Basically what the title says.
Recently, one of my two cats started to eat less of our usual dry food (we feed them with wet food in the morning and dry food in the evening). So we tried to switch it up and he seems to like the new dry food more (the other one wolfs down anything).
While researching which dry food to try, I ran into the question in the title.
Obviously cats are carnivores, and that's basically the argument I often seemed to read online - eating anything but meat or fish isn't "natural". I wasnt really satisfied with that, as in the end what matters is a healthy diet.
A cat in the wild will also eat things other than meat - chewing on grass or through eating herbivores. From what I could gather reading articles with study references it seems like cats can digest most grains just fine, even not being omnivores, and badly balanced meat only cat food can f.e. be heavy in phosphorus, which can lead to kidney disease. Of course that doesnt happen with well balanced grain free food.
In the end I just chose to look at how the brands at my local pet food store compare when looked at by the most prominent consumer organization for comparing goods in my country - and a dry food containing whole wheats for better digestion was rated better in dietary balance than another "wilderness" brand advertising to be grain-free.
Recently, one of my two cats started to eat less of our usual dry food (we feed them with wet food in the morning and dry food in the evening). So we tried to switch it up and he seems to like the new dry food more (the other one wolfs down anything).
While researching which dry food to try, I ran into the question in the title.
Obviously cats are carnivores, and that's basically the argument I often seemed to read online - eating anything but meat or fish isn't "natural". I wasnt really satisfied with that, as in the end what matters is a healthy diet.
A cat in the wild will also eat things other than meat - chewing on grass or through eating herbivores. From what I could gather reading articles with study references it seems like cats can digest most grains just fine, even not being omnivores, and badly balanced meat only cat food can f.e. be heavy in phosphorus, which can lead to kidney disease. Of course that doesnt happen with well balanced grain free food.
In the end I just chose to look at how the brands at my local pet food store compare when looked at by the most prominent consumer organization for comparing goods in my country - and a dry food containing whole wheats for better digestion was rated better in dietary balance than another "wilderness" brand advertising to be grain-free.
