Question about Pet Promise dry cat food?

Organic or not, these are horrible ingredients for a cat to eat. You cat is a carnivore, a meat eater and carbs from these ingredients can cause a host of problems. Furthermore, i do not allow dry food in my house!!! Please learn about cat nutrition

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_Read_a_Pet_Fo...

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

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_Just_Fine_...

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 CAT FOODS CONTAIN NO GRAINS NO BYPOODUCTS NO MEAL

Cats are meat eaters not cereal or rice eaters

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/bpo_ch4a.php

Please read about cat nutrition.

http://www.catinfo.org/

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

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food...

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/Perhach/P...

I'm sorry, I'm *not* "qualified" but I just thought I would share my two cents anyway. From what I've researched, any cat food with "Corn" in it isn't good for cats in any amount. Also, generally wet cat food is much better for cats. It's actually a myth that dry food keeps their teeth in better condition. I don't want to tell you what to feed your cats of course, nor do I assume that your are uneducated on this already, but I found this article to be interesting and thought you might check it out just in case! Kudos for going organic though, that's always better!

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canned_food.htm

I'm also editing in this site as well: http://www.catinfo.org/ seems pretty complete in its explanations.

All dry foods, unless it says 100% natural, have some artificial ingredients. Pet Promise is more organic then other foods because it has very little artificial and is very good for cats. As for Science Diet or Friskies you will find alot more artificial ingrediends other then that.

as part of your research, I recommend you watch the video on this site:

http://www.highestqualitypetfood.com/

It's amazing what is in most commercial cat foods these days!