Cat food: Wet or Dry food?

Faceman said:
We use both too, Always dry food around (and she is not fat) And we give her some pouches too
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Use wet
Cats get abrasion cavities on their teeth when forced to eat dry food all the time, very destructive, their nature diet is meat, meat is soft and wet not dry like most catfoods.

You should feed a cat wet food, just don't overfeed.
 
Thanks for all the info guys...So basically wet and dry food are both recommended..Although wet in not such bast quantities.

Then ideally should be having kitten wet/dry food untill around a year...?
 
vonhelmet said:
Dry is miles cheaper and much higher quality in terms of meat content. Science Plan chicken is about 70% meat.
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Aye, and considering they don't have a lot of money as it is, i'd have thought getting a fair bit of dry then some wet to mix in would be the better option :p
 
We give our cats a mixture. I like to rotate brands and type of food and if I don't and give them the same every day then they start to try and cover the food up as it probably smells like their crap. The only food they all seem to hate is Whiskas wet food so I don't buy that.

Before I moved in with my missus she used to spoil the older two with cat 'junk food' like Sheba and they had no end of problems with crystals in their urinary tract. Since I moved in 5 years ago they have had no problems.
 
the cat gets 'wet' food 3 or 4 times a day, and it always has a bowl of dry biscuits it can have whenever it wants
the dry food is some expensive and smelly Hill's Science Plan mixed with whiskas senior
 
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my kitty doesnt like 'wet cat food' ive tried many all to no avail. i always make sure her 2 bowls are full, 1 with clean water and 1 with kite kat bikkies. only wet food i give her is tuna or chicken which she loves. i try not to overfeed her as shes an outdoors cat and hunts in the small woods behind our back fence. small mice have no chance with her ninja skills :D
 
My vet recommended Iams. Generally we feed our cat whenever he's hungry and he's never been overweight. But a few months ago we gave him a tin of wet food (Caesar's or Sheba's chicken can't remember which) and now that's pretty much all he'll eat.
 
All three of our cats have dry food but we will give them wet food once a week as a treat. We usually just top up the bowls as and when they are empty.
 
Until recently our cat loved wet food.
She'd have wet food in the morning and then dry food at night.
However on a recent visit to the vets we were told her teeth weren't too good.
We knew this anyway - the rehoming centre had to take a couple of her teeth out when they got her and she'd already lost one as a stray prior.

So although we didn't have to act "there and then" we were advised to move to dry food for the cat as continuing with wet would result in her eventually losing all her teeth!

So dry food only with the occasional "wet treat" - piece of tuna/chicken scrap etc.
 
My cats will both eat dry food or wet food, they're not fussy at all. BUT - be warned that if feeding dry food, your cat(s) may develop urinary tract problems which may or may not be immediately apparent.

My wife's cat used to eat only dry food, and started having severe problems with cystitis. The cat would show extreme discomfort and agitation by clawing at the carpet and meowing in distress. This is basically down to dry food containing (obviously) far less water than wet. The cat needs to get enough extra water to supplement a drier diet, or problems may occur along these lines. Unfortunately my wife's cat isn't clever enough to realise it needs to drink extra water when on dry food, so we have to mix it with normal (crap) tinned stuff or the cystitis begins, and the cat pees blood in the litter tray.
 
SexyBetty said:
One wet food pouch at 8.30am
One wet food pouch at 5.30pm

Crunchy food and water always left out during the day :)
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This is similar to what we do, before getting our cat I was pretty clueless as to their needs.
We feed him a good quality wet food twice a day, morning and evening and leave a bit of dry down during the day for him to graze on if he likes along with fresh water of course.

Best diet for a cat would ideally be raw but that's not always possible or easy to manage for many, alternatively a high meat content (not of animal derivatives - check the packet) wet diet.
Stuff like whiskers, felix, Iams etc are the cat equivelent of fast food, crap content basically, most of them have -5% meat content and what is in it is often 'animal derivatives' otherwise known as any old crap from the animal.

One word on Iams that we were warned about by our local cats protection is that they've been reported for animal testing so advised not to buy that, not that we would as it's low quality anyway.

We feed ours 'Hi-Life' wet pouches, which is available in pets at home and some supermarkets + online, has at least 60% meat in and isn't full of sugar and other crap which can be bad for their teeth.
Incidentally, the whole wet vs dry debate on teeth health has generally been unproven that dry is better for them, what you'll find is ones packed with sugars may be the main problem. Bones and chuncks of meat that forces them to chew and massage the gums is what's good for their teeth, dry food tends to get gobbled straight down anyway or shatters when bit so isn't really cleaning them at all, give them some decent chunks of meat sometimes that they have to really chew on to help keep them clean.

As I've said though the best thing you can do for your cat is to gradually switch them over to a good quality high meat content food and get them of all the -5% meat crap that's out there. For dry we give him Applause dry, which is 80% meat content and low in carbs which cats don't need, it's just bulking crap, it's good meat content they need.
If feeding wet they should get most of their water from that anyway but fresh water should always be down regardless.

Anywho this is what I discovered from reading all about the subject, take it or leave it. :)
 
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