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Whiskers cat food pouches stink and it makes the whole house stink I’m heaving why does it smell sooooo bad

Bought some whiskas - the usual fish in jelly, all of a sudden my cats stopped eating it - I thought they were fussy but when one ate a little bit of it, got sick, had more later, got sick again then refused to touch that stuff. My second cat flat out refused to eat any of it. Both looked a bit unwell, so I changed to Felix Ocean fish. Came back home, both feasted on that and asked for more.

Something's gone wrong with your product, my neighbour with 3 cats has got the exact same story to tell.

Going from 100g pouches to 85g pouches was hard to swallow for me, now my cats' message is clear: it makes them sick. I'm going to feed the local seagulls with whatever is left in that box, then adios. No point getting ripped off while poisoning my cats.

Not only has the recipe change put off my cats from eating it, but the portion sizes going down is a slap in the face and the SMELL oh my lord, even after an hour it is reeking, it is disgusting and I don’t blame my cats for not eating it. After 2 hours, it's like a horde of flies can smell the foul decaying smell through the windows and flock into our house. I actually gag when I empty the bowls at the end of the night, I’ve legitimately never smelled anything so bad in all my life; i’ve changed nappies, i’ve cleaned diarrhoea, vomit, dog diarrhoea and most recently cat diarrhoea (thanks to Whiskas) and I’ve never smelled anything as bad as whiskas. I have to wear a N-95 (?) mask sprayed with aftershave to even pick up the bowls to take them to the sink. Jigsaw would think I was the devil incarnate if I suggested this in a torture chamber and I don’t blame him. Unless you hate your cats, DO NOT USE WHISKAS.

My cat is been feeling really sick after eating this food. She has diarrhoea constantly and she is always hungry… over all I’m not recommending it !

I have 2 really fussy cats which are usually fed either whiskas or Felix as good as it looks. They get bored so I often try new brands for them but so far they have all been a massive fail I buy the more expensive ones to try and tempt my 2 into eating a full meal but nope they refuse and I always end up reverting back to whiskas and Felix. Whiskas is a good well known and trusted brand

Shame on Whiskas! My cats used to love it but since they changed the formula, two of them won't touch it; the third would but she vomited and had diarrhoea after each meal. On top of this, the fact that they upped the price and made the pouches smaller is just pure gouging and disrespect for their customers. I have switched to another brand and will NEVER go back to Whiskas - and it gives me great pleasure to see all the unbought boxes sitting on the supermarket shelves - they deserve it.

Disgusting is the word, been shopping today and yet again Whiskas cat food gone up, when is this trend going to end.

smelly cat food that my 3 girls just wont eat if they do there poop stinks the house out wont be buying anymore

It seems to be no good, my cat doesn't want to eat.

My sweet angel of a cat died from kidney disease from eating whiskas kibbles. Please, if you value your cat's life feed her raw chicken necks or wet food. Kibbles, sooner or later, will cause a lethal disease.
Now it's too late to do anything, it was too late and my poor baby had to be euthanized💔

I contacted customer services about a box of whiskers food I bought that my two cats won’t touch, this is extremely unlike them, and I explained that I bought more food and they were fine with that box, so maybe there was an issue with the former box of food. They just fobbed me off and said they won’t refund because I don’t have a receipt, but I literally gave them everything they asked for including pictures, the product number, expiry date etc. No one takes receipts at the supermarket anymore, it’s bad for the environment. We won’t be using whiskers again because of this customer services experience and because there’s obviously an issue with the food that they aren’t taking seriously. I’m not risking my cats health.

The disgusting smell of Whiskers cat food is unbearable. Not only are you paying more for less but an abominable smell comes with it.

I have 6 cats and they were the biggest fans of whiskas. 2 of my cats will only eat jelly. Apart from noticing the price going up and the portions are smaller, I also noticed not much meat in the gravy one and mostly this dark juice that doesn't even smell nice anymore. My cats are smelling it and walking away. The ones outside that are younger were eating it but vomiting and crying and licking their bums like it was burning them after. Now they won't eat it either. My cats are falling sick. I have used whiskas for years but now I am looking for a new one as even Felix have seemed to change their recipe and size. I don't get why all these companies are doing this. Will never buy whiskas again. For dry food I buy 20kg bags of Friskies and I am happy with that. I've used it for years but I need a new wet food very fast.

Wish I had read these reviews before I purchased Whiskas dry food for all three cats.
Blood in stools, runny stools and three unwell cats, after numerous visits to the vet the we worked it out the food. changed to a different brand and gets a lot better and well.
I wish I can read all the other cases before my 2 x 7kg bags

Do not feed your cat Whiskas. It made our cat extremely ill, and our cat spent two days at the vets and took 5 days to recover due to this food being bad quality
It contains very little meat and protein, and high amounts of preservatives (according to Cats.com unbiased Whiskas Cat Food Review, 2024)

My Cats were eating another brand of Car food for years then all of a sudden stopped eating it. Tummy upsets etc. Whiskas looked good. Packaging changed. Duo or Chefs choice. I put my Cats on whiskas. Brilliant they loved it. Now 10 Months later same problem. Even my greedy cat is not finishing his dinner and the pouches only 85g. For the last 2 weeks 5 bowls with food left in them. I have 5 Cats. When I smell the food it's awful and definitely not that bad a few Months ago. I've now got to find another brand. Cat food isn't cheap so why are the recipes smelling cheap. It's disgusting.

I have a couple of 8 year old cats, never had a problem with their appetites or enthusiasm for Whiskas sachets before this year.
A couple of months ago things started to go wrong, and this week I was seriously going to take them to the vets to check out thyroid ( constantly hungry but no weight gain) and dementia ( confusion, crying for food, refusing to eat when it’s put down, trying to get in the fridge whenever I opened the door) the constant crying has driven us bonkers.
We’ve put more & more food down and then thrown it away. We have probably doubled what we were spending. When I pushed the contents down in an unopened sachet there was less than half in the damn thing, didn’t matter because the cats refused to eat it anyway.
Yesterday I bought a box of Sheba sachets that are the same price as Whiskas and the problems seem to have evaporated. What have Whiskas been up to ? Furious with them. At least we will have a quiet Christmas now 🥵

I ran out of the Paws dry cat food that I normally use and bought some Whiskas dry cat food to tide me over.
The difference was very noticeable. Our cat ate so much more than previously.
He had put on weight on Harringtons dry cat food that we used to give him and was struggling to get up the stairs.
I then researched cat food on the internet and realized that cats should NOT be given carbohydrate.
It is a scandal that cat food manufacturers are selling cat food laden with carbs., which causes addiction to carbohydrate, excess weight and likelihood of diabetes.
In fact very similar to the problems in the human population.
Looking at the ingredients of Whiskas, carbohydrate is listed first (no percentage given) but the first ingredient given is the largest quantity in the product, meaning that there is more carbohydrate than meat.
For your cats' sake, please look at the ingredients, and choose one that is the highest in PROTEIN, which is what cats should have.
Think of the big cats in the wild.
Our cat lost weight when I changed his diet to Applaws which has 80% protein, and although it is more expensive, he eats so much less.

Yet another company jumping on the band wagon treating customers as if they are stupid whilst ripping them off, by reducing the pouch size. Not enough in one 85g pouch and too much by opening two pouches. This increases the cost by having wasted food and paying for all the more packaging. Well done whiskas, you have cost yourself another lost customer.

I have stopped buying Whiskas since they reduced the portion size to 85 gram sachets. One portion is not enough to feed my cats, they are still hungry. I will not be buying Whiskas again as its false economy. I have changed to another popular brand as they still sell 100 gram portions. As far as I am concerned its just another example of companies exploiting the cost of living crisis. Pure greed. Shame on you Whiskas.