I think I've figured out the dry catfood information
(huge thanks to Sharky for that) Now its onto the canned food. Kizzy will be fed both wet and dry.
Some direct questions:
1. Is there certain ingreds that one should avoid in a wet cat food?
2. What should one look for in ingreds? As in, what are some good ingreds?
3. Aside from, whichever the kitty will eat, do you have any tips on wet foods?
I have found through reading other posts, that it is good to vary the wet food....which I am, same brand different flavors... but it is an expensive brand and I'd like to get something a little cheaper if possible.
I've also learned that "meat by-products" is not the best of ingreds... not knowing what meat, and it could be anything from beaks, to feathers, etc.
I have a can of Friskies: (I bought several different varieties when trying to get Kizzy to eat some..)
ingreds: meat by-products, water sufficient for processing, chicken, poultry by-products, brewers rice, natural and artificial flavors, minerals and vitamins, guar gum, caramel color, carrageenan, iron oxide, taurine, bitotin.
This one is obviously not a great food, with 2 by-products and brewers rice.
Actr1um (another one found at walmart)
ingreds: turkey, turkey broth, chicken giblets, brewers rice, chicken by-products, ocean fish, egg product, guar gum, salt, potassium chloride (umm isn't this another word for salt?), brewers dried yeast, choline chloride, vitamins, minerals, taurine.
Seems to be a slightly better food than the above... higher amount of actual meat, less by-products.
Performatrin Ultra: the expensive one I am feeding
ingreds:
Chicken
Chicken Bouillon
Chicken Liver
Diced Carrots
Egg Product
Diced Red Peppers
Potato Starch
Torula Dried Yeast
Guar Gum
Natural Flavor
Tricalcium Phosphate
Spinach Flakes
Menhaden Fish Oil
Oat Fiber
Calcium Carbonate
Sweet Potatoes
Pea Fiber
Sunflower Oil
Brewers Dried Yeast
Sea Salt
Sodium Phosphate
Potassium Chloride
Parsley
Sodium Ascorbate (Source Of Vitamin C)
Oregano
Sodium Carbonate
Flaxseed Oil
Dried Chicory Root
Dried Kelp
Taurine
Iron Proteinate
Sage
Zinc Proteinate
Dried Blueberries
Dried Cranberries
Dried Apples
Beta Carotene
Vitamin E Supplement
Yucca Schidigera Extract
Choline Chloride
Cobalt Proteinate
Copper Proteinate
Manganese Proteinate
Thiamine Mononitrate
Folic Acid
Niacin
Sodium Selenite
D-Calcium Pantothenate
Vitamin D3 Supplement
Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
Riboflavin Supplement
Vitamin A Supplement
Potassium Iodide
Vitamin B12 Supplement
Biotin
Kizzy likes this one, but it seems to have a whole lot of ingreds that I'm not sure he needs... I think I will keep it for use maybe 1 can a wk.
Thanks for any input
Some direct questions:
1. Is there certain ingreds that one should avoid in a wet cat food?
2. What should one look for in ingreds? As in, what are some good ingreds?
3. Aside from, whichever the kitty will eat, do you have any tips on wet foods?
I have found through reading other posts, that it is good to vary the wet food....which I am, same brand different flavors... but it is an expensive brand and I'd like to get something a little cheaper if possible.
I've also learned that "meat by-products" is not the best of ingreds... not knowing what meat, and it could be anything from beaks, to feathers, etc.
I have a can of Friskies: (I bought several different varieties when trying to get Kizzy to eat some..)
ingreds: meat by-products, water sufficient for processing, chicken, poultry by-products, brewers rice, natural and artificial flavors, minerals and vitamins, guar gum, caramel color, carrageenan, iron oxide, taurine, bitotin.
This one is obviously not a great food, with 2 by-products and brewers rice.
Actr1um (another one found at walmart)
ingreds: turkey, turkey broth, chicken giblets, brewers rice, chicken by-products, ocean fish, egg product, guar gum, salt, potassium chloride (umm isn't this another word for salt?), brewers dried yeast, choline chloride, vitamins, minerals, taurine.
Seems to be a slightly better food than the above... higher amount of actual meat, less by-products.
Performatrin Ultra: the expensive one I am feeding
ingreds:
Chicken
Chicken Bouillon
Chicken Liver
Diced Carrots
Egg Product
Diced Red Peppers
Potato Starch
Torula Dried Yeast
Guar Gum
Natural Flavor
Tricalcium Phosphate
Spinach Flakes
Menhaden Fish Oil
Oat Fiber
Calcium Carbonate
Sweet Potatoes
Pea Fiber
Sunflower Oil
Brewers Dried Yeast
Sea Salt
Sodium Phosphate
Potassium Chloride
Parsley
Sodium Ascorbate (Source Of Vitamin C)
Oregano
Sodium Carbonate
Flaxseed Oil
Dried Chicory Root
Dried Kelp
Taurine
Iron Proteinate
Sage
Zinc Proteinate
Dried Blueberries
Dried Cranberries
Dried Apples
Beta Carotene
Vitamin E Supplement
Yucca Schidigera Extract
Choline Chloride
Cobalt Proteinate
Copper Proteinate
Manganese Proteinate
Thiamine Mononitrate
Folic Acid
Niacin
Sodium Selenite
D-Calcium Pantothenate
Vitamin D3 Supplement
Pyridoxine Hydrochloride
Riboflavin Supplement
Vitamin A Supplement
Potassium Iodide
Vitamin B12 Supplement
Biotin
Kizzy likes this one, but it seems to have a whole lot of ingreds that I'm not sure he needs... I think I will keep it for use maybe 1 can a wk.
Thanks for any input