Hello everyone.
I have three cats - Lola is 2,5 (eats mostly dry ,as long as its gf, and rubbish pouches of rehidrated meat chunks in jelly), Flora is little under 2 years (terribly greedy and panicks over food, eats anything) and little Greta, six months (ate almost exclusively wet but now grazes on dry if I stay out for long).
At the moment they're on Acana and doing great (and litterbox proves it) but it's not really financially feasable for me - they managed to munch through 5kg in a month and I can no longer get hold of big bags. So I'm looking for cheaper alternatives but there are really very few brands where I live (I order from zooplus) which are for all life stages.
TOTW I have doubts about - the only time Lola was ever constipated and dehydrated was while on it.
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My question is - if the food is high quality with high protein and fat content and grain free - does it really matter that kitten should eat a kitten variety?
I have compared the percentages of adult vs. kitten in brands I can get hold of and there's very little difference - the affordable brands I looked at were Applaws, Purizon, Feringa and Porta 21 Finest Sensible.
As for the wet food, the grown ups get cheap pouches like Catessy (without grains), because Lola won't touch anything resembling meat and Flora squeeks like mad if she sees Lola eating anything different than her, and the little one eats Animonda Kitten and Carny. They have two meals of wet food a day plus dry to graze on and the only treats are Cosma freeze dried duck and chicken chunks.
Does that seem reasonable and balanced? Does it matter if they eat crap wet food if dry is of decent quality? Anything else I could do that would cut the costs but keep them healthy?
Thanks in advance!
I have three cats - Lola is 2,5 (eats mostly dry ,as long as its gf, and rubbish pouches of rehidrated meat chunks in jelly), Flora is little under 2 years (terribly greedy and panicks over food, eats anything) and little Greta, six months (ate almost exclusively wet but now grazes on dry if I stay out for long).
At the moment they're on Acana and doing great (and litterbox proves it) but it's not really financially feasable for me - they managed to munch through 5kg in a month and I can no longer get hold of big bags. So I'm looking for cheaper alternatives but there are really very few brands where I live (I order from zooplus) which are for all life stages.
TOTW I have doubts about - the only time Lola was ever constipated and dehydrated was while on it.
.
My question is - if the food is high quality with high protein and fat content and grain free - does it really matter that kitten should eat a kitten variety?
I have compared the percentages of adult vs. kitten in brands I can get hold of and there's very little difference - the affordable brands I looked at were Applaws, Purizon, Feringa and Porta 21 Finest Sensible.
As for the wet food, the grown ups get cheap pouches like Catessy (without grains), because Lola won't touch anything resembling meat and Flora squeeks like mad if she sees Lola eating anything different than her, and the little one eats Animonda Kitten and Carny. They have two meals of wet food a day plus dry to graze on and the only treats are Cosma freeze dried duck and chicken chunks.
Does that seem reasonable and balanced? Does it matter if they eat crap wet food if dry is of decent quality? Anything else I could do that would cut the costs but keep them healthy?
Thanks in advance!