Premium Dry food...James Wellbeloved versus Hills Natures Best

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We current feed out cats Hills Natures Best but I also saw James Wellbeloved at our local petshop.

I'm just wondering is one better than the other ?

http://www.wellbeloved.co.uk
http://www.hills.co.uk

[ScantyNebula]

Well...A lot of people (other than people in this forum) have said that Hill's isn't the best food to go with .. i guess you should be able to judge which food should be better by reading the ingredients. I don't know what's in the Nature's Best but I know the Hill's food I have, the ingredients don't impress me.

..I suggest you wait for a more educated answer LOL :p ;)

[Killearn Kitties]

Scientifically, I couldn't tell you which is best, but our cats won't touch James Wellbeloved's food wereas they love anything by Science Plan.

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Originally posted by Killearn Kitties
Scientifically, I couldn't tell you which is best, but our cats won't touch James Wellbeloved's food wereas they love anything by Science Plan.
That is so true if the cats won't eat it, it 's no good.

All my cats eat Hills Nature Best but Treacle isn't too keen, he prefers wet food.

I have requested free samples of James Wellbeloved food to try on the cats.

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Here is an Ingredients list for standard food

Hills Nature Best Adult Chicken
Chicken (minimum Chicken 32 %), Chicken and turkey meal(minimum Chicken and Turkey combined 42 %) , ground rice, maize gluten meal, ground maize, animal fat, digest, dried whole egg, dried beet pulp, potassium chloride, dehydrated carrots, dehydrated peas, calcium carbonate, DL-methionine, choline chloride, salt, dicalcium phosphate, oat fibre, vitamin E supplement, iron oxide, taurine, mineral/vitamin mix:ferrous sulphate, zinc oxide, vitamin C supplement, niacin, mixed tocopherols, copper sulphate, thiamin, vitamin A supplement, beta-carotene supplement, citric acid, calcium pantothenate, manganous oxide, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, rosemary extract, calcium iodate, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, sodium selenite, biotin, vitamin B12.

James Wellbeloved Adult Lamb
White rice (min 26%), lamb meat meal (min 26%), lamb fat, prairie meal, potato protein (min 7%), chicken gravy, tomato, omega-3 oil supplement (min 0.5%), chicory extract, carrot, cranberry extract (min 0.05%), DL methionine, lysine hydrochloride, taurine, threonine, zinc methionate, yucca extract, rosemary oil.

Hills do Chicken & Tuna flavors
James Wellbeloved do Turkey, Lamb & Duck flavors

[K & L]

Anything with lamb gives our cats gas!

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Originally posted by K & L
Anything with lamb gives our cats gas!
LOL. Thanks for telling me, Brambles bottom is lethal already.

[bisi.cat]

I've read about cat nutrition and after I've finished the book I was feeling like switching Nellie's diet completely, but she wasn't fond of a raw diet or something like that, so I tried to find food brands that offer food without too much "strange ingredients"...and you would have found me reading at the pet supply shop for hours...I now often add potatoes, rice, noodles and vegeatbles to Nellie's food and she seems to like it...

I've found a website that may be of interest for you:
http://cats.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.api4animals.org/doc.asp%3FID=79

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Thanks for the web link. Though the information on that web site was a bit scary.

I think the Hills Ingredients lists are full of stuff I don't understand but the James Wellbeloved is mainly Rice ??

[ScantyNebula]

James food looks better to me .. Hill's seems to have a lot of preservatives that I can't even pronouce! lol

I guess the James food looks mo

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Originally posted by ScantyNebula
James food looks better to me .. Hill's seems to have a lot of preservatives that I can't even pronouce! lol

I guess the James food looks more natural

[Randi]

There are Hills you buy in pet shops and Hills you can only get at the vet (at least here), Fister gets the last one, at the moment C/D. I may have to put him W/D if he gets any bigger.

However, he recently tried Natures Best and he just LOVES it! So now, he gets it as a treat. :) - may contain more fat though. :eek:

[Denyce]

Yes but cats are carnivores. And while I really dislike Hill's for so many reasons the first 2 ingredients are meat proteins. Cats are not herbivores or omnivores. They need a higher amount of meat based protein than dogs or humans do. So based on that I would choose the *shudder* Hills.

Denyce