wet food only?

My kitten Midnight- DSH, 3 months old, happy and healthy- refuses to eat dry food. She's happy on wet kitten food, is roughly twice the size she was at 7 weeks when I got her... should I try to force her to eat dry food? Are there any benefits to dry food?

soopermouse said:

My kitten Midnight- DSH, 3 months old, happy and healthy- refuses to eat dry food. She's happy on wet kitten food, is roughly twice the size she was at 7 weeks when I got her... should I try to force her to eat dry food? Are there any benefits to dry food?

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You are very lucky most people on this site have to do a lot of work to get their cats to eat wet! There are absolutely no benefits to dry and cats do much better on a wet or raw diet. Here is a site writen by a vet who is an expert on feline nutrition and she goes over why dry food is not good for cats (www.catinfo.org).

Don't even bother with the dry. Franksmom is correct, you are extremely lucky to have a cat that has no interest in dry. By feeding wet only you will have reduce the chances of or delay:

hairballs

urinary tract disease

constipation

kidney disease

to name just a few diseases.

I agree with the others: stick with wet.  The advantages of dry are all on the human side (convenience etc...) and none at all for the cat.

Count your blessings. I had the worst time getting our last cat to eat wet food, and only succeeded in convincing him to eat 1/2 wet, 1/2 dry. This article is very informative: 10 Reasons Why Dry Food Is Bad for Cats & Dogs

thank you so much I was worried maybe she was missing something

I liken it to human babies.  Would you take a baby from a strictly milk diet and then introduce chips and cookies as their first food?   Not so much... So why do that to your kitten?  I think most times they learn to eat dry only because that's what their mama's are eating.  Kittens are the easiest to train to eat good foods.  You are doing the right thing.

Thank you all, I'm a lot calmer now. It's hard to raise your first kitten and all of the ads make you feel like you're a badd mommy if the  kitty doesn't get EVERYTHING.