For Cats - Nutro Natural Choice Complete Care (For Indoor Cats)

 I just don't like Nutro products. My sisters dog just developed crazy bladder stones on it and had to have surgery. For cats, I'd especially stay away from it since they develop crystals easily.

I know that it is pretty expensive, but I feed my cat evo, canned. it's $1.06 a can and he gets 1 a day. He's never felt or looked better. Plus he hasn't developed any crystals on it (he has had them before). I can't feed dry food to him at all because he doesn't drink water.

I really don't care for Nutro's cat products. They use corn gluten meal in every one of their formula's to boost their protein. TOTW here is extremely cheap. Even cheaper than Nutro. so that surprises me that it's so expensive there.

IMHO, it's junk.  Not has bad as say, Meow Mix, but for the same price you can do better.  My cats were on it for about a year when I first got them, their weight was good on it, but their poop smelled horrible and they were always throwing up.

I think the two very best cat foods are Solid Gold and Felidae.  I rotate between the two and they are wonderful. 

Eh...it's ok.  Solid Gold is a much better choice.    I also wanted to point out that canned food is very important for cats.  They just don't take in enough water on a dry food diet.

She is not the FIV cat that I posted about previously. I am still deciding about him depending on how receptive my girls are to her, etc.

 wow! how can there be such a huge price difference. At the pet supplies plus here our TOTW for cats is 9.99 for 6 lbs and 19.99 for 15lbs.

Pet food direct has it for 9.99 and 24.99 just for the record. If your store has it marked up that much you could order it online for a lot less! That store is ripping people off!  

If I ever get a cat again I'm feeding raw. Commercial cat food just doesn't even begin to address the concept that cats are serious predators and well, shouldn't ever be fed dry foods or anything that contains plant materials/grains/potatoes/carbs. That said, my current vet says never ever feed any kind of commerical dry food to cats; if you must feed a commercial diet feed all canned.

I personally don't like Nutro Food either, but on one popular cat forum I go on, most people there act like it is one of the best foods for cats  

I'm not really a big Nutro fan, either.  I tend to like Natura products best -- Innova, EVO, Calfornia Natural, Healthwise.  Besides those, Wellness CORE is good (but overpriced, IMO).  Solid Gold Indigo Moon looks good, although I've never tried it.  And Nature's Variety Instinct is another brand that I like.  (I don't know how you feel about raw, but cats can also eat NV raw medallions).  Oh, there is also Orijen, which I've heard a lot of good things about.

I do think that it would be good to include as much canned (or raw) as possible in the diet.  I really like EVO, Wellness, and Nature's Variety for canned.  I also feed NV raw medallions, occasionally.

 Hey Ron,  hold on to that pretty blonde mustache.  (the ponytail's gone, right?)

REady?

Seriously, Nutro Indoor complete care whatever was one of the best foods I ever had my old cat on.  I tried several superpremiums and that stuff was magic.  

CGM is not as bad for cats as it is for dogs.  It's often used because it raises a certain protein that cats require, naturally.  I'm not a fan of GMO corn, but if the really awesome foods like the grain frees aren't doing it for you, this isn't even close to "junk" in my experience.

But, raw is way, way, way better for cats than ANY commercial food.  Way way.  Assuming it's correctly balanced.  Cats are tricky, you can't do "balance over time" with them.

Someone go help Ron get up.   

brookcove

Someone go help Ron get up

Now that I'm lighter, it won't take as many people.

And I agree with your post, in general. Though I don't specifically feed raw, it happens accidently. More for Shadow than Jade, since he is a more accomplished hunter. His latest score that I know of was around his birthday in the end of July. On a walk, he got a mouse and already had most of it chewed before I knew what was going on. And he's still pooping fine, no blood. (Of course, mouse bones are very soft and bendy.) Jade not as accomplished and I think she has a different hunting style, being a cat.

And yes, I feed her Nutro Indoor Complete for Cats. She likes it. She likes Shadow's food, too, so I have to put up. He won't eat unless I am present but she will eat out of his bowl, which he doesn't particularly want her to do.

And she is solid, too. Not fat, just full grown and muscular. It's nothing for her to jump 5 feet at a slant from the floor to the back of the overstuffed sofa. I haven't been fishing in a while so I haven't been able to do for her what I used to do for my old cat, Misty. Which is to clean a fresh Perch or Crappie. But she would like it, as DW will sometimes give her tuna when we have some in the house.

mudpuppy

If I ever get a cat again I'm feeding raw. Commercial cat food just doesn't even begin to address the concept that cats are serious predators and well, shouldn't ever be fed dry foods or anything that contains plant materials/grains/potatoes/carbs.

I have to wholeheartedly agree with this. 

We have 3 cats.  7, 10 and 14 years old.  About a year ago we lost Buster to High Grade Lymphoma which manifested as two huge tumors IN his stomach.  He was 13 at the time.  The 10 year old has immflamatory bowel disease and the 14 year old has the beginings of kidney disease.  So far the 7 year old is ok as far as we know.

We fed them all cheap dry food for years.  When Rufus had the inital attack of non-stop diahrea (sp?) we started to research feline nutrition.  Switched them all to canned.  Now, we are in the process of switching them to all raw.

 Cats have very different nutritional requirements than dogs or humans.  What we think "should" be good for them....really isn't.    They can live on dry food.  Canned is much better...  Ideal is raw whole foods.  Right now, we're feeding ground whole rabbit.  Nothing else.  Meat, bones, organs.  Everything they need is present. 

I have come to firmly believe that in order for a domesticated cat to live to it's maximum age without disease...it needs a biologically appropriate diet...   Otherwise, their life is cut short.

Here's some links:

http://www.catnutrition.org/diseases.php

http://www.woodyspetdeli.com    

the cats I know who eat mostly mice and birds routinely live into their 20's unless a car or predator gets them. They don't get these kidney diseases and diabetes and digestive tract and urinary tract problems that seem to afflict most kibble-fed indoor cats by the time they hit their early teens.