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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. -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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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. |
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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 ... 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. -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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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. |
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"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. |
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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... 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 -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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"Catherine via CatKB.com" wrote in message ... 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? |
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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. |
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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 "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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