Is this a good cat food?

Question

Is Dry Nutro Max Adult Cat Food a good brand? My Oreo just loves it to pieces. I would really hate to take her off it. She is doing great on it. I heard some one say Nutro Max dog food was c**p. Should I take my kitty off Nutro Max Cat Food?

Answer 1

That is actually one of the best brands you can buy for your pet. The first ingredient is real meat, I have seen animals who are put on that and their coat improves in texture, shine and general health. Don't listen to people who don't know what they are talking about.

Answer 2

If she likes it then there is no reason to take her off it. If it is in stores it is ok to let her eat it. Don't always take peoples word. Their cat may not have liked it but yours does.

Answer 3

Not really, no. It's better than a lot of them out there but it's not great. Nutro is a low medium end food and Nutro Max is their lowest quality diet.

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 diet's include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, and Sold Gold Indigo Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some of the high end foods can be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness and Solid Gold. 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...

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. Anything with five or six stars is a great food.)

Answer 4

if oreo likes it then you should keep it but if oreo  stops eating then you should buy anew brand

Answer 5

It is significantly better than anything you will buy in a grocery store.  I would call it a medium quality food, but not a premium one.  There are better things you could feed her, but surely many more things that are  worse!  Some of the better premium foods include Wellness, anything by Innova, California Natural, and so on.   Those have higher quality ingredients than any of the Nutro foods, but they are also more expensive.  It's a question always of quality and budget.  If you can afford to spend more on food for her, then some of the suggestions would be even better.  If that's not the case, then you aren't cheating her by feeding her the Nutro.  

Answer 6

Nutro Max is a very healthy cat food, very low on salt levels. So if she's eating it she likes it to... There seems to be no problem. Dogs probably didn't like it because it focuses on nutritional values rather than flavour but you cat likes it so it must be OK!