Before cats like Murray The Magic Cat discovered they could plonk themselves on a sofa and use the remote, cats were wild animals. Cats hunt for food and fun, so their natural diet is more like moist, protein rich, low in fat, very low in carbohydrates, meat from a kill, nothing like Purina Foods Cat Food.
So proper cat nutrition mimics this nature-designed food for cats. Cats are naturally carnivores, meaning they’re strictly meat eaters. Imagine giving plant-base foods to a strictly meat-eating mammal. The result is chaos in their metabolism.
Here is a great article that explains in brief detail;
So how can Purina Foods Cat Food be any good for your cat if it nothing like the food that your cat would choose to eat naturally?
Basically another major problem with dry foods for cats is that the average dry cat food contains 35-50% carbohydrates. Cats only need about 3-6%.and so too much carbohydrate will make your cat ill and cause a predisposition to obesity and diabetes.
Here is a longer more detailed article showing how cat foods like Purina Foods Cat Food, Felix is really bad for you cat.
A cat’s metabolism is vastly different from that of a dog’s. For example, cats cannot digest carbohydrates through their saliva and they don’t have as many enzymes in their stomach as dogs to digest carbohydrates. Therefore cats are not naturally designed to eat a diet of foods that are high in carbohydrate.
The average cat owner is not an animal nutritionalist and I had no idea the food I was feeding Murray the Magic Cat was bad for him until we started to research his health problems. Murray was a rescue cat would not eat anything other than Purina Foods Felix As Good As It Gets and I feel the poor nutritional value and excess carbohydrates in Purina Foods Felix As Good As It Gets caused the health problems that lead to Murray the Magic Cat's untimely departure from this world.
If you are shocked that a big company like Purina Foods is selling your cat food that is going to shorten its life because of its un naturally high plant based carbohydrate content in the food please call them and complain that their cat food Felix killed Murray the Magic Cat!