Help! Dry food vs wet food

Hello all! My name is Brittany, and I have two babies One is a 3 year old male and one is a 5 year old female! I have just recently started feeding them Dry Blue Buffalo food. However, I just want to make sure that i'm feeding my babies the very best. What food is better for them? Dry or Wet? If you guys could just give me some of your reccommendations, that would be great! Thanks so much!!

Wet is better, hands down. Wet provides the moisture cats need since cats don't drink or feel thirst the way other animals do, and wet provides higher protein and lower carbs. Carbs don't add much nutrition for cats, and they contribute to pet obesity. There are lots of threads discussing wet vs dry, but here are a couple good ones that have come up lately:

http://www.thecatsite.com/t/277840/dry-food-vs-wet-food-genuine-question

http://www.thecatsite.com/t/278627/is-one-better-than-the-other

Even the lower grades of wet food are better than high end dry foods.

In my opinion, Blue Buffalo is a decent brand, but you're paying more for their marketing and brand name than good nutrition. There are many other great dry foods if you still want to supplement it in their diets. You can check the Reviews section or ask us for recommendations for wet and dry if you're interested in looking into other brands that haven't been reviewed or perhaps aren't as well recognized.

I feed Petcurean's Go Free+Fit dry mixed with what little Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul we have left (also dry), which I love and think is fantastic, along with Friskies wet, Performatrin wet, and Wellness wet.

Some people opt for grain free, fish free, byproduct free, and in canned foods, some will also choose carageenan free, guar gum free... everyone has their reasons and their preferences. There are tons of resources online regarding potential dangers of carageenan and guar gum, and fish can contain quite a bit of mercury, as well as high phosphorus and magnesium levels that can exacerbate urinary issues (problematic for males, who are already prone). I don't really care if food is 100% grain free, but I won't feed any food containing corn based on experiences with our cats.

edit; I can't believe I forgot the obligatory Cat Info plug! This site is run by a vet, Dr. Lisa Pierson, who has over 20 years of experience with cat nutrition and feeding a species appropriate diet: http://catinfo.org/

Thank you so much! Very helpful! I really appreciate it!

Definitely wet food -- I'm a big fan of Dr. Pierson's site and her high-protein, low-carb approach. I use her food charts to research foods.

We have two Siamese mix cats with rather sensitive stomachs so I feed them canned and raw foods with no grains, no potato, moderate levels of phosphorous, and very little fish. They seem to be doing well on it and they like their canned food rotation, which includes Tiki, Nature's Variety Instinct, Weruva's Cats in the Kitchen, Wellness Core (their only food with carrageenan), Nutro Natural Choice, and Hound & Gatos. They get raw food from Stella & Chewy's, Primal, and Rad Cat.

Good luck with the food, Phara n Dexter, and just ask if you want to know which specific flavors/recipes I feed to fit all the guidelines I mentioned! (And make the cats happy, no easy task!)