What is the best dry cat food,of your cats choice?

Question

My cat seems to have problems with cat show, whiskas, and his vet say's only to use diamond ? or if i can raw meat,like liver, chicken ,etc, however it is a little for my 6 cats expense. from what ive heard about the diamond brand its not that good, what would you advise. thank you!!

Answer 1

Nurse ratchet? What are you feeding that c**p fot? Cats do not need fiber, they are carnivores. WD is the worst of the worst

This question is the same as asking what sugar cereal should you feed your kids for dinner everyday

When you talk about expensive, I do not thing you are including vet bills. Do you know how much it costs if your cat gets blocked? crf?

Another thing, liver shoul not be fed as raw meat. Other raw meats like chicken are fine for snacks, but have to be specially prepared if it is to be fed as regular meals

More on nutrtion



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 ingrediant 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 2

I use Purina One and just a bit of advice if your vet told you to give your cats liver he shouldnt be a vet because liver is toxic to cats...I have several cats and Purina One is affordable and you wont believe how beautiful it makes your cat's coats...

Answer 3

If you're going to feed dry, feed one of the newer grain-free dry foods.  Brands like Innova's EVO, Wellness Core, and Blue Buffalo's Wilderness are all grain free and high-quality.  They are free of by-products and are all meat.  Cats were made by nature to eat meat, not grain, and they do not need a high-fiber diet.  It's all the grains and corn we feed our cats that is contributing to the rise of feline diabetes.  Diamond has been on the recall list many, many times due to the contamination of their grains with some sort of mold or toxin (aflotoxin?  I don't recall exactly).  Many people have avoided it ever since.  

Get your cat a food free of corn especially, with few or no grains, and no by produces (scrap "parts" deemed not fit for human consumption) and you';; be doing the right thing for your cat's health.

Answer 4

I feed Iams brand my cats like it and my vet recommended it.

Answer 5

Why dry? Wet is much healthier. Cat Chow, Whiskas, and Diamond are all horribly low quality 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 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 6

our cat only eats expensive food....and wont go near anything under $8 a bag, and even then she's picky

Answer 7

If you are looking for foods that have only a single source of protein, the vet has Royal Canin venisen and green pea, duck and green pea, rabbit and green pea or they are also available in Science Diet as well.   They are prescription strength so they will cost more but are better for them.  My cats eat Science Diet W/D.  It is high in fiber.  If you want something over the counter I suggest Eukanuba Lamb and Rice or Salmon and Rice.  It come in dry but I don't believe soft.