High-protien cat food?

Can anyone recommend a food (or a place to start researching) that is low in fillers and high in protien? I'd really like to start looking into these and switch our cats over to one.

Thanks!

I suppose that depends on where you live, your profile does not tell. But as a general rule cat food sold by vets and pet stores usually contains more protein that food from general stores. Also kitten food contains more protein that adult cat food. In Norway we prefer brands like Royal Canin, Eukanuba, Hill's, Science etc. I don't know which brands are available in your country.

But go to a pet store, look at the labels and compare.

Originally Posted by klcrooks

Can anyone recommend a food (or a place to start researching) that is low in fillers and high in protien? I'd really like to start looking into these and switch our cats over to one.

Thanks!

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Hi, I can recommend some brands known for not using colorings, flavorings, preservatives such as bha/bht/ethoxyquin...and I believe these to be fairly free of fillers (if by that you mean by-products, soy products, etc.).

Check out Active Life canned, Wysong canned and their dry with options for adding protein yourself, Solid Gold dry food or canned and Felidae - dry and canned. Active Life is a mimally processed "whole-food" cat food, Wysong has a line of canned that is the meat source only (includes options of rabbit and venison).

There are also options such as Steve's Real-Foods and other brands (I believe Northwest Naturals and Farmore are two) that are raw-or dehyrated meat (another such company with certified organic foods would be Raw Advantage).

Are you located in the US? Many of these can be found by doing a google search on the brand/company name.

Hope this helps!

I really like Active Life. Nature's Variety is another good canned food.

There is a website that has most dry foods listed by the percent of calories from protein, fat and carbs. Then at the bottom of the page is a link to canned foods. From this site I picked out Wellness canned for my kitties as a very low carb diet. It is also made with human grade ingredients. Becky
http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/dryfood.html

Originally Posted by nern

I really like Active Life. Nature's Variety is another good canned food.

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I love the ingredients in Active Life, as do my kitties; it is one extremely popular and sometimes hard to find food.

Originally Posted by zanniesmom

There is a website that has most dry foods listed by the percent of calories from protein, fat and carbs. Then at the bottom of the page is a link to canned foods. From this site I picked out Wellness canned for my kitties as a very low carb diet. It is also made with human grade ingredients. Becky
http://www.sugarcats.net/sites/jmpeerson/dryfood.html

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This is an excellent site for folks with diabetic cats too...I use their food lists for my diabetic fellow, Tyler.

Originally Posted by klcrooks

Can anyone recommend a food (or a place to start researching) that is low in fillers and high in protien? I'd really like to start looking into these and switch our cats over to one.

Thanks!

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Canned food is generally high in protein and low in carbs. I live in Sweden and the cannes food that I feed my cats (occasionally, I mostly make my own cat food) contains 58% protein, 28% fat, less than 10% carbs (I don't remember the exact number) and the rest is vitamins, minerals etc. It doesn't contain any flavorings or preservatives. I would recommend something similiar. When it comes to dry food you'll never get away from the fact that it is full of carbs.