I have some questions about light cat food.
When I took Henry to the vet the other day, the vet told me that he was 10% overweight and should be switched to a light catfood. Henry is the SMALLEST of my cats, all the others are even chubbier, so if he's overweight, they are, too. However, he seemed very anti-'natural' food, said there was nothing wrong with foods where the main ingredients are byproducts, and pushed the brand of food they sell there at the vet's (which IMO is not a great one) pretty hard, so I'm not sure how much I trust him.
Today, I went to the pet food store and bought a bag of Innova Light - usually they eat California Natural, but that doesn't come in light - but the sales girl totally tried to talk me out of it! She said that light food is mostly just filler such as corn or rice, she doesn't recommend it, and that I should just stick with the California Natural and just feed them less. That's not an option I really want to take, though, as Meeko suffers from strong anxiety when he doesn't have food available at all times.
So now I'm worried - is there something wrong with feeding light food? Is it really just filler? I've heard before that meats should be the most part of the ingredients, since that's what's really essential for cats and grains don't do much for them - am I not going to get this with a light food?
Help!
When I took Henry to the vet the other day, the vet told me that he was 10% overweight and should be switched to a light catfood. Henry is the SMALLEST of my cats, all the others are even chubbier, so if he's overweight, they are, too. However, he seemed very anti-'natural' food, said there was nothing wrong with foods where the main ingredients are byproducts, and pushed the brand of food they sell there at the vet's (which IMO is not a great one) pretty hard, so I'm not sure how much I trust him.
Today, I went to the pet food store and bought a bag of Innova Light - usually they eat California Natural, but that doesn't come in light - but the sales girl totally tried to talk me out of it! She said that light food is mostly just filler such as corn or rice, she doesn't recommend it, and that I should just stick with the California Natural and just feed them less. That's not an option I really want to take, though, as Meeko suffers from strong anxiety when he doesn't have food available at all times.
So now I'm worried - is there something wrong with feeding light food? Is it really just filler? I've heard before that meats should be the most part of the ingredients, since that's what's really essential for cats and grains don't do much for them - am I not going to get this with a light food?
Help!