Yes, Sonia, use the Kirkland maintenance cat chicken and rice formula. I have been using this to feed homeless cats for years and they do very well on it. I supplement it once or twice a week by buying cans of cheap mackerel at WinCo food or getting them a rotisserie chicken from costco. It’s only fault is being just a tiny bit low in protein but you can easily fix that by mixing in some of these meats once in awhile. They do really well on this, it doesn’t kill them like the cheap crap on the bottom shelf at Walmart.

Hi there what your doing is wonderful but indeed caring for so many souls is never a cheap task and as much as you’d love to feed them species appropriate it isn’t always that easy.

I have gone onto the website and I have checked the food out, it is perfect and very cheap for the ingredients, I highly recommend it on that basis alone, the analysis protein/fat etc is also very good. This food is very well thought out and deserves an oscar for those ingredients at that price point wow!

Aldi Natural Elements cans are very good, I’m just not sure they have cat versions, however since taurine is in the kibble, the cans don’t really require it, you can actually always supplement it if you feel it necessary.

You can get a 100g bag for $16 and all you need is a pinch per cat, would last forever even with 120+ lol. But their taurine needs I think are rather low and as long as they eat the kibble they’ll get what they need.

I looked it up but most have 0.12% and that’s enough and this one is 0.1%, but it is added and I would think that despite it looking lower that they are conforming to the AAFCO standards.

Did you know that a combo of dry food mixed with wet food makes a better digestible diet?
Add canned food to the quantity of kibble you want to serve your cat. Mix them well. Try a ratio of 20% wet food to 80% dry for each meal. Even better= add a bit of water to some canned food and lightly warm in microwave. Make a mixture the consistency of a thick gravy and mix onto your kibble. Then serve this in a non-porous dish (or flattened bowl) = this is a great way to add moisture and a bit more flavor to your cats meal without changing the kibble base. Pate or ground canned food makes the better choice to mix in with the kibble.

Absolutely! Always add more moisture to your cats meal! One of my methods is to hot-soak some of this kibble (Use half cup of dry kibble in steel bowl, add hot water, and cover). When cooled down, feed about 50/50 soaked kibble to dry kibble of an appropriate serving along with a few tablespoons of warmed canned food and mix well. This is my cats’ supper meal and it ensures they are getting an appropriate amount of moisture into their diet. It is called “scheduled” feeding and a lot better than free-feeding dry — which is hard on your cats kidneys.

Some specific ingredients have been known to make it worse, your cats could of already had the problem, just hid it really well from you as that’s what pets usually tend to do.

You should also be adding either water to the kibble or a canned food as cats don’t drink very much water, this will help to lower the chance of getting cystitis, doesn’t mean it will remove the chance completely though.