Go's food for dogs: composition, daily intake by weight, reviews from veterinarians

Who and where is GO cat food produced?

Go cat food is produced by Petcurean Pet Nutrition (Canada). The company has sales representatives in different countries of the world, including Russia.

Cats enjoy eating GO

Since 1999, Petcurean Pet Nutrition has specialized in providing super-premium and holistic nutrition. The company buys its products from Canadian farmers, which guarantees the highest quality organic ingredients.

Additional Information! Holistic is food made only from natural products. It can be eaten by both animals and people.

GO! will provide complete healthy nutrition

Reviews from veterinarians

Veterinarians advise feeding your pets diets of at least premium class. The good composition of Go's dog food allows it to be offered to patients. There were not many reviews from veterinary specialists on the network.

Igor N. (veterinarian) If a tailed patient has even minor digestive problems, I suggest the owner immediately switch him to holistic food. Among others, I propose to consider Gou’s diets. In my practice, I have not encountered a negative reaction to the use, but many owners refuse Go because of the high cost.

general characteristics

Now dog food: Fresh, Natural Holistic

“Go” is a cat food made using a unique healthy formula that protects cat health. The quality of the ingredients and the finished product is checked three times. Fresh meat, fish, and vegetables are steamed or processed at low temperatures. Go food for cats is prepared without preservatives, dyes, or other synthetic additives. Go for cats smells like meat or vegetable broth.

GO! DAILY DEFENCE wet

Manufacturer and official website

Petcurean produces ready-made pet food. Note that the company owns several popular brands, but “GO” is presented as a flagship.

The manufacturer and official website (gonatural.ru) classify GO food as a holistic class and claim that the products are created using formulas that take into account the needs of dogs of all sizes and breeds. The food does not contain GMOs, by-products or dyes. The ingredients for the feed belong to the Human Grade class.

Description and composition of Go Natural

Pronature Holistic for cats and kittens: description of dry diet

The healthy formula was developed by veterinarians to produce Go holistic food for cats. Its composition is balanced, rich in vitamins, minerals and other beneficial substances. This tasty, satisfying food will provide the animal with complete nutrition.

Composition and nutritional value

Go Natural Holistic for Cats includes:

• sources of animal protein - boneless meat, whole eggs, meat flour;
• sources of vegetable protein - lentils, peas, chickpeas, tapioca, pea flour.

Natural protein provides the body with energy and gives vitality. This food contains different types of meat and fish: turkey, chicken, duck, beef, salmon, as well as vegetables, fruits, berries, and herbs. Pieces of apple, banana, carrot, pineapple, blueberry, spinach complement the taste and enrich the product with healing microelements.

The nutritional value of the product includes 48% proteins, 18% fats, 1.5% fiber. It contains B vitamins, taurine, lactobacilli, vitamins A, C, D, E, phosphorus, zinc, iron, copper, manganese, sodium.

GO! recommended by veterinarians

Fat and healthy supplements

Go Natural for Cats contains meat (eg chicken) and fish oils preserved with vitamin E (tocopherol) and dried rosemary.

Thanks to these natural products, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are preserved in their original form without the use of chemical preservatives. Added lactobacilli improve intestinal microflora and strengthen the immune system.

For reference! The packaging indicates a natural flavor, but its composition and characteristics are not specified anywhere.

Brands from the Petsurean Pet Nutrition brand

Canadian manufacturers offer a wide range of cat food, including special lines of organic and grain-free food.

Feed categories are represented by three brands:

Grain-free line Now Fresh

This holistic product is classified as a dietary and low-calorie diet, since it does not contain grains or by-products. This is an excellent food for sterilized cats and overweight pets.

The Now Fresh line uses fresh duck, turkey or salmon, including ingredients such as pumpkin, carrots, spinach, blackberries, kelp and alfalfa sprouts.

The food also contains coconut and rapeseed oil, yeast, herbal extracts and a vitamin and mineral complex.

Organic food Gather

These are holistic class products made from organic certified products that meet all environmental standards.

The food is produced using organic chicken fillet, combined with peas and lentils grown by local Canadian farmers.

It also contains chicken broth, flax seeds, dried cranberries and blueberries, vitamin E, eggshell flour, rosemary extract and a complex of minerals.

Summit Universal Cat Food

Super premium food intended for kittens and cats of any age.

The main ingredient is dehydrated chicken.

Also contains chicken and salmon fat, turkey fillet, yeast extract, dried chicory, Yucca extract, vitamins A, E and D3, phosphoric acid and a mixture of beneficial trace elements.

Owners' opinions

Cat owners speak of Go as first-class nutrition for animals. As a rule, it is given to elderly and sick pets taken from a shelter or from the street, who have undergone illness or serious surgery.

"Dilly" food for dogs and puppies: composition of dry diet

Owners notice that their pets eat Go with gusto and quickly gain weight. The coat becomes silky, furry pets look much better than before.

But many cats don't like the strong, pungent smell of food.

Important! Your veterinarian will help you choose the right diet. He will give recommendations on nutrition and health monitoring.

GO! SENSITIVITY + SHINE with duck

The most common questions and answers to them

What happens if you constantly feed your cat Go dry food, will her teeth get damaged?
Answer: Cats' teeth deteriorate from soft food. These are carnivores and their teeth are designed in such a way that they clean themselves when they eat hard, tough food. They also need solid food to maintain their jaw muscles.

Is it possible to give Gou food to a 1 month old kitten?

Answer: If for any reason your pet cannot receive milk from its mother, you can start feeding it Go food. But until the animal is 3 months old, it is better to moisten the hard pads a little or grind them into smaller grains. The oral cavity of such a baby is not yet prepared for eating solid food.

Until what age can a cat be fed dry food?

Answer. Until he has teeth to chew such food. If the animal has lost most of its teeth due to advanced age, it is worth switching the cat to a soft diet.

The Go! brand range for cats and kittens

The Go Natural Holistic line of food for cats and kittens includes three types of food:

• GO! FIT+FREE is a grain-free food that contains a record amount of proteins. It consists of 4 types of meat. The cat can eat it every day. In pet stores you can find GO! FIT+FREE GRAIN FREE CHICKEN, TURKEY, DUCK CAT RECIPE from chicken, duck, turkey, salmon.
• GO! DAILY DEFENCE - whole grain food for cats of all ages. The food is rich in taurine, proteins, fiber, and unsaturated fatty acids. This food is ideal for the daily nutrition of small kittens and adults. You can offer your domestic cat GO! DAILY DEFENCE CHICKEN CAT RECIPE with whole chicken, fruits, vegetables.
• GO! SENSIVITY+SHINE - Go food for kittens, for elderly pets, for cats with sensitive digestion and allergies, as well as for weakened animals. It will provide the body with a large amount of essential nutrients and will help a sick cat more easily endure an illness or recover from treatment, exhaustion or injury. The food contains a high concentration of proteins and omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, as well as iodine, vitamin PP and antioxidants. All allergens are excluded, so it will not harm digestion at all. There are food with different flavors, for example, GO! SENSITIVITY+SHINE DUCK RECIPE with duck or GO! SENSITIVITY+SHINE GRAIN FREE POLLOCK CAT RECIPE with pollock.

These three lines include canned, dry and wet food designed for cats of all ages and all health conditions.

All foods are presented in 4 dosages: 230 g, 1.82 kg, 3.63 kg and 7.26 kg.

GO includes three food lines

Canned food

In the Gou food line! There is canned food for cats. Their composition is as good as the composition of dry food. The only alarming thing is that canned food can be found on sale in both stationary and online stores, but there is not a word about them on the manufacturer’s official website.

Canned food Go! only three:

• Go! Natural Holistic Grain Free Turkey Pate;
• Go! Natural Holistic Grain Free Chicken Pate;
• Go! Natural Holistic Grain Free Chicken Stew with Turkey + Duck Pate (with stewed chicken, turkey and duck meat).

All three types of food are pates in small 100-gram jars.

The price does not depend on the type of canned food and varies from 100 to 140 rubles, depending on the markup of the outlet.

The characteristics and advantages of the pates are similar.

All canned foods listed are completely natural. Their production does not use grain crops, artificial preservatives, by-products, flavorings, or meat obtained from animals raised on hormonal supplements. The main ingredient is high quality natural meat (70% of the total volume of pate). Vegetable broth is used as a source of moisture.

Pet owners noted that after introducing Go! The smell of urine and feces in the purring cats has become noticeably less. The manufacturer notes that this effect is achieved due to the addition of yucca schidigera extract to the composition.

Canned food Go! Natural Holistic is enriched with all the vitamins and minerals necessary for the health and long life of cats.

Feeding tips

Dry and wet food can be combined with each other. In the mornings and evenings, the cat is offered canned food or pouches, and the rest of the time she will have a bowl of dry food. A cup of drinking water must be nearby.

Before spaying or neutering a cat, you need to gradually transition your pet to a new diet. A few weeks before surgery, you can begin offering Go to sterilized cats.

Do not give your cat too large portions. First, any excess wet food left in the bowl will dry out and spoil. Secondly, due to overfeeding, your pet may have problems with excess weight. Small portions are enough.

GO! FIT+FREE with turkey

Is it possible to feed a dog only dry food all the time?

Many people worry about whether it is possible to constantly feed the dog only dry food? Some, fearing the possible consequences of such a monotonous diet, try to diversify their pet’s diet by mixing food from their own table into the bowl. Let's try to understand the consequences of this approach.

Mixed nutrition and its consequences

• Dry food + meat = excess protein. Protein overfeeding puts a strain on the kidneys, which subsequently leads to kidney failure, provokes degenerative changes in the liver, and can also cause allergies.
• Dry food + fish = excess phosphorus. Excessive intake of microelements contributes to the development of urolithiasis. As a result of accumulation, the liver and intestines are affected, anemia develops, the number of leukocytes decreases, and minor hemorrhages appear. Bone tissues lose calcium and accumulate phosphates, which leads to the development of osteoporosis, and in puppies to rickets.
• Dry food + porridge = excess carbohydrates. As a result, excess weight gain and related problems.
• With a mixed type of diet, owners “terrorize” the gastrointestinal tract, which provokes the development of chronic gastritis.

Treats are not contraindicated when feeding dry food. You can give pieces of finely chopped cheese, boiled meat, dried fruits or crackers.

Risks associated with mono-feeding

Ok, we’ve sorted out a little about the mixed type of nutrition. But what about feeding your dog only dry food? What risks might there be with this approach? For example, there is a myth that dry food negatively affects the gastric mucosa, gradually destroying it. The answer here is obvious - if dry food were harmful to dogs, it would not be produced in millions of tons around the world. Before producing this or that food, technologists develop it, test it for palatability in animals, conduct laboratory tests for safety and a host of other indicators. This also applies to inexpensive food and holistic food. Moreover, dry food is developed primarily for mono-feeding - that is, it is initially assumed that they will be fed only with them, and not added to the food as a “yummy”.

Diseases in animals are another matter - dogs, like people, have their own sores and weaknesses, and this must be taken into account. Problems with the gastrointestinal tract are also not uncommon, and if your veterinarian recommended giving up dry food, then this certainly needs to be done.

Pros and cons of Go! for cats

The undoubted advantages of holistic foods over all other foods are obvious. Due to their quality, they perfectly maintain the health of pets.

Advantages of Go! for cats:

• only natural ingredients (animals raised in environmentally friendly areas are slaughtered);
• high concentration of proteins, vitamins, minerals, probiotics and other beneficial substances;
• no artificial preservatives, dyes;
• high-quality natural products serve as preservatives and flavorings;
• most foods are grain-free and do not contain grains that can cause allergies;
• can be found on the shelves of pet stores.

Flaws:

• some cats do not take well to holistic nutrition;
• ingredients are not listed on all packages;
• in rare cases may contain by-products;
• very expensive.

Important! Many cats have problems digesting holistic foods, so you can offer your pet other special super-premium foods.

GO! SENSITIVITY + SHINE wet

Advantages and disadvantages

As mentioned above, the undoubted advantage of this feed manufacturer is frankness. The manufacturer's website contains complete feed recipes and all additives are described. In addition, GO has a fairly good composition: natural products containing a sufficient amount of animal proteins. I'm pleased with the use of a large number of vegetables and fruits, fresh fish and pribiotics. However, GO is also not without a number of significant disadvantages. Let's take a closer look at them.

Chicken meat is the basis of most food of this brand. Chicken is known to cause allergies in a huge number of dogs, so there is no point in making it the basis of such a diet if you deliberately exclude grains from it (which also affect allergy sufferers).

Potato fiber. The same cannot be called a very good indicator. The whole point is that the specified peas, alfalfa and lentils after heat treatment are significantly reduced in their share. Thus, they give first place to potatoes, which become the basis of all the fiber in the product.

Thus, we can conclude that Go food can be safely recommended to owners of adult animals. However, this food cannot be recommended to owners of dogs with allergies, due to the high content of chicken meat. In addition, the high protein and protein content does not allow this food to be recommended to owners of dogs with kidney disease.

Table: approximate cost of Go food

Go cat food is expensive, like all other super-premium and holistic foods. To save a little, it is advisable to order it in bulk or take advantage of all kinds of discounts and promotional codes.

Table. Cost of "Go"

GO NATURAL HOLISTIC gluten free

How to properly give this food to your pet?

What food can you choose to replace Go!

Instead of Go for cats, you can choose any other super-premium or holistic food. Such food is specially designed for animals, and holistic foods can even be eaten by people. This is how they differ from each other.

With a huge selection of first-class products, you can find the right option for any cat, depending on its age and health status.

The Go product range is as varied as its analogues

You can offer your furry pet the following options:

• Royal Canin;
• Pro Plan;
• Eukanuba;
• 1st Choice;
• Hills;
• Bozita;
• Golden Eagle (Eagle Pack);
• Happy Cat;
• Arden Grange;
• Brit Care;
• Acana;
• N&D Natural and Delicious;
• GRANDORF Natural & Healthy;
• Orijen Cat;
• Almo Nature;
• Now Natural Holistic;
• Frank's Pro Gold.

Go! will add variety to your pet's diet and protect its health. Thanks to tasty and healthy food, your pet will be healthy and happy.

Unobvious benefits of holistic feeds

Speaking about the benefits for a pet, we cannot ignore the issue of the benefits and convenience of holistic-class food for the owner:

• We have a healthy, cheerful cat or cat - this, of course, is the main plus.
• Holistic food is perfectly absorbed by the body, which means that the cat visits the litter box less often, the volume of “piles” is smaller, and there is almost no smell. Consequently, you can wash and clean the litter box less often, and there is no specific “cat” aroma at home.
• Since holistic is good for health, we also save on visits to the veterinarian. We save not only money, but also time.

Many people are put off by the high price of holistic cat food. Let's compare not only the price, but also the energy value and daily intake.

For example, Friskies brand food, a 2-kilogram package costs about 315 rubles, or 15.75 rubles. per 100 g. Energy value - 76 Kcal per 100 g. And Pronature Holistic food in a package of 2.72 kg costs almost 2000 rubles (about 74 rubles per 100 g) - the price difference is very significant. But the calorie content is 445 Kcal per 100 g, almost 6 times higher. Now let’s multiply 15.75 by 6. To get the same amount of kilocalories, you will have to give the cat food for as much as 94.5 rubles. And where are the savings? At the same time, the Friskies box indicates the daily intake rate of 55-75 g for a cat weighing 3-5 kg, and for Pronature this rate is 30-60 g: clearly someone is slightly underestimating the figures, otherwise the cat will simply remain hungry.

If someone is put off by the high calorie content of expensive food, there are no flavoring additives that encourage the pet to eat more than its body needs. Therefore, with the introduction of holistic food into the diet, your cat will always be in good shape.

Owners are often concerned about the question: are holistic foods suitable for cats with urolithiasis? There is no clear answer here. The fact is that any food is not a medicine and a diet for a sick cat, just like for a person, should be prescribed by a doctor, taking into account the state of his health. Another question is, can high-quality food prevent the occurrence of urolithiasis or at least reduce the likelihood? And here the answer is: definitely yes! But under several conditions:

• the pet is fed only (!) holistic-grade food, and the amount corresponds to age, weight, and health status;
• the cat always has access to fresh water;
• full motor activity is ensured.

Some owners are confused by the fact that the range of holistic foods is very narrow; it does not contain the usual foods for different breeds, for kittens, or for solving veterinary problems. However, this is the whole point of a holistic approach. A healthy animal needs high-quality food. And veterinary problems should be solved by a specialist, and individually. If your cat is prescribed dietary food, you can take a closer look at the line of specialized medicinal foods, for example, Royal Horse.

Detailed composition

On the original packaging, the ingredients are printed in English. Certified food has an official Russified sticker, which indicates all the ingredients, energy value, storage conditions, expiration date and consumption rate.

The ingredients are listed in descending order. At the top of the list are those products that form the basis of dry granules. Go dog food contains 70% meat, either fresh or dehydrated. Next comes the carbohydrate filler: flour, beans, oatmeal, tapioca, seeds, vegetables. To enhance the nutritional properties, berries, leafy greens, herbs, and spices are added. At the end of the composition, additives are indicated: vitamins (A, C, D, folic acid, biotin), microelements (magnesium, selenium, copper, iron, manganese, zinc) and prebiotics.

Go Natural brand foods are made based on the following ingredients:

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The composition varies depending on the type of feed. Potential allergens and intestinal irritants are not added to products for dogs with gastrointestinal problems.

Daily norm

Consumption standards are indicated on the packaging. Food GO! universal, and suitable for both small and large breeds. The serving size depends on the pet's weight and activity level. For puppies up to 6 months, it is 75-140 g. For small dogs (up to a year), one meal should be 150 g. For large dogs - 275 g.

For small animals leading a passive lifestyle, a portion size of 50-110 g is sufficient. If the dog weighs more than 9 kg, then the norm will be 150-275 g. Large pets weighing 30-65 kg. should consume 275-440 g of dry food per meal. If the dog is active and mobile, the amount of food increases by 20%. The maximum serving size is 520 g. The norm for elderly, pregnant or sick dogs is calculated by a veterinarian based on tests.