Up to now,I've been feeding Rokeniva Friskies Seafood Sensation,but now I'm not sure if that is a healthy food brand,or if it's nothing but junk. Does anybody have any recomending ideas on what I should feed my cat?
What is your budget for catfood?Originally Posted by PrairieDuck
Up to now,I've been feeding Rokeniva Friskies Seafood Sensation,but now I'm not sure if that is a healthy food brand,or if it's nothing but junk. Does anybody have any recomending ideas on what I should feed my cat?
Unfortunately not many vets have nutrition training and even the ones that say they do (like my own new vet) seem to feel Hills/Science Diet and Iams are great foods. I beg to differ. Sharky is our food guru and has much knowledge and experience with food and I personally would take her advice over even my vet. A wet food diet is most certainly the healthiest because often cats do not drink enough water. Having said that, there are some cats that just won't eat wet food. For those cats, my advice is buy a water fountain and hope the little beggers will drink more water. It took me many foods but I finally found a wet that Bijou will eat and since I got the water fountain he certainly drinks more water.Originally Posted by PrairieDuck
For the person who asked where I am,I'm in the state of Illinois. When I first got Roke,I was imformed that it's better to feed her dry food instead of the canned wet food.
I usualy shop at Walmart,so I bought that food there. But I do have both PetCo,and Petsmart available to me too.
This morning,I called her vets with the same question,and Iams was recommended.
Unfortunately vets are not the best source for advice on nutrition... You'd think they were, but IMO they are far from having a true understanding of feline nutrition...Originally Posted by PrairieDuck
For the person who asked where I am,I'm in the state of Illinois. When I first got Roke,I was imformed that it's better to feed her dry food instead of the canned wet food.
I usualy shop at Walmart,so I bought that food there. But I do have both PetCo,and Petsmart available to me too.
This morning,I called her vets with the same question,and Iams was recommended.
Blue Buffalo, Halo, MAX, Natural Balance, Nutro, Solid Gold, Wellness - For me these are all good foods. Wellness IMO is one of the best in the list. I also like Nutro, and the cats seem to like it as well. My pick would be Solid Gold, as it is grain free, and has very good ingredients. Whatever you buy, buy a small bag first, as you never know if the kitty will eat it or not.Originally Posted by furryfriends50
petco i think has the most food choices.
list of petco dry foods: AvoDerm, Blue Buffalo, Breeder's Choice, Castor & Pollux, Eukanuba, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Goodlife Recipe, Halo, Hill's Science Diet, Iams, MAX, Meow Mix, Natural Balance, Natural Choice, Nature's Best, Nutro, ONE, Organix, Pet Promise, Pinnacle, Pro Plan, Purina, Royal Canin, Selects, Solid Gold, Spa Select, The Goodlife Recipe, Ultramix, Wellness, Wholesome Goodness,
list of petco wet foods: 9 Lives, AvoDerm, Blue Buffalo, Breeder's Choice, Castor & Pollux, Del Monte, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Halo, Hill's Science Diet, Iams, MAX, Meow Mix, Natural Balance, Natural Choice, Nature's Recipe, Nutro, Organix, Pet Promise, Pinnacle, Pro Plan, Purina, Selects, Sheba, Solid Gold, Spa Select, Ultramix, Wellness
blue buffalo wilderness is good; their wilderness wet food i think cat canned is same as dog canned but dog is cheaper. natural balance i am using right now and it is working well for mine. Pinnacle is good but expensive. wellness is a good food.
if you can't afford expensive food purina naturals is an okay food.
purrsonaly i do not like halo at all. the one i have looked at has chicken as first ingrediant but then tons of junk cats don't need. besides the chicken will move to 5th or 6th ingrediant after cooking. halo made the food look appealing to people but it is not good at all for cats.Originally Posted by carolinalima
Blue Buffalo, Halo, MAX, Natural Balance, Nutro, Solid Gold, Wellness - For me these are all good foods. Wellness IMO is one of the best in the list. I also like Nutro, and the cats seem to like it as well. My pick would be Solid Gold, as it is grain free, and has very good ingredients. Whatever you buy, buy a small bag first, as you never know if the kitty will eat it or not.
As far as wet goes, I would just go with the Wellness grain free - kitties like it, and has good, solid ingredients, without any of the junk.
I see no junk on Halo, but the only thing is that there are better food choices for the price. Still a good food where the ingredients are concerned. My only concern is a lot of peas, but again, there is really no perfect foodOriginally Posted by furryfriends50
purrsonaly i do not like halo at all. the one i have looked at has chicken as first ingrediant but then tons of junk cats don't need. besides the chicken will move to 5th or 6th ingrediant after cooking. halo made the food look appealing to people but it is not good at all for cats.
I have read it, and researched plenty... In fact, I am always researchingOriginally Posted by furryfriends50
halo dry ingrediants: Chicken, Pea Protein, Whole Dry Eggs, Oats, Pearled Barley, Vegetable Broth, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Pea Flour, Chicken Liver, Salmon, Flaxseed, Salmon Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Pea Fiber, Sweet Potatoes, Apples, Blueberries, Green Beans, Carrots, Cranberries, Zucchini, Alfalfa, Inulin, Calcium Sulfate, Potassium Chloride, Taurine, Salt, Folic Acid, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Cobalt Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Choline Bitartrate, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Bifidobacterium Longum, Enterococcus Faecium, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite
judging by the ingrediants i don't think it is good. chicken IS the first ingrediant, but i am pretty sure that they make the ingrediant lists before the food is actually made. chicken is mostly water, so when it gets dried up to make dry food it can easily move to the 5th or 6th ingrediant.
most of the protein then is coming from the peas in it, so the food is more veggies/fruits/plants than any meat. the taurine is low, most good foods are 0.2 not 0.1.
it has a lot of veggies/fruits in it which cats as obligate carnivores can't digest. http://www.felinefuture.com/nutritio...vegetables.php read that and you will understand better what i mean by that.
Originally Posted by Yosemite
I also don't think Halo is that good but as others have said, if that's the only food your cat will eat then it is a good food.
Apparently you also need to be concerned with feeding an all protein diet (no grains) to male cats over the age of 7. I have had 2 vets tell me to keep an eye on Bijou's kidneys if I continue to feed Orijen.