Thread: Dry vs Wet food: What our Vet said and do you agree/disagree?

Frazer hasnt arrived yet, but i will be feeding him wet food as well as fresh fish and a little biccies, but thats cos I have always fed my moggies that and havent had any problems. But I am a beginner with MC's so I dont know how we will get on, fingers crossed ! lol

As the wet vs dry food war rages on, I will play it safe and feed both. Ginger gets half a can in the am and the pm and all of the grain free dry kibble her heart desires. I have fed dry food for years and never had a problem with my cat's diets or health. One of my vets suggested a raw diet but neither I or the cats were down with that. I tried and they just would not touch it. Oh wells, I think we all have their best interest at heart.

Went to stock up the furries wet food larder this afternoon & although I always used to feed tinned Felix because it has gone up so much over the last 18 months have been feeding Classic,made by Butchers {now there is another pretty old name over here for animal foods} it works out at 45p a tin & there in big writing is "With added taurine" now how good is that...

OK, I just looked up on Amazon Buchers Classic .... 1 pound a tin! must be quality! where do you get your 45p ones, Jckkerrison!?

Originally Posted by Alekto

OK, I just looked up on Amazon Buchers Classic .... 1 pound a tin! must be quality! where do you get your 45p ones, Jckkerrison!?

Today we got it from Waitrose,have to say couldn't believe it as normally we do pay a bit more but it still works out cheaper than the Felix,needless to say we got a few packs....x
Will have to have a look & see if it is a better type....!

Nope same one can't believe that price is right have just checked Pets at Home & it is 48p a tin.....

I'm another 1/2 and 1/2 for quality wet and dry food. Do feed raw fish once every week as a treat though. Don't like the idea of raw food any more after looking into it thoroughly and seeing all the problems with salmonella and E coli. I would prefer to leave it to the experts to guide me, especially with the add ons such as vitamins and taurine.
I have two (nearly) 21 year old moggies brought up on Go Cat until several years ago when they were swamped by the coonies and now they are on a much higher grade food and still going strong, and thoroughly enjoying it ;)
My vet strongly believes in the dry food though.

Wet food all the way. Best quality you can get, grain free if possible. Better still, if you can manage it, raw food. But that's not for everyone.

Dry food is awful stuff full of indigestible grains and carbs. As Jckkerison says, in the long term it can lead to a lot of health problems, because of the low protein content and lack of moisture. Unfortunately a lot of vets recommend it because they make money out of a) selling it and b) treating the health problems it causes.

This is our first MC and the breeder told us to feed her chicken or beef mince and cat biccies till her adult teeth come in and then raw chicken necks and cat biccies from there on. Also canned fish only once a week through her whole life. Our vet agrees with this diet, but said if Pumpkin slows down on the cat biccies to withhold the mince till she eats more biccies. Previously with moggies we have owned we have fed tinned food and cat biccies with a few treats of roast lamb or roast chicken and two of those lived to nineteen years of age.

Wow I had no idea what cat biccies were! I had to look that one up, thank God for Google. I feed Ginger a can of high quality food and all of the grain free dry cat food she wants and she is doing great! She is getting to be a big girl! 13# and growing!

hi Bohemiannic - the only reason why I would feed Neevie differently from any other cat is because I regret not having enquired about feeding my previous cat properly before, not because she is a MC.
to my opinion, MCs feed exactly the same way as other cats - only more...

it is the first time I see the advise to give them raw chicken neck - the only reason I can see for this is that it is hard to eat, they have to go at it for hours to get the meat out, and therefore it might be best for their stomach because they eat more slowly? I don't know.... but that seems to be just for a treat? predominantly cat biccies is what the breeder says?
as per above, cats in general don't drink enough for their own good, they don't get thirsty when they get dehydrated, their body doesn't tell them - if they were fed predominantly on cat biccies they would become dehydrated... kidney problems could ensue...

Personally I try to not allow Neevie too much cat biccies - she prefers cat biccies but I try to not allow her biccies unless she's had some moisture in her during the day. Be it, if I've seen her drink - she likes to drink from the tap so that allows me to keep an eye - or I know she's eaten wet food from a can, or even chicken or fish, raw or cooked whatever I have at hand...

you'll see in the forum, some people prefer to feed their cats raw meat exclusively - it does look like a good way to do it, the concensius being that's what they'd eat in the wild - however my take on this is: in the wild, they don't have a choice. The first humans also ate whatever they could find, it doesn't mean that's what's good for them. It doesn't mean raw meat is bad for cats, I just mean I don't know what's best.

I only have 2 rules: as much moisture as possible, and as natural food as possible (no starch, no ash, and a minimum of processed)