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my cats eat evo cat food and wellness wet food. I feed a feral cat colony and try to buy the best food I can which is
health wise is there any thing else I could buy that is a little cheaper?

Thank You

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For years I've been feeding my cats on Whole Foods house brand "365" catfood. It is only $1.99 per 4 lb bag - which is a good economic plus if you have multiple cats. I recently compared the ingredients with the $14 per 4 lb bag food that my employer feeds their cats. It is almost the same.

During the recent pet food scare - brand "365" was NOT on the list - which was a great plus!

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Making good food choices for our pets is difficult with all of the media advertising. The best thing we can do is BE EDUCATED. To learn about pet food and how it is made as well as how to read a label and what that label really means, please visit the following website to read the info and watch the video on pet food.

www.trilogyonline.com/ragsmead then click on the pets tab at the top

All the information you need to learn about pet food is at your fingertips. Read, watch, learn and make an informed decision. Remember - cats are carnivores! While you're there, you might want to order a free sample of Life's Abundance cat food. After losing 2 cats to contaminated commercial food and having several others very ill, I did alot of research. I spent 4 months researching all diferent brands of food including recipes for home made ones. I now feed Life's Abundance exclusively and my kitties no longer experience pancreatitis, FUS, or liver inflamation. My vet and I spent alot of time (and money) running our own little food trials with my 11 kitties, my sister's 6, my neighbors 8, and another breeder's 14 adults. The blood and urine tests proved what we observed. All of the kitties were healthier and the overweight ones my sister had gradually slimmed down to a healthy weight. The one diabetic cat han had his insulin dose cut by 60%. As my vet says "I am a believer". Visit the site and learn alot. Good luck!

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I don't have a cat but I do have 2 Pom pups which I am as of now switching over to Wellness Puppy food gradually. I honestly don't trust the makers of the regular dog food anymore since they have it made in who knows what country. My guys are on the puppy food from the breeder but I want them off of it. Wellness is made in the USA and even though you have to pay more for the natural dog or cat food, in the long run your pets are far better off health wise as some of the comments say. We ourselves do not eat meat and with all the recalls I sure am glad we don't.

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I have been giving my kitty "Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul," which was recommended as a good quality dry cat food. She seems to prefer that to any other dry food and does not like any canned food, for which I am grateful. My rescue dog is fed Nature's Variety, a Chicken and Brown Rice Medley, which he seems to thrive on.

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I prefer to get my information about pet nutrition from sources outside of those people / companies that are selling something.

having read information by two vets who actually studied feline nutrition, Lisa A. Pierson, DVM (of htp://www.catinfo.org) and Elizabeth Hodgkins , DVM (http://www.yourdiabeticcat.com and author of the book Your Cat: Simple New Secrets to a Longer, Stronger Life) I have come to change my mind about dry food, and now feed exclusively a home made (not home cooked) raw diet. When raw is not available in my house (cause I run out) I feed a high protein low carb canned food. There are a lot available, but finding 'premium' ones that don't have a ton of fruits and veggies is next to impossible. I'm shocked when I'm reading lables and find things such as garlic (toxic to cats) and tomatoes (also toxic) as ingredients. Pet food manufactures swear that the amounts are so low that it isn't an issue, well to me that is like saying a few pinches of arsnic in our food isn't a problem. It isn't until it is. Fortunately some are starting to take it out.

now if we could only get them to understand our cats have no biological need for blueberries!! A cat's natural diet is rodents, and their ideal diet would match that as closely as possible.

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Just my 2 cents...Unless the cost of a pet's food is the only thing you go on, just rememeber that paying a bit more "up front" (i.e. costlier foods) means you won't have/shouldn't have to pay more later as in higher vet bills. I'd much rather my animals eat better food and stay healthier longer than give them cheap food and have them in treatment for something that could have been avoided.

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people read the ingredients.the first 5 things listed is what your main ingredients are. if the food is cheaper and you think you have a deal no wonder your buying corn not steak. make sure your not feeding your animal fillers. My cat has IBD, inflammatory bowel disease. She cant have corn, soy or wheat. By finding out she has this, its made me realize that reading a label on cat food can do you and your pet a big a big favor. educate yourself on food labels and you may feel pretty bad about what you have been feeding your cat. if they seem to eat alot, well read those first 5 ingredients that tells you why. would like to be feed just fillers. ok, take the challenge educate yourself on the cat food labels and see what you think.

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It's nice to see that some people are actually reading for a change. I have the same issues with pet food. Cats don't need anything but but meat, organs and bone. Unfortunately, trying to find a pet food that doesn't have all of the fruits and veggies is hard to do unless you feed raw. Even then, a product like Nature's Variety doesn't provide enough taurine in it either. It's formulated for cats & dogs. I tried making my own cat food for a while, but boy... what a pain. I guess we'll just have to keep screaming until the pet industry figures out that we don't want what they offer any more.

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I use Blue buffalo for my cat and dogs. No fillers, corn wheat, soy. all natural hollistic formula. read for yourself

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One thing I do know! Iams does really cruel animal testing on their food, I boycott them. I'm not sure about Hill's Science Diet, I would contact PETA and ask what they know about it, because I'm not sure if they have a hidden parent company or not. I feed my cat various organic brands, and am definitely going to try to find some of these listed in other's posts.

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My friends and I feed our cats and dogs Wellness

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I feed my cats indoor Nutro complete. It has helped with less shedding and less smell in their litter box. The cats seem to like the hairball adult brand too. My cats are older but they don't gain weight on the regular cat food.

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Innova for both the cat and dogs (Dry) & Primal Raw Diet for my Chins.

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Hi everyone! I feed my two cats LIFE'S ABUNDANCE HOLISTIC PET FOOD. And, even better, I am an Independent Field Rep for the company! I live in Westland, Michigan. I am always trying to promote the food! I order cases of sample packages of the cat and dog food, so I can always have FREE SAMPLES on hand for when I hear from people who would like to try it.
I have a flyer telling about the product and a brochure. And you can check out my website: www.MyPrettyPets.net
If anyone is interested who sees this, please email me and I would send you out a free sample!

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I feed both my indoor cat & outdoor cat Innova. Outdoor kitty was rescued from a neighbor who wasn't taking care of him. Both Evo & Innova are products of Natura. No fillers, by-products, gluten, preservatives. Read the ingredients!!
My outdoor guy gets a third of a can of Fancy Feast each morning. Indoor one won't eat any kind of wet food. I know vets promote Science Diet, but look at their ingredients. Do not recommend it at all !! Innova is a little expensive, but all around health & coats are excellent. They don't eat as much of the GOOD foods as they don't need it, thus saving some $.
Several other foods mentioned above are also excellent. Depends on what your kitties like & tolerate well.

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I feed my dog and cat Newman's Own Organic. I guess I just trust Paul and my babies love it.

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I don't have a cat or dog. I have an adorable tiny ferret and I have been trying to find a good food.

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Does anyone have a suggestion?

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My cat quit eating and started vomiting and losing weight. He is sixteen and I immediately thought it must be renal failure since I have lost so many cats to that disease. However, his bloodwork came back normal, so my vet did a urinalysis. Turns out he had an infection, so she immediately started him on medication. We decided that at his age, the most important thing at the moment was to get him to start eating and gaining some weight back. I tried every cat food that was supposed to be healthy, but no luck. Finally, I remembered that I had never had a cat refuse Fancy Feast. Sure enough, he started eating that and now eats two cans a day and is looking and acting healthy. He still turns his nose up at every dry food I buy even though that's all he ate for fifteen years. I noticed that Fancy Feast makes a dry food, so I am going to try him on that. My question is: Does anyone know any reason why I should not feed him Fancy Feast? I have adopted the philosophy that since he is sixteen, let him eat what he likes. Am I wrong?

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I understand that Hill's is part of Colgate

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I like feeding the grain-free, high protein foods for both cats and dogs...foods like EVO, Orijen and Instinct. BTW, EVO has a ferret food that is excellent!!

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Hey James, I would not worry at this point about what you are feeding. At his age, you just want him eating - much better than the alternative. I have found that it can be very hard when they stop eating to jumpstart their appetite again. I had to use baby food( I was told to watch the ingredients to make sure there aren't any onions in it) as a stepping stone to get my older kitty eating again. -By the way, when my Springer was starting to head down hill at 15, I found that getting her started eating in the morning on her food was hard at times. I always kept a few jars of Turkey (chicken has a much stronger scent when warmed which turned her off)baby food around, and would slightly warm a jar for her to eat first on the mornings she could not stomach her food first thing. Once she ate the baby food, she would be able to eat her breakfast. As we went along and her appetite got to be less and less, I'd give her some baby food to start her eating, and then put the rest on her kibbles. At the end, babyfood was one of the only things she could stomach(I crushed her multi vitamin in it.)
I still keep a few jars around in case I have trouble with my other Springer who sometimes has an acid stomach in the morning -no matter how late I feed him his dinner. It does not happen very often, but when it does, it gets something into his stomach that he will eat when he walks away from everything else -then he eats his breakfast! -And if one of my kitties is not eating, a day or two of baby food seems to get them back on track. -In case you ever can't find anything your cat will eat. I'd try and mix in a vitamin with Taurine once you get him eating if he were to be on it for any legnth of time.

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I know exactly what your going through, I happen to be looking at some websites and accidently found out about the dangerous of commercial foods for pets. I did at least a week of research on this and found ansounising awful things that explained so much about my past animals that had pass and my fathers animals. And some of these results didn't happen untill a couple of years later. I truly suggest feeding organic foods to you cat I have and saw a positive change in my cat with in two weeks. This website also tells you all about it and gives a discrition on the foods and products they sell. You can also google all the products that tells you more. The website also has plenty of comments from many people who have used these products. Love your cat.