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I am basically looking for a wet cat food which will be good for a my new born kittens and for one that is around 7 months of age, who has never tried cat food.
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I highly, highly recommend Felidae, Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul, or Innova. All these have multiple meats as the first ingredients, and are about as high-quality as you can get without feeding raw.
If you feel those are too expensive, Nutro is a decent brand and doesn't cost too much (about $0.50/can). It's also sold at just about every pet store. Natural Balance and Wellness are also decent wet food brands.
At the very bottom of my recommendations is the Meow Mix Market Selects.. there's no by-products in them at all, and they're pretty cheap. But obviously, they're not top-of-the-line either.
Basically, avoid anything with by-products, and with the exception of the Meow Mix Market Selects, anything that can be found in a grocery or superstore.
Good for you for feeding wet as well! It's so much healthier and better for cats than dry.
If you feel those are too expensive, Nutro is a decent brand and doesn't cost too much (about $0.50/can). It's also sold at just about every pet store. Natural Balance and Wellness are also decent wet food brands.
At the very bottom of my recommendations is the Meow Mix Market Selects.. there's no by-products in them at all, and they're pretty cheap. But obviously, they're not top-of-the-line either.
Basically, avoid anything with by-products, and with the exception of the Meow Mix Market Selects, anything that can be found in a grocery or superstore.
Good for you for feeding wet as well! It's so much healthier and better for cats than dry.
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Years of experience with cats; numerous book reading; years of being involved in cat forums.
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- Purina is what my cats use and they never get tired of it! They have all kinds from kitten food to cat food to diff flavors and everything.0% 0 Votes
- Purina has a multi cat food that is dry, it can be soaked so they can transition.0% 0 Votes
- The expensive stuff, sold at the vet's office. It's worth the extra $$. I feed my cat Science Diet. He needs a perscription formula you can't get in stores because he has such a sensitive digestive system. Watch out for that wheat gluten ingredient that caused that scary pet food recall!
Good Luck,
Holly G.0% 0 Votes - Purina kitten chow (dry) is the best, even my vet recommends it. for kittens that are just learning to eat cat food, you soak it in warm (not hot) water first until soft. there used to be Purina milk formula kitten chow, if you can find that go with that...gradually mix a few hard kibbles in the softened food as their teeth get stronger, until they are mostly eating hard food...a diet completely made up of can food is not good for any meat eating animals teeth. the crunchy food helps to keep the teeth clean and strong. also...in all this pet food scare...Purina has never been implicated that i know of....yet.
oh yeah...there is a multi-vitamin, multi-mineral spray you can get at wal-mart...a good addition to any kitty diet...we had captured a litter of feral kittens (when i found them, the mother had them eating a ground squirrel) and we thought that kitten formula and mostly ground beef (raw) would be the preferred diet as they were eating raw meat already...then 2 of them developed a weakness in the back legs that we couldn't understand. we thought they were dying. we live over 100 miles round trip from the nearest vet, so we have to figure things out ourself alot of times. and a friend suggested vitamins and minerals...we tried it and wow! in less than a week they were back to normal....so it never hurts to add a little to their diet, and it is a taste most of my cats beg me for. good luck with your kittens.17% 1 Vote - Innova cat and kitten, Felidae cat and kitten, Solid Gold which is an all life stages food... Try to feed a high quality cat and kitten food so you can feed the same food to all your cats.0% 0 Votes
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