Yes, Sorry Carole, I shold have made it more clear: Cat Chow. Purina One is their repsonse to people demanding better food.

There is a reason for this hoopla over food. The cheaper food is like all the junk foods we humans eat. They are cheap and fill you quick and easily. However they have little nutirional value, and what fills you are fillers like corn and grain instead of whole proteins. The better food is like a real solid meal consisting of a balance of foods... the result being that you eat less, feel fuller. The food also is digested easier because its good whole foods and not waste and fillers.

Seriously, this is all said from a personal experience of having had a cat who had runs thanks to cheap food. I didn't know it really was THAT different until my vet informed me. And now I speak from experience since I have to know all this for work. Not just to inform cusomters but to talk about it in class. I have a whole class where I go over nutrition with my students. What I talk about is the product of research on my own - the stuff the company gave me to talk about? Ha! what a joke their guidelines were! They basically said to tell customers to feed the store brand My students are looking to me to really help them make a good choice that makes sense financially AND health-wise for their pet.

I feed prescription diet to all 5 of my guys. Not because I believe its superior but because its the only thing that has actually keeps Pouncer from getting sick again. I'd love to switch back to all Nutro all the time, but its not possile, and neither is feeding just Pouncer prescription instead of all 5 guys. But the additional money spent is not even considered when I see that I'm not spending days worrying about Pouncer and paying for yet another test or round of antibiotics for Pouncer. $40 for a bag of food that lasts one month is well worth it in my book, but I do wish I could go back to the days of spending less than $20 a month. I swear my cats eat better than I do... thats another whole story all together!