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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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So I look at something like this, which was highly recommended:
http://www.royalcanin.ca/products/ca...at-food/226005
and the ingredients...
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Chicken by-product meal, brewers rice, corn, brown rice, corn gluten meal, chicken fat, wheat gluten, powdered cellulose, rice hulls, dried plain beet pulp, calcium sulfate, natural flavours, sodium bisulfate, fish oil, DL-methionine, potassium chloride, L-lysine, vegetable oil, psyllium seed husk, sodium silico aluminate, fructooligosaccharides, calcium carbonate, salt, sodium tripolyphosphate, choline chloride, vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), biotin, niacin supplement, D-calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin supplement, vitamin A acetate, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], hydrolyzed yeast, taurine, trace minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, copper proteinate], rosemary extract, preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid.
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Now, by product isn't necessarily bad, but regular "chicken" is better. But then ingredient #2 is brewers rice, which is garbage, devoid of nutrients, then more grains. Cats are carnivores, so grains should not be used as filler. So this vet recommended food is actually not all that good for cats.
http://www.second-opinion-doc.com/wh...-cat-food.html
Now, you compare it to something like this:
and what looks better for a cat?
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