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

I've spent a lot of time reading up on this.

The best diet - raw food. Beaks, feathers, gristle, the lot.
Second best food - wet food with no grain and the proper mix of animal proteins e.g Lily's Kitchen
Third best food - dry food with no grain at all
Fourth best - all the other foods - IAMS, Hills, Royal Canin, Felix, Whiskas etc

What I actually feed my MC: Orijen dry food with 1/3 portion of Almo Nature tuna and whitebait in jelly a day. Any more wet food and he gets diarrhoea (and I have tried, I think, every wet food on the market). He won't eat raw food or Lily's kitchen and anything with grain in means a trip back to the vet for more steroids for his poor colon. I have discussed this with three different vets and we all feel that Sidney is healthier on this mix than any other that has been tried over the last 18 months, so I suggest you try things and see what works.

Our last cat died at 16 having eaten nothing but IAMS all his life. Up till the last 6 months he was in fantastic shape, but if I knew then what I know now I would never have gone anywhere near kibble with grain in - at the time I saw the adverts and thought I was doing the best for him. Basically, cats need to eat other animals, not wheat.