Smalls Bird Recipe vs. 9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food

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Smalls has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.04 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Smalls Bird Recipe

Smalls has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.04 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
Smalls has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Smalls has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

finely ground chicken with bone chicken heart chicken liver chicken gizzard chicken egg goat’s milk water eggshell membrane herring oil mixed tocopherols

9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food

First 10 ingredients:

whole ground corn chicken by-product meal corn protein meal soybean meal animal fat whole wheat ocean fish meal natural flavor dicalcium phosphate salt

 

Smalls Bird Recipe

Freeze-Dried Raw

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9 Lives Kitten Essentials Chicken & Ocean Fish Dry Cat Food

Kibble

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Score
A+
Score
F
Food Type Freeze-Dried Raw Kibble
Meat % 98% Unknown
Protein % 45% 38%
Fat % 15% 12.5%
Fiber % 3% 2.5%
Protein to Fat Ratio 3 to 1 3.04 to 1
Total Ingredients 9 16
Meat Content 5 total
high concentration, high quality
3 total
low concentration, low quality
Non-Meats None 3 total
low concentration
Sugar-free Yes Yes
Controversial ingredient-free Yes Yes
 

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