low fat, low calorie dry cat food

cally6008

I'm back, supplies are now running low so time to start thinking about buying food.

I've found these and wondered what you thought of them

Feline Fayre Simply Complete Dry with Duck & Chicken
26%, £3 for 950g - http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/products/products.jsp?skuId=910000445404&departmentid=1215062479030&aisleid=1214921924096&startValue=

IAMS Adult Dry Cat Food Light Chicken
30%, £4 for 850g - http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?skuId=910000541925&departmentid=1215062479030&aisleid=1214921924096&startValue=

Joe & Jill's Pure & Simple Complete with Chicken & Rice
43%, £3.98 for 900g - http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?skuId=910000447169&departmentid=1215062479030&aisleid=1214921924096&startValue=

Vet's Kitchen Complete Chicken & Brown Rice
42%, £4.98 for 800g - http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?skuId=910000446844&departmentid=1215062479030&aisleid=1214921924096&startValue=

Vet's Kitchen Complete Chicken & Brown Rice
42%, £9.98 for 3kg (same as above but better description) -
http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/catalog/sectionpagecontainer.jsp?skuId=910000447490&departmentid=1215062479030&aisleid=1214921924096&startValue=

cally6008

anyone ? .....

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi Cally ...... think everyone's out enjoying the sun!

Personally I don't feed Iams as I have *issues* with their ethics (personal choice) - although I will say my cats love it......

The others, I've no experience of any of them - however, first glance the vet's kitchen & joe & jills ones look expensive! (£4.98 for 800g is over £6.22 / kg - I've just paid £4.20 / kg for Royal Canin) - however, the ingredients look pretty good.

Do you happen to know if you can buy bigger bags - this is what annoys me about at lot of them - if 800g is the biggest bag, then a) it's expensive and b) you're forever buying it (I've got used to buying 4kg or 10kg bags and making savings and only having to do it a couple of times a year!)

Would be interested to know which one you choose / how it goes

rising_from_the_ashes

Ohhhhh Fat in Joe & Jill's is 16% .... on the high side

As a comparison RC Light 40 is only 10%

Rev

juliebunny wrote: »

I've read extensively on the benefits of a raw diet - there are definitely pros and cons - but as a vegetarian unfortunately I struggle with the concept of raw meat. Mine get this as a treat very very rarely but it has to be organic/free range, so that's prohibitely expensive. I would rather buy them ready cooked chicken but that too gets expensive.

I don't mean to be rude in any way but I've seen a lot of people say this, I'm vegetarian. My dogs and cats aren't, so I feed them raw, which to me is the best diet available for them. I understand there's plenty of reasons not to feed raw and I'm absolutely not pushing it, works for my animals (the cats get some, wont eat full raw, the dogs are on a full raw diet), I know it wont work for everyones. But being veggie should have no baring on feeding your cats raw or not. They are obligate carnivores. They need meat.

Personally I;d go with a high quality wet like bozita or natures menu and play as much as you can with the cat. Or a grain free dry, there's zero reason for grains in a cats diet. Plus you feed much less. Taste of the wild, orijen, applaws, acana. There's plenty.

Burns is 60% rice, IMO not a good diet for an obligate carnivore. If buying pet food meat should always be the first listed ingredient.