Cat Food- the big question, Wet or Dry?

Dazedandconfused

organic_choc wrote: »

The 4% is a bit of a misunderstanding. For a pouch to be called say Salmon flavour, it must have 4% that came from salmon. The total protein content are definitely higher than that. e.g. Felix AGAIL the [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Verdana][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Verdana]analytical ingredients are: Moisture 80%, Protein 13%, Fat content 3%, Crude Ash 2.2%, Crude Fibres 0.5%, Linoleic acid (Omega 6 Fatty Acids) 0.2%.

For comparison Carny is 11.5%, [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Verdana][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Verdana]Grau 10.8%, Almo Nature 13%[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Verdana][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Verdana] (complementary), Applaws ~20% (complementary) and Bozita is 10% protein... it seems that the main difference between these premium wet food and cheaper ones like Felix is that they use proper meat (some inclusive of organs) rather than meat meal or derivatives. Also the high protein ones, whether it uses derivatives or not, tend to be complementary food.
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I agree on it not being junk. It's a complete food for cats so not the equivalent of McDonalds however it's difficult to tell what quality it is at all.

I feed animonda and smilla and fish4cats but the reason for this is that one of my boys has a very delicate tummy and I know exactly what meats and what percentage are in the animonda etc. Before that I'd feed something, he'd have a dodgy tum and I'd have no idea what was in the cat food so no way of working out what caused the problem.

In respect of the word cheap I do disagree slightly. Felix might be cheap in terms of what's in it but the cost certainly isn't.

Looking at pets at home at the moment - Felix £13.32 for 48 pouches. Feeding rec is 3 pouches for a 3.5kg cat. My cats are big and eat 3/4 pouches each a day if I feed them pouches. That's £1.11ish per cat per day and I have two and then they'd eat dried on top so factor in the price of a cheap dried food as well so say £1.20 ish per cat.

If I feed smilla - it's currently £19.99 on zooplus for 24 - 400g tins. The feeding rec for that is 250-350g for a 5kg cat. My cats find this quite filling and don't eat more than the 250g per day. So that's about 83p per tin and they eat just over half a day so say 55p each a day on smilla per cat.

If I was feeding animonda carny it would be slighly more money I think last time I worked it out it's about 80p per cat per day.

I then feed fish4cats dried which is 70% fish and grain free. They get about 25g each of this a day maybe slightly more. I would buy a couple of times a year if that (am still on my first bag) 15kg for £65.00. Store it in air tight tubs and it makes the cost of feeding that about 12p per cat per day.

So overall this is much cheaper than feeding the felix and I would argue better quality too. Felix, whiskers etc are most def not cheap cat foods.