Quote Originally Posted by AvaJoy View Post
Everyone PLEASE, for the health of your cats, go to www.catinfo.org and read what this vet has to say about feeding dry food. It was designed for the convenience of humans and is NOT in the best interest of what cats should eat. She even has an essay on how to wean your die-hard-dry-food-insistant cats OFF of it. Very entertaining . . . she says if they cry and beg and you can't take it anymore, leave the house for awhile! Do not give in to their demands. Cats need their hydration WITH their meal. Ideally, cats should ingest what a mouse is . . . fat, protein and fluid. Cats don't go stalking, hunting or chasing after "crackers" in the wild which is what dry food is, essentially. If you eliminate dry food from their diets there is an extremely good chance that they won't come down with renal issues, diabetes, and other conditions that commonly afflict cats as they age. I only wish I discovered her website years ago, for the health of my many cats. She has it all logically and sensibly figured out, so please visit her site and you will glean much knowledge!
Thanks for posting about this. I actually already know about this website because the lady from Finnegan's rescue group e-mailed me this info. She also told me that we should feed cats mainly all canned and only feed them a small amount of dry. She said to treat the dry like potato chips. All of my cats do love canned food so this isn't an issue. Unfortunately both Alani & Blaze always get diarrhea after eating canned food. They love it but it doesn't love them. I do give them some nonfat chicken broth every night so they can get more moisture in their diet. I also feed my other 6 cats both canned and dry. They get fed 4 small meals a day and get canned & dry for 2 of the meals and only dry for the other 2. I like feeding grain free dry and canned but I can't afford to feed them only canned. If I only had 1 or 2 cats then I could but not with 6. I have noticed that when Storm & Ziggy did eat more canned that they had more teeth and gum problems whereas Pearl & Sky who used to eat mainly dry didn't. I know that some breeds do have bad genes for teeth and gums but it seemed like when Storm used to eat mainly dry a long time ago that his teeth and gums were healthier. I've heard from some that dry hurts their teeth and from some that canned hurts their teeth so who knows.