Schesir cat food, is it appropriate?
it just showed up in my pet-store, and I bought a bag of their dry food. My cat LOVES it. He did devour their caned food, as addition to his dry food, which was Royal Canin.
Schesir seem god, by the ingredients I see on the packaging, but my cat had some liver problems, and taurine deficiency, so he's getting CaloPet every light of day, and I feel like I should be very tight-fisted with his diet, so I'd really like to know if anyone have any experience with Schesir dry food, and should I trust that company?
I can't find the ingredients any. They do say that they have no corn or soy which is a good article. It does use potato to bump up the protein which isn't a good thing but even some of the really good foods do this so it's not unheard of. It includes yucca which isn't the worst entry but isn't great either. There are too many fishy varieties which is not a worthy thing but they do have 1 or 2 that are just plain meat.
So adjectives in all, considering the fact that I can't find an ingredient enumerate, it seems like a fairly clothed food. Definitely better than Royal Canin.
I'm not up on my UK foods although I believe you guys have less options than we do.
As for the company, I can't capture very far on their website either.
In general, I don't suggest well of any cat food company. Some produce better foods than others but I suspect their bottom line is much less ethical than we'd similar to it to be. My general advice is trust no one, ask lots questions, and hope for the best.
ya i like it
tastes great : )
Answers: I can't find the ingredients so I can't really say. Royal Canin, however, is not a good food.
Not adjectives pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of hurtful stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to the dump cheap leftovers and things that aren't undisruptive for human consumption (from human food processing plants) into their foods. Will it kill your cat? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and nontoxic to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.
Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see surrounded by your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.
Thankfully, near are some excellent cat foods being made these days that include organic, human position ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.
Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low terminate, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Whiskas, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Meow Mix.
Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Felidae, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timber Wolf Organics.
Although the high characteristic foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically call for to feed far less of the high trait food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less poop!
Before following your vet's food guidance, keep in mind that vet get /very/ little nutritional training during their schooling. Besides that, what training they /do/ get is usually sponsored or skilled by the crappy pet food companies! They also often get paid to trade some of their products at their clinics (Science Diet, Royal Canin etc.)
A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Diets lofty in grain have be attributed to problems with diabetes in cats. Cats are obligate carnivores, so why should there be crumb in their diet? Many of the high quality foods in a minute put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, and Sold Gold Indigo Moon, Taste of the Wild.
Some pretty decent foods can even be found in adjectives pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the giant quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.
Another alternative, if you can't find anywhere around you that sells good foods, is to direct your pet food online. Here's an excellent place to do so: http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/
Remember that foods should be switched gradually (mixing new slowly in near the old over about a two week period), especially when switching to a better quality one, so as not to upset tummies.
Another option for feeding cats is to nurture raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:
http://www.rawfedcats.org/
http://www.rawfed.com/
http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawm...
Now the interview is, do you feed wet or dry? Wet is the correct answer. The rationale is, in the wild, cats normally gain most of their water content directly from their prey items and drink very little. Domestic cats are no different, and because of the fact that they are designed to bring in water with their dinnertime, they have a very low thirst drive. Cats often of late don't drink enough. This leads to urinary tract infections and crystals. The bit about dry food human being better for teeth is a myth and has not been proven in the smallest (cats barely even chew their dry food and, really, does a pretzel clean /your/ teeth? Cats should have their teeth brushed near cat toothbrushes and cat toothpaste at least a few times a week as well as see the vet for dental cleanings when necessary /regardless/ of what they are person fed). Canned/wet food is better because it more closely mimics the cat's natural diet. More on why canned food is best:
http://www.catinfo.org/ (Excellent cat nutrition information by a vet)
http://cats.more or less.com/cs/catfood/a/canne...
http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?ac...
http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.ht...
Another option to get cats to drink more would be a cat fountain. Cats tend to like to drink from running river and cat fountains see to that need, encouraging cats to take in more dampen.
Also remember that freefeeding (leaving food down) is the fast lane to feline obesity. Make certain to have scheduled feeding times base on the feeding instructions on your cat's food.
More:
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_... (Dog food reviews. It's for dogs, but most of the high aspect brands also put out excellent cat foods. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)
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