is sheba premium cuts wet cat food better for weigh loss than dry meow mix indoor fourmula?

Question

i went on vaction for 12 day to russia and asked my friend to come over and feed my cat while i was gone and when i came home he looked like he gained some weigh so i am trying to slim him down so is sheba premium cuts wet cat food better than dry meow mix indoor formula for weigh loss, thanks



danny

Answer 1

As already stated, both foods aren't really the greatest foods for your cat...they're kinda like a human who eats junk food everyday. Try picking up a vet-recommended food designed for weight loss.
My first suggestion would be to pick up a specially designed "light" recipe food, but if need to pick between the two you stated, the wet would probably contain less fat than the meow mix.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Sheba Premium Cuts

Answer 3

The Sheba food is meant for supplemental feeding only. If you feed your cat on a diet of that alone, it would eventually become sick due to lack of nutrients.

It is good food technically, although it is not properly balanced for daily feeding. But considering what you get, it's rather pricy. You'd be better off making your own cat food.

Meow Mix is just inferior food.

If you want your cat to lose weight, don't use either of those.

In a nutshell, most cats are fat because they've been fed too much (free-feeding or indulging them) and because they're fed dry food which is NOT appropriate food for them due to the grain/carb/sugar content. Cats are obligate carnivores who need to eat a high meat-based protein diet, which is also high in fats and low in carbs.

Many vets, who are sadly ignorant on the topic of proper cat nutrition, will recommend prescription diet foods (usually dry). Cats are expected to lose weight on a starvation diet of 1/4 or 1/3 cup of food per day. Everyone is miserable in these situations.

The solution is to switch the fat cat (and any others in the household as well) to a good quality canned food. Because these foods are species appropriate, the cat will lose weight at a safe, slow pace (no more than 1 pound per month). Switching foods needs to occur slowly, and if you're trying to get a kibble junkie to eat canned food, that will happen naturally.

That's it. Easy as pie. Not only will fat cats lose weight, but it and any others in the home will reap many benefits of eating a speciies appropriate diet.

See the links below for detailed information on this topic.

Answer 4

Any canned food is better for your cat then dry foods, period
Stay away from gravy foods as they contain carbs. here is more about nutrtion and an obesity link on the bottom

Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard, dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods.
The problems with it are that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Most of the moisture a cat needs is gotten
out of the food and 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Also, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics.html
http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm#Dry_Food_vs_Canned_Food.__Which_is_reall

Answer 5

If you do care about your cat feed it better food.

Answer 6

THey are both pretty sucky foods.