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mariya

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Hey! I have switched to Good Natured dry cat food. The ingredients looked pretty good to me and it's grain free and very affordable. However, I was wondering if anyone else has any experience with this brand. I have found little on it on the web and it's Petsmart's product. 

Please share any insight, experience and opinions on this food. Thanks in advance ^_^

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At the shelter, he had Science Hill's adult cat food. He was found as a stray and stayed at the shelter for about a month. Before, we fed him Whiskas for 6 months. After that, he had Taste of the Wild for a month. I know it's not good to change so quickly but I read some stuff about medical issues associated with Taste of the Wild and got rlly worried :p He seems to like Good Natured fine and he isn't a fussy eater. I have already transitioned him to Good Natured but it is still mixed with some Taste of the Wil. He also eats some wet food because I insists but he loves the dry stuff :p 

he is 8-10lb and eats 1/2 cup of this food each day along with some wet food as a midnight snack 

this is the product link:

http://www.petsmart.ca/cat/food/goo..._id=36-30639&_t=pfm=category&pfmvalue=faceted
 

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The wet food is better for him and dry should only be like dessert or a treat.  If you switched it around and fed him a can of wet food during the day and made THIS food the midnight snack, it would be better for him.  Most wet foods range between 150 and 190 calories per 5.5 ounce can, and most of them (Friskies pate, Sheba, 9Lives for example) are low carbohydrate.  Their calories come mostly from meat and fat, and cats get their energy from meat and fat, not carbohydrates. This dry food is approximately 190 calories for half a cup, and 34% of that is protein and 14% is fat, leaving the rest to be mostly carbohydrates and fiber.  A high carbohydrate diet causes all sorts of health problems later on.  Yes, they like it, just like kids would rather eat cookies and chips than meat and vegetables, but that doesn't mean you let them eat dessert before dinner..  You have to be in charge of his health.  Obviously you care because you moved away from Whiskas to Taste of the Wild, and then you moved away from Taste of the Wild because you heard some questionable things about it also.  The whole movement towards "grain free" was in response to people discovering that cats are obligate carnivores, i.e. they must get their energy from meat and fat, not grains and vegetables.  Meat is more expensive than grains and vegetables, however, so many manufacturers are following the "grain free" path, but instead of the grains, they now use other non-meat items to replace them, items that add carbs to the food just as the grains did before them, such as peas, tapioca starch, potato starch, carrots, tomato pomace etc.  They are not "bad" items but they are carbs and cats don't digest carbs well and in fact they do not require any carbs in their diet.

Here are the ingredients of the Good Natured Adult Cat Food:
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Dried Peas, Poultry Fat (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Tapioca Starch, Potato Starch, Fish Meal (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Pea Protein,Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Egg Product, Natural Flavor, Ground Flaxseed, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Dried Carrots, Taurine, Choline Chloride, Dried Tomato Pomace, Dried Apple Pomace, Dl-Methionine, Inulin, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Source Of Ascorbic Acid), Copper Sulfate, Vitamin A Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source Of Vitamin K), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Rosemary Extract, Green Tea Extract  (379 calories per cup).

As dry foods go, it's not bad.  The first ingredient is indeed meat, and the second is a meat meal, and it's a lot better than the Whiskas:

Poultry by-product meal (source of glucosamine & chondroitin sulfate), ground yellow corn, ground wheat, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, animal fat (preserved with bha and citric acid), natural meaty, chicken, & turkey flavors, salt, potassium chloride, taurine, dl-methionine, vitamins (choline chloride, vitamin e supplement, niacin, vitamin a supplement, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin supplement [vitamin b2], d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin b6], biotin, vitamin d3 supplement, vitamin b12 supplement, folic acid), minerals (zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide), yucca schidigera extract  (calories not given)

This is probably more than you wanted to know, but it's information you need to have in order to feed him in a manner that will make him healthy for many years.  Reading labels tells you a lot.  If you don't understand what something is, you can look it up.  I'm really glad you got him off the Whiskas dry and that you are adding wet to the mix.  Now if you can just change the proportions a little over time, I think you will have a happy and healthy cat.  Thanks for caring enough to want the best food for him.
 
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