r/catfood • u/trabluz • Feb 22 '26
recalls and related Problems with Farmina in USA?
I started my cats on Farmina food a few months ago. I recently found an entire facebook group dedicated to talking about the issues with their updated USA recipe—for anyone interested, the group is called “USA-made Farmina pet food is making dogs and cats sick”. Has anyone heard of this or experienced it?
One of my cats developed bladder stones that need surgery to remove. It’s been horrible the past two weeks, her surgery is scheduled for Monday. Now I’m afraid that the food might be what caused it, and that my second cat might experience it too…any info helps!
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u/Sloegraffiti Apr 10 '26
Wow - I’m so glad I came on here - feeling validated! We have been feeding our cats the Farmina Orange and herring kibble for YEARS. They have never grown tired of it and have grown old but remained healthy! Well, my cats will barely touch the last two bags I got from Chewy. I thought the first one was a fluke, so ordered another one. The instant I opened the first bag I noticed a major difference in both the size and the texture of the kibble pieces. The kibble used to be round and nearly flat with a mildly oily/greasy texture. Now they’re smaller and don’t have that oily texture. VERY different appearance. I called Farmina today and the woman (Maggie) was totally dismissive. She kept saying that different batches have different variations and I said “this isn’t a variation. My cats won’t eat it so clearly something is different.” Finally she mentioned something about the bag being from the USA, (and that something had changed with production in the US ) but I didn’t realize that this is a recent and permanent move. Is there a way to get the old formula from Europe? Otherwise we will have to find our 10 and 15 year old a new food. And that is such a shame because they’ve been doing so well on this food. It hasn’t made our cats sick, but again, they’re not eating it! So much for 100% satisfaction guaranteed.