Hope that helps,
Olivia
Pet Nutrition Specialist
Nutro

They are indoor cats and advanced nutrition and complete with an indoor brand.

"Complete" is the only legitimate designation - other claims are advertising only. Complete means that it contains all nutrients a cat needs to survive (note that I said "survive" and not "thrive"). Just about any food you’re going to get from a grocery store will meet the complete - but they are generally cheap, poor quality foods. They are nothing more generally than cheap fillers - corn and by-products - and while they will meet your cat’s minimum needs, they won’t create a healthy cat. Sort of like you eating hot dogs and raman noodles every day for your meals - you will survive, but won’t be as healthy as you could be. It’s worth the trip to get a better quality food for them.

I suck when it comes to making slogans so which slogans can I make for my pet food brand.

"Whether their big or small Francos will feed them all!"

You can add a few blueberries but keep in mind that feral dogs & wolves don’t tend to eat fruit other than what is found in the stomachs of their prey. You don’t want to tax their pancreas with too much sugar, since the normal carnivore diet of meat & bone requires very little insulin for digestion. Brown or wild rice is much better for the dog, than white rice (more fiber, more nutrition, less sugar).

I typically buy WBCL: World’s best cat litter, Friskies canned food, Purina cat chow, Whiskas cat milk and Temptations treats. I would LOVE to be able to save enormously on these items on a regular basis. I see extreme couponing for groceries and household items but how does it work with pet food and supplies? Help, please!

Sign for the emails from each of the pet products that you like, sometimes they will email out coupons. Most pet companies have an email address listed on their packaging. I often find coupons for pet products in many Sunday newspapers. Also check out the companies Facebook pages.

Any suggestions of a good quality food that you’ve either researched on your own or that was recommended by your vet?

Buying food from the vet is not the best quality food you can find. In most vet schools the nutrition classes are given by a pet food company without charge to the University, they of course promote their products and the cheapest products for them to make and earn the biggest profit is the dry ingredients as it is mostly carbs and cheap protein like from corn or rice not meat. The canned foods if they have a carb % of over 10 % they are not good for any cat either.
Please go to Janet and Binky’s food chart and choose a canned food that is under 10% carbs and high in protein.
By feeding only wet good high protein cat food you will find she will have far less problems if any at all, with crystals and avoid urinary infections. Also she will have a better coat of fur and it will not have dandruff and it will be glossy. She will reach a good weight - whether she needs to gain or lose weight - and she will eat less than a cheap can of food filled with bad protein and carbohydrates. Not saying all cheap cans are no good. There are some very good ones available. The other place to read is what Dr Lisa Pierson DVM she has devoted her life to proper diets for cats and tells how to get a cat to change over from a dry to wet diet etc. I will put the URLs at the end.

Dry food is bad and does nothing to clean a cats teeth. I have seen cats that are a year old with rotten teeth and all they ever ate was dry.

Disadvantages:
Not healthy for teeth - tends to have sugar as an ingredient, and can rot the teeth
Usually contains artificial colors/preservatives, such as BHA and BHT.
Doesn’t last as long as dry food because of the moisture content
Not as filling as dry food/high moisture content

Does anyone have an idea where this started?

It probably started with someone who wanted to sell raw pet food.