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The thing about food is that some of this food can be pretty pricey… You sort of have to balance things. Keep in mind that they don’t eat quite as much of the better quality food as some of the cheaper brand… I order Wellness online from The Hungry Puppy in NJ & even though there’s shipping charge, it still comes out cheaper than other places. One can goes a long way even with all 5 of them… They tend to eat smaller portions.
However, not everybody can do that so you shouldn’t feel that you have to spend a fortune on food. You can always mix foods with home made sort of---boiled chicken or boiled any meat cut up in little pieces. All my cats like one veg or another & they love eggs & cheese. There’s a brand called Figaro and once in a while I throw in a can as its just tuna & veggies. Basically, I try to give them a balanced diet, to stay away from stuff that fills them but doesn’t give them nutrition, and to vary things a bit just so they don’t get into a ‘I don’t like that cat food anymore’ mood!
That’s just my way of doing it-
Chris -----Original Message-----
Where do you buy your cat food? If it's the grocery store, that's the first problem you have to solve. You need to get a phone book, and look up a pet supply store in your area. Once you find one, go to the store, and pick up a bag of cat food, flip it over, and read the ingredients (don't even bother reading anything that's sold in a grocery store, it's all crap). If it doesn't have MEAT as the first (and preferably the first two) ingredients, put it back on the shelf and move on to the next food down. Do this until you find one that DOES have MEAT as the first ingredient. At the same time, you can also look for corn in the ingredients, and try to avoid those too. What you can afford will ultimately tell you how far you can go in buying the best food you can. I personally recommend California Natural or Innova (or Healthwise, for budget-minded people). But there are other good brands too. Others will make brand suggestions, I'm sure. OR, just search our archives, this has been discussed many times in the past on this list. A few other good brands: Chicken Soup, Felidae, Natural Balance, Newman's Own, Pinnacle, Premium Edge Kitten, Wellness, Wysong Archetype Diet, (Eukanuba is an acceptable food is nothing better can be found locally, better than what's sold in grocery stores). Some brands carry several products in their lines. Some are better than others, for example, Premium Edge CAT food is not good, but their KITTEN food is. Wysong's feline diet is not good, but their archetype diet is good. Etc.. Other brands will have good first 2 or three ingredients, but if you keep reading it just gets crazy as you go down the list of ingredients, for example, MANY otherwise good premium cat foods (with meat as the first 2 ingredients and no corn) add garlic, blueberries, and all kinds of other crazy nonsense to their foods. I don't recommend those, simply because they are MORE likely to cause allergies, and garlic is not safe to feed cats at all, I recently learned on this list. Not sure why otherwise good cat foods add something so dangerous to their products, lack of education, I suppose. Anyways, point is, read carefully. There should be NO onion, garlic, or corn, and preferably not a lot of fruit and veggies, as cats are carnivores. Also, herbs add to the chances of allergic reactions too. The more ingredients, the more you're playing with fire as far as allergies go. That's why I prefer the California Natural chicken and rice, VERY basic ingredients!
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