You're so right about grain-free! In an ideal world, cats wouldn't be eating foods with wheat or corn gluten, but the problem -- as I see it -- these days is that, as you note, companies are substituting carby vegetables like peas and potatoes for those grains. And cats don't really need those, either. They appeal to people who think they sound healthy because they're vegetables and they serve as cheap fillers for the pet food companies, but you and I each have a cat that can't eat them! One of our cats has trouble with potato... that sure does narrow the possibilities for feeding these days.
I went to Tractor Supply this afternoon and they have 2 varieties of Friskies in the larger cans so that will help.
I decided I will just have to skip feeding a grain free dry food since one of my cats cannot tolerate all the added veggies and fruits. I don't know what else is causing his more loose stools.
So I looked through what Tractor Supply had and for now I am going to try Iams Adult food. I am not so sure they have to have a grain free diet anyway. Maybe that has become the new 'fad' and way to promote new foods. I know there is some truth to it but I was thinking in the wild doesn't a cat eat the whole mouse etc. including the stomach and it's contents. In the stomach it would contain what the mouse had eaten which would have been more than likely corn or some kind of grain that he would have found. Who knows? It seems logical to me.
I know there are companies that do not add enough real protein and use corn gluten as a filler and that I know is not good but I don't necessarily think a grain free diet is the only way to go. Especially now since it seems to be upsetting my cat's stomach.
Why are they adding potatoes, blueberries, cranberries, spinach, and apples?? I think really people look at that and think their cats are getting more nutrition from it but are they really? The cranberries didn't keep my Jack from having crystals in his urine.