Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: š Friday 29 November
melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ3ā© āØweeksā© agoMay I ask where you were able to check the food out? I found resources online for American foods but always struggle finding anything with Aussie brands.
Thereās the option of a vet nutritionist for safe balanced homemade diets if anyone wants to go that route. They have recipes diets for healthy cats without special needs (cheaper) and can make custom medical diet recipes for individual cats (expensive).
Note: Any homemade cat food recipes online should be avoided like the plague as they wonāt be balanced and not getting enough taurine can send your cat blind. Treats for occasional use might be ok but not the main diet. Thatās also the reason you canāt feed cats on dog food. Dogs can make their own taurine but cats canāt
StudChud@aussie.zone āØ3ā© āØweeksā© ago
I gathered most of this data just from the packaging, which is why Iām a tad sus of Dine now. If I Google anything, I tend to stipulate āAusā in the search, as I donāt trust the US websites (and they use imperial, which CBF converting), though they are prolly fine lol.
Vetmed documents (PDFs) are also available, though the tend to just state what a cat requires over whether which foods have what in them.
I used this msdvetmanual.com/ā¦/nutritional-requirements-of-smā¦
And this (and itās source FEDIAF) vpets.com.au/ā¦/nutrient-requirements-for-cats/#%3ā¦.
To understand what cats require of each mineral, vitamin, macronutrient, and amino acid (Taurine being an amino acid). I then used the manufacturers websites to determine whether it would contain these.
Avoid friskies if possible, I havenāt looked into them, but it made Mickey very unwell.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone āØ3ā© āØweeksā© ago
Thanks, Iām saving this comment to look through the links