Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights
In reply to the discussion: What do you feed your pets? Are they on vegetarian diets? [View all]ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)It is usually Friskies, but I look at the ingredients on each can: if the first ingredient, not counting water, is fish, chicken, liver or something, fine. If the first ingredient is "meat or poultry by-products", I put it back on the shelf. This way I sort the better from the worse varieties and don't pay and arm and leg for their food. It can be Nine Lives, or PetSmart's store brand, or even a grocery store brand as long as it doesn't contain primarily meat by-products.
I give them very little dry food, which has a lot of grain in it and those carbs are what make cats fat, seems to me. I split a small can of wet food between two of them in the morning and again in the evening.
I myself do use egg whites in baking once in a while, so then the cats get the yolk. So far they won't eat it unless I cook it first.