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Special Kitty Gourmet Cat Food is formulated to offer your pet health benefits, good nutrition and an appetizing flavor. This Special Kitty Food has been designed to deliver 100 percent complete and balanced cat nutrition for wholesome and filling everyday meals. Special Kitty Gourmet Cat Food is highly digestible, so your pet can easily absorb its nutrients. This Special Kitty Cat Food helps your cat maintain a shiny, healthy coat. Every bag of Special Kitty Gourmet Cat Food has been designed to support a healthy heart in addition to a strong immune system for your pet. This Special Kitty Cat Food additionally contains nutrients and vitamins that are necessary for good eye health. This bag contains 24 pounds of Special Kitty Gourmet Cat Food that has been formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles for all life stages Made with high-quality wholesome ingredients designed to offer health benefits, good nutrition, and an appetizing flavor for cats. 100% complete and balanced cat nutrition. Highly digestible for easy nutrient absorption. Helps support a shiny, healthy coat and skin in addition to a healthy heart and strong immune system. Promotes eye health. Formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Cat Food Nutrient Profiles for all life stages. Bag contains 24 pounds of Special Kitty Gourmet Cat Food.

The company who makes Special Kitty cat food is Menu Foods. However, Menu Foods seems to manufacture the foods exclusively to be sold in Wal-Mart stores. Also, it’s interesting to note that when Special Kitty was recalled, many sources stated that Mars PetCare was the one announcing the recall. Because of this, it’s a bit difficult to understand how exactly the Special Kitty foods are manufactured, though Menu Foods does have the Special Kitty brand listed as one of the brands they manufacture for Wal-Mart.Customer reviews of Special Kitty cat food are mostly negative. The ingredients in Special Kitty are low quality, and many cat owners state that they avoid these formulas when purchasing cat food. In general, it seems that consumers regard Special Kitty as a low-quality, inexpensive cat food formula that does not contain good sources of nutrition.

Ingredients
Ground Yellow Corn, Corn Gluten Meal, Poultry By-Product Meal, Soybean Meal, Animal Fat (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Flavors (Chicken, Crab, Lobster, Tuna, Shrimp), Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Brewers Dried Yeast, Monocalcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Added Color (Titanium Dioxide, Red #40, Yellow #6, Yellow #5, Blue #2 ), Taurine, Vitamin E Supplement, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Manganous Oxide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Sodium Selenite, Folic Acid, Calcium Iodate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate.

Recall
Special Kitty was one of the major pet food brands that was affected by the 2007 pet food recall, after it was discovered to be contaminated with melamine. Special Kitty has also been recalled several times due to contamination with salmonella. In order to make sure that your cat’s food is safe, it’s always highly recommended that you check the FDA’s pet food recall website. This will help you to stay updated on the latest pet food recall information. Special Kitty cat food is filled with ingredients that could cause allergic reactions in cats. Since corn makes up the majority of the formula, it is not appropriate for cats with sensitivities to corn ingredients. Wheat is also present in Special Kitty, which is another common allergen. If your cat has a specific allergy, you should always read the ingredients of any cat food formula. The Wal-Mart brand cat food that goes by the name Special Kitty is being recalled in many eastern states. Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and West Virginia.

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