Label instructions are general guidelines. Your individual cat may require more or less based on the above factors. Your veterinarian will be able to advise you on what your cat's ideal weight should be and how to make any necessary and safe adjustments to the current nutritional program.

Cats need taurine for good vision, which is one good reason you should not feed your cat dog food. A cat fed exclusively with dog food can go blind.

We feed all our puppies an all-natural, human-grade dog food. More specific information is available here on our site under Caring for Your Puppy.

We currently feed only premium whole ingredient foods with a focus on dry foods. The best brands we have used are: Innova, Wellness, Chicken Soup for Kitten Lovers, Natures Variety, Premium Edge and Natural Balance.

It is not recommended that you give your dog or cat any people food. Most of the foods humans eat are too rich for your pets to digest. It can cause them to have diarrhea, vomiting, gas, intestinal problems, kidney and liver problems, pancreatitis, along with choking (if a bone or piece of food isn't chewed well or cut right). The pet food companies have made sure that the food they put out is complete with all of the nutrients your pet needs.

If I had just one kitty as a personal pet (or three personal pets, even) I would feed two varied treats a day of approximately one rounded tablespoon in size, in addition to enough dry food to maintain a constant weight level. Each kitty will differ on how much dry food is needed, throughout the changing stages of life.

Neither is a vegan by nature -- dogs are omnivores, and cats are carnivores. While both dogs and cats belong to the class carnivora, this doesn't mean a lot, so does the panda bear and they are near vegan. By nature cats and dogs wouldn't eat anything like what is commonly found in a can of pet food either. Special diets must be provided for cats, as they require an amino acid called taurine -- found in the muscles of animals.

All cats, diabetic and non-diabetic, should be fed only low carbohydrate, high protein foods. This effectively removes all dry foods from consideration, including dry foods that say they are “low carbohydrate” and all dry foods made for diabetic cats.

There are many balanced cat diets available at your local pet shop or from your veterinarian. There are as many answers to this question as there are people feeding cats. I feed mine Nutro Complete Care products, kitten, adult and pouches. Very young kittens I feed either Iams Kitten or one of the Royal Canin kitten foods. If one of them needs additional calories or vitamins, I add Wysong Archetype to their regular meals.

Only dry foods marked "nutritionally complete" contain the animal proteins necessary for good health. Canned foods marked "all meat" are good supplements to dry food, but are not necessary for your cat if their dry cat is "complete." Canned foods do not have the mechanical motion against the teeth that dry foods do, and often may add to gum disease and tartar buildup.

Yes, all of our cat foods are considered holistic. This includes Gold Nutritionals? and Four-Star Nutritionals? product lines. Holistic cat foods are typically all-natural cat foods that contain no fillers utilizing only ingredients which serve a specific nutritional purpose. A lot of holistic cat foods omit common allergens like wheat and corn. All of our balanced diets (canned & dry) fit this definition in its entirety.