My 3 female fancy mice absolutely love Kaytee Fiesta, I assume for the variety of flavors and textures. The girls get Kaytee Forti-Diet as their primary in-the-dish-everyday food and the Fiesta mix as a treat. Each has her favorite element in the mix (Merlot = sunflower seeds, Bombay = pumpkin seeds, Frascatti = nuts) and all enjoy the corn, peas, tiny seeds and crackers. As some other reviewers have noted, the mix has a fairly high fat content and therefore is not appropriate as a 100% daily diet. The 3 mousie thumbs-up give Kaytee Fiesta 5 stars but mousie-mom has to take away one of the stars for the high fat content. Fed as a discretionary treat, this a yummy and economical product.

Pros: high quality, smell, taste, price

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Review 2 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

4 / 5 22 reviews

This food is good, but not the best.

January 21, 2013

by rheaszoo

fromMidland, Michigan

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Weekly

I currently feed my little ratties this. I have a one month old fnacy rat and a one month old dumbo rat. They love it and actually don't pick anything out. BUT I do pick out some of the corn and then give it to them. They aren't big fans of the corn to start with. The sunflower seeds are their favorite parts. I've started to mix in kaytee forti-diet pro health blocks also. They still aren't too sure on what to think about those. But over all, my ratties aren't too picky when it comes to this food. Peanuts usually go first, they hide the sunflower seeds, leave a few seeds for me to dump out and then eat the rest. I those little rascals eating the sunflower seeds in the middle of the night. So it seems to me, like this food is Mirah & Janis approved ! BUT it is not the only thing they will be eating. Fresh fruit and veggies everyday added to this is a big plus (:

Pros: price, taste

Cons: smell

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Review 3 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

2 / 5 22 reviews

ONLY USE AS A TREAT. NOT A STAPLE DIET!

November 26, 2011

by Joannekangaroo

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fromcanada

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Weekly

This food is tasty;sure, but rats can also pick and choose their favourite things. It also contains high fat nuts. Please use a block type food like mazuri instead.

Pros: taste

Cons: low quality

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Review 4 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Awesome vareity

August 16, 2011

by KateB

fromPittsburgh PA

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?4

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Monthly

I have 4 rats and they all have a their own favorites. This food is great for giving each of them a treat, as well as giving them all variety. I always feed them a few different brands, but this is the base of their food.

I mix this with a bag of yogurt drops, a bag of Extreme dried fruits, a bag of Reggie rat food, and Brown's Gourmet rat food. All of these brands contain a huge variety of foods for your rats, including pumpkin seeds, peanuts, real chunks of fruits and vegetables and the standard sunflower and corn. My rats absolutely go nuts on fresh feeding days.

My only complaint is that my local stores seem to be getting rid of their variety in rat foods, so I have to order online now to get all the things I normally buy.

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Review 5 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

4 / 5 22 reviews

food

June 9, 2011

by emez

fromst.cloud, MN

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Weekly

My rat loves it and still eats pellets plus fruits & veggies. My rat is still kinda chuncy though :P

Pros: smell, price, high quality, taste

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Review 6 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

4 / 5 22 reviews

Not the best diet for your rats, but a good treat.

February 13, 2010

by RatMomSC

fromSouth Carolina

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Monthly

When I first got my rats, I started them on this diet. After a trip to the vet, she recommended that we feed them the block/pellets. In this mix, they will most often pick through and eat the fatty foods instead of the blocks which give them the proper nutrition. I still give this to my ratties as a treat every now and again, but feed them a diet of the blocks and fresh fruits and veggies.

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Review 7 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

4 / 5 22 reviews

peanuts??

August 3, 2009

by redwall11

fromMN

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Monthly

my mice liked it, but I did read in a mouse care book that mice should not be fed peanuts.

Pros: mice enjoy it

Cons: peanuts

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Review 8 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

4 / 5 22 reviews

Good for Treats But Fattens Up Mice!

July 31, 2009

by MissHinasaki

fromDubuque, IA

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Weekly

If you have picky pets they'll just pick what they want out and leave the rest! My mice loved it but unfortunately they ate all the fatty sunflower seeds first and gained a little too much weight! I changed their diet to regular rat and mouse blocks and this alleviated the problem. I still like to use this as treats, though, since it has a good assortment of tasties for them! (Dried fruit, various seeds, nuts, grains, and other things)

Also, it contained peanuts (in shells) which I didn't think mice were supposed to have so I had to pick those out just in case.

Pros: variety of different things, good for snacks

Cons: too fatty for main diet

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Review 9 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Great variety!

May 22, 2009

by Barnabee

fromMurfreesboro, TN

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Monthly

My rat loves this food! He eats almost everything within the mix except the little pellets.

Pros: healthy mixture

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Review 10 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Great Food

May 1, 2009

by lilguppy

fromoregon

My young rats love this stuff! They dont pick through it and eat all of it!!!
Its got a variety for them so they dont get bored.

Pros: variety

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Review 11 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Super!

March 11, 2009

by Biohazard

fromFlorida

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Weekly

My two mice really like this food. They pick it up out of there food bowl and hide it which I think is really cute. At first I was afraid they wouldn't eat it because the food they where eating at the pet store was a different kind but they really like this food. And it has a variety of different types of seeds and puffy things in it so even if they're picky eaters they'll find something in the mix that they like and they never get bored because there's so much different stuff. My mice like the puffy colorful things the best :)

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Review 12 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

The Best Food in the World!

March 30, 2008

by NoahA

fromWoodinville, WA

What is your gender?M

How many pets do you have?3

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Monthly

I bought this food for my rats and they went crazy. Fiesta is the best food in the world! Its almost like Trail Mix except its for rats! It has a mix of penuts, corn, oatmeal, and more! They loved it.

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Review 13 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

1 / 5 22 reviews

First ingredient is CORN?!

February 14, 2008

by Rattis

fromHalifax, Nova Scotia

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

I would expect a leading company in small animal food to research and know that rats are not suppose to have much, if any, corn, the first ingredient in Kaytee's rat food! Many article state this. Yet most pet shops carry rat food with way too much corn. Another food to only give your rat sparingly is peanuts, another prominent ingredient in this food. Although i'm sure many of the other ingredients are very benificial to a rat's health, i'm sorry to say i would not feed this food to my rats. It's a shame. After looking for a suitable food, i finally found Oxbow's Regal Rat, which first ingredient is whole brown rice, has no corn, is low in seeds, fat and protein, and fed along with fresh fruit and veggies, is everything perfect and balanced for our little friends.
Please research everything you can in order to give your pets the best life they can have. They deserve it!

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Review 14 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Fiesta is the best

August 22, 2007

by Ratlover4ever

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fromVirginia Beach

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?Weekly

My rats love this food. They love the mixture of peanuts, dryed bananas, sunflower seeds, dryed carrots, dryed corn, and a bunch more flavor filled seeds and treats. I would never switch to another food. Your rats will love this stuff. FOR SURE!

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Review 15 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Praise the Heavens!

July 20, 2007

by KylesGirl

fromWashington

What is your gender?F

How many pets do you have?5 or more

How often do you shop at PetSmart?A few times a year

I had the hardest time finding a rat food that my rats actually liked. I didn't want them on just the science blocks, I wanted them to have a variety of foods. Other foods had just a bunch of filler things, like birdseed and little else. This has some birdseed, but a variety of other tasty things like little crackers and such. My little guys love it when I refill their bowls, their big and fat now! My only suggestion is that you get something to contain the food well in, my guys tend to spread it on the ground everywhere while they dig for the good stuff.
Great product, definitely a good buy!

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Review 16 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Great Stuff!!

May 15, 2007

by RatsRule159

fromPalm Harbor, FL

My rat LOVED this food... His favorite part was the dried bananas in it. I have one warning though- don't feed your rats too much of this stuff- it's so good, my rat became obese!

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Review 17 for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Overall rating

5 / 5 22 reviews

Rats love this stuff

March 27, 2007

by Bob7k

fromOntario, CA

I cant see why any rat who isnt on a special diet wouldnt like this stuff, it might be a bit thin on those little blocks, but you can always mix it with some. They love this stuff, cant see buying any other brand unless they change the mixture for this stuff.

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Ratings-only reviews for Kaytee Fiesta Mouse & Rat Food

Based on the average of (5) ratings-only reviews

Overall rating

4.2 / 5 22 reviews

5 out of 5 recommend this product