From the dry food guide:

General info: An expensive dry food for what it is. A low declared (flavour) meat content and two lots of grains (with undeclared proportions).

Spend a little more (say 5p a day) and you can get a high meat content dry food that contains no grains, such as Applaws, Fish 4 Cats, Orijen or some with a medium declared meat content such as Porta 21 Sensible or Arden Grange Sensitive.

So if you must feed dry Id go with a more expensive dry.

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I leave dry food out so that Ari can it when she feels hungry 'in between meals'.
She eats very little of it, so I can afford to buy the best available. I do a rotation of Orijen, Applaws and Acana (so we don't end up depending on only one brand). Her favourites so far are the Acana Grasslands and Orijen and there's absolutely no waste when I put them out as she eats every kibble of them! I may reconsider buying Applaws.

PS: please don't buy cheap dry food. It's a total waste of money.

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I am feeding our 3 a combination of Hills kitten, Royal Canin kitten and Orijen. I am slowly trying to switch them to Orijen, Acana and Applaws from the Hills/RC mix. So far they are doing really well!

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what is wrong with royal canin kitten ... ive been feeding my kittens this and theyve had lots of diarrhoea .. wondering if it might be contributing ?

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iv just got sheldon onto applaws however he only has about half a handfull a day just at night time and 6 or 7 peices as a treat thrown around the house to get a jump start on him running around, by only feeding him this tiny amount a 400g bag of applaws (£3.20) lasts all month

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It might not be the RC kitten per say - but dry in general - dry has a lot of grains and some cats are sensitive to it. If you kittens (how old?) have dire-rear then I would put them onto a diet of just boiled chicken for a few days and see if that helps - then once they are firm again GRADUALLY reintroduce the RC if they get runny bums again it doesn't agree with them and you need to change it.

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JWB Turkey for my toothless boy, who hates wet, so the JWB are tiny little pellets Go Cat for my girl, as that is all she will eat. Three days she went without food once.

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I'v had no dry cat food in the house since christmas. I was using orijen fish flavour though, she was literally eating only about 15 pellets a day though so when it ran out I just upped the wet food. A 400g bag was lasting at least a month if not 2 months. She seemed to like it, I just prefer feeding her wet food.

My kittens had diarrhoea on the royal canin kitten too and the breeder confirmed that so do their litter mates ! so now (because i have two other cats that will ONLY eat dry ) they get Royal Canin Outdoor (not that they are outdoor cats ) and Royal Canin Hair and Skin .

I still have 6 kgs of the royal canin kitten

Tummy problems vanished, literally as soon as i stopped feeding the kitten food

What is the problem with ash for boys? I have just started using Applaws and have a boy

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