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Thanks for the responses, everyone.
Sounds like if we want to feed wet food, we have to just bite the bullet. We probably pay $25/month in dry food to feed the guys. With wet food, sounds like closer to $200/month. Although, Bob's diabetes cost $4000 in one year, and the money was not the worst of it, seeing what he went through. I want to prevent any of our cats from going through that. A steroid shot triggered it, but I have to wonder if he hadn't been already overweight and full of carbs... Thanks, again, I'll get to shopping for a good brand! Rhonda |
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Thanks for the responses, everyone.
Sounds like if we want to feed wet food, we have to just bite the bullet. We probably pay $25/month in dry food to feed the guys. With wet food, sounds like closer to $200/month. Although, Bob's diabetes cost $4000 in one year, and the money was not the worst of it, seeing what he went through. I want to prevent any of our cats from going through that. A steroid shot triggered it, but I have to wonder if he hadn't been already overweight and full of carbs... Thanks, again, I'll get to shopping for a good brand! Rhonda |
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Since I'm the one contemplating changing our cats' diets, do you know of
a link that shows what a perfect cat food nutrition should be? How high should the percentage of calcium and phosphorus be in a canned food? How about fat and protein? Ash? I'm getting so many confusing signals, and I'd like to be sure I'm changing to a good food so that we only have to do this once. Thanks for any input, Rhonda GAUBSTER2 wrote: From: olitter (PawsForThought) I don't advocate Science Diet either, but by-products in and of themselves aren't problematic. It's the mystery meat, the "animal fat" or "\animal whatever" or "meat" or anything not specifically credited that you need to be wary of. Don't forget about the high corn content in Science Diet foods too. Wellness would be a better option. Are you pretending to be a scientist, too? Just how high would that be? As for Old Mother Hubbard Wellness, if you want to continue contributing to the high rate of kidney disease, go right ahead and feed it! The phosphorus and calcium levels of that stuff are simply too high. But I guess marketing is more important than nutrition, right? It's too bad that so many people fall for their marketing tactics. It's also too bad that they don't do any nutritional research that I'm aware of. |
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Since I'm the one contemplating changing our cats' diets, do you know of
a link that shows what a perfect cat food nutrition should be? How high should the percentage of calcium and phosphorus be in a canned food? How about fat and protein? Ash? I'm getting so many confusing signals, and I'd like to be sure I'm changing to a good food so that we only have to do this once. Thanks for any input, Rhonda GAUBSTER2 wrote: From: olitter (PawsForThought) I don't advocate Science Diet either, but by-products in and of themselves aren't problematic. It's the mystery meat, the "animal fat" or "\animal whatever" or "meat" or anything not specifically credited that you need to be wary of. Don't forget about the high corn content in Science Diet foods too. Wellness would be a better option. Are you pretending to be a scientist, too? Just how high would that be? As for Old Mother Hubbard Wellness, if you want to continue contributing to the high rate of kidney disease, go right ahead and feed it! The phosphorus and calcium levels of that stuff are simply too high. But I guess marketing is more important than nutrition, right? It's too bad that so many people fall for their marketing tactics. It's also too bad that they don't do any nutritional research that I'm aware of. |
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Rhonda,
Gaubster is a well-known troll on the newsgroups who waits with bated breath for food discussions to pop up so he can argue, namecall, post lies and erroneous information and promote his precious Science Diet, which is crap food. The majority of people here have been down this road with him ad nauseum and either ignore him, or have him killfiled. Your best off doing the same. To answer your question, short of doing your own research and making a homemade diet, feeding your cat a variety of high quality canned foods such as Wellness, Felidae, and Innova will provide your cat with good nutrition and is going to be the best you can do. Megan "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke Learn The TRUTH About Declawing http://www.stopdeclaw.com Zuzu's Cats Photo Album: http://www.PictureTrail.com/zuzu22 "Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way." - W.H. Murray |
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