Purina split into two separate companies several years ago. The manufacturer name which the high end dog and cat foods are now maufactured is PMI Nutrition. This is not the Purina that you can buy in supermarkets or pet stores and it honestly isn't Purina at all anymore. No checkerboard logo or anything now that the split is complete. But it is the high end food which has only ever been available previously from Purina distributors. Some of our clients have found Exclusive elsewhere, so it's good to know that they are expanding their market because this really is great food. PMI Nutrition has a dealer locator on their home page at www.pminutrition.com. They make a slightly lower quality food called PMI and it's pretty good, but still not the same. Once you've used a true high-end dry food, you'll be able to tell kitty junk food just by looking at it and/or smelling it - the junk foods have everything from odor enhancers to food coloring and fillers added.
We honestly don't feed much canned food at all any more. When we do, we stick only to brands like Evo which are very high in meat content and the proteins our active Turkish Angoras need. If you do want to feed canned food, there are a number of great brands available. Just be sure to shop in a quality pet store - do NOT buy canned off the shelves in your grocery store. Store brands in particular are made of total junk, the "waste" parts of the animals that are not fit for human consumption. The same goes for dry food - ALWAYS buy your pet's food from a pet store that has your pet's best interest at heart. Although quality foods are more expensive, you'll get every penny back in cleaner litter boxes and fur friends who live longer, healthier, happier lives!
We know that most people are really turned off at the thought of feeding raw meat diets to their pets. Just know that raw meat is odorless and cleanup really is a breeze. It's slimey to be sure, but no worse than any meat you cook for your humans! Plus our babies absolutely adore raw meat and will in fact start eating solids weeks before they would touch canned or dry food. There's just nothing more satisfying (or comical!) than to hear our babies grrrrRRRR as they scarf their first bites of solid food as young as three weeks old. The raw meat stimulates their instincts to be the biggest and baddest kitten in the litter in order to get the "lion's share" of the meat even though no other kittens are even competing for that same finger full of meat. And the minute our babies get going on the raw meat, they start to grow so much faster and healthier than they ever used to before we fed this diet. And you can be sure that we always feed the best canned and dry foods available. As mentioned above, we use Bravo! brand raw diet because it's manufactured right here in Connecticut (so it's carried by all of our local, high-end pet stores). Plus Bravo still makes many varieties of 100% ground meat (without veggies) which our cats and kittens hugely prefer over the "blends" - some manufacturers have phased out their lines of 100% meat because it is a more balanced diet to have those veggies added. But leave it to a Turk to know what nature truely intended and most of our gang won't touch any of the blends. Just be sure to add supplements and/or quality dry and/or quality canned food that will supplement the pure raw meat if you do chose to feed this diet.