Food for cats: reviews and recommendations

The modern pace dictates the conditions of life not only for people, but also for animals. If before a good owner, attentive to the nutrition of his pet, could spend hours choosing or harvesting food for him, but now a growing number of breeders and simply animal lovers are moving to ready dry and wet forages. First of all, it affected domestic cats, as they are often found among your favorite pets.

A variety of fodder for cats

It is not so easy nowadays to choose a quality cat food. Reviews say one thing, advertising is different, veterinarians - the third. The variety of feeds simply amazes the unprepared buyer.

A suffering because of this favorite cat.

When switching to ready-made animal feed, it is worth considering their division into classes.

Feed Holstik class

This class of fodder for cats appeared relatively recently. First they tried to be attributed to the super-premium class feed, but too big a gap lies between them. What is the essence of such an office?

Holistic - it means whole. That is, the food is selected not for some kind of cat, not for a specific part of the body or a sore, but in general for a cat. After all, before becoming a home purr, the entire feline part of the world's population was wild and extracted their own food. At the same time, none of them suffered from obesity, urolithiasis, or liver and kidney problems. So, eating a holistic, a homemade cat gets everything that he would get in the wild, eating fresh, recently sliced meat.

This is a fully balanced feed for cats, customer reviews confirm this by the good condition of the pet - both external and internal. The holistic uses only fresh meat, the growth of which was not adjusted by hormones. Accordingly, they will not enter the cat's body and can not cause mutations, including cancer. This is one of the "chips" of holists - meat used for feed could be eaten by a person, since it was selected according to all the norms of quality. This already excludes the presence of giblets, horns and hooves, as well as by-products. In addition, meat for these feeds undergoes minimal heat treatment, which allows it to retain the maximum of useful properties and taste qualities.

"Akana"

For example, the feed-holistic includes the food "Akana" and "Orizhen" Canadian company CHAMPION PETFOODS LTD.

"Akana" - cat food, reviews on which are 99% positive. These are biologically appropriate feeds, they are completely balanced and suitable for daily feeding. A huge plus and difference from simple feeds is the absence of grain components in the feeds of "Akan" and "Orizhen". In them you will not see any millet, no corn, let alone soy. All the necessary carbohydrates the animal receives from the potato - the mandatory ingredient of "Akana". The composition on the packages is written in great detail, and it includes fresh meat of several species (lamb, fish, chicken, turkey), fresh vegetables, fruits, about fifty kinds of herbs. It is worth noting the absence of such cheap fillers as corn gluten, which causes allergies in animals, bone meal, meat by-products, corn and corn flour. Preservatives in this diet are used only natural - these are some herbs and vitamins. Proteins are mostly of animal origin, not vegetable, they are much better absorbed by the animal's body. Particular attention should be paid to the presence of natural urine oxidants, which save the animal from the acquisition of urolithiasis even after castration or sterilization. People who have been using the product "Akana" (cat food) for a long time (and the food has been produced for more than twenty-five years), the responses leave about the same: they got rid of the allergy caused by another, cheaper food, the animal looks fine, actively, eats with Pleasure, but not much, etc.

By the way about the norm of feeding. An animal that feeds on dry food should drink plenty of water. Cheap feed, which is poorly absorbed by the cat's body, only clog the stomach, as the animal, trying to get enough and get the right amount of energy and vitamins, will eat up for future use. Not only is this a direct path to obesity, so even in the stomach there is no room for water, and the cat begins to drink less. And this is already threatening with problems with the stomach, kidneys and urinary tract. The norm of feeding "Akana" is an average of 80 grams per day. And almost all the eaten is processed into energy, respectively, the volume of feces decreases.

The Akanya line does not have veterinary feeds, it is designed for healthy animals. In this case, according to reviews, problems with allergies and with the stomach (nausea, vomiting), this food decides. Also, there are no wet feeds of Akan and Oriigen, so if the animal is used to eating preserves, it is possible to soak dry food, but moisture should not be more than 35% of the volume.

Therefore, picking food for your purr, first of all, pay attention to this feed. It will cost you money, but you will save money on veterinarians and treatment.

Super premium food

If the feed of the holistic class is hardly typed from a dozen, then the super-premium class will be bigger. These feeds are mostly made of meat, not cheap flour fillers, there should be no meat offal. The daily rate is also small, since most of the food is absorbed by the animal's body.

"Leonardo"

These feeds are also very high quality, and up to Holistic some of them are not enough for only one or two indicators. For example, such feeds include "Leonardo" - cat food, reviews on which are mostly positive. The range of feeds includes both dry and wet species, but most buyers give their preference to preserves and preserves.

The manufacturer indicates that it uses only fresh ingredients, while the feed contains several kinds of meat meal. But there are no offal, and this can not but rejoice. Another plus is that most of the proteins are still of animal origin, which means that your pussy can easily assimilate them.

"Hills"

About feed "Hills" for cats, the reviews are very mixed. Some breeders and amateurs praise him beyond measure, some say this feed is categorical "no."

In fact, this food is now difficult to classify as super-premium, they continue to do this as a matter of habit. Earlier, "Hills" was really the best, but recently cornmeal and corn gluten appeared in feeds, which promotes the development of allergy, soy, which leads to the formation of cancerous tumors. In the line there are both feeds for daily use, and veterinary feeds (the quality of which is still better), there is dry food and moist (only medicinal).

"Bozita"

Another food, which can be attributed to the super-premium class, is "Bozita". Food for cats, reviews about which exceed the most daring expectations of the manufacturer.

Initially it was created as a premium food, but it turned out much better and smoothly migrated to the next group. The consumers appreciated very highly the composition of the feed (there is no corn gluten and gluten, not a word about the offal), and its smell, attracting even the most fastidious seals to the bowl, and its consistency. The feed is divided into dry and wet, there are no veterinary feeds, but "Bozita" was created for daily use by healthy cats. Very highly appreciated the wet feed "Bozita". They are of two kinds: pieces in jelly and pates. Animals, according to customers, are happy to eat and that and that.

Premium Feed

The premium class is all that is worse than the above, but not as bad as the economy class.

In premium foods, still there is meat, sometimes it is even - the main ingredient. But the composition does not already meet fresh meat, a maximum - meat or bone meal. Present and offal. And what is included in them - nobody knows. There were these just leftovers of meat from slaughterhouses or horns and hoofs - it will not be possible to establish.

"Pro Plan"

At best, the flour component is rice and rice flour, as in the "ProPlan". Food for cats, reviews received not so bad. In the composition of the first place is meat or fish, this is a good indicator, but its only 20%. There is a famous corn gluten. The remaining 80% of the composition is cheap fillers, corn, flour, etc. The feed is not well balanced, the animal can receive too much one vitamin or mineral and suffer from a lack of the other. They also have a wet cat food, the reviews will be better, but they consist of a meat by-product, there are taste enhancers, albeit allowed, but still ... There is a lot of jelly in the sachet, as compared to the pieces, so the buyer Acquires water.

The premium class also includes such feeds as "Royal Canin", which is already known to many consumers. The composition is rather weak, but there is no soy, and this is a plus.

Still worth mentioning the food "Brit" for cats - reviews are different. Someone is happy with food, some not very. But he has a fairly democratic price, even among premium-class feeds, so many choose it.

There are also Russian feeds, which bear the proud name of premium food. For example, "Our Brand". Food, in general, quite good, but to the premium class, it still has to develop and develop. Rather, it will be assigned to the next category.

Forage of economy class

Economy class for animals is almost the same as the same class for people. This is cat food, reviews about which are either simply missing, or they are negative. In the composition of very little meat, in most cases it is meat by-products. And even this class of feed is divided into two types: the first - these are those in which a simple, non-pedigree or domestic cat can quite exist for a long time, the second - it is absolutely commercial fodder created for profit, there is no question of caring for animals .

"Purina"

Beneficial from the economy class stands out "Purina" - cat food, reviews about which amaze at least some variety. "Purina" has in its lineup a completely different feed with a variety of compounds that you want even to attribute to different classes. This and "Friskis" with "Darling", which, rather, want to be attributed to commercial, advertised species, and "Cat Chau", which for its price category is very even looks good, and the veterinary line "Purina" - cat food, reviews Which are still positive, not negative. They are dry, there are wet, in some meat 4%, in others about 20%.

Vets do not really like this feed, but recently the treatment line has begun to improve the quality for the better.

Other food of economy class

Most of the commercial feeds produced by the company "Mars". These fodder are widely heard, even those who do not have cats know them.

These are the famous "Kitty Ket" and "Whiskas". It is difficult to say what is in the composition of these feeds is useful for the animal. Meat in them is practically absent, and if a meat by-product is added, then the lowest quality is added. Such feed for cats reviews is appropriate, but many continue to feed them their koteek. Simply, it is always at hand (you can buy in any store), and eat it always with pleasure. But this does not mean that the food is good. This only says that it contains a large amount of flavor.