Cat Food Advice

tango

rita-rabbit wrote: »

your comments demonstrate you to be a barely literate idiot:eek:
not all dried food is premium nor is all wet food junk

premium dried food is OBVIOUSLY not dangerous as I feed it myself but not solely - my comments are not opinion but FACTS based on 30+ years of cat ownership & vetinary advice. What I feed my current cats is based on giving them best my pocket can stretch to & what is best for their overall health: taking into consideration their age, gender, lifestyle & excellent condition.

I appreciate what others have written on this site over the years & you should learn to digest & think before typing on your keyboard. Personally I am not interested in opinions & as such do not offer mine but I offer personal experience & advice given to me by my vet - which is what most people on this site are looking for.

please do not comment on my posts again & go share your opinions with someone who might be interested down the pub!

Are you not offering your opinion then ?

925dancer

Vets are not cat nutritionists and get kickbacks on the food products they sell in their practice. It has long since been proven that a dried diet offers little to no benefits to dental health as the majority of cats don't actually chew the kibble enough for it to have the benefits claimed. Raw chicken wings on the other hand come highly recommended for feline tooth health.

On the subject of there only being premium dry foods, what a load of tosh! Royal Canin do a wet food, Applaws also. Then there are all the premium foods on Zooplus and readily available Nature's Menu which is high quality and premium.

Not quite as good but better than most there is Feline Fayre and Hi-Life.

Only premium dried foods available, I never heard the like!

I also like to stick to mostly fact but being a human, there's always a smattering of opinion.

Until someone quotes directly from a feline nutritionist study from a veterinary journal, none of can prove what we say as fact. Being a pet owner all our lives does not make us expert, being what is essentially a GP (what a vet in general practice is) does not make them an expert on every different species' of animal's dietry needs.

We don't feed lions in captivity great huge lion kibble so why we think it best practice in the smaller domestic version whose dietry needs are similar, just on a smaller scale, always baffles me. They may be domesticated but as far as I know, we never genetically bred them to have unique dietry needs to that of their wild cousins.

925dancer

Link to a lengthy article about feline nutrition and at the bottom a comparison of wet vs dry and what it says about a dry diet, backed up by full analysis, is pretty scathing.

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm

tango

925dancer wrote: »

Vets are not cat nutritionists and get kickbacks on the food products they sell in their practice. It has long since been proven that a dried diet offers little to no benefits to dental health as the majority of cats don't actually chew the kibble enough for it to have the benefits claimed. Raw chicken wings on the other hand come highly recommended for feline tooth health.

On the subject of there only being premium dry foods, what a load of tosh! Royal Canin do a wet food, Applaws also. Then there are all the premium foods on Zooplus and readily available Nature's Menu which is high quality and premium.

Not quite as good but better than most there is Feline Fayre and Hi-Life.

Only premium dried foods available, I never heard the like!

I also like to stick to mostly fact but being a human, there's always a smattering of opinion.

Until someone quotes directly from a feline nutritionist study from a veterinary journal, none of can prove what we say as fact. Being a pet owner all our lives does not make us expert, being what is essentially a GP (what a vet in general practice is) does not make them an expert on every different species' of animal's dietry needs.

We don't feed lions in captivity great huge lion kibble so why we think it best practice in the smaller domestic version whose dietry needs are similar, just on a smaller scale, always baffles me. They may be domesticated but as far as I know, we never genetically bred them to have unique dietry needs to that of their wild cousins.

Raw chicken wings ? I suppose cats deal differently with bones than dogs who would choke on chicken wings..

925dancer

Yep, it's the perfect tooth cleanser. They have to raw though, otherwise the bones are brittle and could choke them but raw ones are brilliant. There are some really good sites about raw feeding, I hope to go down that route one day when I have a big enough freezer!

rita-rabbit

I knew it wouldn't be long before sensible posters wrote :0)

mozzyc

Well have tried the bozita cans this week, mixed in with a little felix, all 3 are staying well clear of their dinner plates again! Think i'm losing this battle, felix it is!