Which kind of dry Cat food do you use?

I feed my bunch Acana. 60% human grade meat, no wheat, only natural preservatives and half the price of ie RC. I'm pretty happy with it.

I was feeding mine a mix of Purina One Chicken and Rice and Eukanuba Indoor Formula (the TNR group I was volunteering with got a huge donation of the Eukanuba), but in the past few weeks have been gradually making the switch to Chicken Soup Adult Lite Formula (Claire is slightly overweight). I mainly made the change because I was looking for a better quality food that was still moderately priced, like Chicken Soup, and because it comes so well recommended from others on TCS. So far, my four seem do be doing great on it. I'm still mixing it with Eukanuba until that runs out.

Originally Posted by scoot

Well, I have a 3 year old and I also just got a kitten today......He has been on the Nutro for about 2 weeks......I currently use Science Diet.

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Congratulations...you have a new furbaby.
How old is your kitten?

Feeding a young kitten and a 3 year old adult, might be a bit more challenging, because generally kittens are fed a higher protein diet I think.
But I am not an expert on this issue....

All of you members who know what is best for a kitten, when an adult kitty is in the house....
Help Please.

I feed Gizmo Nature's Logic Rabbit Dinner and occasionally California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato.

She's allergic to chicken and turkey (read "Killing with Kindness" thread to find out what happened when I tried feeding her turkey!) or else I'd have stayed with California Natural Chicken and Rice, a good wholesome food with only five ingredients.

Nature's Logic uses fruit and veg instead of chemically synthesized vitamins, but so do a few other brands notably Felidae and I believe Wellness. Too bad she won't touch either one of them.

Originally Posted by xocats

All of you members who know what is best for a kitten, when an adult kitty is in the house....
Help Please.

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All I can tell you is what I did - I fed the Felidae C & R (which is an "all life stages" food) to everybody, and then a couple of times a day at least, I fed the kitten in a room of her own the Maxximum kitten formula. When she was first weaned to dry food, I would put her in her own "room" (our sunroom) when I'd leave the house, so she also got extra kitten food then. When she got bigger and older, she could be left out with the others more, and so ate kitten food only a couple of times a day. However, these kitten food breaks were usually followed by a nap, so I would leave her shut in there to give the big cats a much needed break !

We don't feed any dry food at my house. If I were to give them any, it would be Innova EVO before any others.

We are using the Innova Evo and Wellness dry (they like the Innova best), and for wet food they get the Wellness and Merricks. The current favorite treat is Organix Kitty Treats. The high end foods might be a bit more expensive, but I am only feeding four and we spend less than $100.00 a month on them including treats (we don't give treats every day).

Have you had the loose stool issues from using EVO?

I haven't had loose poo on EVO.

My cat is a fatty fatterton (like that when I adopted her) so we're doing as few carbs as possible, plus I don't really believe in them for the kittehs. I would only feed wet if I could. It's expensive! She gets wet at night, dry in the day. She's lost a good bit of weight.

Paige

Originally Posted by tiffanyjbt

Have you had the loose stool issues from using EVO?

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My cat Kiko is the one who predominantly eats EVO in my house, he doesnt have any poo issues from it. From what I understand some cats do, some do not.

I am guilty of using cheap cat food the first 6 years of my cat's life. But after having a nasty stomach infection I switched to quality dry cat foods like Science Diet and IAMS

So far so good and she really enjoys it.

My kittens are getting California Natural Chicken and Rice, which is an "all life stages" food. Eve is doing great on it, she also did great on Chicken Soup. Lily is still having lots of gas issues. If she's not better in another month or two, I'll try the herring and sweet potato formula, then see where we go from there.

If Lily wasn't having gas issues, I'd still be using Chicken Soup. Great ingredients, great price, and it made their coats look fabulous. Neither are picky about taste at all, except for cruddy canned food like Friskies. If it's decent food, they love it.

We feed Chicken Soup in dry and moist and Solid Gold dry. The dogs are on Wolf King from Solid Gold, super soft coats, small poops!

Right now Tigger is getting a mixture of Chicken Soup Light and Solid Gold Katz-N-Flocken dry free choice. I had to cut out wet food as it made him gain a lot of weight. I cannot feed him scheduled meals or an all-wet diet because he actually gets food aggressive and begins tearing up things during the day if he doesn't have anything to munch on! lol Since he drinks ALOT of water, I am not too concerned and I have found that this mixture of dry free choice seems to keep him trim and happy

wellness chicken but just for treats, otherwise she eats wet

I feed Cleo the Purina Sensitive Systems cat food, because of her IBS. The other food which was the Purina Indoor cat formula was too greasy for her.

I feed all my cats Chicken Soup, and we feed the dogs innova. We notice with higher quality foods, there are less health problems, they all have good teeth, coats, and are healthy!

My cats eat Innova dry and wet, with an occasional can of Solid Gold or Felidae as a treat. They all do very well on it. Since I switched to Innova (from Purina and Iams), every time I take a kitty to the vet, he asks me what I'm feeding her, then tells me to keep it up because she is in great condition. The cats all seem to like it, too.

I feed Dante a mix of Purina kitten and Whiskas kitten.. i've heard some bad things about whiskas but it must be a little bit better then the purina one because its more expenisive right? (sorry if thats niave of me... i don't really know what to look for in foods)

But i don't really have a choice, there is only the lower end foods (what i buy), the really crappy foods (ie no name brands) and then food that is $40 for a single bag! (which i would never be able to afford)

I supplement his diet with wet food too though, I buy different high end kinds regularily... the vet said that it was better to rotate the wet foods so that he doesn't get picky when he's older. He doesn't seem to have a very sensitive stomach, he hasn't thrown up once so i think its okay.

sweatereyes---check out www.catinfo.org to learn how to determine the difference between quality/low quality foods