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I can't understand why people do not yet get it that dry pet food is pure crap. Even most vets I talk to seem to accept that people would feed this. It is like giving your beloved pet a death sentence.
The style of the food (pate, shredded, chunks etc) is not indicative of how much meat is in the food. Some pates have more actual meat than some chunks. Those chunks could be made up of anything. You have to read the labels to know how much real (identified) meat is in the food.Hi,
Does anyone know what the Trader Joe's cat food looks like? My cat hate pate, they prefer to sink their teeth in actual meats.
Yes, Trader Joe's is available in Canada. Here in Vancouver, Tisol and Bosley's carry it. I've seen the wet.Is TJ sold in Canada? It looks good for my feral kitties and I haven't seen it around.
kroger has cat food for .39 for 5.5 oz <petprideSo, I went to Trader Joe's today (aka, the store I love to love), mostly because it is about 10 times cheaper than Whole Foods Market and has many of the same things availible for people.
Today, I stumbled uopn their cat food. Right now, Lola is in the kitchen pounding down some of their wet food...she appears to love it (the saice especially) and instead of looking like some unidentified meat-related product, it has REAL crab meat in it. Smells good, even to me! The ingredients list checks out for me and as far as I'm concerned, I'm feeding the cat meat I can identify...that's ok by me! It's also WAY cheaper than anything else I've fed, coming in at .59 per 5.5 oz can.
Then, there is the question of dry food. I just switched them, and they're doing fine on Nature's Variety, but TJ's sells a brand of cat food with a nearly identical ingredients list (actually, the TJ's cat food has more meat and meat-meal sources) for much cheaper. It's made by and company called Bench and Field and it's called Holistic Natural Feline. The website is here: http://www.benchandfield.com Anyone had any experience with this that they can tell me about?
Doesn't chicken broth have a lot of sodium? I read that sodium is REALLY bad for cats!I mix the TJs tuna with Walmart's generic chicken broth. My cat loves this so much, and its a great way to get extra liquids into her. She was pretty chubby when I got her, and now that she is eating mostly wet food, she's lost some weight. (no, she doesn't exclusively eat tuna, but there's nothing she loves more, especially with the broth added)."
You know, I don't see any of the things listed by the FDA that might be listed on a label that actually were [color= rgb(70, 70, 70)]Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol (see below), so I disagree with your 'do not feed' thinking.[/color]Contains Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol, which is toxic to the liver. Do not feed.
Oh, erm, the thread went off topic. This was in response to the original TJ's food we were talking about.
To all of you dry cat food feeders out there, please, please note that cats do not DRINK enough water for proper hydration. They get most of their water from their food. I have found that, feeding my cats TJ's wet turkey and or chicken canned foods, diluted with no sodium chicken broth, has been the best thing ever to cure them of hairballs and clear the kidneys, and they LOVE it. I will not feed my cats a fish-based wet food (especially tuna), as cats do not eat it naturally, and tuna has its own health issues attached, one of which is mercury. (I was grateful to learn this, actually, because the fish-based wet foods stink, too!) I would feed my cats a raw food diet if I could figure out a way to make it work with indoor cats and a full-time job, but as a second-best alternative I am feeding them the above-mentioned mixture, plus a bowl of water plus (for now) a little bit of Origen Cat & Kitten. I no longer trust the likes of Science Diet and Royal Canin for kidney crystals. Origen has the highest meat-based protein content that I have found, and I still don't give them much of it, just enough to satisfy their enjoyment of crunchy food, since they don't have bird bones to gnaw on.
To sum up, after about a month on this regimen, my cats - who were barfing up hairballs constantly - have barfed no more than twice since this regimen started. This is a HUGE improvement, and far more successful than ANY hairball remedy or hairball teats I have tried. My male cat has been treated for crystals before, and when he started behaving oddly a couple of months ago I had the vet run tests and there was no sign of crystals (and he was given antibiotics) in case of a UTI. We never found out what the problem had been, but his behaviour has corrected, in addition to the complete absence of hairball issues.
Dry food diet is not healthy for cats, as they will not get anywhere near adequate hydration from the amount of water they will drink. I am grateful to have found TJ's wet food, as it seems to be very high quality and the price is so reasonable. My cats love it, and they are happy and hydrated on it. In the absence of a raw food diet, I feel pretty confident that I am doing the best that I can for them. I wish I had known this sooner!
Actually the "medicine" you are referring to that creates thirst in the cat is salt, plain old salt. The reason c/d and s/d are prescription is the added methionine which is an amino acid which acts as a urine acidifier. The urine acidifier bring urine pH down to levels where crystals do not form as easily. Feeding a diet high in meat also acts as a natural urine acidifier.
Hi...In answer to your question about why CD cat food can be called prescription, according to my vet, there is a medicine in the food that creates thirst in the cat. Therefore, the cat drinks more water than he normally would. I know this to be true with my male cat who has bad issues with crystals. Since being on the CD diet, he has not had an incident in over two years. Hill's is not the best food, and I hate feeding it to him, but to switch his food and take the chance of him getting crystals again is not an option.
I thought I had explained that methionine, not salt, is the "medicine" that makes c/d and s/d effective against the formation of struvite crystals.
Most all commercial cat food has salt in it. That is an nutrient that cats need. If the additive you are referring to is plain old salt, then why does the CD cat food work for urinary problems when regular cat food does not? They both contain salt. So the salt analogy doesn't quite make sense. I am sure that Hills does add something to the medicated food, because it works where regular food does not. Of course, they are not going to tell the general public what that "medicine" is.