I've made countless posts about what I feed my cats, to the point where some of you are probably tired of hearing about it! I would just like to know though if I am doing the wrong thing when it comes to feeding them. I have a long history of trying to please both of my picky cats. I have finally settled on some canned foods that both of them will actually eat and that my IBD cat will keep down. I have been told my another poster that one of the foods I am feeding (Halo) is bad for my cats because it is too high in fat.
So, what does everyone think of Halo Spot's Stew wholesome lamb, Pride Rockstar Rabbit, and Pride Lucky's Lamb? Concerns have been raised about the clay used in the Pride foods and the vegetables in the Halo. Will these foods be bad in the long run? Should I transition them to something else?
I also continue to leave out Blue Basics duck DRY food for them. My male cat is still a dry food addict. Although he does eat the canned foods mentioned above, he still much prefers the dry and will eat at most about a fourth (or less) of a 3 ounce can at a time. This is good for him though, because he has completely snubbed 99% of the other canned foods I have offered him. He would probably eat more canned if I took up the dry, but now my vet is saying that I need to continue to feed them some dry. She thinks that feeding only wet is bad for their oral health. My female cat with IBD is not a dry food addict anymore (she used to love the dry duck food) and has gotten to the point where she only wants canned. My vet has told me to keep leaving some dry out for her anyway and and to try to get her to eat some. This contradicts everything I have heard.
I guess trying to feed half dry and half wet could be a good compromise, but I don't know. I was thinking that if I continue to leave out some dry, I might switch from the Blue (which is getting a bad rap lately) to Acana Grasslands. The first couple ingredients are duck, which my boy seems to love, and lamb--which they both like. It does have several kinds of fish listed though, which I have heard is a bad thing. Also, I have never feed them Orijen food, but they both love and devour the Orijen treats.
So what do you think of the canned and dry foods that I mentioned above? Do any of them pose a potential risk to my cats?
So, what does everyone think of Halo Spot's Stew wholesome lamb, Pride Rockstar Rabbit, and Pride Lucky's Lamb? Concerns have been raised about the clay used in the Pride foods and the vegetables in the Halo. Will these foods be bad in the long run? Should I transition them to something else?
I also continue to leave out Blue Basics duck DRY food for them. My male cat is still a dry food addict. Although he does eat the canned foods mentioned above, he still much prefers the dry and will eat at most about a fourth (or less) of a 3 ounce can at a time. This is good for him though, because he has completely snubbed 99% of the other canned foods I have offered him. He would probably eat more canned if I took up the dry, but now my vet is saying that I need to continue to feed them some dry. She thinks that feeding only wet is bad for their oral health. My female cat with IBD is not a dry food addict anymore (she used to love the dry duck food) and has gotten to the point where she only wants canned. My vet has told me to keep leaving some dry out for her anyway and and to try to get her to eat some. This contradicts everything I have heard.
I guess trying to feed half dry and half wet could be a good compromise, but I don't know. I was thinking that if I continue to leave out some dry, I might switch from the Blue (which is getting a bad rap lately) to Acana Grasslands. The first couple ingredients are duck, which my boy seems to love, and lamb--which they both like. It does have several kinds of fish listed though, which I have heard is a bad thing. Also, I have never feed them Orijen food, but they both love and devour the Orijen treats.
So what do you think of the canned and dry foods that I mentioned above? Do any of them pose a potential risk to my cats?