Original Dry Cat Food
Dry food · 16 lb bagCat foodNo score yet
- Flags
- 41 avoid · 3 caution
- Ingredients
- 6not yet checked against the package
- Brand grade
- Dtransparency
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
Save it to your pantry and the pantry page flags it if it turns up in an FDA recall we import.
Why there is no score.
This panel was written from a search summary, and we have not checked it against the package yet. A summary tends to leave out the preservatives and colors that carry flags, so a number would most likely be too high. Holding the package? Send us the back of it and we will read it properly.
How we decide4 flagged ingredients.
Avoid first. Where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.
BHA (preservative)
A preservative flagged as a possible carcinogen in animal studies; many brands have dropped it.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Animal fat
Rendered fat from unnamed species, and the ingredient where BHA most often hides.
Added color
Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
Listed by weight, so the first few lines are most of the food. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.
6 ingredients. 3 of them carry this product's 4 flags and are marked below. The other 3 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
See all pet recallsSpecial Kitty, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Special Kitty.
The brand behind it.
Special Kitty
Bottom-shelf cat food with unnamed rendered meal and added color.
Walmart cat line: corn, by-products, BHA, and dye.
Special Kitty brand pageMore Special Kitty cat food
Panel Score 72 out of 100, grade C: Proceed with caution
Gourmet Formula Seafood BlendIndependent testing & contaminants
No independent testing on file.
Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.
We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.
What we look forThis page was corrected 2 times.
- Oct 24, 2026 “Unnamed animal ingredients” is now “Meat and bone meal” and “Animal fat”. The page still shows Not enough data. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once: “Meat and bone meal” is Meat and bone meal and “Animal fat (BHA preserved)” is Animal fat, and its BHA keeps the BHA flag. Until October 24, 2026 our library read a line like that as the preservative alone; a fat that names no animal and the BHA that preserves it are two things we flag, so the line now raises both. The poultry by-product meal names the kind of animal but not the species, and our library flags no poultry meal.
- Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors” is now “Added color”. The score did not change. The panel says only “Added color” and names no synthetic dye.
Holding the package and it reads differently? Disputes come straight to us, and any score we change is logged publicly on the corrections page.