Those of you who feed your cat dry food... (cheap, vet, natural)
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How can you get free samples of food? I don`t want to buy a big bag and not have my cat eat it.
Check the "freebie forum" which is a sub forum of the Shopping forum in C-D.
I get cat food and dog food as samples on a regular basis from the links that are in posted in that forum. I also get a lot of acid reducers for me, too. LOL
I feed my cats Blue Buffalo and Halo dry food along with Wellness Core wet food. My vet told me that dry food is fine as long as it is high protein and gluten-free with no animal by-products and it also helps to keep their teeth clean. I have a diabetic cat and give her wet but she really likes the Buffalo dry so she drinks a lot of water.
I lost a kitty to that Purina poison-in-the-food and I am extremely careful about what I feed my girls. The diabetic cat almost died from the same thing. We were able to save her but it cost me $4,000.00. So I really don't care what the food costs as long as it is healthy food for Annie, Tammy and Stella the Diva Cat.
My vet told me that dry food is fine as long as it is high protein and gluten-free with no animal by-products and it also helps to keep their teeth clean.
This is actually a fallacy. Cats don't have chewing teeth for one thing. Most cats swallow kibble whole, or at the most one "crunch". And kibble cleaning teeth would be like you cleaning your teeth by eating a crouton.
In addition when a cat does crunch a kibble, it breaks into crumbs and the crumbs are more likely to stick to teeth and get under the gum line, as opposed to wet food which will just wash away with saliva.
The best way to keep a cat's teeth healthy is to feed a high quality canned food diet and brush their teeth every day with c.e.t. toothpaste. C.e.t. is an enzymatic paste, which means it breaks down bacteria. Most of the pastes you see in pet stores are useless, you need to use an enzymatic paste, and that is c.e.t.
Just getting the c.e.t. paste into the cat's mouth is beneficial, but of course contact with tooth and gum is better.
This is actually a fallacy. Cats don't have chewing teeth for one thing. Most cats swallow kibble whole, or at the most one "crunch". And kibble cleaning teeth would be like you cleaning your teeth by eating a crouton.
In addition when a cat does crunch a kibble, it breaks into crumbs and the crumbs are more likely to stick to teeth and get under the gum line, as opposed to wet food which will just wash away with saliva.
The best way to keep a cat's teeth healthy is to feed a high quality canned food diet and brush their teeth every day with c.e.t. toothpaste. C.e.t. is an enzymatic paste, which means it breaks down bacteria. Most of the pastes you see in pet stores are useless, you need to use an enzymatic paste, and that is c.e.t.
Just getting the c.e.t. paste into the cat's mouth is beneficial, but of course contact with tooth and gum is better.
Ours chew theirs and the food is high quality made with real chicken and other good maintenance and immunity ingredients.
I feed wet in the morning and kibble in the evening. I rotate brands, he likes them all. Costco brand with chicken is the staple and it's rotated with other brands.
Pure Vita from NutriSource is the one I'm giving her these days, mixed with some low-end pseudo "gourmet" stuff from the supermarket that actually has meat as the first ingredient. The Pure Vita is grain-free, the supermarket stuff is not. She gets mostly the Pure Vita, with just a healthy sprinkle of the supermarket stuff for flavor, because she really likes it. But I don't give her much of it, because she likes it SO much that she overeats, then drinks water, it expands in her stomach, and she pukes it up. Gotta love undigested, waterlogged puked cat food, heh.
Gotta love undigested, waterlogged puked cat food, heh.
Especially when you step in it!
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