What is the best canned/ wet food to feed kittens?

Question

i want to know some good brands of kitten canned/ wet food to feed my little kitty i want her to be healthy so no junky brand like Iams cuz their not good

Answer 1

Wellness kitten food has no by-products and is a little bit more expensive but I think it's worth it!

Careful though, petsmart doesn't stock it and petco only has cases in specific locations; you're gonna have to call in and check.

Answer 2

You asked right below about dry food also. Here is the info you need to make a decision





Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health

Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.

Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingrdiant a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things?

http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea...

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04...

Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms

The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with grains and carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process.  Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in

Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.

http://www.catinfo.org/#My_Cat_is_Doing_...

You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all.    The best food for cats does not contain any grains at all.

Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies  whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. I would rather feed a middle grade canned food then the top of the line dry food.

Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...

Please read about cat nutrition.

                               http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics...

                               http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.ht...

      http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.ht...

Vetinarian diets  The reason your vet thinks so highly of the pet food they sell probably has more to do with money than nutrition. In vet school, the only classes offered on nutrition usually last a few weeks, and are taught by representatives from the pet food companies. Vet students may also receive free food for their own dogs and cats at home. They could get an Iams notebook, a Purina purse and some free pizza.  http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04...

Answer 3

Anything from the first link would be ideal.  I'm not a fan of dry, but my suggestions are listed there.

With these better foods, there's less emphasis on niched marketing so you can feed the same stuff to kittens and adults because it's good for all.  Only the amounts change.

What to feed:  

http://www.catinfo.org/commercialcannedf...

The best of the worst - dry foods: My personal picks are Wellness Core, Innova Evo or Nature's Variety Instincts. I agree with some of the foods listed here but not all. I am happy to review ingredient lists if requested: http://cats.about.com/cs/nutrition/tp/pr...

Answer 4

All of my foster kittens are fed Innova's EVO - and they thrive!  I alternate it with Solid Gold, and Wellness.   No by-products, and no grain.  I feed the regular Wellness, not the kitten as it is "wetter" and they like it better.   The bulk of their diet though is the EVO and Solid Gold, which are suitable for all life stages.  I don't feel they are being shortchanged with the Wellness adult, as it has more nutrition in it than just about any special kitten food out there.

Answer 5

I love the Wellness line, I feed Core wellness dry and all the wet flavours they have.