What is the most healthy cat food?

I am feeding them Nutro Natural Choice. People at two different Petsmarts told me it’s the best. I just took Fuzzy Boo Bear to the vet and they told me he would be better off on one of their fancy expensive hypo-allergenic prescription diets. Do I really have to spend $50 a bag on cat food, or is the Nutro fine?

Answer: Spending any money on a “bag” of food is not fine. Dry food is not good for cats. It is a myth made up by pet food companies that dry helps their teeth – it does not, it just shatters in their mouth leaving starchy bits, like us cleaning our teeth with pretzels, or they swallow it whole. It’s also a myth that cats need carbohydrates.
What? Carbs? They are natural obligatory carnivores. They need meat, meat products… no grains, no rice, wheat, corn, wheat gluten, potato, etc. Please read www.catinfo.org
for more information about why cats need wet food only. Even the best quality (a term I use loosely) dry food is not as good as the most inexpensive wet/canned food.
First choose a canned food that is in your budget… The quality of ingredients goes up in approximately this order…..
Prescription canned food from vet (expensive and the worst quality wet food – vet will argue that but has only been taught by food company – and likely gets kickbacks)
Then… better than prescription foods:

9-lives
Friskies
Fancy Feast

Then jumping to way better quality from pet stores:
Wellness
Nature’s Variety
Evo
There are others in both lists but you get the drift.
Cannes is slightly more cost than dry… but pay now or pay later. Dry food is the cause of many health issues in adult cats, particularly kidney issues, pancreas issues, bowel issues, allergies and diabetes.
Nutro has also had some issues with poisons in their foods…
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/20…

Good luck.

How much protein do dogs need in their food?

How much protein do dogs need in their food and how much is too much? I’m thinking about getting Orijen for my dog, but at 42% protein, is that too much? He’s just a pet, and not a working dog.
Would too much protein be bad for his kidneys? My last dog had to be put down due to kidney failure, and I’m just conscious of this.

Answer: What dog do you have?
Some smaller breeds should definitely not have that high protein level.
Look at:
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_…
That should help you select the best food for your dog. Often on the botton of reviews they write that it might not be suitable for a puppy or small breed dog.

Good luck

Can you recommend a good quality HIGH PROTEIN dog food?

I have an English Bulldog that is 10 years old. To explain a little bit. He was put on Prednisone for over 2 months to cure a yeast infection in his ears that the vets could not get a handle on. He is experiencing muscle loss in his legs due to the steroid. He is being weened off of the med. I was told a higher protein food may help build his muscles back to where they were. So, can you recommend a good  quality high protein dog food?

Answer: I have to plead being a little lost, why in the world would you want to feed a 10 year old dog a high protean diet? That is backward of what you should do. I won’t recommend a high protean food because I would NEVER put a 10 year dog on anything hotter than about 20% protean, and probably lower percentage than that.
Even with the steroid issue, I still would not go above 24-26% with that old a dog. You are better off putting that muscle mass back on the dog slowly anyway.