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After hours of research (including reading a few threads here) I have some questions and am hoping someone can recommend a food that overall fits what is best my kitten. Currently she's on Purina Kitten Chow and will finish the bag up before I change her over. She's also got a few random cans of stuff I've picked up for her to try, but none are near the quality I'm after so I probably won't buy them again. I bought them before I started doing research and found out so many facts about what's in those I almost don't want to feed them to her at all.
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I think that about covers it. Thanks for any replies!
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- As far as I know, she has no allergies.
- She eats literally anything I give her and so far so good, so I don't have to worry about her being a picky eater either.
- Dry, wet or a mix, it doesn't matter. I'd prefer wet for her main diet as I've read that wet is better by far and when you compare the prices per ounce of the best dry foods out there to canned food in general, it's cheaper to go with even the most expensive canned food, but I can't afford the most expensive of either kind. I work 12 hour nights currently though, so she needs to have some sort of dry food even if her main diet is wet for the days I work because I can't leave enough wet food out long enough that she would have enough to eat without it going stale before she could finish it.
- Ideally, it should cost under $30 per case/bag and will hopefully give me close to a month's supply. She's a kitten right now so a case of 24 3 oz cans or 12 5.5 oz (seems to be the typical) would go a long way with her. If the food is really good for the price I could be talked up to spending a max of $40.
- Bad things are said about carrageenan, so that needs to be avoided.
- No-name meat by-products and meal by-products are both bad by everyone's standards, but I'm confused about named by-products and "meal", such as chicken by-products or chicken meal. Opinions seem to vary, so if possible I do want to avoid them, but I might not be able to for what I can afford. If it's not that important to avoid them I'm willing to try a food with them in it if the other qualifications are met.
- Fish seems to have a lot of issues as well and is not part of a cat's natural diet, so I'd like to avoid that if possible.
- Are eggs fine? I haven't found anything on those, but I seem to remember hearing bad things about them before. Quite a few foods have egg in them so it's going to be difficult to avoid.
- Most people seem to agree tapioca is bad, so that probably needs to be avoided too.
- Lots of different sites claim lots of different things regarding grains (rice, potato and corn in particular) so I really have no clue what to think there. The general consensus seems to be peas/carrots/sweet potato/any type of squash is ok, but to avoid anything else. Problem is, most of those foods (if not all) have some other bad thing in them or are way out of my price range...
- Fruits appear to be neutral and just added filling that isn't important nor harmful, so it won't hurt if there's fruits in the food, but I'd like to avoid them if I can since it means she's being robbed of things she actually needs.
I think that about covers it. Thanks for any replies!