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Cat Forum / General Topics / March 2006Acceptable canned foods (thanks Phil, others please add)
I love philosophical and scientific statements found here and in web pages, but they still don't solve my practical problem: Standing inside a Petsmart (the only such store near us), what is good to buy and what is not? My cat can decide the taste, but I have to screen for nutrition quality. Google showed surprisingly few *concrete* recommendations in these discussions, either for or against *specific* products. Indeed, unless I missed something (entirely possible), the only list I was able to find was from Phil (thanks!). The following is collated from two of Phil's posts. Please add to it. In particular, include Nutro, Iams, Pro Plan, Whiskas, Sophista Cat, Sheba, Meow Mix, etc as well. (I am focusing on what is found at my Petsmart but feel free to include other brands.) Include any brief comments in a parenthital note. List of acceptable canned foods FANCY FEAST: Marinated Beef Feast, Marinated Chicken Feast, Marinated Salmon Feast, Grilled Chicken Feast, Grilled Turkey Feast, Grilled Tuna Feast, Minced Beef Feast, Sliced Beef Feast, Sliced Beef & Giblets Feast, Sliced Chicken Hearts & Liver Feast, Seafood Filets Tuna & Ocean Whitefish,. Avoid the entire Flaked, Filet & Pate line. SCIENCE DIET: Gourmet Turkey Entree, Liver & Chicken Entree, Gourmet Beef Entree, Turkey & Giblets Entree, Savory Cuts Chicken Dinner in Savory Gravy, Savory Cuts Ocean Fish Dinner in Sauce, Savory Cuts Beef Dinner in Gravy, Savory Chicken Entree, Savory Salmon Entree. FRISKIES: Fine Cuts With Real Chicken, Fine Cuts With Real Fish- Ocean Whitefish, and Tuna, Fine Cuts With Tuna in Sauce. Prime Filets with Chicken in Gravy, Prime Filets Turkey in Gravy, Seared Filets With Turkey & Giblets, Seared Filets with Salmon Sliced Beef in Gravy Sliced Gourmet Grill Shredded Chicken & Salmon Dinner in Gravy Special Diet Sliced Chicken In Gravy PETGUARD: Turkey & Rice, Rabbit & Rice, Chicken & Wheat Germ Dinner, Venison & Rice. WYSONG: Chicken Gourmet, Liver Gourmet, Seafood Gourmet WELLNESS: Chicken." --------------------------------------- Phil, thanks again. Please edit your list if anything has changed. Others, please add to the above list. I'll collate and repost for ease of future reference. --------------------------------------- > I love philosophical and scientific statements found here and in web > pages, but they still don't solve my practical problem: Standing inside [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Avoid the entire Flaked, Filet & Pate line. The first ingredient in Tender Beef Feast is beef, and my cats love it. I think this is what Phil means by "Minced Beef Feast." If your cats prefer minced or ground food, you might want to try it. Mine unfortunately will not eat the chunky or sliced foods, they just lick the gravy off. cybercat <boagrrl@hotmail.com> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: >> I love philosophical and scientific statements found here and in >> web pages, but they still don't solve my practical problem: [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > you might want to try it. Mine unfortunately will not eat > the chunky or sliced foods, they just lick the gravy off. There is a specific Minced Beef varierty in the Minced line. Kami hates it.  SignatureMargarita Salt "...practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good... motives are often more important than actions." -- Eleanore Roosevelt : The first ingredient in Tender Beef Feast is beef, and : my cats love it. I think this is what Phil means by "Minced : Beef Feast." I think "minced" is a series within ff line, like "roasted" and "grilled", but I'll double-check next time I am in the store. : If your cats prefer minced or ground food, you might want : to try it. In my naive attempt to learn what she likes, I fed her a wide variety in a short time, which turned her finicky. I have been trying to recover from that error ever since and the progress, though there, is torturously slow. :-) Intially I was going by price thinking all food must be acceptable due to regulation. Then I thought at least expensive ones must be. It has been an education for me, that neither brand nor price guarantees nutritional quality (sodium, Ph levels etc). My goal here is to have as big a list as possible of nutritionally acceptale canned foods. Then she can choose by taste and mood, and after that I by price and sale! I hope others will also benefit from such a list. > : The first ingredient in Tender Beef Feast is beef, and > : my cats love it. I think this is what Phil means by "Minced [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > after that I by price and sale! I hope others will also benefit from > such a list. I have had very good results with Wellness and occasionally Eagle Pack. I alternate 3 or 4 varieties. I don't want my cats to become dependent on a single food, in case it isn't available sometime or the formulation is changed. I theorize that this may also help to provide a better balance (but admit that that is anecdotal). MaryL > : The first ingredient in Tender Beef Feast is beef, and > : my cats love it. I think this is what Phil means by "Minced [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > after that I by price and sale! I hope others will also benefit from > such a list. The only problem with lists is that they need to be maintained, because pet food changes >> : The first ingredient in Tender Beef Feast is beef, and >> : my cats love it. I think this is what Phil means by "Minced [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > The only problem with lists is that they need to be maintained, because > pet food changes oops, I hit send a little too quickly. I'll blame it on all the pain medication I'm on this evening... I'm floating around here... I had a tooth extracted earlier today. ...so, someone needs to keep the information regarding acceptable canned foods updated. People tend to lose interest in this once they have found a food(s) acceptable to them and their pets. With regards to the food, the only thing I would add is to be careful with food from the smaller manufacturers. It may suddenly become unavailable... either through no fault of your own or your fault. This happened to me when I moved to a remote area in Canada. I decided to settle on Science Diet which is available most everywhere. AlexZ <alexz@no.spam> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav: > List of acceptable canned foods > > FANCY FEAST: > Seafood Filets Tuna & Ocean Whitefish,. Acceptable being relative, I strongly recommend this particular variety be avoided at all cost! Good lord IT STINKS! I popped open a can and it immediately polluted the air quality of the whole house. Granted it's nutritious, Kami LOVED the smelly mess, but there is no way I would serve that in an enclosed environment ever again. If you're looking for a cat's paws up... > SCIENCE DIET: > Savory Cuts Chicken Dinner in Savory Gravy, > Savory Cuts Ocean Fish Dinner in Sauce, > Savory Cuts Beef Dinner in Gravy, High marks from Kami on the whole Savory Cuts line. > FRISKIES: > Sliced Beef in Gravy > Shredded Chicken & Salmon Dinner in Gravy Kami loved these before she was no longer allowed to have cheaper commercial food. SignatureMargarita Salt "...practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good... motives are often more important than actions." -- Eleanore Roosevelt > I love philosophical and scientific statements found here and in web > pages, but they still don't solve my practical problem: Standing inside [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] > I'll collate and repost for ease of future reference. > --------------------------------------- Once you find a food that meets your preferences, you still have to check with the manufacturer every few months for changes in the nutrient levels. You might want to use the Key Nutritional Factors for Adult Cats on my site as a guide: http://tinyurl.com/dpjb8 Good luck, Phil There have been so many times I've opened a can of premium kitty food and said to three furry heads, "Eat this, it's good for you," and then watched them give it an indifferent sniff. So I buy a wide variety of brands and flavors of premium food, hoping that some flavors will be a hit with some of the cats. If they don't like the canned food, there's always dry food to nosh on, or they can wait until the next meal. Curiously, none of the cats likes Science Diet in any flavor. They used to like it, then they decided they didn't like it. Every once in a while, I try to sneak in a can, but they rebuff it. They don't like Paul Newman's cat food either. Nutro Max Cat, Triumph, and Fancy Feast are favored, and their vet said that those were all good foods. this really all depends on what you define acceptable as. If you mean by a cat's personal preferance, then you'll probably be talking all the "junk food" canned foods. Having a diabetic cat, Ive been doing some research on foods, and avoid those with excessive carbohydrates. I avoid anything with wheat gluten - most of your chunk foods have it, and soy. You can find what I deem acceptable in any price point. Yes cheeper foods will have more byproducts and less "real meat" but there is always a balance between what will be eaten and what is the better list of ingredience. |
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