I feel your pain, I myself live on a limited income and my dog takes up almost one half of my grocery money every month. Please, please, please rethink your option of buying store brands like Wal Marts, and rethink your current options of purchasing Friskies. These cheaper cat food brands (including Friskies) are not the best food for your beloved pet. Please consider purchasing a more expensive pet food, like Natural Balance or even Trader Joes pet food (which is very inexpensive) these foods are better for your pet, and as a result you will end up feeding them less often, picking up after them less often and having a healthier pet in the long run. The cheaper brands are paramount to feeding your pet junk food....You might also contact your local Humane Society to see if they have a program to assist those in need of a helping hand in feeding your pet every month, Good luck

I work in a feed store and in the past month all dog and cat food has taken a big price jump. I've worked here nine years and this is the biggest price hike I've ever seen.

The price of fuel is just now being factored into the prices of goods---milks has gone up---bottled water---everything. Raw materials need shipping---more fuel costs to start. Fuel/power to run the factories has gone up. Transportation of finished goods is higher---due to higher fuel costs. And finally, end supplier stores have higher power bills as part of their overhead.

The name brand companies do not want to raise prices, they are already aware of the disparity between their products and generic. But, with fuel costs---and advertising(fewer people would buy the stuff without advertising) costs going up, companies have no choice.

It's the corn thing. Since pretty much everything that is consumed by man or beast or vehicle now has corn in it, everthing has increased in price. Also, because all the fields are being planted in corn, everything else has increased in price, too, because there's less space and/or fewer farmers growing those products. Expect the prices to go up and up and up and up......

Sally

I too had sticker shock. It seems it was just last year when Friskies canned food would go on sale 4@$1.00, then it was 3@$1.00, now it's almost 50 cents a can. What is up with that? That's not a few pennies.

I'd happily pay .50 cents per can of Friskies - in my area the price is now .75 cents per can.
I know Friskies is not the best food, but my cats have turned their nose up at every high end food offered to them, so Friskies it is for the canned stuff. As far as dry goes, which is the primary food source for them, they get Chickensoup for Catlovers...or Taste of the Wild. They are definitely healthy, not malnourished or over-weight.

Personally I think, brands like Friskies should be banned by the FDA as a possible danger to children I mean who hasn't had a really young kid try the pet food?, if it can kill a large dog it can diffidently kill a child! The recall should have brought more attention to human safety.

As for people who cannot afford good foods THEY are sadly the causes of why dead dogs and cats are carted off to pet food renders, its the money they pay to support such people, Just like the neighbor next door who wanted her kids to see the miracle of birth is the cause of needles suffering and shelters having to PTS more unwanted animals. People who do not have money should reset their priority for the good of the community,the animals, and to ourselves.

runsnwalken, what do you mean? Friskies wasn't recalled unlike some of the pricey animal foods. How does feeding friskies or pedigree cause animals to be carted off to a rendering plant?

Besides, pet food isn't regulated by the FDA

My cat too will only eat Friskies canned food. He only likes shredded meat and HATES pate style food. It is very hard to find a premium brand with the texture he likes (they are either all pate or all chunks).

My cat eats Nutro dry as well.

PS: Meijers (a midwest big-box store) has Friskies on sale tomorrow for 40 cents a can.

Walmart here (MI) sells it for 42 cents. My cat gets three meals out of can so it is still a bargain.

PS: I get slightly mad when people say what your feeding your cat is not good enough. Do you know how incredibly picky a cat can be????

I work where my cats can get some really good cat food but they won't eat it. They like friskies pate. They get Chicken Soup for cats and taste of the wild feline mixed as dry food. They like that. I mix friskies and chicken soup adult light wet with water, I can get away with that. I get food at cost where I work and am paying 75 cents a can for the friskies because we don't carry it. Sigh..

acorn, stirfryi. lilod and everyone else who feeds their cat Friskies - the reason your cat wont eat anything else is because foods like Friskies is filled with sugars and fats, and it is as addicting to your animal as junk food, it is just as harmful to them as junk food is to people, it can cause long term devastating health problems in the long run such as diabetes. It is not worth your animal suffering. These underliying health problems can fester for years unnoticed by you or your vet. I recommend you start switching gradually, you might have a healthier cat for many more years.

I respectfully disagree, I have had many cats for many years and most of them have eaten Friskies or other commercial canned food along with dry, which is the main diet. They all were in/outdoor cats with the job of rodent-control and also ate a variety of wild-life. All my cat-friends lived long lives. I can buy the most beneficial cat-food there is, but what good does it do when they reject it and I end up giving it to the chickens and the cats are hungry?
We all love our animals and do the best we can.

I disagree too. My cats have eaten either Friskies or 9lives canned food since they were young and they all lived long lives. My oldest died in June at 19. But they don't get much. I split the can(s) and they each get a little and get a high quality dry food the rest of the day.

To the poster who said that Friskies is a danger to children, I say that my now 36 year old daughter learned to eat with a spoon sitting at the cat food dish. She'd consumed a good deal of it before I realized what she was doing. She's still alive and well and eats with a spoon very nicely, thank you.

In my long lifetime, the vast majority of my many cats lived longer than 16 years - all were indoor outdoor cats and all were fed Friskies as well a Purina dry cat food. The cats who died younger than that died from accidents, one being stepped on as a kitten and the other an older cat who got out of our new house and tried to make her way across town to our old home and was hit by a car.

So please, don't tell me what to feed my cats.

P.S. My oldest current cat, now 16, LOVES dog food so she gets a spoonful of that every day.

I just hate getting into a cat food fight.LOL
I have six cats Rubie age 21, Sam age 12, RocKat and Sheena age 5, Oreo and Kreem age 2. All the pet food is marketing. I do feed quality dry food and all six cats get one can of friskies mixed with one can of chicken soup light and water. They are also house barn/ cats so they catch their own raw food.
BTW: the nearest Trader Joes is in Santa Rosa wihch is a 270 mile round trip.

The high price of imported oil is reflected in everything we buy and it will only get worse. If you think politics is not important to this subject, you have your heads in the sand.

Drill here, drill now and build nuclear plants!

the FDA currently doesn't regulate pet foods, so your right... But they really should, I mean if you market garage as food its undeneyable it isnt just animals that will eat it. Also though your daughter was fine this time , it isn't good people around the world eat garage and I'm sure they live as lest as long as some buddy from the stone age.(If they are deneyed access to health care and better food) But here in america we don't have too. we have the power to change our own safety and the safety of our pets. we have the power, even people who have no money at all for food can learn about wild plants in nature and eat those

sadly unless people start eating cats and dogs here in america like chicken,beef,pork,ect its not going to be regulated whatsoever by the government. but the people as a whole are stronger then our government, if people enough of them stand up and say no then it WILL change.

Money hungry, greedy bastards is the reason for price increases, taking advantage of consumers at any opportunity.