[sheetfaced]

It took some digging around but I was able to find some good natural/hollistic cat food for my kitten. He started off with Royal Canin but now that I found Nature's Variety, Felidae, and he seems to enjoy the mix of them and have no problems with digestion.

I am looking for EVO or ANF cat food, but haven't had luck locating it.

[bsh]

Give Tania Wong a call. SHe works at Moggy pet supplies and they stock a lot of the more organic cat foods.

2575 7698

[lulumay]

Are we the only crazy people out there? My dad gets me all my food at park n shop or if you really lazy, try parknshop.com.

[PC_Man]

Crazy, no.

Park'n'shop (Welcome similarly) has some decent quality pet foods and probably the best prices in HK currently.
Same old story, they buy the popular brans at cheaper prices than smaller stores so can be more competitive.

A lot of the requests on here though are for premium brands or alternative brands (organic/holistic etc).

Premium brands are generally from large companies that invest a lot of time, money and research into developing their diets and supply medical diets as well as routine pet foods.
The idea is that you pay a little more for the quality that they bring (sometimes meant to bring judging by latest food scare).

Alternative brands are a mixed batch. They are generally from far smaller companies and a lot of them are more about marketing than the actual quality.
For instance there is no actual definition of a holistic food - so anyone can use the word on their label w/o changing the food in any way at all.
Organic has a stronger definition but still can be equally misleading at times.

Personally not a big fan of any of these - fail to see how a biscuit food that can be shipped from miles away and is designed to be kept for years (ie filled with preservatives..) can be classed as organic or holistic.

Doesn't mean they can't be good diets, but kind of blows their main selling point out of the water in my mind.

Currently prefer to feed premium foods but if had the time would definitely consider home-cooked diets (but that opens another completely different can of worms..)

[lulumay]

I'm not quite sure if you know what you are talking about. Actually, what are you talking about? Do you really believe "premium" brands pet food are premium pet food products. Most commercially available pet food comes from Menu Food Inc. Pet food company buys the product from a manufacturer, package its, brands it and sells it. No secrets!!!

"Premium brands are generally from large companies that invest a lot of time, money and research into developing their diets and supply medical diets as well as routine pet foods." I guess advertising is very effective on you.

What are you smoking out in Sai Kung PC-Man? You don't need to pretend that you have know everything.

[PC_Man]

Don't work in the pet food industry so I'm happy to be corrected.

However, Menu Foods don't make most of the diets that anyone in HK uses - they make a large proportion of a type of diet called "cuts and gravy" style diets that is rarely used by anyone individual company so they all contract it.

Some of the premium brands (as defined by the industry themselves, that would be the likes of Hills, eukanuba, RC, proplan) do appear to have contracted out 1-2 diets from the large number within their ranges to implicated companies and have since recalled those diets.

They do however make most of their own diets in their own facilities - I have been to a UK factory many years ago where the place was set up to carry out research as well as prepare and develop diets.
They do also publish magazines and articles to promote pet health care and dietary issues.

You are right a lot of it is marketing but at least it is far more transparent marketing that it is possible to delve into than the majority of other pet foods.

It doesn't necessarily mean that they are better diets - but it means that in general you can be a bit more trusting that you get what they claim...

Not smoking anything - just trying to answer people's questions...

[nina_70]

Originally Posted by sheetfaced

I am looking for EVO or ANF cat food, but haven't had luck locating it.

Moggy's in Causeway Bay (see my earlier post) carries Innova EVO...it's a very good grain-free alternative. Also, Dog One Life (also in Causeway Bay) carries another grain-free from Canada which is Orijen.