Hello! I'm looking for some help please!
I have two cats: Oli (Oliver) & Oxi (Oxana)
I adopted Oli in April of 2014 from our local SPCA (Canada). He was approximately 1 year old at that time and was severely underfed. I know he was an indoor only cat because when I took him on a leash for the first time (in my parent's backyard) he was scared of the wind. Needless to say, ever since I've owned him he has loved food. Currently sitting at 12lbs.
I adopted Oxi end of July in 2015 from a local cat rescue (was in foster care). She was approximately 10 months old and a street stray the rescue trapped. She too, loves food. Currently she is 6.5lbs.
When I first got Oli I knew very little about cats. I'd never owned one before and had little idea what to expect. So I started looking into feeding options. At that time I wanted to go dry, knowing that I could keep it in an auto-feeder in case I had to stay late at work. My parent's have two wiener dogs and it was recommended by the breeder to go with petcurean GO! Natural food. We never had a problem with the dogs (they are roughly 6-7 years old now) so I wanted to stick to that brand.
I chose: GO! Fit + Free Cat Dry blend. Make-up is as follows:
Ingredients: Chicken meal, de-boned chicken, de-boned turkey, duck meal, turkey meal, salmon meal, de-boned trout, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), natural fish flavour, peas, potatoes, whole dried egg, potato flour, tapioca, de-boned salmon, de-boned duck, salmon oil, pumpkin, apples, carrots, bananas, blueberries, cranberries, lentil beans, broccoli, spinach, cottage cheese, alfalfa, sweet potatoes, blackberries, papayas, pineapple, phosphoric acid, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, DL-methionine, taurine, choline chloride, dried chicory root, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, dried Aspergillus niger fermentation product, dried Aspergillus oryzae fermentation product, vitamins (vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, niacin, inositol, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (a source of vitamin C), thiamine mononitrate, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, beta-carotene, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement), minerals (zinc proteinate, iron proteinate, copper proteinate, zinc oxide, manganese proteinate, copper sulphate, calcium iodate, ferrous sulphate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite), yucca schidigera extract, yeast extract, dried rosemary.
As I continued researching, I also decided to incorporate some wet food into the mix, hoping to prevent crystals. I was worried that the moisture content was too low in the dry food.
So I chose to go with the GO! Fit + Free cat wet food too:
Crude protein (min)12%Crude fat (min)8%Crude fibre (max)1%Moisture (max)78%
Ingredients: Chicken, turkey, chicken broth, chicken liver, turkey liver, turkey broth, duck, salmon, dried egg product, flaxseed, carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, cottage cheese, apples, blueberries, cranberries, alfalfa sprouts, pumpkin puree, potassium chloride, salt, spinach, broccoli, bananas, minerals (iron amino acid chelate, zinc amino acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate, manganese amino acid chelate, sodium selenite, potassium iodide), vitamins (vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, vitamin A supplement, biotin, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid), choline chloride, inulin, salmon oil, sunflower oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), taurine, rosemary, xanthan gum, cassia gum, yucca schidigera extract, beta carotene.
I can't remember how much I was feeding him at the time of each, but enough to maintain a healthy body weight. 1/2 wet, 1/2 dry. He stayed on that diet until I got Oxi a year and a bit later. When I received Oxi, the rescue sent over cat instructions (wish I had received these a year earlier, lol) which promoted raw feeding first off and, if you couldn't do that, purely a wet diet. Due to space requirements (apartment size fridge does not have enough storage for freezing raw food) I choose to switch over both cats to their recommended brand. I also decided to increase the wet food to 2/3 and the dry to 1/3 of the daily feedings. A coworker fed her cat purely wet food and it ended up with teeth problems so I wanted to keep the dry food to help with plaque scrubbing.
So I kept the same dry food I had started Oli on and switched the wet to FirstMate’s Dog Chicken formula per the rescue.
I have two cats: Oli (Oliver) & Oxi (Oxana)
I adopted Oli in April of 2014 from our local SPCA (Canada). He was approximately 1 year old at that time and was severely underfed. I know he was an indoor only cat because when I took him on a leash for the first time (in my parent's backyard) he was scared of the wind. Needless to say, ever since I've owned him he has loved food. Currently sitting at 12lbs.
I adopted Oxi end of July in 2015 from a local cat rescue (was in foster care). She was approximately 10 months old and a street stray the rescue trapped. She too, loves food. Currently she is 6.5lbs.
When I first got Oli I knew very little about cats. I'd never owned one before and had little idea what to expect. So I started looking into feeding options. At that time I wanted to go dry, knowing that I could keep it in an auto-feeder in case I had to stay late at work. My parent's have two wiener dogs and it was recommended by the breeder to go with petcurean GO! Natural food. We never had a problem with the dogs (they are roughly 6-7 years old now) so I wanted to stick to that brand.
I chose: GO! Fit + Free Cat Dry blend. Make-up is as follows:
Crude protein (min)** | 46% |
Crude fat (min) | 18% |
Crude fibre (max) | 1.5% |
Moisture (max) | 10% |
Ash (max) | 9% |
Magnesium (max) | 0.09% |
Taurine (min) | 0.21% |
*Omega 6 (min) | 3.1% |
*Omega 3 (min) | 0.3% |
As I continued researching, I also decided to incorporate some wet food into the mix, hoping to prevent crystals. I was worried that the moisture content was too low in the dry food.
So I chose to go with the GO! Fit + Free cat wet food too:
Crude protein (min)12%Crude fat (min)8%Crude fibre (max)1%Moisture (max)78%
Ingredients: Chicken, turkey, chicken broth, chicken liver, turkey liver, turkey broth, duck, salmon, dried egg product, flaxseed, carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, cottage cheese, apples, blueberries, cranberries, alfalfa sprouts, pumpkin puree, potassium chloride, salt, spinach, broccoli, bananas, minerals (iron amino acid chelate, zinc amino acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate, manganese amino acid chelate, sodium selenite, potassium iodide), vitamins (vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate, niacin supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, vitamin A supplement, biotin, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, folic acid), choline chloride, inulin, salmon oil, sunflower oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), taurine, rosemary, xanthan gum, cassia gum, yucca schidigera extract, beta carotene.
I can't remember how much I was feeding him at the time of each, but enough to maintain a healthy body weight. 1/2 wet, 1/2 dry. He stayed on that diet until I got Oxi a year and a bit later. When I received Oxi, the rescue sent over cat instructions (wish I had received these a year earlier, lol) which promoted raw feeding first off and, if you couldn't do that, purely a wet diet. Due to space requirements (apartment size fridge does not have enough storage for freezing raw food) I choose to switch over both cats to their recommended brand. I also decided to increase the wet food to 2/3 and the dry to 1/3 of the daily feedings. A coworker fed her cat purely wet food and it ended up with teeth problems so I wanted to keep the dry food to help with plaque scrubbing.
So I kept the same dry food I had started Oli on and switched the wet to FirstMate’s Dog Chicken formula per the rescue.
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