Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets vs. 9 Lives Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food

Burgess 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.) Burgess has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Burgess has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. Both foods are pea-free. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Burgess Excel Ferret Nuggets

Burgess 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.)
Burgess has fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing.
Burgess has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches.
9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

poultry meal rice poultry fat fish meal hydrolysed poultry meal brewer’s yeast beet pulp poultry gravy salt short chain fructo-oligosaccharides 0.25%

9 Lives Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food

First 10 ingredients:

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