What is the best dry cat food out there?

Question

What is the best dry cat food out there?

Answer 1

my fifteen year old  cat has ate wal mart brand special kitty his entire life and he has had a real long healthy life with no major health problems.

Answer 2

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

to recommend a good brand we would  have to know what country you live in

I can GUARANTEE ALL food from grocery store or Wal Mart is c**p - no matter what people say their cat likes

read the link to easily become a smart cat food buyer - it tells you what ingredients are good, and what are nasty.

Answer 3

I personally think the best dry foods are grain-free and have few fillers.  My favorite is Taste of the Wild.  It's great quality and very well priced for a high quality food

http://tasteofthewildpetfood.com

Answer 4

Most of the main-stream cat food brands like Meow Mix, Fancy feast, etc... aren't that good for your cat.  As a general rule of thumb the more expensive stuff is always better.  It cost more but you don't need to feed them as much to get the same amount of nutrition and its made with better ingredients.  

I think most people are starting to avoid a purely dry food diet, but if that's your only option, Royal Canine makes a really good cat formula (at least in China.)  So I'm sure they have the same selection I have, and much more, in the US.

Answer 5

Wellness.

Answer 6

I vote Science Diet but it makes his stool smell AWFUL.

Answer 7

Eagle Pack or Royal Canine, both are selling withing USA.

Food from supermarket is very,very bad for all your pets, no matter how cats like it--they choose food by smell, so any food with strong flavor is attractive to animal, no matter what's its ingredients.  

Answer 8

hmm..i would say friskies or meow-mix my cats love friskies but meow mix is healthy too

Answer 9

My cats Looooooooooooooooooove Fancy Feast.  Any flavor.  

Answer 10

i would have to say meow-mix. my kitties loved it and they never had a problem eating it.

Answer 11

Why feed dry? Wet is far healthier.

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.)