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Favorite CAT food...
Topic Started: Apr 13 2008, 07:57 AM (527 Views)
jillincolorado
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Well I was was playing with the bestest pooty in the world this morning and it got me to thinking...what's your favorite cat food?

Since I started the "favorite dog food thread" I felt I needed to be fair to my kitty companions. I loff them so! :cloud9:

I've been very impressed with the Eagle Pack for the dogs, that I think I'm going to start switching the cats over from their current food. Although I have no MAJOR complaints about the Nutro Max Cat, I just think I can do a little better, and find more of a holistic type food without all the additives and by-products.

So...what do YOU feed your pooty tutties???? :) Likes/dislikes? Reasons?
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Well, I have 4 kitties, and they're all on different kinds of food for different reasons :rolleyes:

Toby, my oldest (he's 4), is on the Nutro chicken flavor. He had a bunch of UT issues last summer, and was on the Royal Canin Perscription diet for awhile after that. Vet said I could switch him off of that after a few months, so I chose the Nutro because it's one of the only dry (non-perscription) brands that is certified for urinary tract health. I don't personally like the ingreidients, lots of grains and such, but UTI prone cats supposedly do better on foods with grains, NOT on grain free foods. I also mix in some Royal Canin Oral Sensitive in with this, because he eats really fast, and forgets to chew, and sometimes throws up because of this. The OS food is HUGE, and he normally chews it (some days he still swallows it whole). So that's what he gets.

Sneak gets the Chicken Soup food. He went through a phase about 3-4 months ago when he decided he didn't like it anymore, so I had to switch him to California Natural (after trying numerous other dry foods, he chose the most expensive one to like, figures) for awhile. I gradually added to Chicken Soup back in recently, and he's back to just eating that. For the price, this food is great, I love it (er.. the cat does).

The two Ragdoll boys, Brody & Ozzy get Royal Canin Kitten. They'll eat anything, so I just picked it over the Nutro Kitten (they got that for awhile, then I decided I wanted to switch). I'm trying to decide what adult food to put them on, since they're both close to a year now. I'll probably go with either Chicken Soup, Wellness, or Eagle Pack. Not sure yet.

All 4 of them also get wet food at night (so, dry in the AM, wet in the PM). Toby & Sneak share a 6oz. can. Brody & Ozzy share a 6oz. can, but I cut it in forths, so it lasts me 2 night for them. I use Wellness, Eagle Pack, Chicken Soup, and Nutro wet foods. They like the Wellness best, Nutro the least. Again, the most expensive wins out!

I'm a freak about what my pets eat, if you hadn't noticed :teehee:
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I have an ancient old cat with dry itchy skin who was having trouble keeping weight on (Yup, she did have her thyroid and all sorts of things tested - normal). So I switched her to Science Diet's Sensitive Skin cat food, which has extra fat, and I've been really pleased with the results. She's still somewhat itchy, but not nearly as much as she was, and she's put on the weight that she needed. So it was great for her, but probably not a good choice for a plumper cat.
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One of my three has had bouts with UTIs, so they are all on Wysong Uretic dry food, which is PH balanced, and HiTor Felo Diet wet food. I get these through Waggin' Tails, which has a huge variety of natural pet foods.

They also get raw chicken drumsticks or thighs, chicken livers, and raw shrimp, scallops, salmon or bluefish when we have these for dinner. I always buy extra for them :)
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Felidae for my guys. One cat has horrible, horrible allergies--he came to the clinic looking like he was covered in rain rot. His skin scrape was negative for mange, but we ivermected him anyway, and it helped some. He was eating Hill's maintenance, and he would look okay from a distance, but had the scabby ears and tail, despite my obsessive checking for ear mites and applying Frontline.

I tried him on Felidae at the advice of another vet tech and it was like magic. He now has this rich, black coat like a panther, he's an appropriate weight, and he never has the "kitty pukes." I love it.
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Eukanuba Sensitive Stomach! The only kind of food that makes my big cat's tummy happy. Most foods make him have to :spew: :spew: because of his allergies.
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Love hearing what you guys feed....love to hear more. I have two kitties, a younger female who's slightly picky and an older male that will eat everything.
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i feed my maine coon and my ragdoll California Natural. I have switched around from nutro indoor adult and royal canin indoor 27 and they seem to like the Ca Natural better.
My Barn cats eat Nutro complete care adult.
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TatteredDaydreamer
Apr 13 2008, 07:49 PM
Love hearing what you guys feed....love to hear more. I have two kitties, a younger female who's slightly picky and an older male that will eat everything.

For picky cats, I've found/read that the California Natural usually sparks some interest. That's why I switched Sneak to it for awhile when he decided to go on strike :yes: Wellness is another one that he liked.
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We just use Iams indoor cat food. Both our girls seem to be fine on it (although the one is a little fat!)
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Beef and broccoli!

Oh, you meant to feed TO cats, not made FROM cats.

My bad. :teehee:
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Callie is a puker and has terrible skin issue (dry skin/scale and kitty acne). Chloe will eat anything. Crosby is on a diet. :teehee:

The ONLY things that Callie doesn't vomit up are the Iams Sensitive Stomach and the Trader Joe's All Natural catfood. I tried every fancy, upscale, and holistic cat food out there-- as well as Science Diet. All resulted in plenty of puke. I don't know what her deal is, but I'd rather keep buying the Iams than clean up the puke. So both Chloe and Callie eat the Iams.

Crosby eats the Purina extra lowfat food from the vet. I forget what it's called. The bag is orange and white. He HATED the Science Diet lowfat food. The Purina, he actually likes.
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I did get the ladies totally spoiled in re: wetfood treats. I bought a few boxes of the Whiskas "upscale" fish entree in pouches. Now they turn their nose up at anything but!!! :lol:
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I admit, with embarrassment, that I don't know very much about cat food. This even though my family is full of "cat people". Anyone have some resources they can point the ignorant towards that I should be reading?

I feed Hill's Science Diet.
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Apr 14 2008, 09:53 AM
I admit, with embarrassment, that I don't know very much about cat food. This even though my family is full of "cat people". Anyone have some resources they can point the ignorant towards that I should be reading?

I feed Hill's Science Diet.

The Cat Site Forums is a great place, go to the Health & Nutrition forum and read away! There's all kinds of threads on which food to feed, what's good, what's not, etc.

Science Diet is one of the 'not so great' foods, but tons of people feed it and their cats/dogs do fine on it. If you want to learn more, just read the label on the back and you'll see it's full of fillers and such that cats (esp. overweight cats) don't need. I fed it for a long time, since I figured it was a good food, then that huge pet food recall happened and I really started learning about what I was feeding my pets.

The cats can get really spoiled with the wet food, esp. the 'kitty crack' brands (Fancy Feast, Whiskas, etc.). It's like kids getting spoiled eating candy all the time, since those foods aren't that great. That's why mine have NEVER been given anything but what I feed now, I'm afraid they'd go on strike!
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