Melia Luxury Pet Cat Bowl with Canned Food In It
If you’re looking for the best canned cat food because you want to get your cat off of dry food, kudos to you.
Dry food is not healthy for a carnivore, as such as your cat, and should not be the main diet. However, you might want your cat to like dry food in case of emergency purposes, like hurricanes or boarding situations. However, an all dry food diet can lead to chronic issues (as kidney failure, UTI, Struvite Crystals, stones, obesity, diabetes, and the need for frequent dental cleanings and possibly tooth extractions) for your kitty and therefore it is best to avoid those. Also since a lot of dry foods have grains and byproducts, your kitty could develop an allergy to one of the foods. If you need to feed your kitty dry food, then consider Taste of the Wild, as it has no by products or grains. If it is necessary to feed dry food, only do so as a snack, not as a full meal.
The best canned cat food is that which does not have any byproducts, fillers or toxins. Always be sure to read labels of your kitty’s canned food and choose a food with no by products or grains. Since cats are carnivores, grains are not their friend.
List of Best Canned Cat Foods:
- By Nature – 95% Meats
- By Nature Organics (Available at Petsmart)
- Blue Spa Wilderness line only (Available at PetsMart or PetCo)
- Nature’s Variety Instinct (specialty store)
- Wellness (PetCo)
- Weruva (good too if your cat doesn’t like pate & will only eat chunky food)
- Natural Balance
- Canine Caviar (its for dogs & cats so works well if you want all pets eating the same food)
Many Ragdoll breeders and cat aficionados do not recommend food made by Iams, Eukanuba (same company as Iams), Hills (Science Diet), Nutro, Purina etc.
Certainly, another food route to consider is the raw food diet. There are many companies that make raw food that is pre-packaged so that you do not have to do it yourself.
- Nature’s Variety (easiest to find)
- Stella & Chewy’s (each batch tested for bacteria and salmonella)
- Bravo (usually cheapest)
- Primal (usually most expensive)
- Rad Cat (Higher priced, use free range meat)
If you decide to go the raw food diet route be sure to avoid feeding dry food and raw food at the same time. Since dry food has many ingredients that aren’t needed, it takes longer for your kitty to digest. However, with raw food, kitties use all the nutrients in the good and therefore they have fewer stools, less volume and no smell!
Also, when considering the raw food diet, be sure to never feed your kitty cooked bones. Raw bones are soft and easy to digest, whereas cooked bones will splinter and will cause choking and/or death.
An important part of the feeding process is plenty of fresh water. Be sure to refresh your kitty’s water bowl on a daily basis if not more frequently. Cats like to have fresh clean water; in fact, many cats like to have ice cubes in their water dish because the ice cubes keep the water as fresh as possible. You might consider using a pet fountain because the water gets filtered and recycled.
Be sure to feed your kitty in a ceramic or a stainless steel dish. The reason for this is because plastic dishes tend to hold bacteria and can cause cat acne.
Check out this chart on best canned cat food and others ones that aren’t so great.
