Have you ever tried Pinnacle?
http://www.breeders-choice.com/cat_products/felinepinnacle.htm

I have a dog with allergies and I had an order in for some food, but then the distributor dropped the line and I never pursued it.  The cat food looks like it all has fish in it, so maybe that might be a problem.  Poco is allergic to fish.

I agree there is a dearth of premium food for pets with allergies.  One food we had some luck with was Addiction in the Brushtail variety.  It is either that or raw or homemade right now.  I do like to have back-up food around, though.

(Too bad about the small stores getting stuck with returned Natura products.  I am surprised by that.)

Some reason Fed Flannel from PMI nutrition  bothered me
                 http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01689.html
 I would assume Mars also make Exclusive

                           kj

Pat & RC, thank you for the tip! I have 2 concerns:
1. Menadione (a banned substance)
2. Corn Gluten (recall & general health issues)
The Adult Light cat food does appear to have nothing he's allergic to, so i will keep this one in mind.

       Geff, Let us not forget about the rice four also. The light formula contains powdered cellulouse for added fiber and in the guaranteed analysis it states it has 9%. That is extremely high. I used the regular Exclusive cat food for about 2 years untill I became more edumacated.

So, you were able to find some faults, ........What would you suggest instead?

   Hello Patsbeef, Sorry if we seemed to be somewhat critical of the Exclusive, but I think the majority of us tend to freak out when we see any glutens listed in a pet food. Menadione is synthetic Vitamin K. There is a discussion on that here: http://itchmoforums.com/miscother-pet-discussions/menadione-t39.0.html  I am also providing a link that will offer tips on choosing a pet food. You could also check the Cat food experience threads. http://animalwellnessmagazine.com/art/aV72_14.htm

I had been feeding our husky mix Innova (regular, green bag) since he was a pup, he's 11 now and has always been in excellent health, great energy, beautiful coat, no illnesses.

Last week, though, he suddenly refused to eat any of it. We thought he was just picky from stress, we were traveling, so we tried all kinds of things mixed in- cooked chicken, grated cheese, yogurt, rice, etc. He refused to eat any from two different bags, he went for 3 days without eating anything. We thought he had lost his appetite entirely and were very worried!

Then I remembered that on many of the forums, people said dogs often had refused to eat food that later turned out to be bad. All the same week he had some digestive problems, diarrhea and drinking lots of water, but he has always had a sensitive stomach, and again we thought it was the traveling stress. But when he stopped eating a light went off in my head. So, I cooked him some rice with chicken & broccoli, and he ate about 3 cups of it in under a minute! The rest of our trip we fed him only that, no Innova, and the diarrhea stopped the first day of the switch, and he went back to normal water intake.

Now, I'm really frustrated beacuse I obsessively watched everything I could during the recalls, and thought Innova was ok. He has done so well on it all these years, but I'm not going to feed him any more. It's upsetting, since this is only one instance, and I hate to switch from a food that was so good for him without "official laboratory proof" type info, but his symptoms do match the ones discussed on the www.petfoodrecallfacts.com site, and they cleared up instantly when he finally got us to pay attention by starving himself.

He seems to be fine now, he's a strong fellow, and I'm going to have to find new food, but I wanted to be sure to share this since other folks' posts on this forum were so helpful to me in all my research during the big recall. Any food suggestions would be appreciated, also!

-leavesofjoy