What to do? (budget question)

Originally Posted by Sakura

For the same price ($40/month), I can feed my 2 young (1-2 year old approx.) cats:

Wellness Indoor Health Dry (no wet)

OR

Natural Balance or Nutro Max Indoor* + Wet Food every day from brands like Natural Balance ($0.99/6oz can), Chicken Soup ($0.79/6oz can) and Nutro (cheap!).

The Wellness is a better quality food but that would mean that I couldn't feed wet food.

It's only going to be for the next few months until our budget is a little more flexible. I'm really hesitant to stop feeding wet food because their water fountain broke and so they are already drinking less water than usual.



*As for NB v. Nutro dry, I like the ingredients in Natural Balance more but they are having more hairballs than normal and I'd like to help that with the dry food. They are about the same price here when you take into account that the NB is more calorie dense. They are eating the Natural Balance Ultra now. I looked into Diamond Natural Indoor but it's not that much less than Nutro Max here and it's harder to find. I would have to spend more in gas to get it.


I realize I am probably just splitting hairs and it's not that big of a deal for a few months, but I'm curious nonetheless.

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Originally Posted by laureen227

while it may not be considered a 'premium' food, i think the Chicken Soup canned [dry, too, for that matter] is very acceptable. in fact, i used to feed it as my wet & dry of preference. i recently switched only to use a 'no fish' wet. otherwise, i'd still use the wet.
wet ingredients: Chicken, salmon, chicken liver, turkey, duck, chicken broth, whole grain brown rice, whole grain white rice, oatmeal, potatoes, barley, egg product, guar gum, flaxseed, kelp, carrots, peas, apples, dried skim milk, cranberry powder, rosemary extract, parsley flake, dried chicory root, taurine, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, thiamin mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B12 supplement, biotin, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite (source of vitamin K), copper sulfate, calcium iodate, and sodium selenite.

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Originally Posted by junior_j

With budgetting when i first got my kittens and was naive , i found some thing quite intresting out!

I was feeding my kitten a kitten brand dried food (Cant remember brand) but it had 40% protien in it or some thing , it was 1 99 a box , i looked carefully at store brought brand exactly the same ingrediants , but 37% protien , 45 pence! So i went with this and put the kittens on a 90% protein wet food with 37%dried , and there appitites are so much more satisfied now

which is good ,

I always look into the best food usually, but near the end of the month when money is tight they get the above food

Jess x

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