What do you feed your non diabetic cats?

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Rubyslens

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My cats have eaten Natural Balance canned for years but recently have kind of snubbed it. I give them a portion of Jack’s fancy feast (which they love) so they won’t steal his. But it makes the litter box stink so badly such that I’m hesitant to switch them all over. Blue Wilderness looks comparable to their current food but cheap Friskies Pate has nearly the same carb count at less than half the cost. Any advice is appreciated. I have scoured the food chart but there are a lot of choices!
 
I fed my diabetic and non-diabetic kitties the same food. It avoided the problem of the diabetic (who was very food motivated) from eating the other cat's not always low carb food. Low carb is appropriate for diabetics and non-diabetics alike.
 
Try different flavors of the FF, it may affect the smell of their poop. Try each flavor for a couple of days or more, so you can tell what the effect of that flavor is. I have one cat who is sensitive/allergic to chicken. She gets food with chicken in it, her poop stinks to high heavens and she gets diarrhea. We feed her foods with no chicken, and there's no diarrhea and very little smell. Another cat we have cannot eat fish, he gets diarrhea and the smell will drive us out of the house. No fish in his food, things clear up and his poop hardly smells. Our third cat can eat anything, nothing bothers him.

(We saw the same thing with our dog. When we adopted him, he was, of course, on the cheap dog food that shelters buy so they can afford to feed so many animals. He was a fart machine, and the smell would actually drive us from the room. Deadly. Beyond Deadly. Unreal. We got him switched over to a better food, a limited ingredient one (he also had itching issues) and the farting stopped. Completely. He might fart once a year now, if that, and that's usually following a treat he really shouldn't have had. The food they eat makes a HUGE difference in the smell of an animal's poop.)
 
Oh, also, don't trust the "flavor" or meat type it says on the name of the food. If you read the ingredients, there is chicken in most flavors, and now fish is showing up more often, too. Cheaper to use these to meet their protein and meat content levels than other meats. So if you find certain things you need to eliminate to keep their guts happy and poops less-smelly, read the ingredients carefully when buying food. Also, keep checking because they change the recipes frequently, whether they admit it or not.
 
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