iams

[gleno lloyd]

could anyone tell me the difference in feeding your cat iams or go cat complete dry food, which is the best or are they just the same for your cat well being .

thank`s

[rumanshu]

Well, Go Cat is cheaper than Iams, but according to my vet, not as good. 

Apparently the majority of dry food brands sold in supermarket (Friskies, Whiskas, etc.) aren't that great for your cat.  But Iams is full of extra nutrients apparently (I think Purina One is similar), hence the price difference.  However my vet also pointed out that Iams is tested on animals, and that I should avoid it out of principle!  Instead he reccommended Royal Canin which you can only buy online or at the vets.

Either way, feeding your car dry food is a whole lot better than feeding it tinned meat because it typically consists of 80% water and lots of calories and additives!  Just make sure your cat can access plenty of water.

Also, one other thing - if changing brand of cat food or changing from wet to dry, don't make the change all of a sudden.  Introduce your cat to it a bit at a time by mixing it with its current food (ie. 80% old 20% new for 2 days, 60% old 40% new for 2 days, etc)

[peanut]

If your going to go dry, look into Science Diet, it comes highly recommended by my vet and the facility where i adopted my kitty.

[Hammer]

What are you supposed to test cat food on if you can't test it on cats?

[Englishbird]

humans! might re-dress the balance a little.

[silly moo]

I've always fed my cats on go cat, and they have all so far lived to old age - the eldest about 21 yrs, the youngest 16 yrs.
The present ones are 4yrs old now and both fit and well.
They do drink a lot of water, preferably from either the dogs water bowl or the fish pond. Their own bowl of water always left untouched. Own bowl of milk IS appreciated though.

[gleno lloyd]

thanks everyone

[Clare A]

Don't want to be a doom-merchant, but rumanshu is right about the animal testing, and not perhaps in the benign way that Hammer imagines - ie, happy doggies & pussies having choice morsels put in front of them and seeing which they turn their noses up to.

IAMS has a laboratory. I'm old & hard enough not to be easy prey to any silly propaganda without questioning it, but I saw pictorial literature from an (not extreme) animal rights organisation which was truly shocking. I don't belong to this organisation, nor do I fundraise for it, but it made me think about IAMS. I think it unlikely that the photos were 'digitally enhanced'.

[SuzySues]

I have read literature about Iams as well.  I was shocked as I had fed my last dog on it for years & she was thriving. She died at nearly 17 & was healthy & young looking until the last few weeks of her life. A good advert for Iams? Or would she have been like that anyway?

I will not feed Iams to my Golden Retriever (1yr) I am a lot more choosey about what I feed her. G/R's have a delicate digestion and Iams makes her stools loose & causes her to make horrible smells!!  I feed her James Wellbeloved which is very natural. I believe they do a cat version of this.