Cat Food Toppers & Mixers

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A topper is a small amount of something more interesting stirred through or scattered over a cat's normal meal. Our cat food toppers and mixers range covers three genuinely different formats — freeze-dried raw boosters, wet gravies and shreds, and powdered broths — and they earn their place when a cat has gone picky, when a dry diet needs more moisture, or when you are moving a cat onto a new food and want the transition to be less abrupt. None of these is a complete and balanced diet on its own; check the pack, because a topper belongs on top of a complete food rather than in place of one.

Freeze-dried, wet or broth?

Freeze-dried boosters are crumbled or sprinkled dry and keep well once opened, so they suit a one-cat household where a wet sachet would go to waste. ZIWI Peak Raw Superboost in lamb, venison and beef, the Feline Natural and Kiwi Kitchens green tripe boosters, Meaty Treaty chicken and beef toppers and Mio's Nature freeze-dried chicken floss all sit here. Wet toppers add moisture as well as flavour: Wellness Core Simply Shreds in shredded chicken, flaked salmon and tuna, and tuna and shrimp; Inaba Churu meal toppers as a squeezable puree; and Earthz Pet Cat Vitality Gravy in free-range chicken and New Zealand fish. Powders and broths are the most flexible — Mio's Nature bone broth powders in beef, green, turmeric and mixed berries, egg yolk and pumpkin powders, and Korure Pets beef bone broth — because you rehydrate them and can pour as much or as little liquid over the bowl as the cat will take.

Introducing a topper

Start with a smaller amount than the pack allows and build up over several days; a sudden strong flavour can put a cautious cat off the meal underneath it. Warming a wet topper slightly lifts the aroma, which matters for older cats with a dulled sense of smell. If a cat's appetite has dropped away rather than merely become fussy, that is a reason to speak to your vet rather than to reach for a topper.