is purina pro plan is a good kitten food for 3 months old?

Question

I have 2 kitten, and I just want to know is the Purina Pro plan has low ash content and the food quality is good too.

Answer 1

Purina kitten chow is really good for them. It has a lot of nutrients to help them grow.

Answer 2

Purina Pro Plan is really not a good food for any pet. Neither is anything on your grocery store shelves.
Try Chicken Soup for The Cat Lovers Soul, Wellness, Innova, and other holistic foods which you can find by looking in your yellow pages under Pet Supplies/Food. Look for places that advertise selling holistic foods. These are the places to purchase pet food. Pet Valu has a great line of products as well.
If you need to check it out further, do a search on google on: pet food rendering plants. It will open your eyes to what these high end advertisers really put in your pets food. There are better foods out there that will start you kittens out on the right, paw, sort of speak.
Also, check out http://www.cat.about.com. Very informative, fun and educational, and they will help you with the food issue too.

Answer 3

I'm not familiar in detail with Purina Pro Plan, but I don't know of any high-quality cat foods that are made by Purina. Your question about ash content makes me suspect that Pro Plan is a dry food. If so, then it's not good for kitty regardless of it's ingredients. Dry foods are loaded with carbs (very bad for cats, even worse than they are for us) they're made up primarily of plant proteins that cats can't digest properly, they're full of grain (very bad for cats) and their lack of water content, combined with cats' poorly developed thirst drive, results in chronic fluid imbalance. That's a prescription for renal failure in kitty's golden years. (Chronic renal failure was almost unheard of in cats until the introduction of dry cat food; now it's so common that many vets think it's a normal part of the aging process!)

Read this to learn how to feed those kitties a healthy, species-specific diet that will give them their best chance of a long and healthy life:

http://www.catinfo.org

Along with the information about feline nutrition, you'll find lots of information about specific cat foods. You won't find any of the good stuff in a grocery store. You can probably find some in pet shops. A good source for many top quality brands is http://www.petfooddirect.com

Answer 4

NO! Anything from Purina contains by-products, fillers and far too many sugars and such that will make your cat have issues with their health later in life!

Make the SMART investment and go for food from companies like Nutro, Wellness, Royal Canin and other all-natural foods. We learned far too late in life what Purina can do to a cat that lived her life on it - feline CRF at the age of 17½ after spending over half her life on Purina products! We had three different vets tell us the very same thing - that they'd seen a dramatic INCREASE in cats coming in with feline CRF due to eating "junk food" like Purina.

PLEASE - DO NOT FEED ANY CAT PURINA OR ANY OTHER CHEAP BRAND!

Answer 5

I read a really great article about rating dog food at my agility class. I can't find it online, but I will email them and ask them for the formula. I bet there is a similiar one for cats.
You want to make sure that the first ingredient is meat, not grain or meat filler. Also, I think they said that it should not contain any other oils besides fish oil.

I feed my kitties Iams. It cleared up a urinary tract issue that my male cat was having.

Answer 6

STop shopping at Wal-Mart or your grocery store and try Petco or Petsmart or your local pet store and buy a premium food like those mentioned in a few posts. Iams, Science Diet are now crap foods so stay away from them.

Answer 7

The best food for any cat is one that contains moisture. Please feed an all-wet diet, canned or raw. If you can't do that, at least feed 50% wet food.

Feeding only dry food will compromise kidney and urinary tract health. It also puts your cat at risk for gastro-intestinal disorders, diabetes, and obesity

Pro Plan *canned* food is a good option. I would recommend the poultry flavors - beef and fish are common allergens.

Lynette
President - not for profit for cats
Board member - cageless cat shelter
consultant for weekly radio program on cat care

Answer 8

Pro Plan is ok. But the ingredients aren't the best out there. You need to look for something that has meat as the first ingredient, not meat by product. Also things like cornmeal aren't good. The two best foods I found, ingredient wise are eukanuba and Nutro brand. My cats like the taste of both too