Affiliate Disclosure

Some pages on DryCatFood.org carry affiliate links. If you buy something through one, we may earn a commission. The price you pay is the same either way.

This page explains how that works, and what it doesn’t buy.

The short version

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Click a product link on this site and buy within a set window, and the retailer pays us a small percentage of the sale. Your cost doesn’t change. It’s the same price as going to the retailer directly.

Running this site costs money. Research time, writing, fact checking, hosting, and software all have to be paid for.

Affiliate commissions cover that without a paywall or a page buried in ads. Everything on DryCatFood.org stays free to read.

What a commission doesn’t buy

This is the part that matters.

No company pays us for coverage. Nobody can buy a mention, a rating, or a place in a list. We cover the foods and supplies cat owners are actually choosing between.

Commission rates don’t change our picks. A product that pays more isn’t recommended more. Where two foods do the same job, we name the one the label and the nutrient data support.

We publish the drawbacks. Every product write-up names real weaknesses, not polite ones. A problem that would matter to you goes in the guide, link or no link.

No advertiser sees a guide before it publishes. Nobody outside the editorial team reviews or approves what we write.

We don’t feed-test foods

Worth saying plainly, because plenty of sites imply otherwise.

Nobody here runs feeding trials, and no food on this site was tested on our own cats. What we do instead:

  • Read the label: life stage statement, guaranteed analysis, and calories per cup
  • Read the maker’s published nutrient data and documentation
  • Look for patterns across verified buyer feedback on things like kibble size and packaging
  • Say which of those a claim came from

When a guide says owners consistently report something, that’s exactly what it means. It’s not our own experience, and we never dress it up as one.

Hands-on feeding trials are real work, and some sites genuinely run them. We aren’t one of them, and we’d rather tell you.

A bad buy usually costs money. With a cat’s food, it can cost their health. Two limits follow from that.

No prescription diets, medications, or vet-only supplements. Therapeutic diets for kidney, urinary, and other conditions are chosen by a veterinarian. We explain what they are, but we don’t link to them, and we publish no doses anywhere on the site.

No main food without a clear life stage statement. If a bag doesn’t say it’s complete and balanced for a named life stage, we don’t send you to buy it as your cat’s main diet.

Kitten food and adult food are built to different AAFCO nutrient profiles, and a kitten needs a growth or all life stages formula.

Every food we link to names the life stage it’s formulated for, in the sentence that holds the link. Check the nutritional adequacy statement on the bag against your own cat before you switch.

How we choose which products to cover

A product gets into a guide when we can document why it suits a particular cat or job.

We start from the decision you’re actually making. Feeding one indoor cat on a budget is a different problem from feeding three cats with different needs. The guide sorts that out first, then names products that fit each answer.

Products with thin documentation, no calorie statement we can find, or almost no buyer feedback don’t get covered. There’s nothing solid to say about them.

Affiliate links appear in brand guides, buying guides, and supply guides for feeders, storage containers, bowls, and water fountains. They also appear inside a feeding or nutrition guide where a specific product matters to the step being described.

Most pages carry no affiliate links at all. Feeding guides, label explainers, and health pages answer a question. They aren’t selling anything.

About prices

We don’t publish prices.

Retail prices move constantly, and a number typed into a guide is wrong within weeks. Any price you see comes from the retailer when you click, not from us.

Price per bag can also mislead with dry food. A cheaper bag with fewer calories per cup can cost more per day to feed, which is why our guides talk in calories.

Programs we take part in

Amazon Associates. DryCatFood.org is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. It’s an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

If we join another program, it gets listed here.

Your privacy when you click

Affiliate links use cookies to record that a visit came from this site. That’s how the retailer knows which commission to credit.

We never see your name, your address, your payment details, or what you ended up buying. The retailer handles the transaction, and their privacy policy covers it.

Our privacy policy explains what this site itself collects.

Questions

Something here unclear? Want to know why a particular product appears in a guide? Write to editor@drycatfood.org and we’ll tell you.

Last reviewed: 10/03/2026