High quality cat food recommendations WITH grains

[missmimz]

Yes! Thank you! My male does NOT eat any type of kibble. He has urinary problems on it and became blocked TWICE before I got him. All canned for him.

We've all been there, right?

 I saw so many vet's over the years and no one ever told me there was anything wrong with only feeding kibble, or even low quality kibble. I fed Friskies Seafood sensation kibble for years I transitioned my oldest cat (who's now 14) to raw from kibble at 12. So anything is possible! The more you know 

 

[lisahe]

No one is trying to argue with you. If you want what's best for your cat, do your own research and follow where the evidence leads you. "Evidence" is not your vet, unfortunately. I don't come on these thread and tell people not to feed kibble or to avoid grains for pure entertainment, I do it because I don't want other people's cats to suffer the way I've seen some of my own cats suffer (before I knew better, of course).

I agree with missmimz's entire post but especially this last part: I, too, didn't know how to feed cats until I had a very overweight cat who had multiple serious illnesses. Then I learned the hard way, because of her illnesses, that we'd been feeding her unhealthy high-carb foods for most of her life. I wish she hadn't had to suffer because I didn't know how to feed her. Unfortunately, the vets we took her to didn't know much about how to feed her, either.

Taking our new cats to a cat specialist who actually is knowledgeable about feline nutrition is like another world. She recommends high-protein and low-carb, which means no grains, potatoes, peas, tapioca, or similar fillers and thickeners. To me, "grainfree" is just a starting point because I won't feed our cats grains or any of the other carby ingredients so commonly used in cat food.

 

[msserena]

same here, I only started feeding my new kitties wet food because after 17 years of feeding only dry for my sensitive stomach cat, after she started getting kidney failure, after only listening to the vet about what to do,I realized I wasn't going to go down that road again with my new kitties.

Feline stomachs are super acidic, ready for raw meat. Canned cat food is only 2nd best to a raw food diet & dry food is at the bottom of the list. Listening to your vet about feline nutrition is like listening to a medical doctor about taking medications. All you have to do is watch tv & almost every ad now is some new medication. Meds don't make people healthy, they create money for corporations. People have to learn for themselves that what these "professionals" are telling us, it might not be the best answer. God made medicine in plants & the earth, he also made kitties to eat certain things. You have to decide if you want to go against nature or not. Vets just aren't properly trained in nutrition, they are just like the medical doctors getting pushed by certain companies to push certain things. It's true & it's sad.

I just discovered Dr Pottenger’s experiments that were done & even feeding a cat 50/50 raw & canned, shows an improvement with health. You should read his findings, it's very interesting!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/02/05/pets-grains.aspx

http://www.blakkatz.com/dryfood.html

http://naturalcathealth.com/grain-free-cat-food