the S/D percription diet that you can only get at the vet is pretty good. My cat used to get sick from our old cat food and so the vet told us to switch to this diet. Now he's perfectly fine.
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disregarding price, what's the BEST wet and dry cat food?
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Well- the best cat food in the world isn't any good at all if the cats won't eat it, or it doesn't agree with them. I would love nothing more than to use EVO as my dry "snack" food, but it gives two of my guys terrible diarrhea. So I bought a bag each of five different super premium dry foods, and the only one all three of mine will consistently eat is California Natural, so California Natural is my dry food.
I also feed a prepared raw food once a day- Aunt Jenni's. I also give occasional whole mice from the frozen pet food section. I am one that believes that crunching bones is good for teeth. This is certainly not for everyone on many levels, as the yuck factor is huge and not every cat will eat them.
Wet foods were a real pain to get figured out. I wanted to do a rotation of several and needing three cats to eat what I chose required a spreadsheet and two weeks of food trials.
All in all I bought 26 different brands and flavors of wet foods and kept track of whether each cat would eat them or not. I tried every halfway decent brand available and these are the ones I now rotate between-
Felidae, Wellness, Merrick (one flavor), and California Natural.
I firmly believe that no one food is the be all and end all of cat nutrition. A good variety of great brands is much more likely to cover all the bases in nutrition than reliance on one companies product IMO.
I have gone to a lot of trouble to get my cats accustomed to eating a variety of food types- raw ground, dry (mostly as snacks), raw whole (mice), and a rotation of wet foods. I try and choose high quality foods, but I am not above splitting a can of Fancy Feast between three cats to "power up" their regular canned meal.
We're never all going to be able to agree on what one thing is best, and even if we did a percentage of cats wouldn't eat it. So we do homework, read labels, and try and stay educated about what we are feeding. But after all the education and shopping in the world (and I have shopped for cat foods, let me tell you!) if the cat won't eat it then it is no good at all.
I also feed a prepared raw food once a day- Aunt Jenni's. I also give occasional whole mice from the frozen pet food section. I am one that believes that crunching bones is good for teeth. This is certainly not for everyone on many levels, as the yuck factor is huge and not every cat will eat them.
Wet foods were a real pain to get figured out. I wanted to do a rotation of several and needing three cats to eat what I chose required a spreadsheet and two weeks of food trials.
All in all I bought 26 different brands and flavors of wet foods and kept track of whether each cat would eat them or not. I tried every halfway decent brand available and these are the ones I now rotate between-
Felidae, Wellness, Merrick (one flavor), and California Natural.
I firmly believe that no one food is the be all and end all of cat nutrition. A good variety of great brands is much more likely to cover all the bases in nutrition than reliance on one companies product IMO.
I have gone to a lot of trouble to get my cats accustomed to eating a variety of food types- raw ground, dry (mostly as snacks), raw whole (mice), and a rotation of wet foods. I try and choose high quality foods, but I am not above splitting a can of Fancy Feast between three cats to "power up" their regular canned meal.
We're never all going to be able to agree on what one thing is best, and even if we did a percentage of cats wouldn't eat it. So we do homework, read labels, and try and stay educated about what we are feeding. But after all the education and shopping in the world (and I have shopped for cat foods, let me tell you!) if the cat won't eat it then it is no good at all.
Bit off topic I know, but am I in a minority in having 2 cats who will eat absolutely anything? In 9 years, Jaffa has never turned his nose up at anything (wet or dry, cheap or expensive) and just gobbles it all down. I hear a lot about cats who wont' eat this or won't eat that - just wondering how many people have cats like mine who are a breeze to feed?
Am I just lucky?
One of mine will eat anything I offer him- anything. Cat food, human food- he's just a very easy keeper. He doesn't overeat or undereat, either- just eats his fill and walks away. He is perfect in every way, but then he's my orange marmalade boy Renfield!
All the cats I've had weren't picky-eaters either, I put it down and they eat! although I did find one flavor of the Meow Mix pouches none of them like, On a Wing and a Prawn. Pandora tried, cause she's a hoss, but even she gave me this look like "Ma, I really don't like this very much"Originally Posted by urbantigers
Bit off topic I know, but am I in a minority in having 2 cats who will eat absolutely anything? In 9 years, Jaffa has never turned his nose up at anything (wet or dry, cheap or expensive) and just gobbles it all down. I hear a lot about cats who wont' eat this or won't eat that - just wondering how many people have cats like mine who are a breeze to feed?Am I just lucky?
Cable will eat just about anything i put down, but she's the only one. she's also the smallest of the bunch!
Big fan of Meow Mix here as well (the new select plastic tubs) - it's the only wet my faddy one will eat - turns her nose up at more expensive / better quality wet.
She has Natural Balance dry - mix of the low calorie and normal.
She loves the catsup milk too - I use it when it's really hot to make sure she has some liquid in her, in case she's not drinking enough water.
I had a persian boy who'd eat absolutely anything, so was quite a shock when I adopted the cat world's finest food critic
She has Natural Balance dry - mix of the low calorie and normal.
She loves the catsup milk too - I use it when it's really hot to make sure she has some liquid in her, in case she's not drinking enough water.
I had a persian boy who'd eat absolutely anything, so was quite a shock when I adopted the cat world's finest food critic
I've always fed my cats a high quality dry like Innova but recently I did a bunch of research on cat foods and have since moved over to a raw diet. A properly mixed raw diet seems to be by far the best choice for carnivor. It's not as easy as cans and pouches, and it's definately not as cheap as dry kibble, but it seems worth it to me. I can't 100% confirm the all the health benifits because they haven't been on the diet long enough but I can tell you they really seem to enjoy, and their feces/farts don't smell near as bad.
I wanted my 2 guys to stay on Innova EVO dry but they were vomiting it up. So I now have them on Blue Spa dry and Natural Balance wet. I did the brand rotation with them as well when I first got them, they liked Wellness wet for awhile but they really wanted to settle with NB. I checked out the Meow Mix pouches as well but noticed in the ingredients listed that tuna was often listed first, even for the chicken flavored pouch
Would this be the same kind of tuna found in cans of tuna that are supposedly highly addictive to cats? I wouldn't want my kitty cats to turn up their noses on NB once they get a taste of the Meow Mix
the market selects are the same way...but mine don't care for it straight. i found this out by accident - i usually mix it 1/2 and 1/2 with chicken soup wet, but i had run out of the chicken soup, so gave them straight meow mix...not nearly as quickly consumed. on the other hand, they also don't care for the chicken soup straight.Originally Posted by MrMeow
I checked out the Meow Mix pouches as well but noticed in the ingredients listed that tuna was often listed first, even for the chicken flavored pouchWould this be the same kind of tuna found in cans of tuna that are supposedly highly addictive to cats? I wouldn't want my kitty cats to turn up their noses on NB once they get a taste of the Meow Mix
i'd prefer if they weren't so fish heavy, but they are fairly decent quality for the price.
If money were no object, I'd still be feeding Pudge Felidae. So far, it's the food she does best on, and although I'd like to find another food which she does well on (for variety and just in case anything ever happens with the Canidae company), I'm in no hurry to do so.Tried evo wet, and she loved it, but it didn't love her (if you know what I mean). I also give her raw meat (usually raw chicken wings for her teeth) weekly and organs(chicken) randomly.
Where do you get the mice? (there are no petstores nearby)
Pudge will eat anything as well. If she sees me eat something, she'll try it. I call her a little Hoover-cat sometimes.Originally Posted by urbantigers
Bit off topic I know, but am I in a minority in having 2 cats who will eat absolutely anything? In 9 years, Jaffa has never turned his nose up at anything (wet or dry, cheap or expensive) and just gobbles it all down. I hear a lot about cats who wont' eat this or won't eat that - just wondering how many people have cats like mine who are a breeze to feed?Am I just lucky?
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