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Cats => Cat Food And Nutrition => Discussion Of Brands And Ingredients => Topic started by: DeeDee on May 06, 2013, 06:21:58 PM
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I was searching through a pet-store after someone followed in Twitter http://1800whiskers.com/V2/template2.php?CHAPITRE=13 (http://1800whiskers.com/V2/template2.php?CHAPITRE=13), and I came across something called:
Abady Natural Electives Exotics
It's just meat and water. That's it. I had to go look it up at another store to find the ingredients, but that's what it is. Just meat and water.
http://www.doggiefood.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=abady+exotics (http://www.doggiefood.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=abady+exotics)
It seems a bit pricey to me, but I thought y'all might want to know about it for a change sometimes. They have 8 different proteins:
Duck, Beef, Buffalo, Pheasant, Chicken, Deboned Lamb, Venison, and Mini-Mackerel
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Hmmm...confusing!
Here's the website but I can't find any info on the canned cat foods on it. There is some info on raw.
http://therobertabadydogfoodcoltd.com/
Of the two retail stores you linked one says:
Note for ABADY: Supplements & Food Enhancements
All Abady cat food contains some or all of the following supplements and food enhancements, as well as the primary ingredients listed with each flavor:
Canned: di-calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, xanthan gum, choline chloride, monobasic calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vit. E source), ascorbic acid (vit. C), pancreatic substance, l-methionine, l-carnitine, inositol, l-taurine, ferrous sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, niacinamide, manganese sulfate, vit. A acetate, thiamine hydrochloride, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, potassium iodide, cholecalciferol (vit. D3 source), high chromium yeast, folic acid, sodium selenite, menadione sodium bisulfite (vit. K source), biotin, cyanocobalamin concentrate (vit. B12 source).
Dry: choline chloride, potassium chloride, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate (natural vit. E source), dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vit. E source), cornbran, l-taurine, ferrous sulfate, inositol, vit. A acetate, ascorbic acid (vit. C), niacinamide, zinc chloride, d-calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, thiamine hydrochloride, high chromium yeast, pyridoxine hydrochloride, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide, cupric sulfate, ergocalciferol (vit. D3 source), cholecalciferol (vit. D3 source), cobalt chloride, menadione sodium bisulfite (vit. K source), cupric sulfate, sodium selenite, cyanocobalamin concentrate (vit. B12 source), folic acid, biotin, chromium (GTF).
The other just mentions "added vitamins and minerals" for some of the formulas, and others, like the "non prescription "Vitality" has only
Beef(Muscle-Meat), Beef Kidney, White Rice, Beef Heart, Beef Liver, Pork Fat, Beef Tripe, Sunflower Oil, whole Egg, Beef Fat, Pancreas, Thymus.
Since this is cooked food, I don't see how that can provide adequate nutrition. Yes, all those things might be good nutrition for cats, but since they are cooked, they need supplements added.
I'll have to look into it more, thanks Dee Dee!
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Maybe they're talking about those other Abady kinds?
It was only the exotics I was looking at b/c I found grains in all the others.
I specifically had to Google: Abady Natural Electives Exotics
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I don't know, it's going to take some time to sort them all out.
I just read their page on their raw diets. They bring up an issue I never heard of before: saponin
http://therobertabadydogfoodcoltd.com/Fresh%20Frozen%20Complete%20Foods.htm
Still, there is a lot of....gobbeldygook in the article, seems to me. But it will be something interesting to figure out.
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Some of these people in this Yahoo Group knew a few things about some of it. I've never heard of a dry food that wasn't kibble:
http://pets.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAW-lite/message/8012
Still, if there's grain of any kind, I'm not feeding it.
It says the exotics canned ones are just meat and water everywhere else I managed to find it, but it's still not going to do me any good in the RV. Barkly doesn't like canned.
I still think he's got texture issues like some people do. He likes french fries, but he won't eat mashed potatoes. Barkly's the weirdest dog I've ever had. And for a Corgi to be finicky just isn't heard of anywhere!
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Heh, those are old posts, but I agree with them. Thanks for the link.
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SO far the best article I've found on saponin is:
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/toxicagents/saponin.html
And this was pretty interesting from an autoimmune perspective:
http://www.thepaleomom.com/tag/saponin