Thread: Kitten food to Grown Cat food?

Originally Posted by Karena

My breeder is already introducing adult food. I'm not very read up about cat food but I have brought a bag of Royal Canin as suggested by my breeder - small bag of kitten and small bag of adult Maine Coon. I was surprised at the price though! I'm not sure what it is I'm paying for yet - if it's just a name thing so I'm going to look at alternatives. My dogs are fed on Skinners, a good food for gun dogs which is vat free suggested by their breeder - a 15kg bag cost as much as a 5kg bag of the Royal Canin cat food! I don't mind paying good money if its for a good reason but personally think Royal Canin might be taking the p**** If I can't find a good complete cat food at a sensible price I may go down the raw food route.

Royal Canin, in my opinion, is a scam. How can they genuinely say they have a cat for indoor cats or Persians or cats that need to look shiny? It is extremely expensive AND if you look at the ingredients... well, picking one at random, the "fit":

Dehydrated poultry meat, rice, maize, dehydrated pork protein, animal fats, maize gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, wheat, wheat flour, vegetable fibres, beet pulp, yeasts, minerals, soya oil, sodium phosphate, fish oil, egg powder, DL-methionine, hydrolysed yeast (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), taurine, marigold extract (source of lutein), L-lysine.

RICE AND MAIZE? That's filler. Poultry meat is very vague. Maize gluten, wheat, wheat flour, vegetable fibres - more filler. A lot of it is not FOOD ingredients but chemical compounds. Doesn't even tell you the % of meat. Compare that to the ingredients for Applaws dry food:

dried chicken, dried potato, fresh chicken, poultry oil, poultry sauce, beet mash, dried whole egg, dried yeast, salmon oil, cranberry extract, yucca extract, citrus extract, rosemary oil extract

Sounds like real food. It specifies FRESH CHICKEN not just "poultry". Plus it is 80% meat. Royal Canin won't even tell you. Iams is 26% meat.