Comments on: Iams Dry Cat Food

By: Ali L

Ali L — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:01:14 +0000

My 2 cats have been eating IAMS digestive care for a few months now, after I switched them from IAMS Healthy Naturals, and the both of them have been losing teeth only since they have eaten the Digestive Care. I am setting out to Walmart today to get them either their old food or a different one completely. They are both totally healthy other than that they are losing teeth and they are only 3 & 4 years old. My vet couldn’t tell me anything about why they are losing their teeth at such a young age. So if I were you, I would stay away from IAMS Digestive Care completely. Hope this helps.

By: ijay

ijay — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:40:07 +0000

IAMS dry has been very good to my cats, one is a bit overweight, but that is due to the fact that she likes to eat all the food before the other cat gets a chance at it.

Wet food stinks up the house, makes a mess and caused dental problems in one of the cats. Since switching him to dry with an occasional can of food as a treat has improved his teeth a lot. A friend was caring for him for a year due to military deployment, she fed him only wet food, when I got the cat back he was missing several teeth and had poor coat condition.

Wet food only has a higher fluid content than dry, my cats drink enough water because I don’t give them unfiltered tap water.

I have experimented with foods available at normal groceries, IAMS has been my best option.

By: Sandra L

Sandra L — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:03:04 +0000

In my honest opinion as a groomer. I see all kinds of skin and fur problems. All come from the food you feed. If a cat or dog is in the wild hunting their own food they are not going to find dry kibble. This food was manufactured and marketed by some very smart people. Dogs and cats should not even have dry food as they are not genetically conditioned for it. We are forcing them to eat it.

Cats and dogs love chicken, tuna, salmon, sardines, liver, tukey. Wet protein is what they all need. WET PROTEIN. NOT DRY. It would be the same if all we ate was dry cereal and nothing else. What would happen. We would eventually become unhealthy with all kinds of problems.

All I am trying to say is forget the dry food and stick with just canned. If you give your cat a canned food that they don’t like, open a can of tuna and pour some of the juice over their food and watch what happens.
Never feed your cat people tuna as a main feed as they need the cat vitamins in their food especially taurine.

Forget they dry!!!!!!!!! It’s a waste of money. A can of good food in the morning and a can at night and you are done and they are happy and will not gain weight.

By: Flea87

Flea87 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:26:56 +0000

Fancy feast is, like Iams, also like the cat equivalent of McDonald’s. Might want to go more natural…? Feeling fooled is not a nice feeling, I know from personal experience. Sorry Hope your cat’s been feeling better.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:00:22 +0000

After 7 years on Iams dry kitten, then cat food, my cat developed an allergy I believe. She vomited very often after eating. She was a bit overweight at probably 16 lbs, and over a month dropped at least 4 lbs. She lost so much muscle mass along her spine, it was so bony. I have started her on fancy feast salmon feast, & ocean whitefish feast and she has not vomited in nearly a week. She has energy again and her personality is coming back. It is such a relief after the mystery of her vomiting & weight loss.

I never would have guessed Iams could be bad for her, but it seems the case — the corn product and inferior quality ingredients. I feel fooled by the package labeling & marketing that Iams is top notch.

By: Hanson

Hanson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:41:41 +0000

Our cats regurgitate their IAMS dry cat food. It seems to upset their tummies. So we have switched to Avo Ancestral dry food which they love, which has ingredients we prefer but which costs a bit more and isn’t available at Costco, as IAMS is. However, our cats love the Ancestral and it doesn’t upset their digestion. We had a cat grow overweight on IAMS, but not on Ancestral!! To us it is worth the price differential.