gamebird poultry
• lamb & liver
• lamb, chicken & salmon
• Paleolithic meat
• pork
• rabbit
• salmon
• salmon, mackerel & sardine
• trout & duck liver
• turkey & liver

Truffle eating the rabbit recipe of Hound & Gatos®

We received samples of the rabbit, chicken & liver, and lamb & liver recipes to sample. The first recipe the girls tried was the rabbit. Rabbit is a new protein I began feeding the girls about two years ago and they tend to enjoy the flavor. The Hound & Gatos 98% Rabbit is a pate. Both girls were interested in the food as soon as I put in in their bowls. Truffle cleaned her plate while Brulee licked at it a little. Truffle tends to eat almost any type of wet cat food I give her because she "bites" into her food to eat. Brulee has a little flatter face and tends to eat by picking up her food with the underside of her tongue, which is pretty normal for Persian Cats. Brulee tends to prefer wet food with a little more gravy and smaller pieces. In order to encourage her to eat this food, I added some toppers to the food and she did eat it.

Truffle eating the lamb & liver recipe

I'd never fed lamb to the girls before so I was very interested to see what they thought. Truffle loved it, while Brulee just stared at it. Once again, when I added a "topper" Brulee did eat it. She's just very finicky about the texture of her food and it has nothing to do with the quality or flavor of the recipe. The first three ingredients of the lamb & liver recipe are lamb, lamb broth, and lamb liver. The chicken & liver was also a hit. Each of these recipes is in a 5.5 oz can. I wish there were smaller cans because my girls don't eat much and refuse to eat food after it's been in the refrigerator. This is definitely a high-quality wet cat food that I hope to continue feeding my two Persian cats. Hound & Gatos also makes a dry kibble that we'll review in a later post this month.

All of the Hound & Gatos diets use animal ingredients as the main protein source to mimic an ancestral diet and the wet recipes are at least 98% meat. The #1 ingredient in their formulas is always real meat. They never use plant proteins like peas, chickpeas, or lentils, which is something other manufacturers may use to boost protein levels at a lower cost.

Hound & Gatos also makes food for dogs in both a wet and dry formula.

Brulee looks on as Truffle eats her rabbit recipe

For more information, please visit https://houndgatos.com/

Hound and Gatos is available from Chewy.com.  Some varieties of Hound and Gatos are available from Amazon. Hound and Gatos is also available from many brick and mortar retailers.

Giveaway

We're excited to announce that two of our readers has the opportunity to win a a case of  Hound & Gatos cat or dog food (choice of recipe).  No purchase necessary. The giveaway is open to residents of the United States 18+ years, except where prohibited by law. The giveaway will run from December 11 - 23, 2019, ending at 11:59 pm ET. The winners will be randomly selected by Rafflecopter (powered by Random.org) and notified via email. Winners will have 48 hours to claim their prize; failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the prize and a new winner will be randomly chosen. To qualify for the giveaway, a comment must be left on our blog post.  Other entry options are available after a comment is left.  Please check your email and be sure to add sweetpurrfections@sc.rr.com to your address book! 

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