Why do you feed your cat this expensive canned cat food?

I spoke with a rescuer the other day who gives her special needs kitties a popular cat food sold in grocery stores and the large pet food chains.    She gives it as a “treat” for her other kitties.  And I was wondering, WHY?

This is NOT an inexpensive canned cat food compared to what else is on the shelf, although it’s cheap by comparison to the holistic foods.  It is approximately .56 cents per can and it only comes in the 3 oz size.  (Have you figured out its name?) 

More importantly, look at what’s in it.  These are the first few ingredients from a variety pack:

• Meat broth, meat-by-products, beef, wheat gluten
• Chicken broth, chicken, liver, wheat gluten, meat by-products
• Turkey broth, turkey, liver, wheat gluten, meat by-products

Every holistic vet on the planet tells you to avoid any unnamed animal protein.  Just exactly what animal(s) are in “meat by-products”?  And wheat gluten, we learned to avoid back in the Chinese melamine days. 

There are a couple of canned foods I use.  I absolutely cannot bear to feed the grocery store canned foods, especially if they contain “by-products” or worse, “meat by-products”. Those little freebie cans that come as samples in my cat litter buckets, I throw away.  I don’t even feed them to the outdoor feral colony. 

 I’m guessing these folks don’t have access to better pet food stores or don’t know how to read the label.

Let me just show you by contrast what kind of canned food you should be using for your kitties:

Organic Chicken, Chicken Liver, Chicken Broth, Turkey, Chicken Meal (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Shrimp, Fish Oil, Calcium Sulfate, Guar Gum, Salt, Taurine, Inulin, Dog Grass Extract, Ground Rosemary, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Choline Chloride, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Folic Acid, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Niacin, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Sodium Selenite, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Biotin.

Do you see any wheat or gluten?  Any by-products?

Yes, it’s a pricier food, almost double the price of the food fed by the rescuer.  You get what you pay for… real named animal meat vs. some unnamed “meat” or “by-product”.  Is your cat’s health and well-being worth an extra $10 per month?  Much better for your cat, in my opinion.