9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food vs. Hill's Science Diet Kitten Indoor Chicken Recipe

Hill's has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.11 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.) 9 Lives has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Both foods are mostly free of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food

9 Lives has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.

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First 10 ingredients:

whole ground corn chicken by-product meal soybean meal meat and bone meal corn gluten meal beef fat whole wheat natural flavor salmon meal phosphoric acid

Hill's Science Diet Kitten Indoor Chicken Recipe

Hill's has a better protein to fat ratio. 9 Lives's ratio of 3.11 to 1 is too high (not fatty enough). (The ideal ratio is 2 to 1.)
9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

First 10 ingredients:

chicken brown rice wheat gluten cracked pearled barley chicken fat chicken meal whole grain oats egg product chicken liver flavor ground pecan shells