Ready-made pet foods are becoming more and more popular: putting dry food into a bowl or opening a jar of meat chunks in jelly is much easier than providing your cat with a healthy and balanced diet of natural products. But in order for a pet to be healthy, it is necessary to feed it with high-quality premium complete food.
Features of premium feed
The main difference between premium food and inexpensive mass food is that it contains all the nutrients, minerals and vitamins necessary for a cat or cat. A cat that eats premium complete food, as a rule, does not need additional feeding with vitamins or pieces of meat "from the master's table": its diet is carefully balanced, and the digestibility of food can reach 90-95%.
Premium feed contains a fairly large percentage of protein, while the composition does not include bone meal or offal (as in cheap feed), but natural meat, fish or poultry meat. There are no artificial additives and flavor enhancers. Such food can be given to your pet all the time, day after day, throughout its entire life.
Another difference between premium feline diets and economy-class foods is the ability to choose the variety that best suits your pet. As a rule, the food lines include series for different breeds of cats, for animals with different levels of activity, different ages, and so on. In addition, among the premium feeds, there are specialized therapeutic, supportive and strengthening veterinary diets.
Unlike the "economy" category foods that can be found on most supermarket shelves, premium foods are usually only sold at veterinary pharmacies and pet stores.
Popular premium cat food brands
Innova EVO is a food produced by Natura Pet Products (USA), which enjoys a very good reputation among veterinarians and breeders. The main advantage of the feed is the brand - the composition, which includes meat, vegetables and fruits, as well as vitamin and mineral supplements, oils and fats.
Orijen ("Origin") and ACANA (AKANA) - quality high-protein feed, produced by the Canadian company Champion Petfoods. Their main advantage is the high content of meat, while the content of grain crops is either very little, or they are absent altogether.
Golden Eagle Holistic is produced by the American company WellPet, and its composition is as close as possible to the natural, natural menu of cats. The complete feed contains several types of meat, fresh vegetables, a complex of vitamins and minerals, and medicinal herbs.
Bosch Sanabelle feeds are produced in Germany by Bosch Tiernahrung GmbH & Co. The products of this brand are very well digestible (that is, the cat is full by eating less food), there are no chemical additives and flavor enhancers in the composition. Especially popular are the feed lines designed specifically for show animals.
Very popular brands are Hills and Royal Canin. The composition of these brands of food cannot be called optimal: it may include such "non-premium" additives as, for example, bone meal. But the undoubted advantage is a fairly affordable price, as well as a wide range, including special therapeutic and prophylactic diets, which have proven themselves very well. Another plus is mass production, thanks to which the owners of animals who eat these feeds have no problems purchasing the right brand ration.
Royal Canin is produced both in France and in Russia. And, according to experts, French food is of higher quality and more attractive to animals.
Purina ProPlan is produced by the renowned company Nestle and is also considered to be of good quality. The composition of the feed of this brand includes natural ingredients: poultry, beef, fish, beef, as well as cereals, trace elements and a vitamin complex.
The American brand Eukanuba ("Yukanuba") is produced by P&G Pet Care, and their main feature is a high protein content at a fairly low cost. The composition also includes only natural products, and according to the manufacturer, the meat that is part of the Eukanuba cat food has never been frozen.
Sometimes premium food brands also include such brands as Bozita, Iams, Nutro Choice, 1St Choice, which are often considered high-quality middle-class food. The advantages of such feeds include an affordable price, safety for the animal and good taste.
