what is best cat food to feed?

You have heard correctly - grains are added to foods to make them cheap, not because they are good for cats. In nature cats eat raw prey - not dry, corn filled kibbles. You need to mimic that diet, and that's best done with canned. The best canned foods contain few to no grains, and are free of by-products. Generally speaking, if you can buy it at the grocery store or Wal-mart, it's a cheap food that's cheap for a reason. Actually read the labels of what you would like to feed - and if it contains corn or by-products, then keep looking.

Go to the pet store, and see what they've got. A budget-priced food that's actually pretty good in quality is Petsmart's Authority brand. Readily available in most pet stores is Wellness and Blue Buffalo. Most of the Wellness canned varieties are grain free, and all of their Core foods are grain free as well. Blue Buffalo's Wilderness line is grain free. Other grain free foods include Merrick Before Grain, and Taste of the Wild (although mine will NOT eat their canned). Instinct and Solid Gold are two other grain free ones you can try.

Consider a proper diet and quality food an investment in the future health of your cat.

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 ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things?

http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea%E2%80%A6

http://www.sniksnak.com/ac/petfooddefinitions.html

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, constipation, and a host of other problems. Male cats are especially prone to blockages

from dry food. 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. ( Have a fat cat?)

An even bigger problem is that it IS dry and it dehydrates no matter how much your cat drinks

Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food. Cats are not naturally big drinkers.

95% of the moisture is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Think about it.

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 BYPRODUCTS

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 in between.

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=libra...

http://www.felinefuture.com/?p=470ary&act=sho

Please read about cat nutrition.

http://www.catinfo.org/

http://www.catinfo.org/?link=felineobesity

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm%E2%80%A6

Prescription diets It is extremely rare that they should be fed

The reason your vet thinks so highly of the pet food they sell probably has more to do with the people pushing it on

them with their own research showing how great their food is. Who is going to spend money or research for animals these

days. The food companies that is who. Their research is designed not to hurt their bottom line

Believe me a company researching their own products are in it for profit

Some vets are behind the times when it comes to nutrition

but more are reading and becoming up to date

Times change information changes over time as more is learned. Please do your research

. Notice grants for for this nutritional class in a vet school

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/news_&_events.htm#Nestle...

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/02/18/vet-school-relie...

Hills Science Plan, a pet-food brand owned by Colgate-Palmolive, boasts that: 'More vets feed Hills than any other pet food.'

Last year, Hills sponsored the British Veterinary Association's 2009 Congress (the biggest meeting on the veterinary calendar).

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I've heard that Orijen, Acana, and Evo are all good foods for cats, although I haven't yet tried any of them. However, I am heading to the pet store after work tonight to pick up a bag of Orijen food, so hopefully it turns out to be as good as everyone on here says it is ;)

The three that I listed do not have grains in them, and Orijen in particular is made up of 70% meat and 30% fruits and vegetables....

I used to foster for my local animal shelter, now I have my one cat. They all love Alley Cat cat food. It is inexpensive . Walmart here does not sell it but Atwoods does. Try it.

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