Best canned food vs. worst

What is brands are best cat food, vs. worst?

I've skimmed through the Ann Martin book "Food Pets Die For"...so I'm at
something of a loss what to do!

What are top three wet foods...and what brands should I totally avoid.

I had a cat in the 70's that I just fed the generic plain-label
brands...and she got a horrible skin rash and passed away after five
years..I don't want a repeat of that.

Thanks for providing some clarity to this issue.

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My cat gets half a can of Friskies every day. I cover the other half
and keep it in the fridge for the next day. I always keep a little dry
food (Deli Cat) in a bowl on the side, but I don't fill the bowl full
because it tends to dry out and is less palpable after sitting in the
bowl for a few days. She also gets kitty treats a couple of times a
day and I often give her a few little scraps of fish, pork, beef,
chicken, or whatver in the evening. She is an "only pet," so she
doesn't have to compete with other animals in the house. I'm not
saying that this is the perfect feeding regimen, but it has served my
cat well in her 17 years, as she's quite healthy, active, in very good
shape, and acts much younger than her years.

You already know the answer to the worst foods. The generics are absolutely
horrible it's just not worth the health of the animal to save a few bucks by
buying plain label.

Celeste

"LemonPops via CatKB.com" wrote in message
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What is brands are best cat food, vs. worst?

I've skimmed through the Ann Martin book "Food Pets Die For"...so I'm at
something of a loss what to do!

What are top three wet foods...and what brands should I totally avoid.

I had a cat in the 70's that I just fed the generic plain-label
brands...and she got a horrible skin rash and passed away after five
years..I don't want a repeat of that.

Thanks for providing some clarity to this issue.

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LemonPops via CatKB.com wrote:
What is brands are best cat food, vs. worst?

I've skimmed through the Ann Martin book "Food Pets Die For"...so I'm
at
something of a loss what to do!


well....that's your first mistake! Seriously. I've dealt w/ Ann
Martin on a dog ng about a year or so ago, and I've never met a more
nasty, vicious person. She makes a ton of money peddling fear and
anger. The stuff she alleges happened in Canada and many, many years
ago. She takes half-truths and leads you to believe something entirely
different happened. Buyer beware of anything she is selling.

"Gary" wrote in message
oups.com...
My cat gets half a can of Friskies every day. I cover the other half
and keep it in the fridge for the next day. I always keep a little dry
food (Deli Cat) in a bowl on the side, but I don't fill the bowl full
because it tends to dry out and is less palpable after sitting in the
bowl for a few days. She also gets kitty treats a couple of times a
day and I often give her a few little scraps of fish, pork, beef,
chicken, or whatver in the evening. She is an "only pet," so she
doesn't have to compete with other animals in the house. I'm not
saying that this is the perfect feeding regimen, but it has served my
cat well in her 17 years, as she's quite healthy, active, in very good
shape, and acts much younger than her years.


In my heart of hearts I suspect a diet of both canned and dry
is the best one for healthy cats. But cats with special needs may not
fare so well.

Some excellent brands of canned food are Wellness, Innova, California
Natural, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack, Solid Gold, Merrick, Nutro, Pinnacle,
Evolve, Newman's Own, Felidae...

I feed my cats a diet of primarily wet food, and rotate between all of the
above brands. Some they prefer more than others.

The more wet food in a cat's diet, the better. The link below explains why
wet food is so important for cats.

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?
action=library&act=show&item=whycatsneedcannedfood

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"Catherine via CatKB.com" wrote in message
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Some excellent brands of canned food are Wellness, Innova, California
Natural, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack, Solid Gold, Merrick, Nutro,
Pinnacle,
Evolve, Newman's Own, Felidae...

hello everybody.
i am from croatia (europe)
and i have never heard of those kinds of food you are mentioning here. is
here maybe someone from europe who can share the best brands of food with
me? for instance hills, eukanuba, royal canin? do you know those brands?

In article , enlightened
us with...

"Catherine via CatKB.com" wrote in message
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Some excellent brands of canned food are Wellness, Innova, California
Natural, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack, Solid Gold, Merrick, Nutro,
Pinnacle,
Evolve, Newman's Own, Felidae...

hello everybody.
i am from croatia (europe)
and i have never heard of those kinds of food you are mentioning here. is
here maybe someone from europe who can share the best brands of food with
me? for instance hills, eukanuba, royal canin? do you know those brands?


Those are premium foods and should work just fine. We have those here, too.
You have to go to specialty stores for Wellness, Innova, and many other
"organic" brands. I have a hard time finding those myself. When I DID find
them, my cats hated them (though my dog loves Hill's Science Diet).

Generally speaking, you get what you pay for. Hills and Royal Canin are good
foods. I personally won't feed IAMS or Eukanuba, but that's a private issue I
have with the company that owns them (Proctor and Gamble), not with the foods
themselves. My aunt fed her cats Eukanuba all their lives and they both made
it just past 20. So I'm pretty sure the food itself is a good one.

We have a compromise in my house. I don't eat the same thing every day. That
isn't conducive to a balanced diet.
My pets don't eat the same thing every day, either. Sometimes I get junk
food. So do they. I feed them a variety of premium dry foods (such as royal
canin, nutro natural, felidae, and the like) and high-end-but-not-premium dry
foods (such as purina pro plan and purina one). They also get wet "junk"
food, since that's the only wet they'll eat (Fancy Feast for the cats; the
dog eats anything, so we mix it up premium/crap). Once every month to two
months, they get a very special treat -- a small box of Meow Mix or another
"junk" dry food that they chomp through in about 3 days. *heh*

They eat far more premium food than junk, but they do get junk. The dog also
gets some people food, epecially left over meat. The cats don't much like
people food, but they like chicken, cheese, and lunch meat, so they get that
sometimes, too.
I think it helps keep them interested and helps keep their systems
functioning optimally. My pets never have digestive problems switching foods
because we do it all the time (though sometimes Jeffrey forgets he does get
fed twice daily and eats too much too fast and pukes, but he came to me from
a cat collector and was pretty skinny and beat up at the time).
IMO, variety is a Good Thing, as I never have to worry about what happens if
the store is out of their food, if I need to board them in an emergency, etc.
If you always feed the same food and then abruptly need to switch, your cat
will more likely than not get rather nasty diarrhea. So switching frequently
helps keep that from happening, at least IME.
Note that cats with special health needs may need a more specific diet.

[The preceding was my OPINION based on my experience. IANAV.]

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Dr. Hofve's comments border on the ridiculous. There is ZERO data that
supports the nonsensical claim that dry foods "cause" diabetes. That is
merely conjecture and hypothesis and has yet to be proven in any way
shape or form. One of the disadvantages that the carbophobics
consistently fail to respond to is the downside of a carbophobic diet.
None of the carbophobics crowd have yet to respond to the issue of what
happens when we adopt the carbophobic fad. Removal of carbs means the
energy must come from somewhere else - either protein or fats. In most
cases it comes form much increased protein levels. Along with that
protein comes phosphorus. Adding increased phosphorus in the diet has
zero positive benefit and may have some very bad side effects.

Consider that renal failure has hugely increased in cats over the past
decade. According to Perdue's database renal failure hit 0.9658% of
cats in 1980 - in 1990 it had risen to 4.81% of cats and by the year
2000 it had risen to 10.31% of all cats. In a 20 year period renal
disease has increased by a whopping ten fold increase.

Since we cannot detect renal failure until it is much too late and the
only possible result is a hard fast spiral toward death, feeding
excessive amounts of phosphorus is a very huge risk to take.
Particularly when we opt to do so based on completely unproven
hypothesis and opinion, totally unsupported by any clinical trials.

Steve Crane the Hils Pet Food Company Shill wrote:
snip lies and scaremongering

FYI:
For those reading Steve's attempt at bait and switch, just ignore him.
He has been asked many times to post proof or cites that show phosphorus
is harmful to healthy cats or that it causes kidney failure but
continuously refuses to do so (because there isn't any). He also fails
to address his insinuation that a high protein diet is harmful when what
we're talking about is an obligate carnivore that does best on an all
meat diet with very little carbs. It makes it obvious what his agenda
is.

You can however, watch him respond to me and go on and on about cats
with kidney failure in the hope of scaring people into thinking
phosphorus causes it. In the veterinary textbook Small Animal Clinical
Nutrition (that Science Diet is affilated with,) it also says there is
no evidence that excessive phosphorus causes renal failure. He lies and
misrepresents here and in other groups as well in an attempt to
discredit foods and once even a certain company, Solid Gold, which
resulted in one of their representatives having to come to the newsgroup
and refute his lie. He's as biased and brainwashed as they come and is
best ignored.


Megan



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