One of the few grain free foods that isn't also high protein. A great alternative, for those on the grain free bandwagon.

I recently found the BC cat food at our local Farm and Home Supply where this line of cat food was featured in a special display. My finicky cat loved it on the first feeding, there was no need to do a gradual introduction of a new food. I am impressed with the nutritious ingredients and the fine quality of real meat, vegetables and even berries. I recommend your line of pet foods to all my animal loving friends.

Do you produce any sample sized foods? A special annual event at my St. Mark's Episcopal Church is the Blessing of the Pets Sunday, to be held this year on October 4. We give out treat bags to all the animals attending and would especially like to include your product line in these take home treats.

Ingredients: Salmon Deboned, Chicken Meal, Potato Dehydrated, Turkey Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols – a source of Natural Vitamin E), Sweet Potato Dehydrated, Dried Egg, Natural Flavor, Yeast Culture, Dicalcium Phosphate, Lysine, Sea Salt, Alfalfa, Salmon Oil, Choline Chloride, Acai Berry Freeze-Dried, Blueberry Dried, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Rosemary Extract, Taurine, Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Chondroitin Sulfate, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chicory Root, Marigold Extract, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enterococcus Faecium, Lactobacillus Casei, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Iron Amino Acid Complex, Vitamin E Supplement, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Copper Amino Acid Complex, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin D3, Niacin, Lecithin, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Cobalt Amino Acid Complex, Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Sodium Selenite.

Before Grain is a pretty new product from the Merrick company, which is a pretty solid company that has dealt mostly with dog food in the past.

They've created the "Before Grain" line as a food that contains no grains as the title suggests.  As a natural cat diet doesn't require grains, these tend to be the absolute best foods.

Unlike other "no grain" foods such as Orijen and Wellness CORE, it isn't super loaded with proteins.  For instance, the percent of protein is around 50% at the aforementioned foods, but about 35% in this food.  This isn't BAD persay, but if you have an active cat you may want to consider a higher protein food for the energy.  If you have a lazy housecat like me, then this will work.

The downsides are two-fold...which I guess you can't blame them for.  The first is that it's pretty dang expensive, but given the quality ingredients, that isn't hard to understand.  Secondly, it's harder to find than most.  Specialty pet food stores will carry it, but the major retailers will not.  That's a good rule of thumb, though...if you can find it in a major store, it probably isn't that great of a product.

So give it a try....I'll bet your kitty will love it.