Perfect food...???

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I think it all depends on your cat. Somthing that is right for someone's can may react badly when you feed it to your cat.
Then again you might have a verry picky cat that just loves to trow you for a loop by refuseing to eat every second day.
Perfect food.... for all cats I think is a myth. It's like people there is no one "perfect food" for a human because of alergies and intollerances to certain things
 

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Very well said. There is no magic, perfect food. Whatever works best for you and your cats would be the perfect food for you.
 

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This may be a silly question, but what is lost in cooking meat? I give my cat about 1/4 cup boiled plain chicken breast when I'm making a meal for myself with chicken. (He gets this maybe 3-5 times a week, the other days he gets canned wet food, but not that much). What is the difference between the raw chicken and boiled chicken?
 
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Originally Posted by Ashley45

This may be a silly question, but what is lost in cooking meat? I give my cat about 1/4 cup boiled plain chicken breast when I'm making a meal for myself with chicken. (He gets this maybe 3-5 times a week, the other days he gets canned wet food, but not that much). What is the difference between the raw chicken and boiled chicken?
when I have my self together I will send you a detailed PM
 

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Yeah - that was helpful. I definitely don't want to go the raw route. Do you think that boiled chicken breast is healthier than the average canned cat food?
 

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Originally Posted by Ashley45

Yeah - that was helpful. I definitely don't want to go the raw route. Do you think that boiled chicken breast is healthier than the average canned cat food?
As a treat the chicken breast is nice, but not as a steady diet. It will not have the taurine and added vitamins that the canned food will have and that cats NEED.
 

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Do all canned wet foods have that, or just the pricey high-quality ones?

(sorry for so many questions, I thought I knew what I was doing in the food arena...)
 
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Originally Posted by Ashley45

Do all canned wet foods have that, or just the pricey high-quality ones?

(sorry for so many questions, I thought I knew what I was doing in the food arena...)
To make sure a food is complete and balenced for a typical cat ... there is a AFFCO statement saying all life stage or maitence ... without it likely in its place says supplemental or intermittant feeding ... which = not a complete diet
 

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Too tough a question! I feed a variety of foods, but I think the closest I've come to the "perfect" canned food for Jamie & Co. is almo nature:
http://www.almonatureuk.com/

It has a simple recipe (meat and/or fish, spring water or meat broth, up to 1% rice), no by-products, preservatives or additives, and uses human-grade meat and/or fish from free-ranging animals. It's available in the little cans Jamie insists on, and there's a really wide variety of flavors.

I've never seen a cat (or hedgehog) turn it down, or develop any health problems while being fed it. Jamie's allergy problems have virtually disappeared since he's been eating it - it's very often recommended by vets for allergy-prone cats.

The drawbacks are that it isn't readily available outside Europe (though I notice there's now a Canadian office:
Almo Nature Canada Inc.
1050, boulevard du SÃ[emoji]169[/emoji]minaire Nord, bureau 200
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QuÃ[emoji]169[/emoji]bec J3A 1S7
Canada),
it's pretty expensive if you're feeding multiple cats, and you really have to vary the flavors if you're feeding it exclusively, to avoid imbalances, or supplement with a good dry food.
 
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