Thread: Orijen Vs Life's Abundance vs Before Grain dry food

I am guessing you are in North America, it doesn't say. What I've heard about Fancy Feast is that it's just another crappy dry food but seems to appeal to cats - probablly like trying to bring up a human baby on McDonalds. But then you don't say which part of the US or Canada you may be from ;-)

More seriously though, I have only tried Orijen and my boys liked it for a while. There is very little difference between "kitten" and adult versions of most foods. Just marketing and maybe some extra fat content. For Orijen a good place to start is Library | Orijen Pet Foods .co.uk - the White paper in particular is good reading and I notice they have a feeding guide too.

Unless you kitten(s) have specific problems with eating too much I would recommend free feeding - they need lots and lots of calories to grow. In my case I have always had dry food down and fed wet twice a day, sometime more if I am at home and they look cute ;)

Do not overstock on any brand or flavour because your fussy little fur ball will go on and off food at random. I have discarded quite a few open but gone stale bags of dry as they stopped eating it. "We" have now settled on Sanabelle Grande which is a large kibble but not grain free food from Germany. The boys have not got bored of it and I am now on my 4th 10kg bag - stored in a air-tight dog food storage container as they don't do cat painted ones

Remember, cats do not digest carbs and so any grain (rice, wheat, maize, etc.) just rots in the gut and comes out stinking. Less or no grain means less and less smelly litter trays

Peter