The adult formula is very tiny kibble .. About 1/4 the size of a Pea ..
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I find the tiny merrick kibble does not make cats vomit like bigger kibble.
I have another question about whole earth farms food i know this is off topic but what does everyone think about the Potatoes in it? Is it bad for them? Does it turn into sugar like with people or is it an ok ingredient?
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Potatoes are high carb and starchy, cats need only minimal carbs, if any.
http://www.firstmate.com/cat-food/grain-free/1185-2/
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You can buy at Chewy.com http://www.chewy.com/cat/firstmate-chicken-meal-blueberries/dp/116179
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Yes, potato is carby and a few cats--including one of ours--are sensitive to it, too. (When I told our vet Edwina couldn't eat potato, she said potato shouldn't be in cat food to begin with!) The Whole Earth Farms dry foods look like they have a lot of peas, too.
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Sometimes it's hard to not find potato as a filler in canned cat foods (among all the other also unnecessary fillers, sigh). I have heard that sweet potatoes are a degree better than just a label saying, "potato" (which to me implies white or red potatoes).
Tiki Cat is patato and carrageenan free!
Tiki Cat is patato and carrageenan free!
Oh, I know! There are so many foods that have potato starch for thickener! Fortunately, between Nutro Natural Choice, Weruva Cats in the Kitchen, and some random flavors of Merrick LID, Hound & Gatos, and Soulistic there are plenty of canned foods for the canned part of our cats' diet. For some reason, they demand far more variety in their canned foods than in their raw foods!
I don't feed sweet potato, either, and avoid peas, other than an occasional can of NVI, where at least you can pick out the peas! I do feed an occasional Soulistic chicken with pumpkin because the cats love it; I suspect it's more the tapioca than the pumpkin that raises the carbs in those foods, though.
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Maybe so, but I prefer not to feed my kitten fish, and most of Tiki's product have fish as the star
The Puka Puka Luau has tuna fish oil and... chicken - however, my kitten gets "bad poo" from chicken products.
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LoL, I pick out peas and carrot bits in cat foods, too.
I've tried several types of Weruva, with high hopes, but a few Milly would not eat, and I since discovered that she gets runny poo from any chicken. sigh. The Quick & Quirky was the only one I could work into her diet, but then I had to deal with a bad litterbox experience!
So far she gobbles the Merrick T-Day Dinner with big success, and I console myself by washing out and not giving her the gelatinous goo within the cans (I assume the carrageenan is mostly in that "aspic goo" in the can). One of her meals each day is the Addiction Black Forest Rabbit, which is harder to find but is working well. I keep NV LID Turkey on hand, hoping I can rotate some of that in at some point. She's just a newbie on this earth, so it is a work-in-progress.
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Sorry that I haven't replied in awhile thank you so much for the info I found out that potatoes was putting weight on her from eating the whole earth farms food.I went to giants the other day looking at cat food for the ferals I take care of and found a food called I and Love and You. I bought a bag of turkey dry and the turkey chicken and beef canned. She loves the dry and thE canned food but have noticed she gets diarrhea with the beef and semi loose stools with the turkey but does amazing with the chicken. This is the only brand she will eat. Since the dry is turkey and wet is chicken is that still considered variety? Also it's a food without potatoes and carrageenan but it does have some veggies.
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Kind of disappointing that Merricks was bought out. Not enough actual competition out there. How much longer before Purina owns all the pet food labels? If the premium brands starting bowing down to the big companies it begs the questions as to why we pay the extra money for them?
And are peas and potatoes really that bad? So many of the top brands use them as selling points in their food. Natural Balance will call their flavours "chicken and peas" in big, bold letters. Are they at least better than using corn as a filler? Once again, what is the point in paying the extra cash otherwise?
And are peas and potatoes really that bad? So many of the top brands use them as selling points in their food. Natural Balance will call their flavours "chicken and peas" in big, bold letters. Are they at least better than using corn as a filler? Once again, what is the point in paying the extra cash otherwise?
