Bengal cat food TOTW or Wellness core. Ideas?

kh230805

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Im going to supplement my bengals diet with some dry Wellness core or TOTW. Could someone offer any insight on which is the better of the two. Ingredients wise it seems the Wellness has more meats in the first few ingredients while TOTW has peas as second. I don't know if this is good or bad. Also wondering is 50% is too high for protein (wellness). Thoughts?

wellness core:
Deboned Turkey, Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whitefish Meal, Potatoes, Salmon Meal, Natural Chicken Flavor. Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a natural source of Vitamin E), Tomato Pomace, Cranberries, Chicory Root Extract, Salmon Oil, Flaxseed, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B-12 Supplement), Choline Chloride, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dried Kelp, Taurine, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enterococcus Faecium, Lactobacillus Casei, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Rosemary Extract.

Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min) 50.0%
Crude Fat (min) 18.0%
Crude Fiber (max) 3.0%
Moisture (max) 11.0%
Calcium (max) 1.8%
Phosphorus (max) 1.45%
Magnesium (max) 0.10%
Vitamin E (min) 400 IU/kg
Taurine (min) 0.3%
Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)* (min) 200 mg/kg
Omega 6 Fatty Acid* (min) 3.50%
Omega 3 Fatty Acid* (min) 0.80%
Total Micro-Organisms* (min) 90,000,000 CFU/lb


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Taste of the wild.
Chicken meal, peas, sweet potatoes, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), potato protein, roasted venison, smoked salmon, natural flavor, ocean fish meal, methionine, potassium chloride, taurine, choline chloride, dried chicory root, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, yucca schidigera extract, dried fermentation products of Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, dried Trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract, zinc proteinate, vitamin E supplement, niacin, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A supplement, biotin, potassium iodide, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin (vitamin B2), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.


Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min) 42.0%
Crude Fat (min) 18.0%
Crude Fiber (max) 3.0%
Moisture (max) 10.0%
Zinc (min) 120 mg/kg
Selenium (min) 0.4 mg/kg
Vitamin E (min) 150 IU/kg
Taurine (min) 0.15%
Omega-6 Fatty Acids (min) 2.8%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids (min) 0.3%
 

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My vote is for the Core. After doing days and days of pet food research, that's the one I settled on when I was still giving my cats some kibble. I still keep some on hand for emergencies.

I don't think its protein content is too high. Since cats are obligate carnivores, you want most of their protein (and most of their nutrition in general) to come from animal-sources and that's where the Wellness seems to really win out over the TotW. Having just chicken meal as the primary animal protein source with a vegetable as a secondary protein source seems less ideal than Wellness' offering of several meats (and not all meals!) as primary protein sources.
 

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Taste mostly based on the cats I know who handle it well and Core is often a loose stool issue

Meat on a dry food label is 66 % water .. after cooking the real wt is about 5 places down ... thus Cores real 1 and 2 nd are chicken meal and whitefish meal( the later is a ???able in my book)... I also question peas due to allergen concern..

No dry food is perfect
 

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Originally Posted by sharky

Taste mostly based on the cats I know who handle it well and Core is often a loose stool issue

Meat on a dry food label is 66 % water .. after cooking the real wt is about 5 places down ... thus Cores real 1 and 2 nd are chicken meal and whitefish meal( the later is a ???able in my book)... I also question peas due to allergen concern..

No dry food is perfect
True, while my one cat was perfectly fine on Core (and on any other food he ever had) any kibble gives my other cat loose stool, Core or otherwise. It definitely depends, to some degree on the individual cat and I'm all for moist diets high in animal ingredients over kibble any day.
 

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Originally Posted by saitenyo

True, while my one cat was perfectly fine on Core (and on any other food he ever had) any kibble gives my other cat loose stool, Core or otherwise. It definitely depends, to some degree on the individual cat and I'm all for moist diets high in animal ingredients over kibble any day.
Slightly off topic.. but yes I prefer they eat wet or raw but unfortunately some kitties think kibble Only
 

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I've fed Blue Buffalo and Wellness, and two of my three cats do fine on those brands, but my sensitive little Ember struggles with it. She gets runny poop from it, and has bouts of honestly vile diarrhea. After talking to the vet (who felt maybe the food is too rich for her delicate systems) I'm trying Taste of the Wild. Haven't fed it long enough to know if it'll work though.
 

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. All of my cats are now eating Wellness Core. And one of them has had serious IBD problems. Not anymore, and the stools are firm and not too smelly
. I did try TOTW with no luck, stools were very loose on that for my Pipsqueak.
 

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Not keen on peas being a second ingredient, and Core seemed pretty rich. Have you checked out Blue Buffalo Wilderness? Thats what my kitties are on now.

I gave em the Duck variety:
http://www.bluebuffalo.com/products/...cat-duck.shtml

Deboned Duck, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Potato Starch, Fish Meal, Chicken Fat , Peas, Whole Potatoes, Flaxseed.... (continued)

Crude Protein \t40.0% min
Crude Fat \t18.0% min
Crude Fiber \t3.5% max
Moisture \t10.0% max
Magnesium \t0.08% min
Taurine \t0.15% min
Omega 3 Fatty Acids* \t0.8% min
Omega 6 Fatty Acids* \t3.5% min
 

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Originally Posted by Ducman69

Not keen on peas being a second ingredient, and Core seemed pretty rich. Have you checked out Blue Buffalo Wilderness? Thats what my kitties are on now.

I gave em the Duck variety:
http://www.bluebuffalo.com/products/...cat-duck.shtml

Deboned Duck, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Potato Starch, Fish Meal, Chicken Fat , Peas, Whole Potatoes, Flaxseed.... (continued)

Crude Protein \t40.0% min
Crude Fat \t18.0% min
Crude Fiber \t3.5% max
Moisture \t10.0% max
Magnesium \t0.08% min
Taurine \t0.15% min
Omega 3 Fatty Acids* \t0.8% min
Omega 6 Fatty Acids* \t3.5% min
Mine love Blue but I question duck, potato starch( sorry I have visions of the scum I pull off boiling potatoes... Fish meal( who).. But I do like the moderate protein and fat plus the decent magnesium level... And they liked and we okay with it in the mix
 
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