[boatbums]

We have fed our two Royal Canin Indoors Intense Hairball formula for years. It is expensive but they are my babies and like to "free feed". Is this a bad food for them. I will switch tomorrow if somebody can give me some guidance. Please???

[sistabrista]

I recently switched all my animals (cats and dogs) to Blue Buffalo. It is a little more pricey than other brands, but it has helped out all my kitties with their varying health issues with 1 food. My 2 kittens were getting urinary tract infections on a regular basis and my adult cat has a sensitive stomach. The ingredients in blue buffalo are a lot better than other, cheaper brands. They don’t have fillers and by-products. www.bluebuff.com

[SatinDoll]

My advice is read the contents label and then ask yourself: if my cat were wild and living off the land, would he/she be eating cornmeal gluten, wheat gluten or sugar? No. And they wouldn’t be consuming all the sugar and salt added to semi-soft food, either. That stuff is horrible for cats or dogs.

[who knows what evil?]

We have fed our two Royal Canin Indoors Intense Hairball formula for years.

Two of the first four ingredients are corn...bad news. Cats do not eat corn in the wild...pet food manufacturers use corn for ONE reason; it is cheap and profitable...same reason they use corn syrup in human 'food'. The 'perfect food' is mice in a blender, but I'll stick with the 'pop top' cans... :-)

[Nepeta]

We have fed our two Royal Canin Indoors Intense Hairball formula for years. It is expensive but they are my babies and like to "free feed". Is this a bad food for them. I will switch tomorrow if somebody can give me some guidance. Please???

Read the label. If the formula contains grains (and as far as I have seen, ALL dry formulas DO, since they need them to bind together--rice is no better than corn when it comes to cats), switch to a good canned food with low fibre content (see the table in www.felinediabetes.com)

Hairballs are miserable, especially when you step on the remains in the dark. Control hairballs by brushing kitty and feeding a hair ball remedy from a tube, or margarine or butter.