WHICH FOOD IS BEST?

Question:
 ??? HI EVERYONE, i am new to this site. i came upon it accidently while reading a piece about what realy goes into cat food. it absolutely sickened me and i am now on a mission to find the best, most nutritional cat food for my furry babies. i have 5 kids ranging in ages from 1-22! the younger 3 eat only dry food and the older 2, having less than a full set of teeth between them, eat/suck only wet food. i try to stick to senior food for the older ones but i find the variety very restricting. i have experimented with many brands of wet and dry food and have narrowed the favourites down. their favourite dry is James Wellbeloved and favourite wet is most pouches. (only the more expensive ones of course!) ;) so my question is: does anyone have any info on the BEST cat food and where i can buy it? xxxx
Answer:
 There are many excellent cat foods out there. A good rule of thumb: 1) If it is cheap, it is lesser quality 2) If it is sold through a grocery store or department store, it is lesser quality. (even some pet supply stores sell grocery store brands - so avoid anything that is sold through a grocery store. Often the ingredients are lesser quality and the food harder to digest). Now, with these rules of thumb, I am going to recommend a few of the many good cat foods out there that a good pet supply or feed store should carry: Royal Canin Avoderm Bil-Jac Natural Balance Natural Life Wellness (and Old Mother Hubbard canned same food) Nutro Naturals and Nutro Max Solid Gold (NOT Pet Gold, SG used to be called Cats'n'Flocken - this is what I feed personally as one of my cats is allergic to poultry and this is poultry free). Nature's Recipe Wysong Flint river ranch These are some of the premium to super premuim brands out there and all brands I recommend. If you need to go to a supermarket, Purina ONE is one of the better of the grocery store brands. Again, the list of foods I gave are only a few. These are higher quality and can be gotten in many places including on line if needed.
Answer:
 Pull him off the Wal-Mart brands. They are poor quality and harder to digest. Also, often you have to feed more to get the same nutritional value of a higher quality food. One of the things I have done is to put a lot of time into studying animal nutrition. Just because a cat or dog loves a food, does not mean it should be fed. A gradual switch will greatly lower the risk of diarrhea. The first week, replace a small amount of the old food with the new food. Over the next couple weeks, increase gradually the new food until the cats are no longer eating the old. Higher quality foods have other benefits: *Less waste and often less odorous waste. *Better skin and coat health. *Overall health can be affected by nutrition. Think of some of these foods as allowing your child to live on fast food. Yes, he can get grain (rolls), meat (the burger or chicken), vegetables (the pickles, lettuce and tomatoes) and dairy (cheese and those shakes). But is the diet healthy and the food quality? No. This is what feeding your cat lower quality brands is like. If you absolutely MUST feed a brand sold at WalMart, other department stores or grocery stores, find Iams or Purina ONE. They are the better of these foods. But they are still not the quality of any of the ones I listed for the original poster.