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Originally posted by suraya_putra
Thanks.

Just curious... is there a 'best' cat food?
We don't mind swopping brands.
I really don't like the idea of my cats eating... filler food.
What are our options?
Any suggestions?

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There really is no "best" brand for all cats. It all depends on what your cats do well on...not every cat will do best on one particular brand regardless of how high quality it is. I have tried several high quality brands and my cats seem to do well on all/most of them but no matter what I try mine seem to do "best" on Innova and I always end up going back to it. For me, its hard to find one brand that all 6 like and do well on.....Innova seems to be the one for them.
AngelzOO gave some good guidelines to start with.

Vanessa

Solid Gold and Natural Balance, I believe, are the best foods. Take a look at the ingredients!

Solid Gold

Ingredients
Lamb Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Ground Millet, Ground Brown Rice, Ground Barley, Rice Bran Oil, Canola Oil, Flax Seed Oil, Amaranth, Rice Bran, Garlic, Blueberries, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Taurine, Carotene, Choline Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Vitami A Supplement, Zinc Proteinate, Niacin Supplement, Folic Acid, Thiamine, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Natural Flavors Added.* * Usually Apples or Carrots.

Natural Balance

Ingredients
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Duck, Lamb Meal, Potatoes, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, Vitamin E) Canola Oil, Oatmeal, Fish Meal, Brewers Yeast, Rosemary Extract, Dried Skim Milk, Natural Flavor, Dried Eggs, Carrots, Whole Ground Flaxseed, Kelp, Garlic, DL Methionine, Cranberry Powder, Grapeseed Oil, Lecithin, Parsley Flakes, Tomato Pomace, Taurine, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin, Vitamin C Supplement, Yucca Schidigera, Folic Acid, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (a source of Vitamin K activity), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Ethylene Dihydriodide, Sodium Selenite.

Crazy! Oh I love Natural Balance, I would feed that only second to Innova (I think) but Natural Balance is much cheaper, but my cats don't like it!!! It was hard enough to get them to finish the one small bag I bought for them.

Solid Gold is what I feed now, and have been for the past 3 months, I will swear by it.

I love Solid Gold because it is ALL natural! My cats wouldn't eat it at first, but now they love it. I ran out and had to go buy more, but the pet store didn't have any left. I bought them a bag of Nutro Max and they wouldn't touch it! Solid Gold is cheap here. I pay $30.00 for the 15 pound bag and $10.00 for the smaller one.

None of my cats would touch Innova. I brought home a sample and they turned their little noses up. Silly kitties!

Solid Gold is my choice for the best cat food!

Yeah, I've noticed it's been harder to convince my cats to eat the higher quality foods as something more then an occasional snack.
Even Solid Gold was a little hard, but I think my cats were trying to starve themselves vrs eating the Natural Balance, (such a shame.)

WOW.
Solid Gold here, at the little pet store I buy it from is cheap!
It's like a small bag for either 5.99 or 6.99 And the big bag was $20.00!! Sounds like I'm getting a good deal... at least it's one thing going my way.

Here in Canada high quality cat foods are expensive compared to American prices! A trial size, 2 pound bag of Innova here is $9.00!! Another very expensive food is Royal Canin. I never really cared about the price, as long as my cats were getting good food!

Angelz00, have you ever tried Solid Gold wet food?

Crazy: They have Solid Gold wet food!!!?? =O

I never knew that, nor have I ever seen it. Online or in any store.. hmm. Where have you seen yours?

Royal Canin is expensive here too... you can get a what is it... small 4lb bag? for about $8.99

I'm very happy with Natural Balance. My finicky cat even loves it, it's a good price and I feel okay about the food itself. Ideally they would eat home cooked food but my picky cat was pretty much starving herself so I gave in. Anyways, they were both in good health but I think they look even better on the Natural Balance.

I saw the wet food at Solid Gold!
It's a new thing that they have out. Currently they are out of stock !

Oh well if it's new, that's probably why I haven't seen it anywhere yet. Took a look at the ingredients, looks OK, not sure how I feel about the fish ingredients in the front row however! (Stinky poo's!)

Have you fed this to your cats yet?

I have used Solid Gold canned. It used to be chunks in gravy and they must have changed it to a loaf type. My cats really liked it when it came in chunks but they didnt seem to care for it as much in the new loaf form.

P.S. I never noticed any stinky poops when they ate it and I used to feed it quite often.

Nern: Some cats get effected by sea food products to a higher degree, specially if you just start them on this new diet.

My cats and Ferret have been on seafood products before and there are some brands which effected their stools and others not.
Either way, it's not pleasent to run into! So I try to avoid it unless it's a food I know doesn't bother them that way.

I was just curious if anyone's cats liked Solid Gold wet food. I think I will stick with Nutro Max wet food since there are so many different flavors. I've noticed that when my Siamese, Mimi, eats anything with lot's of fish in it, she get's really stinky stools! I usually feed her wet food with Chicken or Duck, she loves it!

The #1 thing I don't want to smell is stinky stools !