Thread: Dry food brands

Hi
I feed a mix of foods but the RC 31 is a large kibble which stops my crowd bolting their food and chucking back (always on my favourite rug!) I tend to stick to RC as I can buy it in 10kg sacks but like to vary their diet as much as possible. My 3yo boy was in a sorry state with massive eye and jaw infections so the poor thing only has his canine teeth left, he still manages dry food but also get supplemented with natures menu pouches to try to keep the weight on him.
Most good quality, high protein foods are ok but kibble size is also important to promote chewing and tooth health.
I'm not a breeder, just besotted by the breed, and resue on a very small scale so know that diet is paramount in regaining condition and health

I may be wrong but I think at 11 weeks Ronnie is perhaps a bit too young for the MC31 unless he has some other dried food available too. The pack recommends 15 months but I know that's nonsense and mine had it available to them from when they were a few months old. I always had a smaller sized dried food available too though. Nowadays they seem to like Sanabelle Grande better than the MC31.

One of the things to watch for in choosing any dried food is to make sure it has no grain in it but there are loads of threads on this subject elsewhere on the forum that will provide heaps of information and recommendations

fed mine RC kitten when they first came , then grade up to RC MC kitten then when they were about 14 months moved on to MC 31 .

Roark is on a mix of RC MC 31 and Orijen.

Rc also do a special MC food for use 6 months to 1 year.

Seems to work pretty well for Silver who was nearly 8kg on his first birthday.

There's a really interesting video of how Royal Canin goes about testing their different foods. They work with a group of in house animals then work with breeders who are partenered up with them. They test for flavors, size, shape, etc. Each cat having a collar with some sort of electronic tag, then the food is weighed to see which sample they ate more of. They even have a machine that has a simulated animal tooth, they have different simulated animal teeth, that gets pushed through a sample of the food to see if it's to hard or to soft amongst other things.

My girlfriend watched the video in one of her vet tech classes, Royal Canin's operation was discussed. I decided to look it up and found it. If anyone is interested, here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KyzkWh9sM0

Based on this video and what was discussed in her class, she believes this food is high quality, and I agree with it. If our cats like the food, we're going to be feeding it to them.

The US still doesn't have the Maine Coon Kitten 36 food, I emailed them about it and they told me there was nothing in the works to bring that formula here, but they'd send my interest in it up the ladder. Who knows if it'll do anything, and if it does, maybe to late for our kittens if we get them in January like we're hoping.

The video sounds interesting Brim, will try to watch later. I feed my MC iams for dry food which he seems to like and is currently just over 18 pounds at a year and three quarters in age. My understanding regarding dry food more generally is that some like Whiskas, are very high in salt, and should be avoided. Iams is at a safe level. Reason for choosing it initially was that I wasn't sure where to source Royal Canin MC food locally, but as Kitten is so keen on the iams - as is my other cat we'll keep them on it.

My boss who is of the old school when it comes to dried food & cats says that the main thing to watch out for is magnesium levels..... Most of the cats brought into surgery with raging cystitis when asked are feeding the dry brands with high levels of this in it so although my cats are mainly wet food fed I am still very aware to keep an eye on their dry.
'puter on a go slow & won't load video but will come back & give it another go later....

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

'puter on a go slow & won't load video but will come back & give it another go later....

I don't know if it's redirecting you to the UK Youtube site, there's got to be one, if it isn't you can search for "royal canin presentacion" and come up with the video. That might speed it up for those of you in the UK.