Can anyone suggest good alternative to waltham royal canin urinary s/o cat food (green packet)?
this is for struvite dissolution, but as my cat is going to have to have this for the rest of his life, he is getting fed up with chicken flavour. any help please
Who ever thinks corn and by-products are good for cats... should get a life. Corn, rice, and wheat in particular cause any number of problems - because cats are not built to digest them. They lead to obesity. Period.
By-products - how high-quality product is meat from dead, dying, decayed, and diseased animals? That's what a lot of by-products are. Cats do need some things that are not usually accepted for human food (bone, a bit of feathers) to balance the phosphorus / calcium levels (meat = phosophorus, bone = calcium, and cats need a different ratio depending on their age). But... as has been proven by some authors, pet food companies have been known to include meat from animals with the mad cow disease, which _does_ affect cats. Guess what that means.
No, by-products, as a whole, are not good-quality ingredients.
To the original question - the food to alternate needs to be balanced - not human-balanced, but feline-balanced. That meats a LOT of animal protein, almost NO CARBOHYDRATES - less than 5%, as little fat as possible to go with the protein, and about 78% moisture - IN THE FOOD. When you get the diet balanced enough, the cat's organism will ballance itself and some problems are taken care of (check out http://www.catnutrition.org for more info, including balanced diets).
Some of the info I'm providing comes from people whose cats have lived until say, 26- 27 years of age, routinely. I think that accounts for something.
