Sunday, August 2, 2009

Are there anymore premium canned cat foods?

such as fancy feast and sheba? ...and if so which ones the best ...taste wise and quality
Answers:
Fancy Feast and Sheba aren't premium canned foods. Wellness is a very good one. It is all natural and very healthy.
Ooh, I wouldn't call those premium. Anything you can get in your average grocery store is going to be low quality.
Taste is a matter of taste. What one cat loves another will hate. You simply have to experiment.
As for quality, you need to get quality products at pet stores. All are not created equal though - the independent stores will typically care the better foods than chains. There are some exceptions - some stores carry one or two of the better brands, but you can't walk into the average chain pet store and assume that everything they sell is good.
See the What to feed link. These are some of the truly good quality cat foods. There are other good ones as well, but this is at least a starting point.
Science Diet
Fancy feast is a middle grade quality food and is fine. I don't think sheba is. Is the first ingrediant in sheba a muscle meat like chicken? (Not meal or byproducts) A higher quality food would be wellness or merrick which is human grade
Premium on the label doesn't mean a thing if the ingredients are junk. Check the protein level (should be 12% in canned because of all the moisture, in dry it should be 35% or higher to be good quality).
I've been happy with Nutro-MaxiCat chicken and lamb in the 6 and 12 oz cans, with Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul in 6 ounce cans, Wellness, and some of the Paul Newman brand. You'll find these at pet supply stores or health food stores (they carry some pet foods now), but not at grocery stores. The best are probably Wysong and Evo.
Check the first 5 ingredients. Three should be meat, none of it should be byproducts, and corn should not be in the first 5 ingredients (cats don't digest corn so it's a filler that doesn't do anything for them).
Here's a breakdown for canned foods off a list I have bookmarked, it's not complete with everything on the market but you can compare brands with it. You'll see there's a HUGE variety in the foods when looking at side by side comparisons.

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