Cat Food Dilemma

rising_from_the_ashes

Mercenary wrote: »

Butcher's is relatively cheap but has a good meat content percentage so it satisfies both my need to help and knowing that the food isn't complete crap (like Felix or Whiskas).

Aside from the Butchers being grain free, there probably isn't as much difference in them as you think

The 4% meat figure often quoted in Whisk as/Felix etc means there's that amount of the meat flavour eg chicken but there is around 50% meat in it overall (I've seen as high as 85% quoted but can't confirm that figure)

Mercenary

Yep, it's mainly the grain content that I meant when I wrote "crap", as well as a very low meat content.

Considering that a cat is an obligate carnivore - it HAS to eat meat to stay healthy (unlike a dog who can eat anything) - and that it's digestive system cannot process grain products, it's a cheap filler that some companies put into their pet food to bulk it out.
So the buyer is basically paying for something that the cat cannot fully benefit from.