Is Science Diet, dry & canned, a good brand of kitten food? When I adopted my 2 kittens, Pet Smart gave me 2 free bags of Science Diet, but I wanted to make sure that it's a good brand. If not, which brands do you suggest? I know there are a ton of brands out there, some expensive & some inexpensive, which I'm not worried about. I just want the kittens to get a good balance diet & nutrients, along with them liking it. Does anybody use any of the Purina brands for kittens? Thanks for any advice.
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Is Science Diet a Good Brand?
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Posted 2 years ago by dsterry0578 #
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http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16684
read this thread .... FurryFriends seems to be very knowledgable, and has shared a lot of great information......
.... personally, I've tried Wellness Core and Royal Canin, and Abby prefers Royal Canin........
Best of luck to you and your furbaby!
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A few years ago, Consomer Reports said that Science Diet is the best cat food. My cats eat it, my sister's cats eat it and my brother's cats eat it.
Posted 2 years ago by ClaudesMommy #
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AV, thanks for reposting that thread. I use Science Diet Light for the dry food and mixture of science diet, natural balance and pro plan for wet food. Both my cats were on special cat food when I got them and I couldn't get what they were eating. I tried Wellness wet food but neither of my cats liked it. PetFood Express has a lot of the more natural foods but they very expensive. A small can of science diet usually runs around 70-80 cents a can. Food Express was charging $1.30 for a small can of Wellness which I am more than happy to pay if it is better for my cats and would have had to adjust my budget if they had liked it (which they did not). I continue to research wet foods for my very finicky cats so that thread from Furryfriend50 is very helpful. Gives me more to check out.
Posted 2 years ago by SylMiaFelixMomma #
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No Science Diet is not a good brand of cat food. Purina isn't either. You want to avoid any foods with corn, wheat, soy, or by-products. Also avoid foods that only have chicken as the first ingrediant, you want chicken meal to be the first (or another type of meal, but not by-product meal).
Petsmart, the best food you can get from there is the Blue Buffalo Wilderness (it also has fairly low carbs, which is very good. You want the lowest amount of carbs possible, a lot of brands are very high, like SD in carbs. Carbs are what makes cats fat, so i do really wonder why wieght loss foods are so high in carbs.)
I personally will never even think about feeding a food with corn or any of the other bad stuff in it.
SD mainly consists of grain, which makes no sense whatsoever. Cats are known for eating the rodents that got into the grain bins, so the system only worked because they are obligate carnivores and eat the mice NOT the grain. The only meat is by-products which can be anything from beeks to necks to feet. Not something you ever want to have a cat eat.
If you can afford better dry food that would be really good (SD is about the same price as the healthy foods). Any wet food that you can feed them is really good since wet is much better than dry. I actually feed expensive dry food with the cheap wet because i am feeding so many cats. The cheap wet is friskies, but most of there wet is food i make myself for them.
I can try post more later if you want, have to go to work now.
I know that vets give SD and Iams a very good rep, but since they are taught by those companies....that is why so many feed SD when it is not good.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/13974
Read this, it was what goes into SD food.
Posted 2 years ago by furryfriends50 #
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I tried the Science Diet "natural" dry for my cat and it gave her terrible digestive problems. That's when I looked at the ingredients, of the first 5 I think 4 were grains or soy! Humans are omnivoures and have a difficult time digesting things like soy and corn, cats are carnivores, there is no way their systems can handle that well.
I am still looking at the Petsmart for the highest protein content in dry food, that she likes.
Posted 2 years ago by TrufflesMom #
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