I am needing the best dry cat food????????

I am so glad that this whole recall is finally making people take notice of the crap they feed their animals.

I’m glad you’re looking into a new food for your cats.

With the recall that happened, wheat gluten is the big suspect in cat food that everyone is trying to avoid, and it SHOULD be avoided. Should have been avoided before and even more so now.

Corn should always be avoided as well. It’s a huge filler worth NOTHING. Corn as an ingredient in cat food is a joke. Ever seen a cat chewing on a corn cob in a field? No you haven’t.

Cats, despite thousands of years of domestication, remain strictly carnivorous. True and honest meat eaters and that is what they need most. Protein!

Be aware that there are three Categories of Pet Foods:

-"Grocery store" foods – (Generic Brands and cheap name brands)those found in grocery stores and mass-market retailers - are typically made with lower-quality, less-digestible, inexpensive ingredients and are therefore a cheaper alternative. While easy on the pocketbook, "grocery store" foods normally do not provide your cat with the healthiest, most nutrient-dense ingredients.

-Premium foods – ( Iams, Purina and such)often found in grocery stores, pet stores, and veterinarian offices - contain higher-grade ingredients, but may still include some elements of "grocery store" food, such as artificial colors, artificial flavors, chemical preservatives, and "filler" ingredients. Premium foods are usually more expensive than "grocery store" foods because their ingredients are of a higher quality, and are therefore somewhat more beneficial and digestible.

-Healthy foods – (Wellness, Eagle Pack, Drs Foster and Smith) the newest addition to the pet food market - provide pets with the highest quality, healthiest, and most nutritious ingredients. They are typically available for purchase online or direct from the manufacturer. Foods in the Healthy class - contain nutrient-rich ingredients. Formulated to provide optimum health benefits for pets, these foods often use whole, fresh fruits and vegetables, real meat as the primary protein source, and carbohydrate-rich whole grains like brown rice and barley. They should not contain artificial preservatives, flavors, or colors. They will almost always be fortified with additional vitamins and minerals, and will use the best natural sources for fatty acids to help build healthy skin and a beautiful coat. Because healthy foods use high quality ingredients, you should expect to pay a little more than you would for other types of pet food. Remember, though, with healthy foods you can feed less since healthy foods are more nutrient-dense than other types of food.

With all that in mind, when you are choosing a new cat food, look at the first ingredients. All ingredients on pet food labels are listed by weight. Meaning whatever is listed first there is more in there. The first ingredients listed should be whole meat ingredients, protein sources, such as Chicken or Turkey. NOT just the word “meat”, who the heck knows what that is? The word Chicken Meal is ok, but it should be a secondary ingredient, not first. Meal is the meat dehydrated and ground into a powder.

The ingredients also should not include any byproducts whatsoever. Those are disgusting left over animal parts that are scraped off the floor of meat and poultry plants, which should just go into the trash but go into pet food instead. EW!!!! Also make sure there are no artificial colors or flavors. And make sure there is no BHA and BHT used preservatives. These preservatives have been shown to cause cancer.

Be aware though that when switching to a better food, you will pay for what you get. Good foods are not cheap. They are pricey and will cost you. But to me, they are well worth it.

What are some good foods I recommend? I feed my cats Drs Foster and Smith Holistic Adult Lite Dry cat food. I purchase it online and have it automatically delivered to my door so I never run out and never have to go get it. It’s one of the best foods on the market and has no fillers in it. It is also very reasonably priced compared to other holistic foods as well.

If you want to buy in a store, Complete Petmart carries quite a few natural, organic, and holistic blends. Old Mother Hubbard Wellness Brand is a great holistic food. As is Eagle Pack Dry Cat food. Merrick canned is also a great source of nutrition and they will be coming out with a dry line this summer. Some brands, not all, of Nutro cat food are ok is you want to spend less money, however I personally would never chose their food for nutritional value.

I highly recommend people take the time to research for themselves, but the information I have given should get you off to a good start. Good luck choosing a new food for your cats!

Side note… Please don’t feed Iams/Eukaneuba. It’s ALL fillers and CRAP. There is nothing good for your cat in that food. Not to mention they do the most terrible animal testing you have ever seen. www.iamscreulty.com to see the terror they create.

Drs. F&S Food Link - http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/NavResults.c...

Wellness Food Link - http://www.oldmotherhubbard.com/wellness/cat_index...

Eagle Pack Holistic Select - http://www.eaglepack.com/Pages/HS_Home.html

Merrick Foods: http://www.merrickpetcare.com/

DO NOT FEED IAMS! www.iamscreulty.com

I find the best cat food in general is Iams/Eukanuba. The first five ingrediants, which are the most important in dry food, don't contain fillers. The recall is some sort of wheat and Iams/Eukanuba doesn't use it in the production of their dry food. I use that food in general cuz it has more meats and proteins that cats need.

I use Royal Canin (Lite 37--high protein) for dry and Pet Promise for wet. I have a fat cat with a sensitive stomach and he has done well with these.

Neither company has been involved in the recent recalls.

Evo is good, but Wellness and Nature's Variety both make grainless ones - NV's is called Raw Instincts. I don't know if the latter two grainless varieties are listed in the link I provided. Evo is.

Innova Evo

http://www.naturapet.com/search/default.asp?animal...

Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul

http://www.chickensoupforthepetloverssoul.com/prod...

http://www.chickensoupforthepetloverssoul.com/prod...

Eagle

http://www.eaglepack.com/Pages/SP_Cats.html

Felidae Platinum

http://www.canidae.com/cats/platinum/dry.html

http://www.canidae.com/cats/platinum/canned.html

Go! Natural

http://www.petcurean.com/index.php?page_id=34

Halopets Holistic

http://halopets.com/index.cfm

Merrick

http://www.merrickpetcare.com/store/canned_cat_foo...

The Honest Kitchen

http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/products/index.sht...

Natural Balance

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/catformulas/home....

Natures Variety** ALSO CARRIES FROZEN RAW MEAT

http://www.naturesvariety.com/content.lasso?page=1...

Natures Logic **ALSO CARRIES FROZEN RAW MEAT

http://www.natureslogic.com/products/cp.html

Wellness

http://www.oldmotherhubbard.com/

SoJourner Farms *Natural Cat food mix- you make your own with this.

http://www.sojos.com/food.html

http://www.healthypetfoodbiz.com/

Dear Pet Owner.

As you have probably heard – there is a major pet food recall taking place. Many leading pet foods have been affected and several pets have died as featured in this recent news article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/from/ET/

This is exactly why you are receiving this email. We want to alert you, DON'T LET YOUR PET BE NEXT!

In fact, you would do well to follow these simple steps to ensure you are not another accident waiting to happen.

Find your pets food and treats and see if wheat, corn, or by-products are listed in the ingredients.

If so, discard the products immediately.

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This is not a shameless plug to capitalize on a recent tragedy, I would submit that it is quite the opposite. There are many commercial pet foods that need to be ashamed for their actions.

Today, Americans are constantly being mislead by clever marketing tactics regarding which food is best for their pet. For example, have you ever heard of the following pet foods that are now being recalled for harming pets?

Cat foods currently being recalled:

Americas Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Best Choice; Companion; Compliments; Demoulas Market Basket; Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog; Food Lion; Foodtown; Giant Companion; Good n Meaty; Hannaford; Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura Lynn; Li'l Red; Loving Meals; Main Choice; Nutriplan; Nutro Max Gourmet Classics; Nutro Natural Choice; Paws; Presidents Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; Save-A-Lot; Schnucks; Sophistacat; Special Kitty; Springfield Pride; Sprout; Total Pet; My True Friend; Wegmans; Western Family; White Rose; and Winn Dixie.

It's time to stop trusting the well being of your pet to just anyone who makes a pet food. If you are feeding commercially prepared pet foods, you need to listen closely.

Did you know that the FDA does not regulate the pet food industry?

Did you also know that most commercial pet foods are made from less than human quality ingredients.

Did you know that most pet foods bought in the store have been sitting around for as long as 18 months before you buy it?

Did you know that dogs and cats have the genetic potential to live 20 - 25 years but we are robbing those years from their lives with cheap pet foods.

Here are just a few of the procedures that we follow to provide your pet with a safe and nutritious product.

All the products are manufactured in a USDA facility.

All of our ingredients are individually inspected for human quality and carry the APHIS certification (a European standard for human quality ingredients)

Every vendor must supply an 'assurance statement' with each shipment. This statement must provide nutritional quality of ingredient provided AND must state it is free from any mold, bacteria, and so forth.

Dr. Jane has the ingredients tested AGAIN before manufacturing to make sure the quality is as stated AND it meets her standards

The product is tested 3 times during the manufacturing process - to again assure everything is 'as it should be'.

The product is tested again after manufacturing and again when it arrives at the warehouse.

One bag of food is kept at the warehouse - from each batch - to test in case a Customer has a problem or concern with the product. Each 'one bag' from each batch is kept for 1 full year.

The products are shipped directly from HealthyPetNet's warehouse to the Customer - no middleman warehousing (concerns of proper storage and pest control).

Can you say all of that about your current brand of pet food? Probably not. As I stated earlier, this is not a shameless attempt to capitalize on a tragedy, it is vital information that can save pets lives.

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If your cat is a male--NO dry food is good because they have crystals in it that get in his urethra and cause blockage. If your cat is female, dry food would not be a prob.

I'm taking no chances. I have been buying ground beef and cooking it up for my cats. I also buy friskies CANNED salmon. They better be safe with it.

Royal Canin looks very good. I'm going to be switching my kitty to the persian formula. I have talked to many people about it (and even have friends that feed it to their cats)

Purina Indoor Formula--in a green bag--my cats hack up hairballs less and it isn't on the recall list.

blue buffalo! def. no affilation with menu foods. never was or will be on the recall list.