Does anyone have any links to actual reasearch into potential problems of feeding a dry food diet?
I have lots of links about feeding wet food, and the articles I've read combined with my own knowledge of cat physiology are sufficient for me to be convinced that feeding wet food is the right thing to do. However, it can be harder convincing others! I'm currently having email communication with someone from a cat rescue whose website claims that cats should be switched from wet food to dry food (they actually claim that wet food does not contain enough protein! I've explained about dry matter analysis). I included a few links re nutrition, but this person is very sceptical and was rather offended that I dared to criticise (I thought I'd been nice about it!) and said that they wouldn't believe me unless I could come up with scientific proof. I'm not expecting them to start advocating wet food over dry, but I am alarmed that they are telling people who adopt from them to get their cats onto dry food because it's better for them. Does anyone have any references or links to any such studies? At one time I did have an article that quoted a study regarding urine being more concentrated in cats fed on dry food, but I can't find it now.
I have lots of links about feeding wet food, and the articles I've read combined with my own knowledge of cat physiology are sufficient for me to be convinced that feeding wet food is the right thing to do. However, it can be harder convincing others! I'm currently having email communication with someone from a cat rescue whose website claims that cats should be switched from wet food to dry food (they actually claim that wet food does not contain enough protein! I've explained about dry matter analysis). I included a few links re nutrition, but this person is very sceptical and was rather offended that I dared to criticise (I thought I'd been nice about it!) and said that they wouldn't believe me unless I could come up with scientific proof. I'm not expecting them to start advocating wet food over dry, but I am alarmed that they are telling people who adopt from them to get their cats onto dry food because it's better for them. Does anyone have any references or links to any such studies? At one time I did have an article that quoted a study regarding urine being more concentrated in cats fed on dry food, but I can't find it now.