I just bought Special Kitty Indoor cat Food for easy digestion for my 2 young cats! how is this brand & has ?

Question

anyone else used it? Do your furbabies like it? lol.

Answer 1

not a good brand

http://www.gomestic.com/Pets/What-is-in-...

read the link - it tells you what are bad ingredients and why they are bad.

its easy to understand and will make you a better pet mommy/or daddy.

Answer 2

I just read a good post from earlier! have a look at it

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

GOOD LUCK

Answer 3

Sorry to say that Special Kitty is not fit for consumption by felines. At the shelter I've seen cats go into diabetic comas because special kitty just didn't meet their needs. Check out the labels and look at the first 5 ingredients. If there is grain in the list before the 4th ingredient just walk away. And if the meat says "by-products" turn your nose up at it. Cats are carnivores and need quality meat. Definitely go with the brands the vet tech above recommended. They are very good but if you must get a grocery brand check out Purina.  

Answer 4

Honestly, Special Kitty is a bottom of the line food. It's cheap for a reason. Their encouragement for "easy digestion" really is nothing more than added fiber (which is a filler).

Good quality food for easy digestion would be Innova, Evo, Merrick, Felidae, etc. I do and would only feed a high quality food to my pets. If you can afford to, I'd upgrade. "Easy digestion" will only come from not feeding food with heavy fillers.  

Answer 5

It's low quality c**p :(

Excellent job switching to wet, but Iams and Friskies are both pretty low quality cat foods.

Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to dump cheap leftovers in. Will it kill your cat? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.

Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.

Thankfully, there are some excellent cat foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.

Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Whiskas, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Meow Mix.

Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Felidae, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timber Wolf Organics.

Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less p**p!

A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Diets high in grain have been attributed to problems with diabetes in cats. Cats are obligate carnivores, so why should there be grain in their diet? Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, and Sold Gold Indigo Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.

Remember that foods should be switched gradually, especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.

Another option for feeding cats is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:

http://www.barfworld.com/

http://www.rawfedcats.org/

http://www.rawfed.com/

http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawm...

Now the question is, do you feed wet or dry? Wet is the correct answer. The reason is, in the wild, cats normally get most of their water content directly from their prey items and drink very little. Domestic cats are no different, and because of the fact that they are designed to take in water with their meal, they have a very low thirst drive. Cats often just don't drink enough. This leads to urinary tract infections and crystals. The bit about dry food being better for teeth is a myth and has not been proven in the least. Canned/wet food is better because it more closely mimics the cat's natural diet. More on why canned food is best:

http://www.catinfo.org/  (Excellent cat nutrition information by a vet)

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canne...

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?ac...

http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?ac...

Another option to get cats to drink more would be a cat fountain. Cats tend to like to drink from running water and cat fountains see to that need, encouraging cats to take in more water.

More:

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_... (Dog food reviews. It's for dogs, but most of the high quality brands also put out excellent cat foods. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)

Answer 6

I use Purina Cat Chow Indoor Cat Formula for my cats.  They do not go outside.  In the past they would get upset stomaches quite often so I switched to this brand.  Ever since, it has eliminated the upset stomaches and me having to clean up after them daily.  I can not tell you from a Vets perspective, but from a caregiver for my babies it has done wonders!