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Best Brand for Pate Cat Food for Cat with serious medical issues?
It's an easy pattern. Every Vet stands behind whatever you can buy directly from their Office. But the brand our current Vet is standing behind and the exact food/flavor/whatever they have us feeding our Cat has Corn in it's ingredients.
I need something smooth/soft for a sick cat that's mostly toothless and can't handle chunks of meat or shreds of meat. It's not just the lack of teeth causing issues.
I'd like to know ingredients but once I get to a pet store, I am not allowed to think.
For now they want us to give her this corn bit filled stuff and see how she does. She likes the smell but she's vomiting up the food. I know it's from her health problems but I assume the corn isn't going to help things.
She needs to gain weight, so anything and everything you can recommend for weight gain would also be helpful.
reshaun martinez: We don't have all natural stores here. Most of the Pet Stores I walked into only carried one item per brand or two brands. Everything sucked. The stuff this Vet has us giving her is the only Prescription stuff that Petsmart carries here. And the ingredients are Corn, Grains, By Products... etc...etc. I can't think when I walk into Pet Stores. All I hear is complaining and whining from whomever is with me. So I need to figure out the food NOW while I have hours of sitting around in my home, instead of while I am being yelled and screamed at inside a store... with the bonus of idiots if Employees are asked to get involved.
I need Brand Names,... many of them since I can't find everything in every store on Earth.
I'd like to know or be able to look up ingredients.
Then I can pester stores by phone, instead of while surrounded by impatient people.
We use to give them a great brand. But that brand discontinued. They explained the Economy had gotten too bad. It was pretty much just meat in broth.
The Vet recommended we try a Baby Food brand that's just Meat and Broth but the chunks of food are too large for her due to all her health issues right now.
Pretty much all the brands one of you mentioned DO NOT make Pate. They have basically flaked meat and chunks of meat which she can't handle. Other things you mentioned are full of grains and by products on the can.
I did go on sprees just grabbing everything Pate but the humans would not cooperate with me to check ingredients, the main meat used, and if she threw up.
I have alot of frustration with humans in my household.
If they had cooperated with me, we would have been making the cats their cat food. But I need a small crock pot and a blender. Every time we are going to get things, they blow the money are stupid stuff.
When my cats weren't eatting dry food,
ARE THESE SAFE FOR CATS
(I wanted to make this separate)
(Alot of these things people say are "Grain Free" have these)
Rice
Barley
Brewers Rice/Grains
Cellocuse
Wheat Glutton
Rice Flour
Corn Startch
^^^ Read your Can instead of Websites ^^^
I am seeing these in Iams, Authority,... etc.
I am also finding out these are the origins of others words they list.
I grabbed a bunch of Pate some time ago, so I have their cans and then if they use a fancy word I can see the origins is Rice, Yeast, Broccoli,.. whatever.
5 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
any natural brand with NO GRAINS and NO BY-PRODUCTS. even the expensive vet brands have these. go to a natural pet food store, a health food store, or even petco or petsmart has a few. my cat had serious health issues and i cured her with a diet of all natural grain free and by-product free food. cats arent meant to eat grains, theyre meant to eat meat. and most cheaply made food use animal by-products and grains as fillers. by-products are disgusting things like spinal cords and cartiledge and super nasty things they throw out of human food. corn definitly isnt a part of a cats natural diet. the vet just wants to make money. they did the same thing to me. after i spent thousand of dollars trying everything they said i gave up and just did my own thing, which consisted of the diet i told you. it worked and im so happy to see my cat finally healthy. good luck!!!!
Source(s): personal experience - J CLv 79 years ago
You have a Petsmart? Then you have lots of health options. Just go and grab a couple cans of each, and see what she likes. By products and corn are bad things, as you know, and can cause more problems than they will solve. Feeding a cat a proper diet - MEAT and CANNED - can go a long way towards solving many problems.
Good brands you will find at Petsmart with no/low grains and no by-products include Wellness, Blue Buffalo (especially their Wilderness), and Avoderm (although mine won't touch it). Even Petsmart's Authority brand is pretty good. Nutro Natural Choice has no by-products, but is pretty high in grains and wheat gluten, so I'd shy away from that.
Run in, grab a couple cans of each, and see what she likes. All of them will meet your criteria!
Source(s): many years of cat rescue (and feeding a mostly-canned premium diet) - Anonymous5 years ago
Hi Kyle! I also answered your last question and I'm so glad that you've moved away from the fancy feast! A lot of people here ask for suggestions on what to feed their cats, and when we give them good advice about feeding a high quality (like wellness and natural balance), they usually just blow us off. So kudos to you! =) I also agree that cats do not like their whiskers in their bowl when they try to eat. So try feeding it to them on a flat plate or something along those lines. If that still doesn't do the trick then i'd suggest trying to switch them to a food called Tiki Cat, they have more 'chunky' varieties available. Good luck with your little ones and you sound like someone who really cares about their cats well being! We need more people like you in the world. Emogene is wrong about dry food cleaning a cats teeth. I heard this once and its so true - "does a hard pretzel clean your teeth? Or does it get stuck in your teeth?". It's the same for cats. Cats actually usually swallow their dry food whole, but even if they do chew it, it's only touching the tips of their teeth. Tartar builds along the gum line. So it doesn't make sense that it would clean their teeth and prevent tartar.
- Molly HLv 69 years ago
My vet recommended Iams digestive cars proactive health. You can make your own food. I have done a lot of reading on cats food and my head feels like it's going to explode.
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