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I'm not disputing that it is. It's obviously heavily processed, but why else is it bad?
I ask because despite my attempts to get my 8 month old girl on premium food, she has settled with Fancy Feast and will not budge. I've been reading a lot here about the debates over what food is the best, so I guess I should be happy that I've found something she is enthusiastic about (for now...she's already turned her nose up at FF flavors she's previously liked, and I suspect she might do the same with the ONE Fancy Feast flavor she likes, but that's a problem I'll deal with if it arises).
When she came to me she was already eating a very expensive imported brand called N & D. Luckily for my wallet, she stopped eating it. She still eats the N & D dry food. In fact, she loves it, and I will continue to offer it to her in limited quantities. By all appearances, this seems to be a very healthy, quality brand. More so than, say, Meow Mix. But I understand dry food is not optimal and I'm curious about the specific reasons why because I feel as long as she's eating the N & D kibble, she's at least getting some "premium" quality food in her diet. Am I fooling myself?
Another reason I like this brand of dry food is that it's imported from Italy, as opposed to American brands. I read somewhere that many American-made dry pet food is sold in bags lined with preservatives that are suspected of causing renal disease. Both my previous cats died of renal disease, and they had been eating Max Cat dry (and Fancy Feast wet) all their lives. I see no indication anywhere on the bag that the N & D has preservatives in it's packaging, so I'm comfortable with it. I assume that European countries don't favor the pet food companies over the health of the animals that eat it as much as America does. Here, many products for humans contain linings with potentially unhealthy chemicals, such as chips, canned food and microwave popcorn. A lot of these chemicals have been banned in European countries so I feel safer feeding little Maple the Italian food.
Maybe if I better understood the reasons dry food, even high quality dry food is not optimal, it would be easier to fight the urge to allow her to eat more of it.
I ask because despite my attempts to get my 8 month old girl on premium food, she has settled with Fancy Feast and will not budge. I've been reading a lot here about the debates over what food is the best, so I guess I should be happy that I've found something she is enthusiastic about (for now...she's already turned her nose up at FF flavors she's previously liked, and I suspect she might do the same with the ONE Fancy Feast flavor she likes, but that's a problem I'll deal with if it arises).
When she came to me she was already eating a very expensive imported brand called N & D. Luckily for my wallet, she stopped eating it. She still eats the N & D dry food. In fact, she loves it, and I will continue to offer it to her in limited quantities. By all appearances, this seems to be a very healthy, quality brand. More so than, say, Meow Mix. But I understand dry food is not optimal and I'm curious about the specific reasons why because I feel as long as she's eating the N & D kibble, she's at least getting some "premium" quality food in her diet. Am I fooling myself?
Another reason I like this brand of dry food is that it's imported from Italy, as opposed to American brands. I read somewhere that many American-made dry pet food is sold in bags lined with preservatives that are suspected of causing renal disease. Both my previous cats died of renal disease, and they had been eating Max Cat dry (and Fancy Feast wet) all their lives. I see no indication anywhere on the bag that the N & D has preservatives in it's packaging, so I'm comfortable with it. I assume that European countries don't favor the pet food companies over the health of the animals that eat it as much as America does. Here, many products for humans contain linings with potentially unhealthy chemicals, such as chips, canned food and microwave popcorn. A lot of these chemicals have been banned in European countries so I feel safer feeding little Maple the Italian food.
Maybe if I better understood the reasons dry food, even high quality dry food is not optimal, it would be easier to fight the urge to allow her to eat more of it.