Luckily, our ladies also do dry, for which the supply has been holding.
But Wallyword and the local supermarket chain shelves are bare of canned cat food. National and house brands. We asked and they say shipments fly off the shelves when they do come in.

Is it like that elsewhere for MRFrs?

Same thing here in Western Arkansas.

jims

....seems to be due to aluminum can shortage.....


‘Not completely COVID-19’s fault’: Here’s why there’s a wet cat food shortage

....Supply chain issues have been wreaking havoc at stores for some time now, and cat owners are the latest to feel their impact.

There’s currently a nationwide shortage of cans of wet cat food, according to Dr. Farbod Farhadi, an associate professor of business at Roger Williams University.

“This time, it’s not completely COVID-19’s fault,” Farhadi said.

He said the United States is one of the biggest importers of aluminum from China, where a manufacturing plant had to shut down late last year.

“There was an accident in one of the — like a major accident — in one of the aluminum production manufacturing factories in China,” Farhadi explained.

That accident combined with an increase in pet ownership and a shift by some businesses (like breweries) to using aluminum cans has greatly increased demand and caused the shortage.

“People are using more and there’s less production, and then there was that accident in China, so all together caused this shortage,” Farhadi said.

Stop & Shop spokesperson Caroline Medeiros confirmed to 12 News that the supermarket chain is seeing a shortage.

“Like other retailers, Stop & Shop is seeing supply challenges with pet food, specifically wet cat food,” she wrote in an email. “The challenges are caused by a surge in demand over the last 18 months, as well as raw material shortages, including aluminum, which is used to make the cans.”

It’s unclear at this time how long the shortage will last, according to Farhadi. If you’re having a problem finding wet cat food, he suggested talking to your veterinarian about possible alternatives......


why.....shortage.....?!


Canned pet food shortage continues amid supply chain woes

.....Pet owners may have a harder time than usual searching for their dog or cat’s favorite canned food and — you guessed it — the supply chain backlogs are still to blame.

In June 2021, the Pet Food Institute (PFI), which represents America’s dog and cat food and treat makers, sent public comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which outlined supply chain and manufacturing woes impacting the industry. And these same issues continue to plague manufacturers and consumers even now in 2022, according to PFI.

"As the entire food system faced incredible disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. pet food makers were also forced to address new ingredient sourcing and transportation challenges," said Dana Brooks, president and CEO of PFI. "America’s dog and cat food makers responded with resiliency and are hard at work making nutritionally balanced food for our pets, but PFI is asking the Biden administration to identify policy solutions that will help further strengthen all of American food and agriculture for the future."

Even after COVID-19 cases started to decrease and businesses resumed operations as normal, ingredients such as chicken by-products and vegetable oils, which are used in many canned food items for pets, were hard to come by, according to PFI.

"These ingredient shortages have not abated as the pandemic began receding. PFI members report all ingredient costs have risen 8-20%, with dramatic price increases for corn and soybean derivatives, which are key ingredients in many dog and cat food formulations," PFI said.

In California, franchises such as PetSmart are out of canned food in several locations, FOX 11 reported.

The manager of Centinela Feed & Pet Supplies in Torrance, California, Jen Muise, said a shortage of workers at canning facilities has been a problem for pet stores since late last year.

"A lot of times it’s a good idea to work with groups that have their own physical canneries, brands like Lotus and Fromm who actually have not just U.S. based canneries but they own their own canneries so that way they control the supply, they control the functioning, you don’t run into as many issues with that," Muise told FOX 11.

"Brands like Stella and Chewy are converting into pouches of food as well as packs so they don’t have to be dependent on the cannery or aluminum situation that we have," said Dan Ryu, COO of Centinela Feed & Pet Supplies.....


oh......noes......?!

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Wow.
Kitties do not like change, so this could make for some unhappy campers.

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Yes, for months every time I have gone through the pet food aisle to get cat food the shelves for canned food have been pretty bare.

Ingredient shortages already showed up at least 3 months ago, my cat's favorite dry food has been unavailable. Fortunately he is willing to switch and I had been weaning him off it to a lower carbohydrate dry food. He really should be on wet food as he developed diabetes almost 2 years ago, but he turns his nose up at it. If he had switched it would be a problem switching back to dry due to the shortages.

There's always white albacore tuna.

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My sister and I are really having a challenge trying to keep a supply. All the favorite online/local store places seem to go in and out of stock. Fortunately, my sister is somewhat of a hoarder. With 11 cats in the house, we have to have a good supply on hand. Oh, the kitties will eat dry, but only if there's nothing else in the dish.

BTW, crazy cat lady update. I have the confidence of 6 cats, with one on the border as far as coming within petting range. It's amazing what Temptations treats will do for them warming up to me.

Mittens, who I call Noodles (I've renamed all her cats with my own name choices), the fatty was afraid of me until I started with the treats. All of the sudden Noodles was like, "Excuse me, let me introduce myself!".

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There's always white albacore tuna.

Our three prior cats loved to lick the cans clean when we used tuna (for ourselves). The two reginae regnans are not amused.

We seem to be OK here in SE lower MI. My wife buys the cat food for our four furry goldbricks and hasn't noticed a shortage of canned food.

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Chewys. Never a shortage. Cheaper. Free ship and can be scheduled if you like.

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Chewys. Never a shortage. Cheaper. Free ship and can be scheduled if you like.

Even chewy.com has some brands and types of cat food out of stock.

I've noticed periodically in Seattle.

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.....hope they don't run out of Prince Albert in a can.....

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.....hope they don't run out of Prince Albert in a can.....

he's our running with the refrigerator.

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I haven't had a problem in finding canned cat food in NW GA although there isn't quite the variety we're used to.

the wet stuff in pouches and plastic "tubs" is still pretty common, albeit horrible for the planet.

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It's been that way in Western Washington for months. Even Costco has been out of their HUGE boxes of canned.

....so harder to find a nice set of cans.....??

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The pic reminds me of a YouTube of a less malevolent pachyderm that staked out a road in —African, somewhere?—and demanded food food from occupants of cars before they were allowed to pass.

It would block the road, and when the car stopped it went to a window and started nosing around inside.

Give it some edible item, and the elephant backed out of the road and the car could pass.

There was no mention of anything happening to someone who failed to pay toll or tribute.

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Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.