Recommended cat food

kittiei

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I know this has been asked a dozen times or more but I'm completely confused about what type of cat food to buy. We recently lost Tulip who was an overweight cat and on a diet of Medi-Cal Calorie Control wet and dry food. Even though I've read that light foods may actually cause cats to gain weight. Tulip did manage to lose weight on this diet (could be the increase in exercise since we moved from a small condo to a house with many stairs).

Anyway, now that Tulip is gone. I would like to switch Pansy's food. She's not overweight, she's a grazer. I have dishes that rotate every six hours and feed portioned meals and she never finishes a single one of them. She's completely healthy. She usually won't eat any wet food unless it's the bits in gravy (and even then she's picky). She drinks lot of water, we have a fountain for her and she likes to sit on the bathroom counter and drink from the tap as well.

Can anyone recommend some good quality food that I can try (that's available in Canada)? I'm willing to dry a few different kinds of wet food to see if she'll eat them.

Thannks!
 

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Any canned product that is grain-free and has a high percentage of a named meat (i.e. "turkey" instead of "poultry") is going to be a good choice; if it's fruit- and vegetable-free, that's even better. Nature's Variety Instincts, Evo 95% meat, and some of the Wellness and Natural Balance varieties are a good place to start. A "grain-free canned cat" search on petfooddirect.com will yield a veritable cornucopia of options, and you can conduct a side-by-side analysis of the ingredients and nutritional profiles. Alternatively, if you really want to up the ante, you can take a look at some of the raw frozen foods as well.

Feline-nutrition.org has a nice article on deciphering pet food labels under their Nutrition section that offers additional insight into choosing different products.

I'd recommend feeding Pansy a rotation of foods, Kittiei; this will keep her from becoming fixated on any one product (a problem if they change or stop producing it) and will protect her from potential quality control issues by diluting them. Before I switched to raw, I was feeding my cats 21 different varieties; they didn't get any flavor more than once a week! (LittleBigCat article by Dr. Hofve with even more reasons to rotate foods.)

Best regards!

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Wow! That's great, thanks so much for the info!
 
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