2010.03

2010-03-31

Wellness Adult Healthy Indulgence Chicken, Crab and Herring Recipe Cat Food Pouches

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FRISKIES DENTAL DIET DRY CAT FOOD

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My cats (The Three Tenors) are age 10 and 11. At their annual check-up and shots the vet never fails to brag on their teeth, with some surprise as this age cat has normally developed plaque. I keep a bowl of it for the Tenors, as well as a second bowl of another dry food. They love the Dental Diet. I sometimes sprinkle a few balls of it on top of their other dry food.

Friskies has cut back on distribution of Dental Diet, alarmingly enough! I swear by it, and hope to see it right up there on supermarket shelves where it well deserves to be.

Thank you Friskies!

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By Nature Natural Kitten Formula Dry Cat Food

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Halo Spot's Stew Seafood Medley Sensitive Formula Dry Cat Food

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Innova Lower Fat Canned Cat Food

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Cheap Natural Balance Venison and Green Pea Ultra Premium Canned Cat Food Review

In the effort to include more H2O into my cats' diet's I, the mostly educated pet owner, started buying canned food. First try was Wellness canned food. Two of my cats dived right in enthusiastically, the third, my picky Ragdoll cat, Phoebe, sniffed and snubbed my offering immediately. I then proceeded to try many different canned food varieties, even resorting to yucky Fancy feast, which I thought any cat would love. But low and behold, she is the most stubborn finicky cat I have come across in all my years of cat ownership! I know I probably made it worse by offering her so many choices for her to turn her pretty little nose up at!

I think it became a bit of a game to frustrate "mommy" to death with the endless food purchases. Luckily, I have a cat whom I affectionately like to call "the garbage disposal" b/c he will literally eat anything and everything (which is really lucky b/c he has IBD and has no choice but to eat a grain free canned diet now)so nothing really went to waste. That's what happens when you live on the streets and fend for yourself versus being born in a breeder's house and having a silver spoon in your mouth like Phoebe was. She's an ungrateful brat! She's also a kitty kibble addict to her very core! I at least was able to get her to eat a grain free dry cat food, which although not ideal, is better than her going without food for more than a couple of days (I know that this can be dangerous and that's why I finally caved on the dry food issue with her).

As a last ditch effort I decided to try the L.I.D. diets from Natural Balance. What could it hurt? At least is was readily available from my local pet store as opposed to some of the brands I tried only available online. She continued to turn her nose up at them all EXCEPT the Venison and Green Pea canned food. EUREKA!!! She amazingly LOVES this cat food. I thought that would never happen.

It's been a year and she still will only eat this canned food. I'll occasionally throw her a curveball and try and sneak in some other flavor and sometimes she'll even start to eat it, but quickly gives me the evil eye and walks away, so I now only give her the Venison and she still loves me (mostly:). Sometimes for variety and even more water intake, I'll put the canned food into my little Magic Bullet blender w/ water and blend it into something like a kitty smoothie. She really goes gaga for that and will lap up the whole bowl instead of leaving some behind, so I do that as often as I have time. On a sidenote, my other cat (the non-garbage disposal:) who is a little something of picky eater sometimes too (although not nearly in the league of my ultimate picky eater) really, really loves the Natural Balance L.I.D. Duck and Green Pea, more so than any other canned cat food. He will eat most chicken based cat foods, but will leave a lot behind. But if I give him the Duck and Green pea he'll eat it all.

Whew! Sorry to be so long winded, but this cat has put me through the wringer and I just had to share my trials and tribulations before my discovery of the Venison and Green Pea "magic" kitty food!

Cheap Purina Cat Chow Naturals Dry Cat Food Review

I would recommend Purina Naturals to any cat owner who is looking for a decent medium-grade cat food.

Being concerned about my 3-year old cat's weight, I decided to give this kind a try to see if the natural ingredients would help with her weight. The ingredients are not the best, but they're not entirely bad, either. The first ingredient is Chicken Meal, which contains the carcasses and the muscular parts of a chicken. It's much more nutrient-rich than the ever-popular "chicken by-product meal". The second ingredient is a filler, which is Corn Gluten Meal (cats are carnivores - could you imagine a cat eating corn?) but it's much better than "ground yellow corn" which is found in many CHEAP cat foods. Ground Yellow Corn is total junk. Among the others on the product list are salmon, carrots, and brewers rice which are all natural ingredients helpful to the maintaining of an adult cat's health.

I would rate this food better than Meow Mix Wholesome Goodness- it had too much corn and my cat was never getting full. That bag lasted less than a month before I had to buy more food (usually a 6 lb bag lasts her about 2 months) and her litter box was getting full VERY fast. (This cat food was actually more expensive in the long run than most other foods I've tried.)

I made a good switch here. The only complaint I have about this food is that the kibbles are much too small. They're about the size of a pea and my cat doesn't even take time to chew; she just gulps it right down which disturbs me.

I'm putting her on some light formula now and I've upgraded to Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul (Light Formula) by Diamond Pet Foods. If that one works out, I will probably stick with that one or the standard Diamond product. She loves Diamond cat foods as a "pick-and-choose-the-kibbles" test has shown.

Hope this was helpful in determining your decision for a medium-grade pet food.

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Wellness Beef and Salmon Formula Canned Cat Food

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Cheap Castor & Pollux Organix Adult Indoor Feline Formula, Chicken, Brown Rice & Flax Dry Cat Food, 6-Pound Bag Review

I have to admit it took a while for the cats to get used to this food. I switched to this from Science Diet Cat Hairball Formula because it was binding up one of the cats. He let me know the only way a kitty could that he had a blockage. So, after much research I landed on Organix. I found it at Petco but it was more per pound than the ones I found here on Amazon. Both have adjusted to the new food after complaining for a while and both seem very happy, digestively speaking.