Fancy Feast: Cat food or Junk food?

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Fancy Feast: Cat food or Junk food?
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Mon, 02-07-2005 - 3:27pm

Hi all! I haven't posted in a while because I'm staying busy with my last semester at graduate school and job searching for a teaching position...but, I'm glad for my occasional visits back to the Cat Talk board!

I'm writing today with a question about cat food: Our Binx won't eat Nutro (any flavor) anymore. Skeeter will eat pretty much anything. Binx, however, does have a tooth for Fancy Feast. I've always thought this to be a great food, but others have told me that it's "junk" compared to foods like Wellness, Innova, and Felidae. I've known many cats who lived very well on Fancy Feast, but would like YOUR input.

Do you think that Fancy Feast is a healthy enough food to keep my two boys healthy and happy. Grandted, it does not have all of the nutritional value of something like Wellness, but, if it's the only thing Binx will eat, should I just give it to him?

I should state also that the boys live on a 50% dry/50% wet diet. We feed Maxximum crunchy food (surprisingly good ingredients!) and, well, now you know the story about the wet food.

Please offer up your opinions. Any thoughts are appreciated.

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Mon, 02-07-2005 - 3:56pm

I'm not sure if it's a complete food for cats or not.


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Mon, 02-07-2005 - 5:07pm
I always thought that most foods you found at the grocery were not as good but I still say better than no food or people food


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Registered: 10-29-2003
Mon, 02-07-2005 - 5:53pm

Not sure if this will help you or not, but it contains info about cat nutrition including how to read labels.

http://www.topsellingpetsupplies.com/cat-food.aspx

Purina.com has lots of info as well. Purina is the maker of Fancy Feast.

Michelle




Edited 2/7/2005 5:55 pm ET ET by freckles79
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Mon, 02-07-2005 - 7:53pm

You know, people tend to get hung up on feeding the "best" food.

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Tue, 02-08-2005 - 11:09am

Most canned food has a meat as the first ingredent and is higher in protien.


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Tue, 02-08-2005 - 4:09pm
I'd try to get vitamins in him some way ... either the liquid kind that squirts on the food or a Petco vitamin that he'll eat ... cats need vitamins like taurine for healthy hearts, and i'm not sure Fancy Feast is balanced lack that. Drsfostersmith.com has vitamin ideas... I use a liquid vitamin Nu-Cat Liquid, when i have to feed babyfood to them to get them to eat during illnesses ... My cats won't eat Wellness, or all those other commercially-available health foods, like yours. It's frustrating. They do eat food their vets have prescribed and I pick that up every month at the vet's office for them, IV, and ID, which is basically Health Science food. If they'll eat it, and it has nutrition appropriate to cats in it, fine with me...
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Sun, 02-13-2005 - 12:29pm
I noticed some tube vitamins sold at DrsFosterSmith.com ... bought some for my cats, too. There were at least two different kinds. That might be easiest to administer. For me at least, because I give them laxatone fairly frequently for hairballs since they won't eat hairball treats -- or any treats for that matter. You just scrap about an inch of it on their upper teeth, with you seated behind them so they don't feel threatened. There was a brand that had taurine in it, the one i bought. Not that expensive either. Some of the liquid types can run $20 a bottle ...