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The Best Cat and Dog Food by Brand Names

When it comes to pet food, the “cat”—or “dog” is out of the bag, and the pet food industry is now exposed.

I am always suspicious of lists that claim to name the best pet food because I usually determine the list was sponsored by advertising from Purina or Friskies. Also, if a research company doesn’t understand what it is researching, there are abound to be blind spots and discrepancies.

I found extensive recent research performed on 1,759 cat food formulas and 2,223 dog food formulas. Research was culled from 11,000 experts in the food industry including veterinarians, trainers, behaviorists, university researchers, authors and pet owners. Criteria included ingredients, fillers (corn, soy, wheat, grain or flour), sugars and beet pulp, by-products and sauces, preservatives, recall history, ingredient sources, species appropriateness, the best ratio of protein, fat and carbohydrates, and the country in which the food is manufactured.

Out of 1,759 cat food formulas, only 145 were found to be produced by a trustworthy company with high-quality, risk-free ingredients.

Out of 2,223 dog food formulas, less than 6% or 134 formulas could be recommended for high-quality, risk-free ingredients.

The best of the best cat foods:

  • Addiction Grain Free Herbed Duck Confit and Sweet Potatoes Entrée (W)
  • Blackwood Chicken Meal & Sweet Pea Recipe Grain-Free (D)
  • Earthborn Holistic Wild Sea Catch Grain-Free Natural (D)
  • Fromm Gold Holistic Adult (D)
  • Lotus Just Juicy Pork Stew Grain-Free (W)
  • Now Fresh Grain Free Adult Recipe (D)
  • Redbarn Naturals Salmon and Delilah Grain Free (W)
  • ZiwiPeak Daily Cat Cuisine Venison and Fish (D)
  • Spring Naturals Grain Free Chicken Dinner (D)

Remember, cats are obligatory carnivores and MUST eat meat protein—no vegetarians, please!

For the complete article, go to http://www.reviews.com/cat-food/

The best of the best dog foods:

  1. Orijen
  2. ACANA
  3. Eagle Pack
  4. Fromm
  5. Nature’s Logic
  6. Stella & Chewy’s
  7. Wysong
  8. Pinnacle
  9. Primal
  10. Hi-Tek Naturals

To see where your present dog food purchase is on the list and why it didn’t make the cut, read the original article at http://www.reviews.com/dog-food/

Final words: Progress, not perfection. If you can’t afford the best quality pet food on the market, purchase the best that you can afford and feed it every other day.

Next Month: Digestibility. Do Fido and Fifi really need probiotics?

 

 

 

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