I recently switched foods for my two cats from Purina ONE to Science Diet for kind of an odd reason.
My 9 year old Snowshoe, Vinny, had been having problems not pooping in his litter box consistently since July (He would go on our bathroom rug. Just one, not the other bathroom rug, or anywhere else in the house). For about two months before that, he had minor problems, that were rather inconsistent, pooping on the bathroom rug or on the carpet squares in front of the litter boxes (I've since replaced them with rubber mats). After attempting to think of what could cause this (he got a clean bill of health from the vet 3 times, and I changed his litter twice, moved the litter boxes, tried Feliway spray...nothing worked well), I thought about when we he first started having "accidents." For financial reasons, I had changed his food to Purina All-Ages (regular, not ONE) from the Science Diet Hairball Formula that his former owner had given us. I thought that, maybe, there was a digestive problem going on (I had since switched again from Purina All Ages to Purina ONE Chicken and Rice per the vet's recommendation) so switched them back to Science Diet Indoor Formula. Needless to say, he's had no accidents since I began the process of switching foods last week.
Anyways, after speaking to my mother in law today, she told me that the guy at the Natural Foods store where she buys her dog food told her that Science Diet is crap. After reading the ingredients list, the first 5 ingredients for Science Diet do include: Chicken By-Product Meal, Brewers Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Powdered Cellulose. Meanwhile, the first 5 ingredients of the Purina ONE I was feeding them before include: Chicken, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, wheat flour.
Although its a "more expensive" food, is Science Diet necessarily a "worse" food because it's main ingredient is by-product, whereas Purina ONE's main ingredient is real chicken?
My 9 year old Snowshoe, Vinny, had been having problems not pooping in his litter box consistently since July (He would go on our bathroom rug. Just one, not the other bathroom rug, or anywhere else in the house). For about two months before that, he had minor problems, that were rather inconsistent, pooping on the bathroom rug or on the carpet squares in front of the litter boxes (I've since replaced them with rubber mats). After attempting to think of what could cause this (he got a clean bill of health from the vet 3 times, and I changed his litter twice, moved the litter boxes, tried Feliway spray...nothing worked well), I thought about when we he first started having "accidents." For financial reasons, I had changed his food to Purina All-Ages (regular, not ONE) from the Science Diet Hairball Formula that his former owner had given us. I thought that, maybe, there was a digestive problem going on (I had since switched again from Purina All Ages to Purina ONE Chicken and Rice per the vet's recommendation) so switched them back to Science Diet Indoor Formula. Needless to say, he's had no accidents since I began the process of switching foods last week.
Anyways, after speaking to my mother in law today, she told me that the guy at the Natural Foods store where she buys her dog food told her that Science Diet is crap. After reading the ingredients list, the first 5 ingredients for Science Diet do include: Chicken By-Product Meal, Brewers Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Powdered Cellulose. Meanwhile, the first 5 ingredients of the Purina ONE I was feeding them before include: Chicken, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, wheat flour.
Although its a "more expensive" food, is Science Diet necessarily a "worse" food because it's main ingredient is by-product, whereas Purina ONE's main ingredient is real chicken?
