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It's all wet food for my 11 year old and a mix of wet and dry (mainly orijen) food for my 2 year old. I do mix the food for my younger cat as I feed at set mealtimes, so he has half a pouch of wet food with some dry sprinkled on top. I do prefer wet food for cats, but compromise with my young boy as I think he can cope with a small amount of dry food as long as he's getting some wet food too.
 
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Originally Posted by cat_lady

friskies.. if you've heard of that?????????? its very healthy
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IMHO it would be better than nothing but it is often by product and grain filled in a canned format and the dry has alot of artificial things.. you may want to research a bit
 
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Mainly wet, although there is always dry food down - I have two cats that favour dry to wet (one is 18 and has only eaten dry food for at least the last year, if not longer, her bloods show she is perfectly healthy though - the 15yo I just lost to CRF had rarely had dry food). i do only buy good quality dry though, they have James Wellbeloved, and I am toying with changing to Orijen, but as I feed the fosters as well as my own, it is looking a bit pricy at the moment, and I do prefer them to have a food that there new owners will be able to get hold of easily. I would like to do raw, but I am too scared of getting it wrong, and I have the same issue with fosters as the dry - although one of them does get raw chicken every couple of weeks.
 
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Originally Posted by sharky

yes rotating is fine///

IMHO merrick did not make a good grain free
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Yeah, you're right. My cats do better on EVO and I think it's better, too. After this bag, I'm going to go back to that, because that's the food they've done best on. I only tried the Merrick grain-free because the feed store was out of EVO.

And about Friskies, FWIW, Friskies is something I'd be afraid to feed my cats. I'm taking care of my neighbor's pets and she feeds Friskies. This morning I took a look at the ingredients and they are really bad.
 
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I was feeding 3-4 different foods to my 3 cats
but Sneakers decided she didn't like her food so now she just eats what the kittens eat, which is Orijen and currently Fromm Salmon. I was feeding Instinct Rabbit but Church stopped eating it and I got a sample of the Fromm and he liked it...
I usually give them a can (split between them) a day or so of canned food.
 
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Friskies does have some really bad formulas but theres like 2 or 3 that are decent IMO.

We don't have much choice around here for food and C&P is the best I've found that Jellybean does well on. He was on Natural Balance before and he did good on it but could NOT keep on weight. There was nothing wrong with him healthwise he just could not keep weight on with it. I was feeding him -2 CUPS- of food with the occasional 5.5oz can of food and he couldn't get past 10-11 pounds and was really skinny on it.
So I made the swicth and right now he's doing really well on C&P. He's keeping up his weight, his coat is super soft, he's not shedding as bad (And with a long haired cat thats a huge plus! xD), his poops are good, ect. Vet said he looks great!

I've thought about putting him on Solid Gold as well, it's what I feed my dogs. I just wish Indigo Moon was sold here.


Petco has started carrying Wellness online, I'm going to check to see if they are carrying it at our store next time I go because I'd like kitty to go on something grain free (CORE) we just don't have anything around currently.
 
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Originally Posted by JellybeanKitty

Friskies does have some really bad formulas but theres like 2 or 3 that are decent IMO.

We don't have much choice around here for food and C&P is the best I've found that Jellybean does well on. He was on Natural Balance before and he did good on it but could NOT keep on weight. There was nothing wrong with him healthwise he just could not keep weight on with it. I was feeding him -2 CUPS- of food with the occasional 5.5oz can of food and he couldn't get past 10-11 pounds and was really skinny on it.
So I made the swicth and right now he's doing really well on C&P. He's keeping up his weight, his coat is super soft, he's not shedding as bad (And with a long haired cat thats a huge plus! xD), his poops are good, ect. Vet said he looks great!

I've thought about putting him on Solid Gold as well, it's what I feed my dogs. I just wish Indigo Moon was sold here.


Petco has started carrying Wellness online, I'm going to check to see if they are carrying it at our store next time I go because I'd like kitty to go on something grain free (CORE) we just don't have anything around currently.
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this is a seemingly strange ?? but I do have a reason/// the weight of the kitty is fine on friskies?? IF so I would suggest the reg solid gold it is HIGH in carbs due to multiple grains but often it works when others dont
 
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My kittens are eating Wellness wets and occasionally EVO, Eagle Pack, Felidae, and Merrick wets mixed in. They love most of the flavors!

Right now, they are eating Royal Canin Kitten, but I have some Taste of the Wild samples, and have been feeding those like they are treats, and both of the LOVE them. Bamf doesn't eat any of the other treats (Greenies, Whiskas Tempations, etc) but he loves the Taste of the Wild kibbles!

We will be transitioning to Taste of the Wild in a few weeks, because my Pet Supplies Plus is happy to order it for me.
Thanks for the recommendation Sharky!!
 
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Originally Posted by sharky

this is a seemingly strange ?? but I do have a reason/// the weight of the kitty is fine on friskies?? IF so I would suggest the reg solid gold it is HIGH in carbs due to multiple grains but often it works when others dont
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He eats Castor & Pollux, not Friskies. Well, he does but only a little bit as a nightly "treat". Though I've been feeding him more Friskies canned and less Castor & Pollux dry (And wetting the dry with a little water) after reading some articals online about just how bad dry food is. I added everything up off the catinfo.com chart and only 10% of the Friskies formula is calories from carbs, this is ok right? (It's 55% from protein and 35% from fat) The only grain in it is rice which is the last ingredient. And the by-products are 2 real meats to every 1 by-products. (4 meats, 2 by-products)

So we'll have to see how his weight holds up with more wet food since the C&P is what was keeping his weight up.

As for Solid Gold being high in grains, thats why I wish we had Indigo Moon, it's grain free. We have NO grain free cat foods around here unless I travel over 30 minutes one way and seeing as I can't drive and my mom already complains about having to drive 10 minutes (I've counted) to Petco, thats really not happening. I'm hoping our Petco is carrying Wellness CORE now, I need to call and check.
 
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Petco has CORE ... in many stores .. i have two petco near( ie within 30 minutes) .. one has it 19.99 for the nearly 6 lbs .. but both have the wet foods

IMHO I would try the wellness canned ...

Castor is high carb in relation to other common with grains
 
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My mom was out for groceries so I got her to pick me up some dog food since she was already out. I got her to check the cat aisle to see if they were selling Wellness yet and she said no. She did bring me home a little Wellness brochure that they now have out at Petco which means they'll probably start stocking it soon. (I don't see why they'd advertise if they weren't)

It's not that I don't want to TRY the Wellness canned, it's that I don't know how well I'd be able to -afford- it. It's over double what I'm paying for Friskies and while higher quality, I can't just pull that money out of nowhere. I'm a teenage mom (To a cat, a dog, a rat, a turtle and 3 fish...NOT to human children. XD) with less than a minimum wage income. If I could, I'd have my babies on raw right now. But until I get a real income, I work with what I have. They get fed, I try to do the best I can, they're healthy and taken to the vet when needed and they're very loved. I can do the dry (When Petco here starts to carry it) but the canned is just a bit much. I can't afford nearly $2 for a can of food.
 
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Originally Posted by JellybeanKitty

I can do the dry (When Petco here starts to carry it) but the canned is just a bit much. I can't afford nearly $2 for a can of food.
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totally understand that. if you can do a high quality dry, the wet's not a huge issue. many here have said that a lower quality wet outweighs a higher quality dry [to a certain extent]. i find that higher quality dry/lower quality wet is a fairly affordable solution [not to mention, i have 1 that gets the runs w/really rich foods, anyway].
 
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