Bozita feeders - where do you get yours?

[Cheesecat]

I've just started buying it again - Zooplus has 18 for £13 something which is pretty good - also i'm sure i'll pick some bargain packs up from the surpreme - mine like the pate type stuff and I remember the supreme having more flavours (I think!)

[cazzer]

Funny mine like chicken rabbit and Shrimp.    Its the reindeer and elk they are not keen on [along with plaice and herring]!

[Kay and Penny]

they must have liked the English Bozita I bought from the pet shop, otherwise I wouldn't have ordered more from Zooplus

but they won't eat all the varieties - Chicken is a no-no, as is Rabbit and Shrimp

Elk and Reindeer, unfortunately, they like 

I do see a difference in the appearance of the German/Swedish and English ones, though - the lumps in the former look very uniform, whereas the English one is more mixed up 

[cazzer]

get mine mainly from Zooplus although I did buy a lot from R & L at a show of the varities that are more expensive on Zooplus.      Can't say I'd noticed any difference between the English and the German varieties or any reaction from the boys.   

[Tiggy's Mum]

Thanks all, I'm not saying there is anything 'wrong' with UK stuff. It just got me wondering whether the boys' tummy troubles were connected to what was essentially a change in food as the stuff they had been eating all their lives had different ingredients to the UK stuff.

I now have a cupboard full of their usual German stuff (there's a great offer on at Zooplus, the 18 mixed packs are £13.89 so 77p a carton  ) and have started mixing it in to the RC sensitive today. Their tummies cleared up after the oral antibiotics so it's probably just a complete coincidence and nothing to do with the recipe but it just got me thinking.

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

I always get it from zooplus due to convenience (ordering it with everything else I need) but I do buy it if I see it at a cat show and I assume that is UK bozita?   Not done that for a while though.  They did eat it no problems though. I haven't noticed anything different about the bozita I buy from zooplus and the boys eat it as they always have.

[Gillian Harvey]

Mine have only ever had the English Bozita from R&L Pet Products, although a friend of mine gave me some Bozita she'd ordered from Zooplus because hers wouldnt touch it - and when I opened the packs they smelt different, in fact they smelt off - which may have been why hers didnt like it!

[Tiggy's Mum]

  trigger, do you remember if the pet shop cartons were English or German? If they were English did your bunch seem less keen?

[Kay and Penny]

I've only ever had Bozita from Zooplus, apart from a couple of cartons from my local petshop

I order every month now from Zooplus, and have had no problems at all with their packaging for at least 8 months

[Tiggy's Mum]

Just wondered if anyone else had ordered both German and UK bozita in the past and whether your cats had a preference/any probs with the UK stuff?

Reason I'm asking is that I've fed the boys German Bozita for all their adult lives and in the past always ordered from Zooplus so the product packaging was in German. A combination of their poor packaging and prices meant that I placed an order from a UK website and was very impressed with both price and packaging etc. The UK bozita is in English so designed for the UK market.

Anyway, the boys didn't seem as keen on the UK Bozita and whether it's a coincidence or not but they've had the issues with runny bums over the last few months while eating UK Bozita. They're still on sensitive food so before I started them back on Bozita I emailed to ask if the products were produced in the same factory and whether the ingredients were different and got this reply...

...All of our products are manufactured at one plant here in West Sweden.

The differences between the ingredients in the German and the English products are that the German ones contain beef, whereas the English does not , except for the [English] Chunk in Sauce Beef....

I've now ordered, and received, German Zooplus Bozita (incidentally their packaging is vastly improved - thick boxes and plastic strips) so am gradually going to wean the boys back onto German Bozita and see what happens.