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I need help, I can't find a cat food that my cat Sammie is not allergic to. The vet said only whitefish. So I am looking for kibble and canned food. No BPA either. Any suggestions?
Depends on what type of fish the manufacturer uses. The brand I feed uses small/young fish like Skipjack to reduce the amount of mercury in their product.I could be wrong but I thought too much fish isn’t good either…a lot of mercury in it?
I would not feed him white fish. What about duck? This is pricy but farmina has duck,quail,and venison. I just cooked some ground lamb with ez complete. They loved itI need help, I can't find a cat food that my cat Sammie is not allergic to. The vet said only whitefish. So I am looking for kibble and canned food. No BPA either. Any suggestions?
Hypoallergentic diets usually are rabbit, turkey, and duck. This is because the most common meat allergy is chicken. The key is to find a wet limited ingredient diet (LID) with one high quality "novel" animal protein source (not chicken) and one easily digestible vegetable and does not have any grains or ingredients with no nutritional value. Nature's Variety Instinct Adult LID is not perfect but probably meets all of these criteria.I know but I am hoping this is temporary. Will try him on duck. Thanks.
What kind of home cooked food do you feed your cats?I agree with maggie101 about fish, particularly since it tends to be one of the most allergy-causing ingredients for cats. (Here's one article that mentions fish as a leading problem.) When one of our cats was diagnosed with asthma, the vet (who's not a fish fan to begin with) said to cut all fish from her diet because of histamines. We only fed very small amounts of fish but the cats loved those foods! I'd also be careful with fish because it gets addictive for some cats. (Our previous cat tended in that direction!)
Another novel protein is pork, which our cats love! Like maggie101's cats, ours like lamb, too.
If you're willing to feed freeze-dried raw food, Primal has very decent pork food with relatively low bone content.
What are Sammie's symptoms, Catman219 ? Are there any things other than tapioca that you know for certain he has problems with? We've had to cut several ingredients -- potato, agar-agar, green-lipped mussels -- from our cats' diet because of barfing. Those limitations and my refusal to feed certain other things (legumes, carrageenan among them) are big reasons why we feed quite a bit of commercial raw and homecooked food.
Good luck!
Alnutrin with egg shell calcium. (The "with calcium" products are on this page.) It does contain egg yolk, though, which some cats have trouble with. Alnutrin will send a sample packet (enough to supplement a pound of meat) if you send them a SASE. You do have to add liver. I also add fish oil, more egg yolk, and pumpkin.What kind of home cooked food do you feed your cats?