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I've spent a lot of time reading about cat food, and having just welcomed two kittens who probably got a less-than-ideal start to life I want to get this right.
Is it really a hard and fast rule that an all-wet diet is better than a 50/50 or mostly wet with some dry food mixed in? I want to try to ignore the owner considerations, as I totally understand that dry food can be more convenient, less smelly, cheaper, cleaner, etc, etc and I think those are valid things for an owner to consider. But, I just want to focus on the food itself, ignoring all outside considerations.
I just find it really hard to believe that a full diet of the trashiest canned food (friskies, 9lives, purina, iams, meowmix), which I understand to be full of fillers, carbs, and protein from poor quality sources could be better than premium grain-free dry food like Nature's Variety, Fromms, and Wellness (to name a few that seem popular on the site).
Is it more important for me to feed a wet diet or pay attention to ingredients? I naively bought Royal Canin baby cat food for my kittens because it was the only food specifically made "for cats under 4 months old" and is supposed to help them transition off of formula (I don't actually know what they were eating before I got them). Now they are on Nature's Variety Instinct dry kitten food and I've been trying out different kitten-specific grain-feww canned foods like blue buffalo. I have a hard time finding kitten-specific wet foods at my local petco, especially in the brands that tend to get touted as being the best. Do I need to get a kitten-specific food? My kittens were bottle fed and I worry they didn't get the right amount of nutrients and vitamins and that it's super important I feed them well in these early months.
Also, does anyone have an opinion about Halo Spot's pate? It was on sale and the ingredients looked good a few weeks ago when I hadn't found this forum so I picked up a couple of cans for my kitties and they hands down love it more than any other food I've given them. It seems people on this site like to avoid sweet potato and carageenan, which are both ingredients in this food so I likely won't be buying it again...
Is it really a hard and fast rule that an all-wet diet is better than a 50/50 or mostly wet with some dry food mixed in? I want to try to ignore the owner considerations, as I totally understand that dry food can be more convenient, less smelly, cheaper, cleaner, etc, etc and I think those are valid things for an owner to consider. But, I just want to focus on the food itself, ignoring all outside considerations.
I just find it really hard to believe that a full diet of the trashiest canned food (friskies, 9lives, purina, iams, meowmix), which I understand to be full of fillers, carbs, and protein from poor quality sources could be better than premium grain-free dry food like Nature's Variety, Fromms, and Wellness (to name a few that seem popular on the site).
Is it more important for me to feed a wet diet or pay attention to ingredients? I naively bought Royal Canin baby cat food for my kittens because it was the only food specifically made "for cats under 4 months old" and is supposed to help them transition off of formula (I don't actually know what they were eating before I got them). Now they are on Nature's Variety Instinct dry kitten food and I've been trying out different kitten-specific grain-feww canned foods like blue buffalo. I have a hard time finding kitten-specific wet foods at my local petco, especially in the brands that tend to get touted as being the best. Do I need to get a kitten-specific food? My kittens were bottle fed and I worry they didn't get the right amount of nutrients and vitamins and that it's super important I feed them well in these early months.
Also, does anyone have an opinion about Halo Spot's pate? It was on sale and the ingredients looked good a few weeks ago when I hadn't found this forum so I picked up a couple of cans for my kitties and they hands down love it more than any other food I've given them. It seems people on this site like to avoid sweet potato and carageenan, which are both ingredients in this food so I likely won't be buying it again...