<p>I have to add that I think that grains and carb fillers increase caloric density of food (as compared to protein), and this leads to the health troubles. </p>
<p>Well, it seems logical to try to simulate nutrient proportions to that of how a healthy cat would eat in the wild.</p>
<p>My cat used to throw up unchewed food often after the morning meal of kibble. Now I just give her a tiny bit first thing and then about an hour later give another tiny bit. She has stopped throwing up.</p>
<p>Beyond the right number of calories, the research I’ve looked at says too much of a nutrient can be bad, though that’s less clear. Example would be that cats in the wild are thin and thus don’t eat that much of anything, so an abundance of wet or dry food can cause - maybe, it’s actually unclear - problems in some cats. Dry food might help with this because the grains aren’t that useful to them so when they eat too much they don’t get overloaded with too much of what they need … but this isn’t, as far as I know, well-studied or at least described in the research materials I’ve looked through.</p>
<p>Petsmart has a good deal on the large bags of Innova cat food right now. The 12 or 15 pound bags are $20 off per bag using code innova20, making them $12-$13 or so per bag. </p>
<p>Nrdsb4- adding salt may help make the cat thirstier. Cats sometimes don’t drink enough so the salt may help.</p>
<p>Class2012Mom- is that code for online only or is there a way to use it in a store?</p>
<p>Online only, although supposedly the store will price match. I didn’t try it at the store myself but a friend did and said it worked for her. </p>
<p>Urinary health formulated food is saltier to make them drink more. </p>
<p>Im still stuck on Iams. I know it isn’t the best , but my old man does well on it…our newer female does ok, but not great. I switched to one of the Blue Buffalos , but we went from hurling to diarrhea ( not easy to clean out her Tidy Cat Breeze litter box. No wet food because our vet ( and previous vets say it is the equivalent to feeding your kids oreos instead of meals </p>
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And yet so many vets say otherwise. (This vet, for example, recommends canned food, for the low carbs and the increased fluid intake, very typical of the advice one finds online: <a href=“Demystifying the Cat Diet | HuffPost Chicago”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost) You’d think there would be a simple consensus! My vet, rightly or wrongly, is anti-kibble. Since he doesn’t sell the stuff he recommends (cheapest canned food), at least I don’t feel like he’s trying to make a profit off his feeding recommendations.</p>
<p>We can’t get a consensus from the “experts” on what exactly constitutes a healthy human diet, so it’s no surprise to me that there is dissension re: our pets’ diets.</p>
<p>Just keep updated on pet food recalls.</p>