dry vs wet food

[boscibo]

But wet food contains just as many grain products, as well. The only real difference between wet and dry is... well, wet contains more water lol

On the ingredients list, look at the first products included. While canned foods may (or may not) contain grains, they are not usually among the first three listed. Of course, it may vary with the product. The brand I feed, Sohphisticat, has no grains listed on its label.


Look at the label from Science Diet Adult Formula in comaprision: "Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Brewers Rice, Animal Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Corn Gluten Meal,"
Lots of grains there.

[carole]

Lexie my young cat only likes dry food, but gets a fresh fish fillet once a week, Ash is on a mixture of dry and wet but prefers wet mostly. I personally think a mixture of both is quite good for them, but try telling my Lexie that, NO WAY.
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[lisalee]

Sash eats both wet and dry. Probably a little more dry but he does get around a 1/4 of canned food daily too,some days more. He seems to love both.

[catmandu]

Thats good news about Sphisticatm,and thats a food that All the Cats seem to agree on,and is not expensive at all.

[icedtea]

i mainly give seafa and kansas wet, as i ahve said, but i give them dry as a snack ( i have said that too!) but what i have not said, is that i give them dry stuff to help clean their teeth. monkee got an absess on her tooth once, her teeth werent very strong, because she only gt wet food, so we fed kyte and monkee a few chicken necks from pet food shop to help their teeth. they loved them

[Kirsten]

Luna is getting wet food for breakfast, but for dinner, she and Lily are eating dry food.

Lily eats dry food only, she doesn't like canned food at all.

Kirsten

[Jessika]

On the ingredients list, look at the first products included. While canned foods may (or may not) contain grains, they are not usually among the first three listed. Of course, it may vary with the product. The brand I feed, Sohphisticat, has no grains listed on its label.


Look at the label from Science Diet Adult Formula in comaprision: "Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Brewers Rice, Animal Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Corn Gluten Meal,"
Lots of grains there.

Yeah I looked at the ingredient list on IAMs and Science Diet and other similar brands and they all had a lot of grains in them lol

[Uabassoon]

But wet food contains just as many grain products, as well. The only real difference between wet and dry is... well, wet contains more water lol

Canned food does contain less grains than dry food. I compared my can food and dry food (both Nutro Natural Choice). On the canned food the 6th ingredient was rice the other 5 were all sources of protien. With the dry food the 2nd ingredient was rice.

Edit: canned food also has a lot less fat. 14% on the dry food and only 5% with canned.

But to answer the question my cats eat mostly dry and a small amount of canned daily.

[catland]

Yikes - I think I'd better go read some labels.

We have dry available 24/7, and feed them canned twice a day - well, sometimes on the weekends more than that. One of our many theories to keep Sid and Strauss from maiming each other is to keep them fat an happy (and slower), so we feed them canned food more than we used to.

[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