Whats the best senior cat food out there thats also affordable?
Timber Wolf Serengeti (chicken) Solid Gold Indigo Moon (chicken) Innova EVO (chicken/turkey) First Mate (fish) Orijen (chicken/turkey/fish) What all these have in common is they are grain free, low-filler. Carbs come in the form of fruits and vegetables. The First Mate in particular has blueberries, a very good antioxidant and useful for older cats or ones with recurring infections that tax the immune system. 10 is barely senior for a cat, by the way. I would be more focussed on good quality and don’t feel like it has to be marketed towards “senior” cats. Sometimes the difference between
So if you’re giving [senior food] to a younger cat you may need to give them more… This is really not a good idea. You’d be giving the young cat more of what she doesn’t need (fillers). The young cat is more likely to develop allergies, urinary tract issues, more poop, lethargy, etc. It may be a bit of a pain, but your two cats have different dietary needs. Being able to feed all the animals in one house out of a communal bowl is convenient for you, but in this case not in the best interest of your cats (that is, if in fact you go with a “senior” food for the older cat).
Mine have Hill’s Science Food. The cats I have now aren’t seniors (but are fat and are on the low-cal one), but previous elderly cats have eaten the Hill’s Senior and they were fine on it. Hill’s is expensive but I think it’s worth it. Supermarket cat food such as Meow Mix is the equivalent of feeding your cat Doritos for every meal.
Cute kitties! We had our 18 year old empress on Wellness and prescription diabetes food (good for all kitties because it was low in grains and fillers). Sadly she left us in October after almost six years with diabetes. We feed ours very VERY sparingly on the dry food because of the connection to increased obesity and diabetes rates. We’ve had some good luck with Natural Balance for oldsters (we have a range now of 9, 6,3 and almost 1) but tend toward the wellness because it is impossible to keep them out of each others food. We’ve found science diet to give them extreme flatulence and stinky pewps. And more barfing, so just say no to science diet (we have an aby with a delicate constitution, he’s our canary in terms of cat food testing). Good luck.
I have Pedro, the geriatric wonder cat, who is around 18 years old. He and his adopted brother, Domino (9 years old) will eat nearly any dry food, but in their old age, I realized it was time to take it up a notch. I now purchase Iams Active Adults – $12 at Wegmans; $16 at SuperPetz – and they both love it. Pedro, who had the old cat skinnies, even put some minor but noticeable weight.
