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Our vet wants my cat to be on a "novel protein" diet (eg. avoid common proteins in cat foods like fish, chicken, turkey, pork, beef, dairy, egg, soy, and go with things he hasn't eaten before like duck, rabbit, or venison).
He prefers dry food, but I usually try to make him eat wet food. For now I am letting him have his way and have dry food, because the novel protein diet is a short-term trial and I just need to find something I can get him to eat for a month or so.
So far I'm having a hard time getting him to eat almost any novel protein food. He seems to pretty consistently dislike anything with green peas in it, including Hill's d/d (duck, green peas), Royal Canin PR (rabbit, green peas), and Natural Balance Green Pea & Duck (this one was canned, the other two were dry).
He will also very willingly and enthusiastically eat First Mate Duck & Blueberry dry food. Unfortunately it contains chicken fat that's processed to remove proteins and make it non-allergenic - our vet isn't sure how much we can count on that processing (especially in a non-veterinary brand), so she still wants him on a different food.
I'm not 100% sure peas are why he's rejecting his novel protein foods, but I can say that it's unusual for him to reject a dry food, every dry food he's rejected has had peas in it, and the only one he liked was one without peas. Unfortunately, it seems like the vast majority of novel protein foods contain peas. Even ones that don't say "peas" in the name often have it in the ingredients list.
Other than the First Mate food our vet wasn't sure about trusting, does anybody know of any other novel protein dry food for cats that does not contain peas?
He prefers dry food, but I usually try to make him eat wet food. For now I am letting him have his way and have dry food, because the novel protein diet is a short-term trial and I just need to find something I can get him to eat for a month or so.
So far I'm having a hard time getting him to eat almost any novel protein food. He seems to pretty consistently dislike anything with green peas in it, including Hill's d/d (duck, green peas), Royal Canin PR (rabbit, green peas), and Natural Balance Green Pea & Duck (this one was canned, the other two were dry).
He will also very willingly and enthusiastically eat First Mate Duck & Blueberry dry food. Unfortunately it contains chicken fat that's processed to remove proteins and make it non-allergenic - our vet isn't sure how much we can count on that processing (especially in a non-veterinary brand), so she still wants him on a different food.
I'm not 100% sure peas are why he's rejecting his novel protein foods, but I can say that it's unusual for him to reject a dry food, every dry food he's rejected has had peas in it, and the only one he liked was one without peas. Unfortunately, it seems like the vast majority of novel protein foods contain peas. Even ones that don't say "peas" in the name often have it in the ingredients list.
Other than the First Mate food our vet wasn't sure about trusting, does anybody know of any other novel protein dry food for cats that does not contain peas?