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yes good food but $$$... what is in your budget and how many cats are you feeding ?? Do you have access to big box pet stores ?? small mom and pop>>?? feed ??
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Vegan diet?
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Are you open to cooking at home, instead of feeding commercial brands?
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My budget iiis... I'd like to go as cheap as possible while being healthy without having to store loads of raw meat in my freezer (for a while I wanted to do raw, but because I eat so much frozen food myself, I just found there was no room in my house). I have access to all three store types, but I'd prefer something I could find at the local Petco/Petsmart, because the others are pretty far away.
I'm feeding two cats, both are oddly small girls. One is 9 years old and the other is 3, if that makes any difference.
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Thanks-Originally Posted by carolinalima
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Are you open to cooking at home, instead of feeding commercial brands?
I'd prefer to avoid cooking for the cats at home, since I already have to cook most of my meals for myself and my schedule's pretty hectic.
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Brands to look at
Nutro ( you likely will like the max line as it has more than one grain
Natural balance
Halo
Solid gold
Petsmart Authority
Blue spa ( high veggie and grain )
By nature ( one is organic the other is not ... high grain and veggies )
all are premium foods ... IMHO quality similar to wellness
Needing really affordable look at Purina natural s ... lots of meat , grain and veggies and about 1$ a lb ( wellness here is about 3$ a lb
Nutro ( you likely will like the max line as it has more than one grain
Natural balance
Halo
Solid gold
Petsmart Authority
Blue spa ( high veggie and grain )
By nature ( one is organic the other is not ... high grain and veggies )
all are premium foods ... IMHO quality similar to wellness
Needing really affordable look at Purina natural s ... lots of meat , grain and veggies and about 1$ a lb ( wellness here is about 3$ a lb
here, Authority's not much more than that - maybe $1.25 a pound [just got a bag today].
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thank you ... so a 16 lb bag is still under 25 ish??
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Thanks a lot. I'll look at these next time I go shopping (I'm amazed some Purina food could actually be good for them!). I've had them on Natural Balance in the past but saw that my 3 year old's fur wasn't looking real great, so that's why I switched to Wellness. Her fur's been better since, but wow, I eat cheaper than that stuff!
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if the coat was not great on NB and better on wellness , look at solid gold and nutro ...
i got a 20 pound bag, for around $26, including 8% sales tax.
If you are on a budget, I would personally recommend Authority (PetSmart brand) - lots of people here feed it with great feedback - it is a quality food, yet very affordable...
Also note that Sharky said Purina "Naturals" - the other ones are pretty bad
Sharky: would Nutro Max fit the bill as well,or only straight Nutro?
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Yeah, I did my research on normal Purina foods for my dog a while back and saw that it was pretty grody stuff. His fur, smell and teeth were terrible when he was being fed it.Originally Posted by carolinalima
If you are on a budget, I would personally recommend Authority (PetSmart brand) - lots of people here feed it with great feedback - it is a quality food, yet very affordable...
Also note that Sharky said Purina "Naturals" - the other ones are pretty bad
Oddly, I don't think I've ever seen Authority at my Petsmart.
Yeah, that's odd - Authority is their own house brand, so if you don't find it, ask someone who works in there, and they will be able to show you.
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both nutro max and natural choice are higher in fatty acids than most foods ... thus aiding in skin and coat
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omg please dont' do this to your kitty. The problem is not that meat has stuff that cats need- the problem is cats cannot digest mostly anything besides meat. I guess you could put your cat on a KMR diet if you want to limit meat that will be the healthiest meatless diet I can think of.
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Hi Leporine! I am vegetarian (was once vegan and raw vegan) and I understand how you feel. Regardless of my beliefs, though, my cat does not choose to be vegan, so I feed her 25% wet food and 75% low-grain kibble.
The way I see it, if you do not consume any meat or secondary animal products at all, you have the carbon footprint of about 1/3 of an average person. Thus, by your cat (who consumes less than you) eating meat, you could think of raising your carbon footprint to maybe 1/2 of an average person. This way, it doesn't seem so bad.
Now I'm not sure if you are mostly concerned with animal welfare or the environmental problems with meat. But if animal welfare is your thing, just remember the welfare of your own pet. Hope this helps!
The way I see it, if you do not consume any meat or secondary animal products at all, you have the carbon footprint of about 1/3 of an average person. Thus, by your cat (who consumes less than you) eating meat, you could think of raising your carbon footprint to maybe 1/2 of an average person. This way, it doesn't seem so bad.
Now I'm not sure if you are mostly concerned with animal welfare or the environmental problems with meat. But if animal welfare is your thing, just remember the welfare of your own pet. Hope this helps!
Hopefully this article from Debra L. Zoran DVM will be helpful to you
http://home.earthlink.net/~jacm2/id1.html
This is information about Dr. Zoran
http://www.gbvma.com/zoran.htm
(I sent you an easy to read version of the article in a PM just now.)
Another good article that talks about the unique nutritional requirements of cats:
http://www.thepetcenter.com/imtop/catsaredif.html
Hopefully, after examining the facts you will realize that feeding a diet that does not contain any kind of animal protein would endanger the health of your cats.
By the way do you know (know of) Christina Pirello?
And what about the many years before the appropriate "replacements" were widely available?
I only eat fish as far as meat goes, rarely some chicken (a few times a year). But I feed my animals a meat based diet based on my research. And I only have to look in the wild to understand what nature intended (if you will) for my species of animals.
Hi and welcome to TCS!
You aren't our only vegan member and a few others have posed this question before. Here are a few previous threads. While some of the posts are the assumptions that you have said you do not want, some are very well researched and thought out.
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...ighlight=vegan
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...ighlight=vegan
You aren't our only vegan member and a few others have posed this question before. Here are a few previous threads. While some of the posts are the assumptions that you have said you do not want, some are very well researched and thought out.
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...ighlight=vegan
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/sho...ighlight=vegan
