Looking For Similar Cat Foods

Both of my cats are exhibiting signs of a food allergy, our vet prescribed Hill’s d/d skin & food sensitivities in Duck. She said they need a food with one carb and one protein. Unfortunately, with recent vet bills it’s a bit too pricey to feed them both at the moment just on this food, so I’m reaching out to the community to see if there are other foods with one carb and one protein like this. If not we will ultimately get them this to keep them comfortable and healthy.

Current foods:
-Fancy feast Chicken Pate
-Fancy feast Liver & Chicken Page
-I and Love and You Rabbit

I’m thinking the culprit is the chicken pate, as they’ve been eating this several years now, and Fancy feast does have a bunch of extra stuff in there.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

I saw somewhere from the Mercola website that eating one type of protein for years can make a cat develop an allergy to that protein. Maybe give them a break from chicken meat?

There are a few brands of foods with limited ingredients, although they tend to be pricier because of less fillers. Rawz and Kasiks (aka First Mate) are two, check any foods that say LID (and double check, many have more than one protein).

taomom said:

I saw somewhere from the Mercola website that eating one type of protein for years can make a cat develop an allergy to that protein. Maybe give them a break from chicken meat?

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I’m thinking that’s why she suggested Duck, I had no idea this could happen though. They’ve both eaten chicken and turkey primarily their whole lives.

KarenKat said:

There are a few brands of foods with limited ingredients, although they tend to be pricier because of less fillers. Rawz and Kasiks (aka First Mate) are two, check any foods that say LID (and double check, many have more than one protein).

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Thank you! I’ll have to check them out.

Try these:

BLUE Basics® Limited Ingredient Cat Food | Blue Buffalo
Limited Ingredient Diet - Grain Free Cat | Merrick Pet Care
Cat Food - Limited Ingredient Diet - Kohapet
Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet | Instinct Pet Food
RAWZ | 100% Rendered Free Cat Food

Or just use this handy chart to find foods with one protein and one carb (use the filters as explained in the instructions): Check This Out.... Chart For Cat Food Ingredients

LTS3 said:

Try these:

BLUE Basics® Limited Ingredient Cat Food | Blue Buffalo
Limited Ingredient Diet - Grain Free Cat | Merrick Pet Care
Cat Food - Limited Ingredient Diet - Kohapet
Instinct Limited Ingredient Diet | Instinct Pet Food
RAWZ | 100% Rendered Free Cat Food

Or just use this handy chart to find foods with one protein and one carb (use the filters as explained in the instructions): Check This Out.... Chart For Cat Food Ingredients

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Thank you very much!

Only food my cat can keep down is canidae wild frontier trail chicken, only on petcare rx, and canidae duck chicken. No allergens in it. High protein and fat. I tried feeding her duck but I guess because of the allergens she throws that up

If they do fine when they eat boiled and/or raw chicken meat, I think it'd be fair to say they don't have intolerance/allergy to chicken. I would give boiled chicken for one mid-meal and check how it goes.

If it's available where you are, this has a very simple formula: Chicken | Naturea

maggie101 said:

Only food my cat can keep down is canidae wild frontier trail chicken, only on petcare rx, and canidae duck chicken. No allergens in it. High protein and fat. I tried feeding her duck but I guess because of the allergens she throws that up

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Petcare rx is out of stock of the frontier trail which means they might not sell it anymore. Bummer. More trial and error though not much left to try