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Check the word "With" on the can in front of Turkey & Giblets - This means Purina (Friskies) only needs to put 3% Turkey & Giblets in can instead of 95% if the word "With" is not in front of Turkey & Gib. My seven cats won't touch this "With" Product smells like excrement!! Educate yourself by reading below. The “95%” Rule A pet food with an ingredient (Rabbit) that would fall under the 95% rule. Whenever pet food labels have straight forward names like “Chicken Cat Food” or “Salmon Food for Cats”, the food must be 95% whatever ingredient is listed. So the example of “Chicken Cat Food” would have to be 95% chicken. Of course this means that the listed ingredient would have to be the first ingredient on the list of ingredients. If there are 2 ingredients listed on the label such as “Chicken and Salmon Cat Food” then those two ingredients combined must be 95% of the food. The ingredients must also be listed in the order of which ingredient there is more of in the food. In the “Chicken and Salmon Cat Food” example, there would be more Chicken than Salmon, but the total of the Chicken and Salmon would be 95% of the food. The 95% rule only counts for meat, poultry, and fish ingredients. If a label were to say “Chicken and Rice Cat Food,” then it would still have to be 95% Chicken. The rice would not count as part of the 95%. The “25%” Rule or the “Dinner” Rule Here’s where things start to get tricky. A pet food company only has to make a pet food be 25% made of a named ingredient by placing words like “Dinner,””Entree,” “Platter,” “Nuggets,” or “Formula” in the name of the food. That means that while a “Chicken Cat Food” is 95% chicken, a “Chicken Entree for Cats” only needs to have 25% chicken. That little wording change could bump the main ingredient from first on the ingredients list down to third or fourth. Much like with the 95% rule, if there are 2 ingredients listed in the name of the food, then those to ingredients combined must be at least 25% of the food. That means that “Chicken and Salmon Entree for Cats” would have to to be a total of 25% chicken and salmon. The ingredient there is most of must go first in the name again. This time any ingredient listed in the title is a part of the 25% whether is is animal product or not. A food labeled “Chicken and Rice Entree for Cats” would be a minimum total of 25% chicken and rice (yes the chicken in this case would likely be less than 25%). Of course, the ingredient that there is more of would have to go first in the name, so in this case there would be more chicken than rice. The “3%” Rule or “With” Rule A pet food label that uses “with.” “With Chicken Pate & Diced Duck” When the name on pet food labels uses “with” in the name, the named ingredient only has to make up 3% of the food. That means that a pet food called “Cat Food with Chicken” only has to contain 3% chicken. That could mean that the ingredient you thought was the main ingredient is really way down on the list!