Diamond Naturals Indoor Cat Dry Food, Chicken & Rice

The Diamond Naturals Indoor Cat Food is an adult food for cats that live indoors - high protein, lower fat than the active formula, and a deliberately high fibre level to move hair through rather than let it come back up.

Key Features

• 8% maximum fibre, roughly three times the rest of the range. That is the point of an indoor formula: an indoor cat grooms more and swallows more hair.
• 394 kcal a cup, the lowest in Diamond's cat range - sensible for a neutered cat that sleeps eighteen hours a day.
• 32% protein maintained despite the lower calories, so weight comes off fat rather than muscle.
• Taurine guaranteed at 0.1% minimum.
• Cage-free chicken first, with dried chicory root, chia seed, pumpkin, dried kelp and coconut supplying soluble and insoluble fibre.
• 80,000,000 CFU per pound of live probiotics.

Guaranteed Analysis

• Crude Protein 32.0% minimum
• Crude Fat 14.0% minimum
• Crude Fibre 8.0% maximum
• Moisture 10.0% maximum
• Taurine 0.1% minimum
• Omega-6 2.4% minimum, Omega-3 0.4% minimum
• Total Microorganisms not less than 80,000,000 CFU/lb
• 3,470 kcal/kg (394 kcal/cup) calculated metabolizable energy

Available in: 1 kg, 3 kg and 7.5 kg.

Good To Know

• A high-fibre food helps with hairballs; it does not cure them. A cat bringing up hair more than about once a month, or retching without producing anything, needs a vet - the same signs cover asthma and foreign bodies.
• Diamond's guide runs from about a third of a cup a day for a 1.4 kg cat to a cup and a quarter at 9 kg. Most indoor adult cats sit between half and three quarters of a cup, at about 394 kcal a cup.
• Cats evolved to take most of their water from prey and are poor drinkers. A cat on dry food alone takes in far less water than one eating wet food, so if yours has any history of urinary trouble, talk to your vet about adding wet food rather than relying on the bowl.
• Feeding guides are a starting point, not a prescription. Weigh the food rather than scooping it by eye, and adjust to body condition: you should feel the ribs easily under a thin covering and see a waist from above.
• Change food gradually over about a week - a little of the new mixed into the old, increasing the proportion each day. Diamond suggests up to 14 days for a sensitive animal. A sudden switch is the commonest cause of loose stools.
• Diamond guarantees 80,000,000 CFU of live probiotic cultures per pound. Live cultures fade with heat and time, so buy the size you will finish in a month or two rather than the biggest bag.
• Keep it in its own bag inside a sealed container rather than tipping the kibble loose. The fat in dry food goes rancid on contact with warm air, and in a UAE kitchen that happens faster than the date on the bag suggests.
• Diamond states that the facility which makes this food also makes food that may contain other ingredients. If you are avoiding a specific protein for a diagnosed allergy, that cross-contact statement is worth knowing about.
• A food change is not a treatment. If your pet is itchy, losing weight, vomiting or has ongoing loose stools, see a vet before you switch - changing diets repeatedly makes a diagnosis harder, not easier.