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hi our cats have been eating spa select cat food indoor.the chunkier one is on diet and the smaller one is on regular.but the smaller one has not been gaining weight but the chunkier one has.can anyone recomend a good and healthy cat food for them
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I\\\’ve linked a list of good canned cat foods that you can try if you\\\’d like.
Basically if you have an overweight cat you want them on something with less than 10% carbohydrates, ideally. There are only two dry foods I know of that fit that description - EVO and Wellness CORE, though there may be others.
Your easiest solution is a decent canned food though, which USUALLY (but not always) has less grains in it, more animal proteins and less carbohydrates. Cats are not like humans in that they don\\\’t need carbohydrates in their diet at all and their metabolism is geared toward breaking down protein into glucose rather than breaking down larger sugars.
Most brands of dry cat food (especially the ones sold in places like WalMart and grocery stores) are actually not appropriate food for a cat at all, being too low in complete animal-based protein and too high in starches and incomplete plant-based proteins (if there\\\’s \\\”gluten\\\” in the ingredient list, you should avoid a food anyway, it was tainted wheat gluten from China that killed all those pets during the recall a while ago).
This is why you see so many overweight or diabetic cats - they are not meeting their protein requirements (they are highly specialized obligate carnivores, not omnivores like us), so they gorge themselves on these protein-poor foods to get enough and end up taking in too many calories overall and put on too much weight.
Spa select isn\\\’t even close to being the worst cat food out there but it isn\\\’t something I\\\’d feed to an *overweight* cat. If the other cat is doing okay on it, you may be fine leaving it on it, but the chunky one needs something else if he\\\’s not losing weight. Both cats would probably benefit in the long-run from a grain-free food though, especially as they age.
Source Link: http://www.catinfo.org/commercialcannedfoods.htm
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I highly recommend the Flaked Fish and Shrip canned food from Fancy Feast. It has a very high level of fish, shrimp and other meats, which is exactly what you should look for in a cat food. Lots of Fancy Feast food brands are not as healthy though so this is the only thing I would get from Fancy Feast (tell me if you see another fancy feast brand that is healthy because my cats love it). I also suggest Natural Balence Ultra Formula and if you prefer to feed your cats dry food, Welness Core. I give my cats a variety of foods both wet and dry, but wet food is generally healthier because it keeps your cat more hydrated in a natural way. These three things are what my cats seem to like the best.
Like Telegram sam said, avoid the cat foods with plant based protiens. This includes corn, wheat and soy and is usually labeled on pet food packages as \\\”ground yellow corn\\\”, \\\”corn gluten meal\\\”, \\\”whole grain corn\\\”, \\\”ground whole wheat\\\” and eccetra eccetra. If I saw these on an ingrediants list for something I ate I might be pleased, but on a cat food label is spells kidney failure, heart problems, allergies and shortened life spans.
I would also avoid cats foods that have \\\”by-products\\\”. It may sound harmless, but by-products is a fancy way to say \\\”left over meat that we can\\\’t feed to humans\\\”. This means the meat of sick animals, chicken heads, intestines, carcasses, bones, bird feet and even feathers. by-products doesin\\\’t even have to contain meat as long as it came from something that was alive once.
\\\”meat and bone meal\\\” is pretty much the same thing, only it is often meat from road-kill or other pets that died in shelters and vets. Your\\\’re cats are not cannibals, so don\\\’t feed them anything with this.
So in conclusion, always read and research about your pet foods before you buy them.
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I would recommend against a diet with fish as the primary component, especially if you have male cats (who are more susceptible to urinary tract issues due to their narrow urethra). Fish in diets has been linked to urinary tract issues.
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I second what ziggy says. Fish is okay a couple times a week but a cat should not be fed a steady diet of it.
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The only food i wouldn\\\’t recommend is Friskies. It can make your cat gain some weight.
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Honestly the only brands i would ever feed my cats are wellness or what i have recently switched to instinctive choice. They both are high protein and have the lowest amount of fillers. Instinctive choice has a higher water content and also uses a higher quality meat, i highly recommend it and so does my picky kitty.
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