Kaytee Fortified Ferret Food with Chicken vs. 9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food

Kaytee 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.) Kaytee has slightly fewer ingredients, which is usually a good thing. Kaytee has a slightly lower concentration of fruits, veggies, grains, and starches. 9 Lives is 100% pea-free; Kaytee has peas as its 3rd ingredient. 9 Lives contains controversial ingredients.

Kaytee Fortified Ferret Food with Chicken

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

Legend

First 10 ingredients:

chicken meal poultry by-product meal pea flour poultry fat chicken ground flax seed dried plain beet pulp fish meal brewers dried yeast dried egg product

9 Lives Daily Essentials Dry Cat Food

9 Lives is 100% pea-free; Kaytee has peas as its 3rd ingredient.

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