Inquiry about LEONARDO® Kitten

I need your help with this dry food, either personal experience or opinion of the ingredients used, because there is little info compared to the more known brends. Leonardo Kitten is one of the more expensive cat food brends available here, priced at ~9.4 Eur/Kg. The other two are Royal Canin Kitten 36 (7.94 Eur/Kg) and Happy Cat Junior (7.94 Eur/Kg). Also one of the pet stores is selling Brit Care dog food, so I'll need to check if they import cat food as well.

On the low-price end there are brends like Whiskas Junior (3.24 Eur/Kg), Friskies, Kitekat, Daya etc. which all have comparable prices but have bed reputation. There is nothing in between in price and quality. Note that ordering online is not an option for me so I have to settle with those available locally.

The international website won't load atm for some reason so I will paste info from a translated page. Here are the ingredients of the LEONARDO[emoji]174[/emoji] Kitten:
Poultry meal, low ash (35%; chicken 30%); Poultry fat; Rice; Corn; Poultry liver, hydrolysed; Rye, malted (3.5%); Egg, dried; Brewer's yeast, dried; Herring meal; Marine zooplankton, ground (krill, 2.5%); Whey powder (2.5%); Carob, dried (2.5%); Linseed (1.1%); Sodium chloride; chicory inulin

Protein 34.0%; Fat content 22.0%; Crude ash 7.5%; Crude fiber 1.5%; Moisture 10.0%; Calcium 1.3%; 1.0% phosphorus; Sodium 0.5%; Magnesium 0,09%

Nutritional additives:
Vitamin A 15,000 IU; Vitamin D3 1,500 IU; Vitamin E 150 mg; Vitamin C (as ascorbyl monophosphate, sodium salt) 245 mg; Taurine 1,400 mg; Copper (as copper sulfate (II) pentahydrate) 15 mg; Iron (as an iron (II) sulfate) 200 mg; Iron (as an iron (III) oxide) 385mg; Manganese (as manganese (II) oxide) 50 mg; Zinc (as zinc oxide) 150 mg; Iodine (as calcium iodate) 2.5 mg; Selenium (as sodium selenite) 0.15 mg
Technological additives:
Lecithin 2,000 mg; Tocopherol-rich extract of natural origin (natural vitamin E) 80 mg

They market it as a Super Premium German food. Is this a decent food? How does it compare with the Royal Canin Kitten 36 or Happy Cat Junior? And can I mix it with another formula to get the best of both and reduce the risk of brend dependancy?

I will neuter my kitten when its right age so I am also interested in hearing opinions about the Adult or the Sterilized formulas from the same brend. I have currently bought small amout of Royal Canin and Leonardo for testing, and my kitty loves both kibbles.


Thank you.

Too much grain, feed a canned food instead. Rice, corn, meal not so good.

Thanks for your input. I know wet food/home made diet is better, but I am gonna be free feeding my cat for various reasons and the dry food is my only option.

Hopefully one of the Europeans where this food might be more present will have a word to say. In lack of better brands, I have to choose one as his main food, either Leonardo or Royal Canin.

Hiya. I haven't tried Leonardo, but am very happy with Royal Canin as far as dry foods go. I now feed primarily raw food (my cats get a small 15 gram snack of Royal Canin dry each day as I'd like them to not become intolerant of it, and they get a day's portion of it on the rare occasion that I'm not home all day or if I'm excessively ill and can't do the raw meals, etc.), but I had them on primarily Royal Canin for a while and was extremely pleased with it. My older cat who was a little overweight managed to lose weight on an adult variety while still seeming to very much enjoy it. My younger cat whom I got as a small kitten enjoyed both the kitten 36 and the adult cat. They both had fantastic health and energy and great shiny coats on Royal Canin. My younger cat has a wheat allergy and has a runny nose and horrible poo if he gets cheap cat food or gets into people food with flour, and the rice/corn in Royal Canin doesn't seem to bother him. They do make a corn-free adult but not a corn-free kitten that I know of.

Royal Canin seems to be essentially the single premium food that everyone around me (Netherlands) uses and what vets recommend. The Royal Canin Kitten has a lower fat content and higher amounts of many of the vitamin/mineral additives than the ingredients you posted. I am not a nutrition expert to know if those dose differences are significant.

I had sophie on happy cat for a while. I was told it is medium grade cat food. All the high grade cat foods were way out of my budget!
She seemed to like it. Now she's pregnant and on kitten food and I plan to either switch her back to happy cat or keep her on royal canin once the kittens are weaned.