Hi there

I'm trying to find out which is the best dry cat food (nutritionally) to give my furries here.
I stood in the cat food aisle at Pets at Home for a long time comparing labels, and came away with a couple of small sacks of 'Purely' as it was a lot cheaper than James Wellbeloved, but had pretty much the same nutritional values.

Was this a wise choice?
I'm keen to hear what dry cat food you use (I'll never use Iams due to their totally vile animal testing, so it's no good telling me about that company)

I need to buy as natural as possible - ie, no artificial colours / preservatives / flavours etc.

Many thanks
Tara

I've been using royal canin 36 kitten, but I am considering going to a 'better brand' i'l be using orijen but need something in the mean time until that comes, so will keep an eye on this thread

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Try Orijen or Applaws

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Orijen has the best meat content.

Next best are Acana, Applaws and Taste Of The Wild. You'll need to buy them online though, they're not sold in PAH.

Applaws is available in P@H and Sainsbury's Encore is re packaged Applaws.

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Oh dear, I can't afford Acana, Applaws or Taste Of The Wild for a greedy five cat household.

Maybe I'll have to stick with 'Purely' but I wondered if there was any food out there that may be better....



Purely info:


Purely Adult Complete Cat Food with Chicken is a delicious cat food full of healthy, nutritious ingredients you'd be happy to eat yourself.

With no artificial colours or preservatives; here's what you can expect from this pack of Purely Adult Complete Cat Food with Chicken:

Taurine - cats need lots of taurine in their diet to help maintain a healthy heart and vision.
It's naturally occurring in meat so with 40% chicken in our food, you can be sure that your cat is getting plenty of the good stuff!



Composition:

A Complete Pet Food For Adult Cats.
Poultry Meat Meal, Maize Meal, , Fresh Chicken (min.26% in the brown component), Rice Poultry Fat, Pork Gravy, Fish Meal, Sugar Beet Pulp, Linseed, Maize Gluten Meal,Yeast, Minerals, Barley Meal, Oatmeal, Vegetables (Peas, Carrots, Spinach), Fruit (Tomato, Citrus Pulp, Grape Skins), Salt.

Additives, Colourants. Nutritional Additives; Vitamin A: 14000µ/kg, Vitamin D3: 1250µ/kg, Vitamin E (α-Tocopherol): 100mg/kg, Zinc (as Sulphate):100mg/kg, Iron (as Sulphate): 60mg/kg, Manganese (as Oxide): 30mg/kg, Copper (as Sulphate): 5mg/kg, Iodine (as Iodate): 0.9mg/kg, Selenium (as Selenite): 0.1mg/kg.

Analytical Constituents:

Protein 28%, Crude Fibre 3%, Oils & Fats 15%, Crude Ash 7%, Moisture 10%.

My picky boy loves fish4cats and I think it's a pretty ok dried food. I didn't think he was going to take to orijen but he has now so I'm going to try acana next. There aren't that many brands of dried food that I think are good quality.

we are just moving Merlot from Iams to Orijen...found it in our local petshop Kennelgate yesterday....Im told that cats need to eat less of this so doesnt work out as expensive as it first seems....not sure yet as only bought yesterday so will have to see how it goes- we plan to move mostly to wet as times goes on, she currently has whiskers simply and loves it... am planning on trying others soon.... but I dont know how good whiskers simply is in the scheme of things

For dry I feed both Hills Science Plan; Chicken, (P@H) and Orijen; Fish. (Zooplus) The Furbies love both of these and they are both high in meat content, although Orijen has less grain.

Is feeding wet food not an option?

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I hope you have better luck with the Purely dry than I did - none of my three would even touch it!

Could you perhaps feed a combined wet/dry diet? There are some quite cheap ok wet foods (Top Life & Hi Life are the two Asda ones that spring to my mind).

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