Feeding half wet and half dry opinion?

I was curious about what the opinion was in the cat community about feeding half wet and half dry?  Yes, most of the time wet food is considered the most healthy and dry food is considered less healthy due to carbs, moisture, and among other things.  But what is the consensus on feeding half and half?  I guess it's somewhere in between feeding all wet and all dry.  I guess it doesn't have to be half and half, it could easily be 70% wet and 30% dry.

But what if you picked a high quality dry like Nature's Variety, Orijen, or Wellness to go with a medium to high quality wet food?  I mean technically the cat is getting good nutrition and moisture from the wet food and eating a high quality dry food even if it does have carbs and low moisture content.

What is everybody's opinion on this?

Note: I am feeding all wet: canned with Honest Kitchen.  I don't think anything is going to surpass my feeding system right now.  It's also good to note that HK is basically the same price as a high quality dry food.  I just want opinion on what everybody thinks.

I feed my two 1/4 can wet (5.5oz can) every night and then they eat free fed dry food from there on. Both are spot on for their weight even though they are indoor cats in a tiny one bedroom apartment but they have lots of play toys (and WE play together too and they have 2 cat trees). Between the 2 of them they eat almost 2 cups of dry food daily. Mia is almost 4 and Norville almost 1.

I think feeding some wet food and mostly dry is better then feeding all dry. Feeding only or mostly wet is great

I have never had to worry about mine and them drinking water either though. They love water. I poor out, clean and refill their dish 2 times daily and they drink quite a bit because its always fresh but I'm always home too. Utherwise I might think about them having more wet than they do. 

I am a firm believer any dry is playing with fire later in life especially. I watched my parents cats die of diabetes and unitary blockages. No one knew any better then.

I feel that a diet of both canned and dry is ok if one cannot feed 100% canned for whatever reason. I wouldn't feed more than 50% dry, though, and the canned food would need extra water added for good hydration. If I had to feed dry and canned, I'd go with a high quality grain-free dry and canned food. But I know not everyone an afford to do that so the highest quality dry that is afffordable with a decent brand of affordable canned would be good.

@FelineEmpathy -- 

i feel it's important to note that types of cat foods served is an individual decision, based on the persons preferences, experience, knowledge and beliefs about cat nutrition, what they feel is best for their particular cat(s) and bearing in mind any medical issues the cat(s) may have, as well as costs and the ever important 'what kitty will eat'.

discussions about cat food choices can become 'heated' at times.

my belief is that we all make the best choices we are able to about the food(s) we serve our cats.

my personal opinion, about what i serve my cats, gets a bit complicated. i'd prefer to feed my cats a raw and/or home cooked diet, with some freeze dried (complete nutrition) food (like stella & chewy or primal, broken up into pieces) served instead of dry cat food. however, my senior cat (snick) has medical issues and i decided  2 or 3 years ago not to try switching her over to a home cooked diet because i feel that the stress that might cause snick (my picky eater) would not be good for her.  so i serve 96-98% canned plus freeze dried chicken treats. i currently serve both snick and jasper (who is going to be 3 years old in june) some dry cat food each day -- snick gets no more than 10-12 pieces of dry each day, and jasper gets about 1/4 cup each day. and that's only because when jasper joined me and snick last october he was coming from a foster home where he ate mostly dry cat food. so i bought a couple small bags of grain free dry. we're getting closer to finishing those bags now, so i'm starting to transition both cats over to having the freeze dried (we're trying primal now, we've got some samples) broken into bite sized pieces. both snick and jasper are enjoying the primal. once the dry cat food is gone, i won't be buying any more.

part of my reason for preferring to serve raw and/or home cooked foods is that i would prefer to cut out commercially manufactured/prepared cat foods from my cats diet as much as possible.

I feed an all wet diet too.    I lost my last cat due to issues with him eating all dry food his entire life.     I so wish I had known better or that my vet would have told me.  Its still shocking to me that he didn't. 

Anyway, I guess one of my fears of feeding half and half would be them eventually refusing to eat the wet and only eating dry.     My brother feeds his female cat half and half but for a male cat I would be afraid to take that chance. 

Thanks for the responses everybody!  That's basically the kind of answers I was expecting.

I actually was considering doing some kind of 70% wet and 30% dry in the past and I just wanted to put my thoughts to rest.

It's true though that everybody should do what they're able to do.

I feel that people should do whatever they feel is best for their cats . Whether it is all dry , all wet , or a combo .

Now my cats would prefer all dry if I let them  but I want them to eat all wet .

I feel it is better for them especially my big male cat ..

I have finally accomplished this .  They are now eating 100% canned diet  with the exception of a few Temptations Treats crushed on top ..

FelineEmpathy said:

 
I actually was considering doing some kind of 70% wet and 30% dry in the past and I just wanted to put my thoughts to rest.

It's true though that everybody should do what they're able to do.

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70% canned 30% dry is good if that works for you A lot of people push for 100% canned or even raw food but that's simply not doable for many people for various reasons.

bonepicker said:

I am a firm believer any dry is playing with fire later in life especially. I watched my parents cats die of diabetes and unitary blockages. No one knew any better then.

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My lotto ate only dry food and I sent him to rainbow bridge age nearly 20. He had arthritis. It got bad at the end so I put an end to his suffering. Towards the end iewas hand feeing him a very liquid food called recovery. He should have eaten 3 tins. I was happy if he ate one tin. I called the vet to come to give him saline and she said he wasn't de hydrated

Did he supplement with mice (go out)?