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Hello,
First post!
What is the difference between premium and ultra-premium cat food?
Would you please recommend the best ultra-premium dry, moist and semi-moist cat foods?
Do you know of an impartial website that is up to date and rates ultra-premium cat foods?
Thank you,
KL
Hello there, I'm new too.
For me, I use Evo Wellness Core. It's a bit pricey, but they eat less, and their poo doesn't smell as bad either.
Cats are different than dogs or people as they are one of natures true carnivores. The proper term is 'obligate carnivore', meaning they essentially can't digest plant matter. Dogs can benefit some from veggies, but not cats.
Which is why I laugh when I see commercials on TV for "Top Notch Cat Food" where they show veggies being put in. You can put all the leafy organic healthy veggies in the world in their food and it doesn't do anything at all for them. Cats don't eat corn. ;)
Read the labels. If it shows anything other than an animal being listed first, and I don't mean 'by products' either....then pass it over.
Wiki explains this a lot better than I can. And as far as websites to compare the brands, in my opinion, they're all funded one way or another by one of them, and that brand will always be first. :smile:
In essence the difference between them is very simple: Marketing.
There are no standards for cat food "quality" beyond the terms "complete" and "complientary" which, AFAIK, were established by the FDA in the US and only have a partially legal meaning there.
You can find a huge amount on info at this other forum: Cat Health and Nutrition - Pet Forums Community - check the sticky threads about wet and dry food.
PS Welcome to the forum. Where are you obligatory cat pictures ? :)
Had a quick look, and the labels "complete" and "complimentary" are from the AAFCO Home Page - so apart from the regional and national legal requirements for ingredients and nutritional content everything else is marketing.