Rawz recently updated their web site to include new canned foods: RAWZ | 100% Rendered Free Cat Food
Has anyone tried these yet?
Has anyone tried these yet?
That's mighty pricey, but I really want to try this brand in the rabbit and salmon varieties -- the ingredients look so good.I might try the rabbit and duck. The beef was a hit. I don't think the store had turkey at the time. I wish the brand didn't cost $2.99 a can Emma loves her canned food but only gets it for a bedtime snack and leaves crumbs for IBD-Leroy
The chicken would irritate my IBD kitty, and all the other rabbit canned foods have so much peas and gums that I think Rawz might be better despite the fat. But I would feed the chicken (or better yet the Turkey) if I could.I’m fine paying extra for rabbit because it usually has more protein but in this case it’s just as fatty as the chicken.
I think they use it as a binder. They need something to bind the ingredients together. You make a good point though that we don’t know the long term effects of a lot of the ingredients in cat food.I have been trying to find info on the Fenugreek seeds they use in place of gums for a stabilizer. So far, all sites have stated it's been a staple of the India diet for a very long time and that recent small studies have shown it causes fertility issues in very high doses in mice. Why does canned cat food even need stabilizers anyway? What's wrong with just canning the meat/vitamins/minerals and selling it without anything else?
I get irritated about thickeners and binders, too, particularly since so many of them have potential health risks (e.g. carrageenan) and/or increase carbs (e.g. potato starch). Our cats' favorite foods are homemade and commercial raw foods that don't have any binders or thickeners, and Tiki Cat's original product line, which has none of that stuff, is pretty popular with a lot of cats so I suspect this is another case where humans at pet food companies are trying to create products that seem appealing to human consumers. I'm sure certain kinds of food would separate over time, look gross, and require stirring but I'd rather deal with that than feed something that's not really good for cats.I have been trying to find info on the Fenugreek seeds they use in place of gums for a stabilizer. So far, all sites have stated it's been a staple of the India diet for a very long time and that recent small studies have shown it causes fertility issues in very high doses in mice. Why does canned cat food even need stabilizers anyway? What's wrong with just canning the meat/vitamins/minerals and selling it without anything else?
if litter boxes have lids, the poop/pee fumes can be really bad if there isn't adequte ventilation so i would think that robot litter boxes that store the poop/pee in even less ventillated areas of the box could become full of toxic fumes even faster then the rest of the litter boxI just wish I knew how to control litter box odor better. I have a litter robot but the odor is still there.