My Cat's 3 and want to know best kind of premium cat food??

Question

There are so many please help

Answer 1

It's really only a premium food if it does not contain any of the cheap fillers - no corn (no nutritional value for cats!) and no by-products (scrap "parts" deemed not fit for human consumption - not MEAT).  Some excellent and easy to find choices include Wellness, Innova (especially their grain-free EVO), California Natural, Felidae, and Blue Buffalo.  Wellness is now available at Petco, and Blue is available at Petsmart.  There are others.  The Wellness, EVO, and CA Natural is what I feed (canned and dry).  With canned food there are lots of other choices like Merrick and Weruva.  But read the labels of what you're buying, avoid the corn and by-products and you'll have a quality food.

Answer 2

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, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety, Nature's Logic.

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.

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 3

When you are choosing food, it is important for you to learn how to read ingredient labels. They tell you a lot about what kind of meat is being used and whether the food has any cheap fillers which does not benefit your cat/kitten.

You want to feed a food which is high protein - meaning the meat source must come from wholesome muscle meat. Make sure to select only food that list chicken, lamb, rabbit, beef, turkey, venison, salmon, whitefish, herring or a combination or those and not one that says by-products (chicken by product, meat by product, fish by product)

Stay away from too much fillers like corn, corn gluten meal, wheat, wheat gluten, soy, oatbrans, etc. These are all cheap filler which help reduce the cost of manufacturing but brings little to no benefit to your kitten.

You would also want to stay away from preservatives like BHA/BHT and Ethoxyquin which are proven to be harmful to your kitten. Also you do not want other artifical preservatives such as propylene glycol and propolyneglycol .You need natural preservatives such as Vitamin C, Vitamin A or Rosemary.

Your cat need an essential amino acid called Taurine. Cats can only receive this from eating wholesome meat. Choose a food that contains ample amount of Omega 3 sources - Salmon Oil, Flaxseed Oil or Canola Oil.

When you are well educated in learning how to read pet food ingredients, shopping for the best food for your cat would be easier.

Some recommended brands:-

By Nature Organics

http://www.bynaturepetfoods.com

California Natural

http://www.californianaturalpet.com

Eagle Pack

http://www.eaglepack.com

Evanger's

http://www.evangersfood.com

EVO

http://www.evopet.com

Felidae

http://www.canidae.com

Natural Balance

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com

Wellness

http://www.wellnesspetfood.com

Weruva

http://www.weruva.com/

Wysong

http://www.wysong.net/

Answer 4

Science Diet for adult cats. We feed every cat we've had this (recommended by our vet), and they get wonderful coats, and happy cats, and you don't pay for those dorky shapes cats could care less about. A little pricey, but when it's on sale, stock up! Highly recommended.

Add: For the person who says S.D. can be found in a grocery store, I've never seen it there! Only at our vet's mini pet shop next door and at Petco. Sorry to spoil the down-thumbers' fun. Talk to your vet, and see what THEY recommend.

Answer 5

Blue Buffalo...

they make their product with all natural/organic ingredients...

the only catch is that you have to purchase it from petsmart... it is not a petsmart brand... it is an independent label... but blue only works with petsmart..

here take a look

http://www.bluebuff.com/

Answer 6

Your probably going to want to go for Purina or Healthy Choice, and get one that's designed for an Adult Cat.  Watching the commerical, those seem to be the best out there.  You can also talk to your local pet store and see what they have to say.