Natural Balance Organic Cat Food: The Best Affordable Organic Cat Food
My cat is very fussy about her food, so I bought a couple 3 oz individual meal sized cans at 80 cents apiece at Petco. I originally bought the Chicken and Liver pate flavor and the Venison and Green Pea flavor. The 3 oz cans have "easy open" pull tabs so no can opener is necessary. The first thing I noticed when I opened the can was that this food doesn't reek like some canned foods do. All the flavors I've given my cat seem to have a uniform "pate" texture which is easy for cats to eat. My cat is a Snowshoe Siamese, and has a very flat face, so the shape and texture of what she eats is important and she has no trouble with the Natural Balance food.
When I gave my cat the Chicken and Liver I expected her to turn up her nose and walk away but she ate the entire can! The next day I gave her the Venison and Green Pea and she ate that entire can as well. Even though you should always switch cat foods slowly to avoid stomach upset I switched her canned food without the recommended mixing of old and new foods because her old food was the tainted Nutro pouch food. Even with the quick food switch she had no stomach upset or vomiting from the new food, it was very gentle on her stomach. Now she begs for her Natural Balance food each morning. The Ultra flavor seems to be her favorite of all the flavors.
There was a variety of flavors to choose from: Chicken and Liver Pate, Ultra Formula, Indoor Cat Formula, Venison and Green Pea, Salmon, Turkey and Giblets, and another seafood formula. Venison and Green Pea is a great food for pets with skin allergies or food sensitivities. There is a line of prescription diets that is prescribed for animals with those problems but is very expensive, so for a cat with those sensitivities Natural Balance makes an affordable alternative. Most Petco's carry Natural Balance canned and dry food, but I have not found it in any other major pet food store.
After feeding her Natural Balance for a few days I noticed changes in my cat. She looks leaner, and her coat is much shinier and softer. She isn't shedding as much. Her eyes are bright and shiny and she tons of energy. Her litter box isn't quite so unpleasant to scoop out each day. Natural Balance is a very high quality, affordable, all organic food and my cat won't eat anything else from now on. I recommend Natural Balance to any pet owners who would like to give their pets a high quality organic diet but don't have the time to run around to specialty stores and don't have the money to pay the higher prices of "boutique" organic brands like Wellness.
Published by Goth Diva
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Post a CommentHey Ms. D ~~ Thanks for the heads up about reasonably priced cat food. I am looking for a reasonably priced food, as I have a multiple cat household made up of feral cats that I trapped as kittens. (They lived under abandoned drug houses, so they were grateful to see the dining car/96 Plymouth Breeze roll up.) I'm glad to know you've found a good solution. Just an aside, but when you're a certified CAT LADY you know what food the fur person prefers! Catch you later, Ana Ketay
i don't think i'll ever switch cat food.
The CANNED Ocean Fish flavor was recalled a week later -- AFTER Natural Balance reassured us it was safe because it didn't contain rice protein concentrate. The manufacturer admitted sneaking the potentially tainted rice protein concentrate into it. They have not switched manufacturers. I was happy with this product and even kept feeding it to my cat after the Natural Balance dry food recall, but now that I realize their ingredient list may not even be accurate, there's no way I'm continuing to buy this product. That deceit caused a delay in recall which might have killed our beloved pets. Ocean Fish was my cat's favorite flavor, too! I have tried 2 other brands of high quality canned food (Pet Promise and Merrick) but my cat doesn't like them :(
Because I'm the crazy lady :) Seriously though, I just keep an eye on what she eats. I try one flavor, and feed her that for a couple days and see how much of she eats and how much she leaves in the dish, then I try another flavor... If there's one that she leaves half of it in the dish every time and one that she eats the whole can every time I assume she likes the one better than the other.
As of 4/18- the DRY Venison and Green Pea cat food and the DRY AND CANNED Venison and Brown Rice Dog Food were recalled because Melanine was found in a rice protein complex Natural Balance adds to those particular flavors. No other formula uses that complex, so the other Natural Balance foods are safe.