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Best Grain Free Food for Kitties

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Holly- Weilhammer Houdini of the- House     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 8:32am PST  I just got Holly but she has already become the most loved thing in the house by everyone! She looks just like my childhood cat who died a few months ago she is doubly special to me. I want to know the best grain free food so she remains healthy and her coat silky and shiny. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become friends [notify]

Robin I will eat- anything.     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 9:08am PST  Well, there are many choices! I always recommend you do raw or majority wet foods. Some dry is okay (provided that there are no existing urinary issues). My favorite dry brands are: Acana Orijen Blue Wilderness Merrick's Before Grain Nature's Variety Instinct Wellness Core EVO Some great grain-free canned foods: Wellness Blue Wilderness ZiwiPeak NV Instinct Weruva Soulistic Solid Gold (I think they make a grain-free canned) EVO I do primarily raw feeding, but when I'm busy or just plain tired I feed one of the above brands. Good luck! Edit: Oh, I forgot to add this - I like to add a squirt of salmon oil to their food (dry, canned or raw) it helps with the coat and they LOVE it! Plus they get some good omega-3s Edited by author Tue Jan 24, '12 9:10am PST my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Merlin - An Angel- Forever *Poof*     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 9:16am PST  IMO, there is no "best" commercial food for cats. Most brands have something in them that isn't ideal, like fruits and veggies. Grain-free is good, though There are lots of good brands you can try: Nature's Variety Instinct, Before Grain, Innova EVO, Wellness, Weruva etc. Feed whatever brand your cat likes and you can afford. Some grain-free brands are sold only at specialty pet stores/boutiques, not in chain pet stores like Petco. Pet food company web sites usually have a store locator you can use. Dry vs canned: canned food is definitely best Read http://www.catinfo.org for reasons why. Pouched food can be fed but they usually only come in a tiny pouch, is mostly water with little food, and cost a lot I would only feed dry food as a treat, just so the kitten knows that it is food. You never know if you need to temporarily feed dry food, like during a weather emergency and you have to stay at a shelter. Edited by author Tue Jan 24, '12 9:17am PST my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Eko Mr. Eko - dark, but- good-hearted     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 9:26am PST  Hi. We like to have three or more brands of quality canned food that we can rotate through...eating different brands for breakfast and dinner. The ones already mentioned here include the ones we use. By using different brands and flavors we avoid them getting bored or getting too attached to one type. We like that if there is ever a recall and one isn't available we have others we can go to. (And if there was a problem with a food they haven't been eating that exclusively.) We get great deals ordering from petfooddirect.com. It's cheaper than the store (even with shipping added in) and you can get bigger cans. We usually order things we have tried first (since you order it by the case.) But some brands like Before Grain we can't find locally to try so mom got brave and ordered a case yesterday. We've never been picky so hopefully we will like it. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Holly- Weilhammer Houdini of the- House     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 9:56am PST  Thank you guys for all your help. I guess we are going to have to start doing some sampling!!!! Holly is a really easy eater so far and Ive done a mixture of dry food and wet food. I was also going to use some tuna as a treat once a week. My mothers Tiffany really loved tuna so I figured I would see how Holly likes it. my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become friends [notify]

Alex (sweet- angel girl) Angel on a- mission!     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 10:25am PST  I have a long list of grain free foods on my website along with some links at the top on switching foods and things that aren't good for them, etc.: http://ibdkitties.net/Food.html. Good for you for wanting to start her off right! That's what I did with Finney and Lacey after I lost Alex to some horrible diseases. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Cruiser Touchdown- Dallas!     Purred: Tue Jan 24, '12 2:48pm PST  I feed Blue Wilderness, chicken or turkey. They get the chicken dry, at night, cause I can't afford to feed wet all the time, and Bump won't eat wet. They get turkey wet in the morn, cause on occassion, there have been issues with the chicken wet, none at all, with the turkey. Their coats are soft and shiney, and they have high energy, they run thru the house at warp speed, like crazy boys. I haunt the Blue Buffalo site, long story, but I have seen alot of people mention the same thing. I got my cat show friends started on Blue Wilderness too, they say the same things about their cats. I highly recommend you stay away from Fancy Feast, Meow Mix, Friskies, and ANY product made by Purina. Mine only got sick, too many, had worse things happen. http://www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/ralston.html As the others said, you have to see what works best for your kitty, they are individuals, just as people are. Best of luck, whatever you decide to feed. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Stinkers- Finn- Franscis Singing No- Worries, About a- thing!     Purred: Wed Jan 25, '12 2:59pm PST  Hello Holly! I think you have gotten a lot of great advice here from fellow Catsters. I would like to add my two sense. My cats eat Taste of the Wild, as well as my dog. It has been a great product for my animals for awhile now, as I recently just switched them over from Candidae/Felidae. Which is another brand of grain free. I too give my cats canned tuna, along with canned trout and canned salmon. I try to rotate some regular wet cat foods in there as well, due to the mercury content in tuna. I generally mix with Fancy Feast Canned Cat food Original. As well as sometimes Friskies. If you wanna go all grain-free stay away from canned cat foods with gravy or chunks in them, as they usually tend to have some products like grains that are not the best. I wish you the best of luck my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Bastet Pet me! :)     Purred: Wed Jan 25, '12 4:05pm PST  Hi Holly! I feed Bastet both wet and dry (dry for when she's extra hungry), but only the dry food is grain free (Merrick's Before Grain). Alas, Bastet loves the gravy covered Fancy Feast and hates pate canned food. But I highly recommend the Merrick's if you need to feed Holly dry food occasionally. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become friends [notify]

Holly- Weilhammer Houdini of the- House     Purred: Thu Jan 26, '12 8:08am PST  Thanks again everyone. I started feeding her canned tuna this morning for breakfast. I did want to ask that because of the content of mercury. Should I keep that as a treat fish and go with salmon or something else? my posts | my page | msg me | gift me | become friends [notify]

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