Blue Buffalo Tastefuls Salmon Adult Indoor Dry Cat Food, 7 lb | Salmon & Brown Rice Recipe, Antioxidant-Rich LifeSource Bits, No Corn, Wheat, or Soy

My indoor cat can be a little picky, but she’s been loving this Blue Buffalo Tastefuls Salmon & Brown Rice dry food. From the first bowl, she ate it right away and even came back for more, which isn’t always the case with new foods. The ingredient list is solid with real salmon as the first ingredient, plus whole grains and no artificial flavors or by-product meals. I feel good knowing she’s getting quality protein along with nutrients to support her coat, digestion, and overall health. Since switching, I’ve noticed her fur looking shinier and she’s had good energy during playtime. The kibble size is just right for an adult cat, and she seems to chew it comfortably. I also appreciate that this big 15 lb bag is resealable to keep it fresh, and there’s been no waste - she eats every piece.

Works for both my cats and they love it small enough that when eating no crumbs left behind. Good for them and no mess for me.

Our cat absolutely loves this food. We've been using it for years and I'm very happy with it. It always arrives on time the quality is very reliable, and fresh and consistent. It's packed with good nutrition, that's easy for the cat to eat and good value for the money, I've tried other brands, but this is by far the best I have found and the cat gobbles it up.

The bag had one 2" cut , bottom corner, and food pellets were coming out. Packaging was good to keep it tight during delivery but I don't how much is lost, and I can't say where or how it happened. Product is very good.

I have a finicky eater (aren't most cats) who primarily prefers wet foot, but her brother likes dry food, so she insists that she have some as well. She doesn't like what he likes, so I started experimenting with different dry foods for her. She did not like other Blue Buffalo flavors, but she really likes the Tasteful flavors. I started with the chicken flavor, which she liked, but she went crazy for this salmon flavor. I know it is a good quality food, I just wish it wasn't so expensive. Luckily, my other cat doesn't like this, so it's all hers.

Update 4/25/16: Began feeding this to my 3 furbabies on March 6th, and I have at least a 2 week supply left, possibly 3, so 15 lbs will last us at minimum 9 weeks/63 days. I immediately packed the majority in large tupperware-type containers to maintain optimal freshness. I once 'did the math' on how much it cost to feed them their cheaper supermarket-purchased food, and it worked out to be about $0.33 per cat per day. (Granted, that's at the smaller, 3-ish lb bag price. I have enough to lug into the house on shopping day.) This 15 lb. bag of Blue Buffalo however, even if it only lasts 9 weeks, works out to just over $0.17, per cat, per day! AND there was next-to-no lugging involved! So yay for my wallet and my back. Now for them: My cats still seem to enjoy it (I leave it out for them at all times, but they still generally come trotting over when I first re-fill their bowls. They also each get 1/3 of a 5.5oz can of 'gushy food' morning and evening, as well as fresh water daily. They eat no people-food.) Transitioning them wasn't necessary (the first week, I left equal amounts of their old and this kibble side-by-side. They ignored their old stuff completely, and there wasn't any digestive issues apparent at the time.) I have noticed an improvement in their general energy levels, even my physically-handicapped, special-needs rescue spontaneously plays now, something she never did before without me initiating it first. Her dry-skin problem has improved significantly too. The TMI part: Their poo does seem smaller in volume and somewhat less-stinky, as other reviewers have noted, so ... that's good. :D And even though the version I purchased wasn't the hairball-control type, and even though springtime IS hairball season around this house, I haven't had to deal with them in quite a while, now that I think of it. (With their old food, it happened at least weekly from one cat or another). All-in-all, I'm VERY happy I tried this food. Totally exceeded my expectations, I'd give it more stars if I could! The cats like it, and I like the ingredients list. Win/win! I'll update when we finish the bag, to see if they need to eat less, as some of the other reviewers noticed.

my girls love blue buffalo. Great flavors. Great price when ordering for muti ful cats. small bites full of flavors.

I have been feeding my cats Blue Buffalo kibble almost exclusively for the past ten or eleven years, and my cats are doing great with it. Two of my cats, from the same litter, are twenty-two, and a third will be twenty-two next month, while the baby is ten years old. One of the older cats has arthritis but it is managed very well with Cosequin, and the twenty-two year-old had to have a couple of teeth removed a couple of months ago. Other than that, my cats are healthy and active, and I attribute this to a good diet. I came to Blue Buffalo when one of the older cats began losing fur. She was biting and scratching at everything she could reach and, as a result, her fur was completely missing in spots. She looked like she had mange, except that I don't think cats get mange. After a few veterinary visits and some time on steroids, it was suggested that she may have a food allergy, and that cats are commonly allergic to corn, soy or wheat, which are the most common ingredients in cheaper cat foods, and even some of the more expensive ones, such as Science Diet, which is what I had been feeding. There are several premium cat foods on the market that don't use corn, soy or wheat, and I tried some other excellent foods before I discovered Blue Buffalo. My cat's fur problem cleared up within a couple of weeks but it seemed that one or another of my cats didn't like whatever it was that I was feeding them. Then we came across one of the Blue Buffalo representatives at Petco one day, and decided to try Blue Buffalo kibble. All of my cats liked Blue Buffalo, and still do today. They like a great deal of variety in canned foods but are happy to be eating Blue Buffalo kibble day in and day out. I do rotate between the different recipes available from Blue Buffalo, but I don't think they would mind eating the same one all the time. Even in canned foods, my cats all like the Blue Buffalo recipes, but I include many other brands in their canned food selections. Only recently have I begun feeding them canned food on a regular basis, and that has to do with their age. Poor hydration can be a problem with older cats and, with four cats, it's difficult for me to tell how much water each cat is drinking. To make sure that they are getting some hydration, I have begun giving them a 5.5 ounce can of canned food, split between them, in the morning and at night. While I initially switched to Blue Buffalo for the sake of the one cat who had developed a food allergy, I soon found that all of my cats were doing very well with it. Although I had thought they were healthy before, the difference after a month or two of eating Blue Buffalo was dramatic. Things that I had attributed to age were reversed. Today, at twenty-two, my cats are as active and playful as they were at twelve. When I took the two older ones to a new veterinarian, he thought they were eight or nine, not twenty-two. In the eleven or twelve years that I have been feeding Blue Buffalo, my cats have not had a flea problem. Blue Buffalo is not marketed for flea control but I think that a healthy cat has a built-in resistance to fleas. Their basic diet remains kibble, however. I free feed them kibble, meaning that they always have kibble available to them. There are many good brands of kibble, as there is in canned food. My choices are to look for something without corn, soy, wheat, by-products, or gluten of any kind. Both kibble and canned food should have poultry, fish or meat as the primary ingredient. Every now and then I will do a taste test, setting out a bowl of another kind of suitable premium cat food along side an identical bowl of Blue Buffalo, and the results are nearly always the same. The first day, they will primarily eat the new food, as if exploring new and interesting tastes, but the first bowl to be emptied is always the Blue Buffalo. Cats like it, and it's good for them. A few things to consider... Premium cat food is more expensive than grocery store brands when you are comparing cost per pound. However, most of what you are buying in a grocery store brand (and some more expensive brands as well) are ingredients that cats don't digest well, such as corn, soy and wheat. Cats eating grocery store brands will have to eat more bulk in order to meet their nutritional needs, and much of that will be deposited in the litter box. On a diet of grocery store brand cat food, cats are more likely to gain weight, much the same as people whose diet consists mainly of junk food. After switching to a premium cat food, such as Blue Buffalo, it is not unusual for the cat to eat a lot of food at first, as real food may taste better to them than what they were eating before. At some point, often within a week or two, the cat may begin to eat considerably less. This does not indicate that the cat doesn't like the new food anymore; more likely, it means that the cat's body is telling him that he doesn't have to eat that much. Cats on premium cat food are more likely to regulate the amount of food that they eat than are cats on grocery store brands, but it might take a few weeks for that to kick in. Cats don't know how to read labels, so it is your responsibility to learn how to do that. I will let my cats eat whatever they wish, but only after I have limited their choices to foods that are good for them. Blue Buffalo is not the only healthy cat food on the market, and your cat may do well on another premium food. I think there's something to the Life Source bits that makes sense to me, and my experience has been that they have done very well with Blue Buffalo. I could say more, but I've gone on too long already.