KellyH wrote: "GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... Kelly, a couple of things....what is the kcal of Nutro "lite"? Does it say anywhere on the bag? A true LIGHT cat food should have less than 3,250 kcal in order to be called a LIGHT food. 3,250kcal per .... ? 3250 kcal per kilo of food fed. I looked all over the bag and can't find any kcal info. I have to correct myself. It's not "lite" it's "Weight Management", which claims to be "30% less fat than our regular formula". Here's the nutritional info from Nutro's website: http://www.nutroproducts.com/nccatweight.asp I was mixing in the Science Diet Oral Care, but then someone told me I was counter-acting the weight management qualities of the Nutro, although the ratio of the mix was like 1:4. Is your kitty not losing weight on it? You may want to try a wet light food, if you cat will eat wet food, that is. :) I tried a few different kinds of light food with my Audrey, nothing worked that well. Her problem isn't overeating, it's lack of activity.... ;) So if you find something that works, post it - many of us would love to know! K |
"GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... It may very well contain "30% less fat than the regular formula", but that still doesn't neccessarily make it a "light" food. I would wager that the Nutro doesn't have much in the way of "weight management qualities". Has your cat lost any weight? Foods that don't meet the "light" requirements usually call themselves something different that *implies* weight loss. If your cat doesn't seem to be achieving any meaningful weight loss, then try Science Diet Light or you could always go w/ a Prescription Diet weight loss food. My 2 overweight cats have certainly NOT lost any weight. It's not for lack of activity, either. I have 5 cats, and they all keep each other pretty active. They have lots of toys, and I play laser pointer with them a lot. They were on Hill's w/d for a while. I wanted to move them to a food I could buy at a regular store, plus I want to find a good, natural ingredients pet food. Back to the drawing board! I was just looking at the nutritional info for Wellness Lite cat food, and it has 3,547 Kcal/kg. Close! -- -Kelly kelly at farringtons dot net Check out www.snittens.com |
"GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... It may very well contain "30% less fat than the regular formula", but that still doesn't neccessarily make it a "light" food. I would wager that the Nutro doesn't have much in the way of "weight management qualities". Has your cat lost any weight? Foods that don't meet the "light" requirements usually call themselves something different that *implies* weight loss. If your cat doesn't seem to be achieving any meaningful weight loss, then try Science Diet Light or you could always go w/ a Prescription Diet weight loss food. My 2 overweight cats have certainly NOT lost any weight. It's not for lack of activity, either. I have 5 cats, and they all keep each other pretty active. They have lots of toys, and I play laser pointer with them a lot. They were on Hill's w/d for a while. I wanted to move them to a food I could buy at a regular store, plus I want to find a good, natural ingredients pet food. Back to the drawing board! I was just looking at the nutritional info for Wellness Lite cat food, and it has 3,547 Kcal/kg. Close! -- -Kelly kelly at farringtons dot net Check out www.snittens.com |
"GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... It may very well contain "30% less fat than the regular formula", but that still doesn't neccessarily make it a "light" food. I would wager that the Nutro doesn't have much in the way of "weight management qualities". Has your cat lost any weight? Foods that don't meet the "light" requirements usually call themselves something different that *implies* weight loss. If your cat doesn't seem to be achieving any meaningful weight loss, then try Science Diet Light or you could always go w/ a Prescription Diet weight loss food. My 2 overweight cats have certainly NOT lost any weight. It's not for lack of activity, either. I have 5 cats, and they all keep each other pretty active. They have lots of toys, and I play laser pointer with them a lot. They were on Hill's w/d for a while. I wanted to move them to a food I could buy at a regular store, plus I want to find a good, natural ingredients pet food. Back to the drawing board! I was just looking at the nutritional info for Wellness Lite cat food, and it has 3,547 Kcal/kg. Close! -- -Kelly kelly at farringtons dot net Check out www.snittens.com |
KellyH wrote: "GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... It may very well contain "30% less fat than the regular formula", but that still doesn't neccessarily make it a "light" food. I would wager that the Nutro doesn't have much in the way of "weight management qualities". Has your cat lost any weight? Foods that don't meet the "light" requirements usually call themselves something different that *implies* weight loss. If your cat doesn't seem to be achieving any meaningful weight loss, then try Science Diet Light or you could always go w/ a Prescription Diet weight loss food. My 2 overweight cats have certainly NOT lost any weight. It's not for lack of activity, either. I have 5 cats, and they all keep each other pretty active. They have lots of toys, and I play laser pointer with them a lot. They were on Hill's w/d for a while. I wanted to move them to a food I could buy at a regular store, plus I want to find a good, natural ingredients pet food. Back to the drawing board! I was just looking at the nutritional info for Wellness Lite cat food, and it has 3,547 Kcal/kg. Close! Kelly, personally my cats have done great on Wellness and they love to eat it too! :)I've never tried the lighter variety, as Audrey was losing a *teeny* bit of weight on the regular (she also got a little more active since I moved into my house). Let me know if you try the lighter variety and how your kitty does. Then I'll have to build my other two a special area that Audrey can't get into for their regular food! :) K |
KellyH wrote: "GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... It may very well contain "30% less fat than the regular formula", but that still doesn't neccessarily make it a "light" food. I would wager that the Nutro doesn't have much in the way of "weight management qualities". Has your cat lost any weight? Foods that don't meet the "light" requirements usually call themselves something different that *implies* weight loss. If your cat doesn't seem to be achieving any meaningful weight loss, then try Science Diet Light or you could always go w/ a Prescription Diet weight loss food. My 2 overweight cats have certainly NOT lost any weight. It's not for lack of activity, either. I have 5 cats, and they all keep each other pretty active. They have lots of toys, and I play laser pointer with them a lot. They were on Hill's w/d for a while. I wanted to move them to a food I could buy at a regular store, plus I want to find a good, natural ingredients pet food. Back to the drawing board! I was just looking at the nutritional info for Wellness Lite cat food, and it has 3,547 Kcal/kg. Close! Kelly, personally my cats have done great on Wellness and they love to eat it too! :)I've never tried the lighter variety, as Audrey was losing a *teeny* bit of weight on the regular (she also got a little more active since I moved into my house). Let me know if you try the lighter variety and how your kitty does. Then I'll have to build my other two a special area that Audrey can't get into for their regular food! :) K |
KellyH wrote: "GAUBSTER2" wrote in message ... It may very well contain "30% less fat than the regular formula", but that still doesn't neccessarily make it a "light" food. I would wager that the Nutro doesn't have much in the way of "weight management qualities". Has your cat lost any weight? Foods that don't meet the "light" requirements usually call themselves something different that *implies* weight loss. If your cat doesn't seem to be achieving any meaningful weight loss, then try Science Diet Light or you could always go w/ a Prescription Diet weight loss food. My 2 overweight cats have certainly NOT lost any weight. It's not for lack of activity, either. I have 5 cats, and they all keep each other pretty active. They have lots of toys, and I play laser pointer with them a lot. They were on Hill's w/d for a while. I wanted to move them to a food I could buy at a regular store, plus I want to find a good, natural ingredients pet food. Back to the drawing board! I was just looking at the nutritional info for Wellness Lite cat food, and it has 3,547 Kcal/kg. Close! Kelly, personally my cats have done great on Wellness and they love to eat it too! :)I've never tried the lighter variety, as Audrey was losing a *teeny* bit of weight on the regular (she also got a little more active since I moved into my house). Let me know if you try the lighter variety and how your kitty does. Then I'll have to build my other two a special area that Audrey can't get into for their regular food! :) K |
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(Tamara) wrote in message . com... The article printed in JAVMA is old news. Beginning in 2001, and continuing today, all of Nutro's Natural Choice products have been enriched with added, extra taurine to provide insurance to even the very small number of dogs that may be predisposed to DCM (less than 0.5%). As you can see by the enclosed chart, Natural Choice Lamb Meal & Rice contains more taurine than other competitive brands. In fact, as much as 180% more. Perhaps you could let us know when you made the changes to Nutro Natural Choice Senior and Lite? Product still in the stores does not yet show the addition of taurine to the ingredient label, yet your web site shows taurine added. Is this a fairly recent change to these two products? As everyone noted we didn't get a response to the NG for the above question. Tamara was kind enough to respond to a personal email I sent her. It was interesting to note that in the email Nutro admits that they only recently bothered to add taurine to 2 of the 3 products that were named in the article. In other words even though they knew they had a problem at least as far back as 2000, they didn't do anything about it until late this summer, just before the publication of the article hit the press. It would be my opinion that they knew about this as far back as 1999 and waited two years to add taurine to the Nutro Natural Choice product and another three years to add taurine to the other two products. At least they made the changes. The other two companies Nature's Recipe and Sensible Choice STILL don't show added taurine today. IAMS, Purina and Hill's all made changes in early 1997, as soon as the information was known, some 6 years before Nutro finished changing all the products indicated in the problem. Original Message ----- From: Tamara Cerven To: 'STEVE CRANE' Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: news group posting Steve, Thank you for your inquiry. We began adding Taurine to the Natural Choice Senior and Lite foods this past summer. The bags have been changed to reflect the new levels (1000 ppm) and you should see them on the shelf as early as Nov. 15. |
(Steve Crane) wrote in message . com...
(Tamara) wrote in message . com... The article printed in JAVMA is old news. Beginning in 2001, and continuing today, all of Nutro's Natural Choice products have been enriched with added, extra taurine to provide insurance to even the very small number of dogs that may be predisposed to DCM (less than 0.5%). As you can see by the enclosed chart, Natural Choice Lamb Meal & Rice contains more taurine than other competitive brands. In fact, as much as 180% more. Perhaps you could let us know when you made the changes to Nutro Natural Choice Senior and Lite? Product still in the stores does not yet show the addition of taurine to the ingredient label, yet your web site shows taurine added. Is this a fairly recent change to these two products? As everyone noted we didn't get a response to the NG for the above question. Tamara was kind enough to respond to a personal email I sent her. It was interesting to note that in the email Nutro admits that they only recently bothered to add taurine to 2 of the 3 products that were named in the article. In other words even though they knew they had a problem at least as far back as 2000, they didn't do anything about it until late this summer, just before the publication of the article hit the press. It would be my opinion that they knew about this as far back as 1999 and waited two years to add taurine to the Nutro Natural Choice product and another three years to add taurine to the other two products. At least they made the changes. The other two companies Nature's Recipe and Sensible Choice STILL don't show added taurine today. IAMS, Purina and Hill's all made changes in early 1997, as soon as the information was known, some 6 years before Nutro finished changing all the products indicated in the problem. Original Message ----- From: Tamara Cerven To: 'STEVE CRANE' Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:16 PM Subject: news group posting Steve, Thank you for your inquiry. We began adding Taurine to the Natural Choice Senior and Lite foods this past summer. The bags have been changed to reflect the new levels (1000 ppm) and you should see them on the shelf as early as Nov. 15. |
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