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Recommend kitten food

  • 06-01-2016 10:48pm
    #1
    Wanderer41
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    I have a four month old kitten and looking to buy food for her. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'll be ordering off the zooplus UK site so preferably available there. I found two Hills Science Plan and one one Royal Canin ((here, here, and here) but I'm not sure which would be better, or if there are other brands that would be better.
    Can anyone recommend which would be better or another food?
    Thank you :)


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  • #2
    Nody
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    Neither; overpriced in both cases with plenty of fillers you don't want to see; instead I'd go with Applaws kitten; cereal free and use only potato as filler.


  • #3
    Wanderer41
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭Wanderer41


    Nody wrote: »
    Neither; overpriced in both cases with plenty of fillers you don't want to see; instead I'd go with Applaws kitten; cereal free and use only potato as filler.

    Thank you, what things should I avoid in food? I thought RC and Hills would be good, I've never heard of Applaws but I'll get whatever is best.


  • #4
    Nody
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    Wanderer41 wrote: »
    Thank you, what things should I avoid in food? I thought RC and Hills would be good, I've never heard of Applaws but I'll get whatever is best.
    Maize, corn (both are pure cheap fillers and known allergens), vegetable protein (worse than meat protein for cats but cheaper), unspecified meat (implies they don't know what meat they'll use; a.k.a. they'll buy the cheapest stuff and can have allergens implications if unlucky) and if possible beet pulp (used as filler and claimed to be fibre rich) and rice (filler but the least bad filler possible). There may be scenarios when you can't follow that (needing weight loss food for example) but as a rule of thumb you want grain free if at all possible.
    RC Kitten wrote:
    Dehydrated poultry protein, rice, vegetable protein isolate*, animal fats, maize, hydrolysed animal proteins, maize gluten, vegetable fibres, beet pulp, minerals, fish oil, yeasts, soya oil, psyllium husks and seeds (0.5%), fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast(source of manno-oligo-saccharides), marigold extract (source of lutein)
    **L.I.P.: protein selected for its very high assimilation.
    Hills Kitten Healthy Development Chicken wrote:
    Poultry meat meal (min. chicken 40%), maize, animal fats, fish oil, digest, dried beet pulp, potassium chloride, flaxseed, sodium chloride, magnesium oxide.
    Applaws wrote:
    Dried Chicken Meal (min. 58%), dried potatoes (min. 10%), chicken mince (min. 9%), poultry oil (min. 7%, source of omega-6), poultry juice (min. 3%), beet pulp (min. 3%), dried whole egg (min. 3%), salmon oil (min. 2.6%, source of omega-3, EPA & DHA), dried yeast, cellulose from plant fiber (min. 1%)


  • #5
    Wanderer41
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭Wanderer41


    Nody wrote: »
    Maize, corn (both are pure cheap fillers and known allergens), vegetable protein (worse than meat protein for cats but cheaper), unspecified meat (implies they don't know what meat they'll use; a.k.a. they'll buy the cheapest stuff and can have allergens implications if unlucky) and if possible beet pulp (used as filler and claimed to be fibre rich) and rice (filler but the least bad filler possible). There may be scenarios when you can't follow that (needing weight loss food for example) but as a rule of thumb you want grain free if at all possible.

    Thank you, I'm thinking of going for Applaws and seeing how that goes.


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