Hello,
My first kitten is now 1 year old and she has mainly eaten a premium dry food and I'd give her a little wet a few times a week. Now I have a new kitten and have learned more and more about wet food so I started giving them a little premium wet food twice a day- only about 2 oz each twice a day (sometimes 3x a day) and then they free feed on the dry. They both go crazy now for the wet food and I'm trying to convince myself that it will be worth it to buy them more wet food. It is a budget issue. I'm buying BFF wet and dry is a combo of Nutro Natural/Taste of the Wild. I never had cats and never knew that feeding them well would be so expensive. The kitten especially seems to eat so much of the wet. It is obvious that's all he wants to eat.
I also read that leaving out the dry is not good for their digestion. They should be hungry between meals. Another reason to feel guilty.
I've also read that RAW is a better option, but also expensive, but a little less expensive than a good wet food because they eat less. ??true?? But then some people wrote that feeding RAW was complicated. They sell it at my local store so I don't know how it would be complicated. OH and I have to admit I was pretty interested in the fact that people wrote that the RAW food made their poop not stink since my new kitten seems to have extra stinky poop and I am not enjoying having a house that I think smells even though I clean out the litter box 2 or 3 times a day.
I guess I just want to hear encouragement either way. Sorry there are a lot of different questions in my email I think my husband will freak out if I double or triple my cats' feeding budget but if I'm convinced I really really should then I guess I'll argue that battle.
Thank you!
Bonnie
My first kitten is now 1 year old and she has mainly eaten a premium dry food and I'd give her a little wet a few times a week. Now I have a new kitten and have learned more and more about wet food so I started giving them a little premium wet food twice a day- only about 2 oz each twice a day (sometimes 3x a day) and then they free feed on the dry. They both go crazy now for the wet food and I'm trying to convince myself that it will be worth it to buy them more wet food. It is a budget issue. I'm buying BFF wet and dry is a combo of Nutro Natural/Taste of the Wild. I never had cats and never knew that feeding them well would be so expensive. The kitten especially seems to eat so much of the wet. It is obvious that's all he wants to eat.
I also read that leaving out the dry is not good for their digestion. They should be hungry between meals. Another reason to feel guilty.
I've also read that RAW is a better option, but also expensive, but a little less expensive than a good wet food because they eat less. ??true?? But then some people wrote that feeding RAW was complicated. They sell it at my local store so I don't know how it would be complicated. OH and I have to admit I was pretty interested in the fact that people wrote that the RAW food made their poop not stink since my new kitten seems to have extra stinky poop and I am not enjoying having a house that I think smells even though I clean out the litter box 2 or 3 times a day.
I guess I just want to hear encouragement either way. Sorry there are a lot of different questions in my email I think my husband will freak out if I double or triple my cats' feeding budget but if I'm convinced I really really should then I guess I'll argue that battle.
Thank you!
Bonnie