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Tigger
I will bulldoze- my way through- anything | 
 | | Purred: Tue Jul 28, '09 2:35pm PST | |  | |  | | We have been eating Halo Spot Stew dry & a little bit of Proplan wet each nite - I am not so picky, but my sister Maizy will "only eat the liver or the ocean fish Proplan" blah blah - I myself enjoy the occassional bug, wheat grass (Mom says that's my salad) or Halo wet. We are looking at lables alot too. We had also looked at the Wilderness brand. It is all so confusing for a smart cat like me, let alone the humans. What about treats? Anyone find some good ones out there? |  |  | |  |
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Bumpurr
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 | | Purred: Sun Aug 2, '09 6:54am PST | | | | | | What your looking for, is grain free, no corn, no wheat, no corn gluten, no wheat gluten.
What is imperative, is it has to be low in salt. Salt should be listed pretty low on the list of ingredients. I feed Blue Wilderness, its by Blue Buffalo, and was approved by my vet, who ran it past a cardiologist.
Mine are fed in their carriers, so each cat could be fed something different, and each cat gets a different amount.
Most of the treats, in my opinion, have too much crap in them, and not something I would give, but then again, I am on the overly pickey side, mol. I pretty much only give treats at the shows, and then its only a few licks of baby food, Beechnut or Gerber, chicken or turkey ONLY. I use
Gerber stage 1, chicken. It only has chicken and chicken broth in it. Altho, I have started giving Smokey, a few licks, after she takes her meds, she has become better about taking them, looks forward to the treats.
I haven't done research on all the treats, but one of my show friends gives what looks like white chunks, and I think they are freeze dried, she gets them at the shows. Haven't looked at the ingredients, to see whats in them, I do remember, they were kind of on the expensive side.
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Bumpurr
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| | Purred: Sun Aug 2, '09 7:10am PST | | | | | | This is what is in Pro Plan, I picked the kitten dry food, its all the same.
Chicken, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), soybean meal, dried egg product, poultry by-product meal, soy protein isolate, fish meal, wheat flour, animal liver flavor, salt, phosphoric acid, choline chloride, potassium chloride, Vitamin E supplement, taurine, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), manganese sulfate, niacin, calcium carbonate, Vitamin A supplement, copper sulfate, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
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You want to avoid it because it has corn gluten meal, which is only the 3rd ingredient, which means it pretty high up there in ingredients, ya don't want any corn gluten meal. It also has wheat flour, which is another name for wheat gluten, they just changed the name, figured consumers wouldn't figure it out, with all the crap that happened with the wheat gluten. And salt is pretty high up there.
This is what is in Halo, they even say it has grains in it, and its kinda high in salt.
http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/products/Halo-Spots-Stew-Dry- Cat-Food-Indoor-Formula/115074.aspx
Here are some links to help you.
http://www.catnutrition.org/index.php
http://www.catinfo. org/
I know its very very confusing, mol, it was for me too at first, made my head hurt, mol.
Just keep reading and reading and reading, read the posts in the Food Section. One day, the light bulb comes on, and now your an expert at it, and helping others.
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Tigger
I will bulldoze- my way through- anything |
| | Purred: Tue Aug 4, '09 9:18pm PST | | | | | | thanks for all the info Bumpurr! We only eat a bite of the canned Pro plan - not the dry for same reasons you listed. Looking at that label too, but pretty sure there is no grain in it. Gonna look at the Wilderness when we go to the store. Tried the Wellness, but honestly it made the litter box ahem.....very very stinky...bad. We found a no salt fiber treat at the vet. It seems to help with the whole pill/eye drop thing to get something special after. I wish they would show sodium like regualr food labels. What about barley or brewers rice? Are they as bad as the corn & wheat? Thanks for helping! Meow! | | | | |
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