speacial kitty (walmart brand)

is the a healthy dry cat food for a 2 year old male

Hi there.many of the commercially available cat food products sold in supermarkets, discount stores such as Walmart and pet stores contain corn, corn meal and byproducts as the first leading ingredients which ferment as it broken down within the digestive system. It isn't very healthy for them nor does it have the ideal nutritional values. Corn, corn meal are used to fatten animals for food consumption (e.g. cows) sooner for slaughter sooner and it is also used to as a binder to hold together the dry kibble so it doesn't break down into crumbs in the bag.

Some of the high protein cat foods (which contains no corn based products or byproducts) found only at specialty pet stores such as Innova EVO, Life's Abundance, Nature's Variety Prairie. They are quite expensive compared to the supermarket brands such as the Walmart brand, but if your intended goal is to give him a more nutritional food consider the above mentioned food or consider Royal Canin as an affordable alternative: http://www.royalcanin.us/catfood.

Finally, changing food suddenly with any cat will cause stomach distress as well as diarrhea in cats. You will need to gradually change his food to the new brand over a course of several weeks. How you do this is to take 3/4 of the old food and mix it together with 1/4 of the new food for one week. Then 1/2 of the new with 1/2 of the old for another week. Finally, 3/4 of the new food mixed with 1/4 of the old for a week before finally 100% of the new food. Please keep in mind that some cats absolutely just don't like some brands of foods either so you may need to consider another brand and then again gradually mix the old kind with the new one to help him adjust. It just cannot be done any other way without making the cat very sick.