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.