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Posted in Uncategorized | August 27th, 2011

Brands of organic food for Cats?

About 6 months ago I stopped feeding my cats Wellness organic food, dry and wet, to my 2 indoor-only cats. It gave them soft stools that smelled really bad.

I switched to Nutro Indoor Cat formula-dry and I give them Fancy Feast soft food once a day. I was thinking of switching them back to a different organic brand but do you think it’ll just give them the soft, smelly stools again like it did with the Wellness?

The Nutro/Fancy Feast regimine is doing fine, I’m just concerned about by-products and wheat-gluten and all the junk they’re getting from the food. They both really enjoy the Fancy Feast and never got used to the Wellness soft food. Should I switch them back or just leave it be since they’re content with what they’re getting now?

Thanks! I will choose a best answer.

Organic means exactly that – that the ingredients are organic. I have a cat who cannot tolerate corn. I purchased an organic food without reading the ingredients, and discovered after feeding it to them, that it contained corn! Organic corn, but still corn. Different cats react differently to different foods. You really *do* want to feed a diet free of corn, the glutens, and especially the by-products, but it also has to be something that they like and agrees with them.

Some brands to try – California Natural, Felidae, Solid Gold, and Innova’s EVO. Those are all popular here, and two of them – the CA Natural and the EVO – are well-tolerated by cats with IBD, so generally don’t cause the soft stools that you had problems with. And remember of course to switch their food slowly over a two-week period, or you’ll get tummy upsets from the change, which is different from a tummy upset from the food itself.