dry vs wet food

[catnapper]

I feed dry, and at night, they all share one can of wet as a treat.

I personally think wet food gives them soft and smelly poo, which is why they only get the smallest amount at night as a treat.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

I feel the absolute best diet for a cat is a combination of wet and dry. What do cats eat in the wild? Birds, squirrels, mice etc. Those are all a combination of wet and dry food materials. I would never feed only wet, nor only dry. Dry is great for their teeth, wet is good because it has lots of moisture. Dry cat food can contribute or be directly related to certain health conditions such as - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Chronic Renal Failure, Urinary crystals, Diarrhea or other allergy-related conditions and dehydration. Cats on canned food diets get sufficient water in their food, while cats solely on dry dont. I think you should feed dry mixed with wet, or dry with wet food for a snack. I feed my cats dry, but I give them a can of wet food in the afternoon.

It totally depends on what your cats prefer. If you start them on a wet/dry diet when they're young, they will grow up to accept that. My cats were all fed dry before I adopted them - and Augustus took a long time before he would even smell the wet food. Now he loves it!



*EDIT* Forgot to mention that cats strictly on a wet diet should be fed high quality canned foods. Alot of the lower quality canned foods are like *junk food*. I love Fancy Feast, Felidae, Natural Balance and Wellness wet foods.

[icedtea]

is iams a haigh quality brand? they dont sell it in supermarkets, just at the vets. also is whiskers

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

Iams is not one of my favorite foods, not because of the ingredients, but because of all the bad things I have heard about the company. Whiskas is not a high quality cat food - it is filled with by products. Iams wet food has great ingredients. Here is a comparison...

Iams Lamb & Rice Wet

Ingredients

Lamb Broth, Lamb, Beef Liver, Chicken Liver, Whitefish, Dried Egg Product, Brewers Rice, Corn Oil, Fish Meal, vitamins and minerals.

Whiskas Lamb & Rice Wet

Ingredients

Sufficient Water for Processing, Poultry By-Products, Poultry Giblets, Chicken, Lamb, Rice, vitamins and minerals.

Notice how Iams uses broth instead of water? And Whiskas doesnt have meat in their top 2 ingredients? Whiskas uses by-products to make up most of the protein in the food, while Iams uses real meat. That means Whiskas would have 90% by-products and only 10% real meat.

Hope this helps!

[icedtea]

i have been feedign my 2 kittens iams we tfood and iams nuts, so is this ok?? or is it bad??

[icedtea]

or i can feed them sience diet, thats around the place

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

or i can feed them sience diet, thats around the place

I don't really like the ingredients in Science Diet wet food, or the dry. They claim to be "premium", but are far from it. Iams foods are made by Procter & Gamble, a company which makes everything from dish soap to toothpaste. Science Diet is made by Colgate - which makes toothpaste and other dental products. They are big companies that are more concerned with making money than putting great ingredients in to their pet food. What other brands of cat food are sold at pet stores around you? There are MANY inexpensive, high quality cat foods.

[Uniqueviking]

Dry food, and a couple of times a week they get to share a bag of shrimp and a can of tuna (not a the same time).