Best cat food brands (2021) - Jess Caticles 

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Thanks for this info.

so glad you made this video! i’m loving all of your content!!!

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WONDERFUL INFORMATION !!!!

Love your videos. Your such a sweet and honest person!!!

So very helpful. Thank you so much!

Your videos are awesome!! Definitely worth much more view. I have newly adopted two cats and your videos are the one who give me detailed and educated info. Thanks

Thank you so much for providing so many helpful details regarding "actual" ingredients, the dry matter calculator, vitamins, etc! Best channel I've seen for quick and succinct facts....all for the well-being of our beloved furry little friends! 🙂👍

wow, I learn so much from you. thank you so much. been a cat person all my life, still love small/midsize dogs too, anyway this info is incredible

Jess, you're a wonderful cat mom. Love is in the air.

Thanks for the information 😊 this is very helpful 😊

Jericho! :) I can’t wait to adopt a cat one day, I’ll definitely always have your videos in my playlist!

I’ve been researching this for a while and the information you talk about is awesome!! Thank you so much!! Definitely have learned a lot!!

excellent video. I knew most info but not all. Am grateful.

Jericho is sooo handsome!!! He is so fortunate to have you!!!

Ziwi Peak is a winner for my 3 toothed 9 year old boy who can’t take raw. He loves the Rabbit and lamb, Chicken and Beef cans. I reckon if he hadn’t of had genetic gum disease at 2 years he would of loved the air dried food. Ever since I discovered Ziwi 3 years ago I never look back, Yes it’s expensive but I buy from a whole sale big online pet store here in Australia called Pet Circle and it’s cheaper.

Exceptional!!!

Wow -- thank you Jess for posting this wealth of quality cat food info! 👍🏼 Happy Thanksgiving and may God bless you & your family.

I have kitten Russian Blue and i know i have to be very vigilant of what they eat. You’re helping a lot. Thank you

I am soooo glad to have found you. I love my baby so much and knew I needed to find the right food. Not the 🤮 stuff in the grocery store. Thank you so much. Now I'll work on finding the right one. 😘 to you and your baby❣

I love the paintings of the cats eyes!

What a beautiful cat you have!

Thank you so much

Hi Jess/Jericho, first time watching your posts and I love it! I learned so much in such little time from your videos - I’m feeding our boys (Sampson, Franklin, Tigger) some crappy food 😢 I love that calculator!! I found Ziwi where I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada but it’s really expensive. I did find a reasonable one called Acana, looked at the indoor feast version, and it looks good, based on what I learned from you. Any thots on that one? Thank you for all the incredibly useful information.

Just recently adopted a kitten. Looks like I’ll be returning the food I just got her since it definitely is not measuring up after learning more. If you’re curious it’s called “Whole Earth Farms “Grain Free Recipe” Healthy Kitten” So glad I saw your videos! Thank you. 🙏

Nice job

I'd love to see you review the Rawz brand wet cat food. Also I'd like to see you reveiw EZ Complete (mix for raw food). My cat with CKD is doing well on this!

This is so helpful! I'm trying to change my cat over but he's addicted to kibble. I will invest in some freeze dried food soon!

I love how the cat is a cohost for the video!

Thank you. I had been told that a certain canned food was excellent food for my two new kittens. Turns out it was just expensive middle of the road food. I ordered a higher quality from your link.

I LOVE your channel! Ive learned so much! I am trying to introduce my cats to raw but its difficult. I have one who is addicted to dry. Do you have any thoughts about Farmina dry for cats? I am also trying Stella & Chewys freeze dried raw in small increments for their transition.

Jess very glad I found your site is Iams dry cat food ok for my cats I'm really checking out your stuff Thanks... Elaine

Hi Jess, love your videos.. alot of info and alot to learn on my end for my cats diet. What would be your opinion on just have a canned wet food diet for my cat's?

Hi Jess, thank you so much for all your help! I especially appreciate that you show where you can find each brands product in different countries! I ended up buying my almost one year old cat, the feline natural wet food cans as well as the freeze dried raw. I'm going to introduce it to him slowly. However I was just wondering if you know anything about the brand Almo Nature, they carry wet cat food? Is that one any good?

My Rhamses had pancreatitis and we merged to Darwins raw and he lived a very healthy and happy life, with a year and a half longer than expected. He was 17.

The Kiwi and NZ food companies seem like great options, they're transparent and use clean ingredients. My only concern is that kelp is high in iodine, I hope they're testing for amounts regularly. Edit: Just read another comment saying Kiwi Peak has got cooked bone pieces in the wet food which can harm a cats throat and stomach, yikes!

I'm finding your channel so valuable! BTW, doesn't the flaxseed supply some carbs?

Just wondering if you have had your thyroid checked - your voice suggests there may be an issue. Love your amazingly informative vids - has helped me tremendously - thank you and all the best from Australia :)

We feed Feline Natural and have been using freeze dried raw food as treats. Sami thankfully loves trying new flavours of food.

I'd like to see a review on revel cat food

Hi five 👋 Jess!! I've just got two kittens and been researching every known brand of food. I just can't believe all the 'vet approved' and 'vet developed' foods that contain 20 to 30% rice, potato and stuff like cranberries etc. It's horrific! When last did anyone see a Tiger eating a potato? No wonder cats are living shorter lives and dying of liver diseases at 11 years old, poor things. I despair. You are a hero and Jericho is a glossy, handsome boy indeed x🐯x

My kitten loves Ziwi Peak wet and dry. Lamb is absolutely wonderful and she is crazy for this food.

I just need to say that as a Kiwi (born and living in New Zealand) - a-thank you, and: you're welcome. Lol. Tbh we have all the terrible brands as well. But at least we also know how to use our awesome produce to feed our furbabies!

Hello Jess, thanks a million for sharing this very important information. Do you have any thoughts about freeze dried Stella and Chewy?

Excellent video! Thank you for all the excellent Info... And love your kitty! He is so sweet and lovable ! I think all vets need to know this info! Why do they still recommend such crappy food like science diet and others! Guess they are getting a kick back which is disgusting! And because it’s at the vet people just feed what they recommend without even checking anything out!

"Just, just tell me what to feed my cat!" OMG, THAT was funny! Mainly because you read my mind! Soooo.....? LOL!

Hi Jess! I was wondering if you could review the Made By Nacho dry food and if it is as healthy and high quality as people and the chef claim.

My cat wasn't super into food until i transitioned her to a raw diet. Suddenly, taking an hour or longer to finish her meals (even while she was a kitten and constantly hungry) became a quick 5min affair of scarfing down the good stuff (still now after being fully grown)!

Happened to come across your videos. I just seen your video ''WORST Cat Food Brands''. I ran and checked the recent cat food I bought for my cat Meowser. It's the LUVSOME brand. Two ingredients are Ground Yellow Corn and Corn Gluten Meal.

Hey Jess! What breed is your awesome cat?

Hello! I seen you the other day, and I was like “wow, she is beautiful and I love her voice”! Anyway, a couple years ago, my cat had crystals in his urinary tract, and had an operation, which resolved it. Here, two years later, he is still eating the prescription food by Hills, which is CD, metabolic, stress, hard food. I have also been feeding him the Blue Bull wet food, but after seeing this, video, im now going to change his food. As far as the prescription food, I’m a little puzzled, because I’m wondering what I should give him, as the vet said, he may have to have that food the rest of his life. He is also overweight, but he’s nearly impossible to get him to lose weight. He just wants more food all the time. I feel bad that hes hungry or something.

I love your videos! I have a question: what do you think about the Rawz brand dry cat food? After giving my cats ziwi for a while it's just too expensive and I'm trying to lower the price a little. I think Rawz doesn't have much recognition but it's supposedly close to the quality that ziwi is, although its not freeze-dried.

What do you think of BFF wet canned foods and treats?

Because of my location i am unable to get these so I recently transitioned my cats over to Zeal , what is your thought on that brand? Do you consider it to be better than Acana? And thank you for making this information available to us!

Pretty baby look so soft so sweet!!! I want to try Ziwi Peak, but I'm concerned that my cats might not like the shape. Which ..for how much it costs...keeps me from trying it. Especially since my cats don't eat much kibble (mostly homemade mixed with commercial wet--that pate texture is hard to get right, but they are very texture-picky)

Right now I'm feeding Isaac hills prescription diet c/d urinary care. He had a problem with crystals and stones in his bladder when he was younger and had to have 2 different operations so my vet prescribed hills diet c/d which has worked (no crystals) but I wonder if their may be a better food for him that would also prevent crystals?

Is fussie cat a good food?recently switched to this from pet values store brand.

I heard a vet saying sweet potatoes are a great natural laxative for cats while not being nutritional it has mechanical properties, how do you feel about that? Also I see lots of these contain flaxseed is that also an easy pooping thing?

thank you for the video! it would be useful to calculate the dry matter basis of phosphorus for the foods too! because it's not good to have phosphorus >1% for older cats!

I’ve been doing that ,reading ingredients but it’s worse than I thought. I’ll have to try this for my old black female Riah.

is taurine like the taurine in red bull?

Please do a video of how you make home made cat food and what should be added etc. How meals can be made, portioned and frozen. Need some examples of balanced raw meat meals. Also the things that must be added with raw meat. You could even do it in bulk for the month.prep the meals and freeze them. I'm new in the raw food diet and I want to make sure he is getting everything his diet needs. I give him one portion of dry food before bed but otherwise he is eating wet food and raw meat. I'm trying to get him to eat more wet food and less kibble and it's working.hes starting to enjoy supper time because he knows I would have put some raw meat away for him. Or I cook him what ever meat we are having. Boils his meat. Fish definitely because that he can't have raw.but he loves boiled fish and chicken. He will eat anything you give him. That's why I need to make sure that what I'm giving him is the best.

I gave my cat a highly rated New Zealand lamb wet cat food and he seemed to love the first can - then would never eat it again. I ended up giving it away. Maybe that's because I didn't transition him slowly? I thought it was close enough to what I was giving him, but maybe I was wrong.

Great info, I just wish these quality cat foods would be affordable.

hi Jess you are awesome thank you do you know any dewormer medicine for cats??

I just read an article saying inulin from Chickory is bad for digestion. Do you know?

Is it OK to use one of these brands but just switch flavours for variety or would this fall under “changing food”? Thank you!

My oldest cat pukes up any food that is not grain free. Any recommendations?

My Kitties are 4 months old and eat kitty wet food - but worried about that - when can they go onto kiwi wet food?

Hi what brand is you cat tree? Thank you I hope replay me please 🙏

The only true way to know what is in your cats food is to make it yourself. Google it, many many options. As Dr. Pol says, cats may like fish, but it really isn't as good for them as turkey and chicken. I made a huge turkey one time, added bone meal and all sorts of things, taurine etc. that was good for cats. Put the whole thing bit by bit in a food processer. Good consistency, added spring water to make it the right consistency. Put it into portions and froze it, taking out and thawing on counter each day. Started out putting a few Tbs on top of canned food. They just loved it! Of course I only did it a few times, life gets busy and opening a can is so easy. But it is an option. I also got those finger tooth brushes and once a week brushed their teeth. They seemed to love it! Who doesn't love the feeling of clean teeth?

Hello! Thank you for the video! I recently bought a maine coon and the breeder told me to feed ROYAL CANIN which I now know is not the best to feed :( expensive too! What do you suggest I feed her since she is larger than most house cats?

What do I feed my kitten

I was wondering if I can transition to the air dry food and wet food (ziwi /new Zeland natural like you showed) and the not transition to raw food just air dry for meal 1, wet for meal 2 and air dry for meal 3? Right now they are on kibble and wet food and have been gaining weight And I want to start the transition to air dry and healthier wet!

Hi Jess! Great content as always! I recently introduced my cats to Ziwi Peak Beef Recipe Canned Cat Food. Is it safe overall? Any preservatives or something to be concerned about? Thanks! Also, what about carbs in the beef recipe?

How about 1 equilibrio 2 happy cat 3 cleo 4 nature bridge which is the best can you pls 🥺💖 i need this or you can recommend me

Hi I’m new and my daughters name is Jerico.

Amazon sell ziwi peak, just find out now but what food for kitten.

Do you have any suggestions for Canadians who are wanting to feed their cats good food?

ziwi peak air dried was a no go, 4 cats refused & the square shapes are strange for swallowing, they aren't really soft. Was I supposed to hydrate them?

My cat likes fresh meat so much he finds his own and keeps the local rat population under control. The vet said to me on his latest annual check up that his rat habit probably explains why at 13 he has teeth as good as a 4 year old.

I have a "kidney " cat and need a low phosphorus food. Am currently using prescription Hills k/d cans and dry. Is this any better than the Hills brands you have analyzed? Can you recommend any brands for kidney cats?

I love Ziwi Peak's Air dried food, but please be aware of the wet food flavors the include chicken and rabbit. It includes bone fragments (not meal or ground bone). This wet food goes through a heating process so they are cooked bone shards that are very sharp. Please be careful. There venison and beef flavors have ground bone.

Great, educational video. Thanks for making this! I was not expecting you to bust out the calculator to do feline mathematics, lol.

Hello , Your cat Is lovely, I have 2 Kitties ( Abyssinian & Russian Blue ) The Abyssinian will eat anything at anytime but the Russian Blue She has more of a Huntress Style and very Independent she likes to eat many times a day just little bits and she'll only eat twice from the same food flavor. they been with me since they're 3 months old & now they're around 6 months old. I give them Brands Called Cat Person & Smalls as main food but they never , never , eat the same thing 3 times a day , so on the side I was using Applaws and Soullistic kitten Food ( kinda of a "Less Healthy" but more Yummy Options to avoid them from getting too bored. one thing I noticed , My cats do Prefer the food variety & I do keep It between the same 5 Brands giving them the different flavors they offer. Have u ever Used Any of the Brands Mentioned before and what do you think ? I'm a new father for those babys and any advice will be helpful. PD: It's crazy how at the vet the ask me to stop using those Brands and use Purina Instead but they really insisted , after seeing your video I'll never take them there again. Thanks a lot !

My cat is such a picky eater n she wont eat ziwi be air dried or canned .. any tips for picky eaters?

Thanks so much for the valuable information. I am a new owner kitten. Can a feed my 4 months kittens with this brands or just for adults formula. Thanks

My cat ONLY eats Puree type of food. Would it be ok to add water to any of these and make it into a puree?

I was looking forward to listening to this but I am deaf so missed sharing your knowledge. Is it possible to use subtitles please?

Can these be fed to kittens? Mine are about 7 weeks old and currently on a store brand kibble but I want to switch them to better ASAP.

how are farmina products for cats?

What do you think of Essence?

what about Dr Marty freeze dry cat food

How do you know the actual listed meat ingredients (chicken liver, heart, etc.) is not grade D like the by products?

Mine is a CKD cat...I was looking to see the Dry Matter Basis of Phosphorous(less than 70% nice) and Protein(less than 40% ideal)....not sure what's even meet the requirements...

How do you transition your cat when your brand is discontinued. I was using Rachael Ray Peak and went to Wellness Core and my cat won't eat it. She prefers the dogs food 🤷

Just wondering if its farm raised salmon which i am not to thrilled about because of the high antibiotics used in salmon when they are raised in penned fish farms

I feed mine soulistic skipjack and tuna. For my non every day fish lover I feed him turkey pate by wellness. I tried chunks. He gulps his food. Comes back up in minutes. He does not like lamb or duck either. My other fussy cat hates duck or lamb. Loves rabbit but not daily. And must be fish. Neither like veggies. They hate raw food. Both seniors. Both hate salmon So feed what they will eat on my budget. Difficult with 2 different tastes and expensive to toss. Occas friskies when they just won't eat the good stuff day. Remember on senior fixed incomes - impossible to buy all time. Same for my food. Ohhh so I can feed treats as regular foods. That's awsome

I think you read flax as part of the ingredient list for feline chicken and lamb feast. Doesn't flax contain carbohydrates?

For the Feline Natural Chicken and Lamb Feast example, the word "feast" means that the ingredients are at least 25% chicken + lamb, but less than 95% chicken + lamb. However, the protein is 9.6% and the fat is 5% which means that 14.6% of the product is derived from meat. So it doesn't meet the minimum 25% requirement for chicken + lamb that the word "feast" requires. Therefore, are the AAFCO word terms only valid for American-made animal foods? It seems that would be so because isn't he first A in AAFCO for "American"?