Is Iams a bad cat food?

Question

I am told Iams is a bad cat food by one of my friends. Is this true?

Answer 1

Any food that is full of cheap fillers is a bad cat food. Cheap fillers are corn and brewer's rice, and any kind of by-products. Cats were meant to eat meat, not grains, and they get little to no nutritional value from corn and other grains. By-products are a low-quality protein source. It's all the scrap parts (beaks, heads, feet, intestines, hides, tendons, even spoiled and diseased meat) that has been deemed unfit for human consumption. These things are used in cat food not because they are good for our cats, it's because they are cheap! Read the ingredients on Iams - it's mostly cheap filler. Not a good cat food at all.

Answer 2

Iams used to be one of the better foods. But when they changed the formula in the dry and made it with cheaper ingredients, then the quality has gone down.



We feed Max Cat (dry) and in the canned (Wellness, Blue Buffalo, Avodeerm, Iams, Natural Balance, Max Cat, and Nature's Choice).



A cat does a lot better on a mix of dry and canned foods daily and raw a few times a week. Some do raw all the time which is good too if you can afford it.

Answer 3

Never had problems like this but have been reading a lot recently about animal feeds. Dogs and cats left running wild will eat meat, veg and sometimes fruit. They never eat cereals, though. All these dried foods are at least 60% cereal, because it's cheaper for the manufacturers than meat. So dried food in't a natural food for animals and therefore probably isn't the healthiest. Wild animals keep their teeth in good condition by chewing on bones and sometimes twigs or branches.

Answer 4

All I know is that over the years I had a couple of my male cats on Hill's Science Diet dry, and a couple of times the stores ran out and I was forced to buy Iam's. I mixed it in with the Hill's to gradually get them accustomed to it, and both males came down with instant UTIs (cystitis) and had to be rushed to the vet. So I don't recommend it one bit.

Answer 5

I agree with J.C. for more information, here is a website that can teach you how to understand the ingredients lists on cat food, so you can make the best choices possible among the foods available in your area and within your budget: http://www.catfoodguide.com/long-guide/

Answer 6

I would not use Iams or any product made by Proctor & Gamble.

This company is the one of the worst for animal testing.

Answer 7

They're a HORRIBLE company.



Go with a company that doesn't cruelly test on animals, and that is completely natural (no by products)



It's kinda like feeding your pets mc donalds.



Check the website i put for my source