Need to switch foods

sydney

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I have 7 6 week old kittens who are eating Wellness Kitten Wet. They really like the food and do very well on it, but it is just sooooo expensive.We go through sooo much, I cant afford it anymore.

I'd like to switch to some other high quality kitten food and hopefully save some money.Does anyone have any suggestions?

Also I work at an animal hospital and can get Eukanuba kitten for free if I order it. However I dont like the ingrediants,I noticed by products and the second ingrediant and corn as the third.

So Im not sure what to do and what food to get.

I also heard Royal Canin Babycat is good but isnt Royal Canin expensive too?

Thanks for any help!
 

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Felidae is another excellent food, and it's half the cost of Wellness where I work. You get a 5lb bag for the same price as the Wellness kitten 2lb bag!

Oh wait, you wanted wet... I think most premium wet foods are about the same cost. Felidae is again, the cheapest I've come across, but only by a little. Good luck!!
 

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You will have to look around, if your lucky you'll have several nice natural stores or "mom and pop pet stores" to choose from.

Select some foods of high quality that you would like to feed, and call around to these places and find out how much they sell the BIG 12/13oz cans of food for (the bigger once are cheaper per ounce.)
Each store will sell things for a different price.

The store nearest me has Innova Evo small cans for 1.95 each, but a store a bit further away from me sells them for about .75 cents each!

If you are limited to petcos/petsmart/Pet Valu then Petco and Pet Valu carry a great line of food called Natural Balance.
 

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Look around ... for $$ and decent qulaity( higher than Eukanuba in my book)
petsmarts authority is good and makes kitten ...

In a little higher price pt are Royal canin( dry only I think) , Nutro and Natural balence , Solid Gold
 

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sharky:

I used to think the same thing about Authority for years, I've fed it to my gang in the past, and I've fed it to a feral colony I used to care for.
However I know a lady whom is a highly knowledgeable cat vet, she's visited an Authority plant and she said the conditions overall were just horrid, one of the worst she has ever been to and that she deemed the food unfit, even for ferals.
 

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Originally Posted by blue Ash

sharky:

I used to think the same thing about Authority for years, I've fed it to my gang in the past, and I've fed it to a feral colony I used to care for.
However I know a lady whom is a highly knowledgeable cat vet, she's visited an Authority plant and she said the conditions overall were just horrid, one of the worst she has ever been to and that she deemed the food unfit, even for ferals.
wow never heard that before but I must say that I likely wouldnt be satisfied with any meat plant
 
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