Best Cat Food on the Market -- Simpson and Bowles Would be Happy for Others to Know

[AnotherMcIntosh]

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According to researchers other than these guys:

Natural balance Ultra Premium
Newman’s Own Organic
Timberwolf

http://www.dogandcatexperts.com/best-dog-food-on-the-market-best-cat-food-on-the-market/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=dogandcat

[nobodyspecial]

1. My guess is beans, rice and oatmeal

are cheaper per ounce.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. Logically, the rice grown in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas should be the cheapest.

http://blog.beaumontenterprise.com/bayou/2012/09/19/texas-rice-full-of-arsenic/

[niyad]

3. my kitties won't eat newman's own, will only eat natural balance if reallly hungry, and timberwolf

brand not available here.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Mine won't eat Newman's or Timberwolf and only eats some flavors of Natural Balance

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My cat can't eat dry food or much seafood, hates turkey and beef flavors, and prefers "cutlets" (but not stew) to the pate style food. I keep threatening to put him on a vegetable diet because he's such a picky PITA.

Being a cat, he just gives me that "please -as if you have any choice in the matter" look.

[niyad]

18. ah, how well we know that look.

the kitties I had many years ago actually preferred kfc chicken nuggets and french fries, along with lobster and turkey. kitty food--not so much.

[Jamastiene]

28. I ran out of Yogi's food last night and gave him a can of Swanson's White Meat Chicken.

He smacked and slurped and ate it like it was the best thing he ever had, next to rib eye. I now have his regular cat food and dread the look of hurt, anger, disappointment, and insulted I am going to get when I feed him his regular food again. I know he's going to try to cover it up at first, then get hungry later and eat it anyhow.

[Warpy]

4. I've never seen Timberwolf and my cat won't touch the other two

She was a kibble kitty until she turned 18 and preferred the really cheap stuff. Since she's gotten old, I've managed to introduce her to canned food without giving her the runs, but about all she'll reliably eat is Fancy Feast.

Cats are assholes and sometimes you can't win, no matter what you do.

[cliffordu]

12. No shit.

Assholes each and almost every one.

[glinda]

6. I trust the information on this website:

TruthAboutPetfood.com and subscribe to the Petsumers report on that site.

[Marrah_G]

7. Dog and Cat both get Blue Buffalo Wilderness

No meat by products, no grains, no soy, no artificial preservatives

Real vegetables, real meat .

Best of all, made in America.

[niyad]

19. wasn't there a problem with blue buffalo last year?

[Marrah_G]

20. Not that I know of

[Marrah_G]

24. Not that I know of

[Progressive dog]

33. 2007 had a recall per fda but none since

[debgrah1]

22. Cat food conundrum

I saw your post Marrah and I have 4 cats who all only eat Blue Buffalo Wilderness as well. Unfortunately, they still want and beg for canned food which I think is because they like the gravy. My present horrible choice in that matter is Friskies pate's only not the shredded stuff. I have been trying to research the matter myself and after substantial research from a health point of view I have decided that I actually do need to supplement this dry food with some kind of wet food to address the dehydration factor with cats. This is where I am stuck....on the Friskies canned crap right now. I was wondering if you have researched the canned foods yourself and what is the best canned food to supplement with. Trying to recap who all has been recalled day to day is pretty confusing to say the least. I also am considering searching for some wholesome but home prepared wet food recipes since I know what I am putting into them and it's fresh. Are you supplementing with wet food and if so what are you using?

Debra

[hrmjustin]

23. Welcome to DU my friend!

[Marrah_G]

25. They have canned food also

http://bluebuffalo.com/products?type=can&animal=cat

I give mine the canned a couple times a week as a treat.

About the dehydration. I've found that if I give mine filtered water(like a brita pitcher) and change it twice a day, he drinks alot more.

LOL I know I sound like I must work for them, but I feel better knowing he's getting a more quality food AND I love that it is made in the US.

Being on a limited budget, I'm not sure I could afford to do it for 4 cats though... I look for deals and buy more when its on sale.

[StrayKat]

27. For home prepared

Catnutrition.org and vetrenarian Lisa Pierson's catinfo.org have really good info and recipes for cats. I've been feeding one of the recipes to my cat since she developed hyperthyroid around the time of the 2007 petfood recall. Her thyroid returned to normal in only a couple of weeks and she's been fine since.

[Revanchist]

8. Interesting...

Can't comment on the cat part (I'm a dog person) but the site I use to look at food, www.dogfoodadvisor.com gives Natural Balance 3.5 stars, Newman's 4 stars, and TimberWolf 5 stars (on a 5 star scale).

They consider rice a questionable ingredient due to its low nutritional content.

[Major Nikon]

14. As far as dogs go...

I feed my dogs Orijen adult dogs 80/20. The site you listed rates it as 5 stars. It's expensive, but it's very high in protein which is why it costs so much. The high cost is offset by the fact that I don't have to feed them very much of it. I actually have to ration it out to them, otherwise they get fat, and I have border collies which are very active. It took me a while to ration just the right amount so they don't gain weight.

[frazzled]

9. Innova Cat and Kitten Dry (or Simpson-Bowles)

It's the only stuff my cat will eat. But I might try giving her a quarter cup of Simpson-Bowles twice a day.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. My cat is a fussy eater, too

Newman's Own? Natural Balance? Nope! He takes one bite, backs away, and backs away further if I try to hold the bowl up to his nose. Then he meows incessantly until I give him something he likes: Fancy Feast or some flavors (not others) of Wellness or B.G. We don't have Timberwolf here.

[Raine]

11. Same with mine, it has to be Fancy Feast. My two absolutely will not eat any

heathy type of food.

[LadyHawkAZ]

15. Same here

Mine will eat nothing but Fancy Feast. Are they putting catnip in the stuff?

[Freddie]

36. Same here with Fancy Feast

That's all Freddie, Riley and Samantha will eat plus Purina One Sensitive Systems dry.

[blkmusclmachine]

13. Who are those 2 rich a/holes deciding if Grandma gets 1 can or 2???

Oh, yeah, Obama's choices.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. You are the first person

responding in this thread that seems to understand the original intent of the OP.

[StrayKat]

29. I'm sure others got the CPI dig too, but as the topic wasn't well set up. . .

[Mnemosyne]

16. My three kitties wont eat anything except Flint River Ranch dry food. Only one of them will eat any

kind of canned food, and she isn't picky, though I am. They are extremely healthy and two of them were rescues from a crazed hoarder, 48 cats in a trailer with three humans.

[sadbear]

21. When you feed "your cat" Newman's Own...

you know that most of the proceeds will be going to good causes.

[DJ13]

26. Pate or chunks?

The pate mixes with mayonnaise better than chunky.

[mike_c]

30. are those grain based catfoods or meat/other protein based cat foods?

I'm not familiar with any of the three, hence my question. We feed dry (rice based) adult cat weight maintenance kibble ad libitum to our kitties, but supplement our oldest with additional canned meat based food because she is toothless and doesn't get enough calories otherwise (beef and turkey mostly, no fish currently).

Most of our cats do fine on this diet, but one is obese, despite all attempts to limit her food intake. We actually sent her to fat camp for several months, i.e. isolated her from the other cats at a friend's house who fed her a strict calorie limited diet while giving opportunities for daily outdoor exercise, to little avail. We've just recently gotten her back, and haven't gotten in to the vet yet, but I'm wondering whether somehow taking her entirely off of a grain based diet might be helpful. She is healthy otherwise, but is wider than she is long.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

32. For a grain-based cat diet, I wonder if a short experiment would help?

I've heard that some vegetarians believe that a certain amount of fat is necessary in order to have a sufficient amount of vitamins to process the other food that is eaten. Apparently some vegetarians eat eggs.

Could it help to mix a cooked egg or two in with the rice-based kibble?

Then, too, I wonder about fish oil and the benefits that fish oil has. Would it be worthwhile to buy a small bottle of cod-liver oil and sprinke some of that on the dry mixture? Would it be both tasty and have vitamin D, etc.

[Warpy]

31. All of which my cat tries to bury

and then noses out of the dish and onto the floor, followed by plaintive meows that her dish is empty, can she have something good this time?

Trying to get Her Highness to eat any canned food was a struggle. She's got renal failure and I guess nothing tastes good to her except the kibble the vet really doesn't want her to eat.

So it's Fancy Feast for my feline overlord. She'll eat a little of that before it hits the floor.

[Progressive dog]

34. Who are those guys and why are they recommending cat food

Weren't they on some commission thing?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

35. They are two wealthy individuals who were selected to give advice on how to cut Social Security.

Cat-food researchers other than those two guys determined what they perceived to be the best cat food.

It's unlikely that the ones in the photo (Simpson and Bowles) have ever tasted cat food. If they ever recommended any particular brand of cat food, it would be likely that they were stockholders in the company.

They were selected by President Obama to head a committee or commission with recommendations on how to cut Social Security.

Their committee became to be known as the Cat-Food Commission because, as more seniors become impoverished, it is anticipated by some that they will be reduced to eating cat food.