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With our recent 2nd cat addition, I've thought about making the switch to wet food. My resident cat has always had dry, and has a weird way of eating that makes him a slow grazer (*more on that later). He is 11 this year, and while he's always been super healthy by every vet he's seen, I want to be more careful about his nutrition now I've learned a lot. New cat eats almost everything without complaint, so that's pretty easy.
I'm not really familiar about ingredients and bad things to look out for, but I'm trying to avoid peas/fish as best I can. Currently they've loved these, and just trying to figure out which I should pick as the "main food".
Wellness Chicken Pate - Has gums and cranberries. I read it's apparently high on phosphorus.
Pure Vita Chicken/Turkey - Has gums and Menadione listed as last ingredient.
I'm not sure which is the lesser evil.
I haven't had any luck trying to buy Dr. Elsey as I heard they're having supply issues. I have Farmina/Rawz/Tiki cat in line for testing next but after calculating price per oz, they are a bit pricey to be an everyday food for my budget. They don't seem to like chunks or shreds. If there are other wet food in pate texture, with comparable price per oz & few questionable ingredients, I'd love to know!
(*) He mostly licks and pushes the food around in his plate, rather than a lick & munch I see other cats do (including new cat). I've tried various deep bowls/shallow bowls/plate with rim/flat plate, and he does it with every type, elevated or not. I'm not sure if anyone else has had a cat with weird eating habit like this. He often drops food, and if I hand feed him he doesn't munch/chomp it out of my hand, but kind of licks at it. Multiple vets he's seen in his life has never found any dental issues or swallowing issues. He's at a healthy weight (used to be a bit chubby).
I'm not really familiar about ingredients and bad things to look out for, but I'm trying to avoid peas/fish as best I can. Currently they've loved these, and just trying to figure out which I should pick as the "main food".
Wellness Chicken Pate - Has gums and cranberries. I read it's apparently high on phosphorus.
Pure Vita Chicken/Turkey - Has gums and Menadione listed as last ingredient.
I'm not sure which is the lesser evil.
I haven't had any luck trying to buy Dr. Elsey as I heard they're having supply issues. I have Farmina/Rawz/Tiki cat in line for testing next but after calculating price per oz, they are a bit pricey to be an everyday food for my budget. They don't seem to like chunks or shreds. If there are other wet food in pate texture, with comparable price per oz & few questionable ingredients, I'd love to know!
(*) He mostly licks and pushes the food around in his plate, rather than a lick & munch I see other cats do (including new cat). I've tried various deep bowls/shallow bowls/plate with rim/flat plate, and he does it with every type, elevated or not. I'm not sure if anyone else has had a cat with weird eating habit like this. He often drops food, and if I hand feed him he doesn't munch/chomp it out of my hand, but kind of licks at it. Multiple vets he's seen in his life has never found any dental issues or swallowing issues. He's at a healthy weight (used to be a bit chubby).