Comprehensive cat food poll - what do you feed your cats?

I feed my kitty babies Sensible Choice by Royal Canin. I have also fed them Nutro in the past. We also have "wet food sunday" in our house. They only get fed wet food once a week, and it's Fancy Feast. I think once the cans I have left are gone, I will get something a little more premium for them. I also might upgrade soon to a human quality pet food. I did some research on the food, and that is why I went with Sensible Choice, but didn't really realize just how many other options there were out there.

There are a lot of intresting posts on this thread. Great resource!

Originally Posted by sharky

I have looked into partial raw... anyone know of any reciepes for a kidney diesease kitty

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Search the web for Dr. Pitcairn's recipes or buy his book The Ultimate Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats, it contains recipes on food for cats with kidney disease. All his recipes reach the AAFCO standards so they're "safe".

If you have a cat with kidney disease you won't be able to follow the BARF-method, but Dr. Pitcairn's method is suitable and still better than commercial food (my personal opinion).

Originally Posted by Sol

Search the web for Dr. Pitcairn's recipes or buy his book The Ultimate Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats, it contains recipes on food for cats with kidney disease. All his recipes reach the AAFCO standards so they're "safe".

If you have a cat with kidney disease you won't be able to follow the BARF-method, but Dr. Pitcairn's method is suitable and still better than commercial food (my personal opinion).

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Can I find this book at a big box book store??

Originally Posted by sharky

Can I find this book at a big box book store??

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You can buy it at Amazon.com and other internet book shops, it's not a very expensive book at all.

Thank u

My cats have always been IAMS cats. This seems to give them the best coats and the least waste in the litter box! I'm disturbed by the news of cruel practises at IAMS...

The vet recently put Amber on c/d diet - canned and dry c/d.
Prior to that she was an Iams cat.

I realized about after I got my cat that she was SEVERLY allergic to fish. I got he only thing I could find easily that was fish free- Science Diet Lamb & Rice (I buy in 20# Bags). I am to scared to change (she was very sick).

Originally Posted by Liberty's Buddy

I realized about after I got my cat that she was SEVERLY allergic to fish. I got he only thing I could find easily that was fish free- Science Diet Lamb & Rice (I buy in 20# Bags). I am to scared to change (she was very sick).

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I know it is scary ... I sugest talking to your vet.. in person or via phone they have true hypo allergenic diets to try

Innova lover but i think most people do not want to spend more on cat/dog food than they have to and most are very uneducated about the ingredients in the food. Seems most will buy the cheaper crappier supermarket foods and do not take the time to research and learn about the BAD ingredients in them.

Currently feeding my gang homemade cat food (boiled fish or chicken with rice, without msg, etc.), Royal Canin & Nutro kitten kibbles, sometimes canned cat food if we don't have time to prepare their food.

Is it advisable to change their diet once a week? Like give them canned for a day, then homemade food for the rest of the week? We're scared that they might get tired of their homemade food.

I would LOVE to try super premium foods like Wysong, Innova, etc. but we don't have it locally available. Too bad we're stuck with the likes of Whiskas & Friskies (ugh). But good thing there's RC & Nutro.

Has anyone heard of Avoderm? Someone's interested in bringing it to Manila. I haven't heard many things about it - so would like to know if it's good or not.

Thanks very much!

Originally Posted by batrice

Innova lover but i think most people do not want to spend more on cat/dog food than they have to and most are very uneducated about the ingredients in the food. Seems most will buy the cheaper crappier supermarket foods and do not take the time to research and learn about the BAD ingredients in them.

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Well, most people don't want to spend more than they have to. I think the internet has made it a whole lot easier to research and find out about things like our kitties diet, but you are right some people just don't know. I have learned a lot here, and I think my kitties diets are better because of it.

Originally Posted by Jalapeno

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Has anyone heard of Avoderm? Someone's interested in bringing it to Manila. I haven't heard many things about it - so would like to know if it's good or not.

Thanks very much!

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Avoderm is decent, I fed the dry formula to my cats for a number of years with good results.

My cats were being fed Purina Formula one for kittens (the ingrediants were better then all the other expensive food with a few exceptions) Then I switched to Chiken soup for the cat lover soul and my cat won't eat it! She only wants her cheap friskies canned food and fresh cooked meat!

both Buffy and Willow were being fed Natural Balance until Saturday, when I bought Royal Canin (a PetsMart opened then, and to my utter dismay, they aren't selling Natural Balance, and I'm not going to keep going to Petland to get it). We're using the Indoor formula, but if I ever see the Sensible Choice version, I'll get it. I'm switching my dog over to the Sensible Choice (he, too, was on Natural Balance) but I didn't see Sensible Choice in the cat food section.

Since my cats are bored easily, I alternate their food every other month between Innova and Felidae. These are the only ones available in my area (besides the supermarket brands), so my choices are limited. However, I have tried Merrick (ordered via online) and it's too soft for my cats. They refused to eat it. The next one on my list is Active Life. I've heard nothing but good things about that brand. Now, the hard part is finding an online site that won't charge me an arm and a leg for shipping.

Originally Posted by Aussie_Dog

both Buffy and Willow were being fed Natural Balance until Saturday, when I bought Royal Canin (a PetsMart opened then, and to my utter dismay, they aren't selling Natural Balance, and I'm not going to keep going to Petland to get it). We're using the Indoor formula, but if I ever see the Sensible Choice version, I'll get it. I'm switching my dog over to the Sensible Choice (he, too, was on Natural Balance) but I didn't see Sensible Choice in the cat food section.

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Sensible choice makes cat food it is in pink bags , can be hard to find go to the royal canin website for help...

I just switched my cats from canned friskies to Trader Joes canned cat food. They love it and trader joes has all the high grade (human grade) ingrediants as the really expensive canned foods from pet stores. In regular pet stores it costs about $.90 for the same type of ingrediants as the trader joes and trader joes is only $.43 a can!
Here's the ingrediants in the chicken, turkey and rice dinner for example:
Chicken broth,chicken,turkey,ocean fish,animal liver,brewers rice,oat bran,fish protein concentrate,lecithin,salt,potassium chloride,guar gum,minerals,and then all the minerals/vitamins that I don't want to type out.

if you notice all the meat ingrediants are first and there are no meat by products or meat "meal" in this food.

Originally Posted by bengalbabe

I just switched my cats from canned friskies to Trader Joes canned cat food. They love it and trader joes has all the high grade (human grade) ingrediants as the really expensive canned foods from pet stores. In regular pet stores it costs about $.90 for the same type of ingrediants as the trader joes and trader joes is only $.43 a can!
Here's the ingrediants in the chicken, turkey and rice dinner for example:
Chicken broth,chicken,turkey,ocean fish,animal liver,brewers rice,oat bran,fish protein concentrate,lecithin,salt,potassium chloride,guar gum,minerals,and then all the minerals/vitamins that I don't want to type out.

if you notice all the meat ingrediants are first and there are no meat by products or meat "meal" in this food.

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I dont think I have ever seen meat meal in a wet food .. wouldnt serve much purpose since it is the parts you and I would eat not the by products that have had most of the water and fat removed...that formula looks half decent .. Can you put up the percentages.. I would have to order online no Trader Joes for a few states

Friskies has meat meal as the #1 ingrediant!. Let see... as far as percentages the only info I could find was
crude protein 9% min.
crude fat 5% min.
crude fiber 1% max
moisture 78% max (seems high but is it higher then other brands? probably because the chicken broth is the #1 ingrediant)
ash 1.9% max
magnesium 0.025% max
taurine 0.05% min.

there are other flavors with various ingrediants but they all have meat listed as the first three or four and no by products.