Do you feed canned catf food to your cat?

My vet recommends canned food nightly for the liquid.

My boys get Royal Canin indoor formula dry food every day about once a week I'll give them a treat of wet food. I take a small can & split it in 1/2 between the two of them. I had been feeding science diet wet food, but decided to try the nuetro pouch food. Well to say they loved it might be an understatement. I thought they were going to knock me over as soon as I opened the pouch. I tried differnt canned foods, but they seem to perfer the ones with gravy so that's probably why they like the pouch food so much. If your cat doesn't have a problem with hydration & doesn't like wet food then just dry is fine. My last cat Smokey wouldn't touch canned food with a 10 foot pole so she just ate dry & she lived to be 17.

According to Dr. Fox, cats need to have wet food in their diet. He said a diet of only dry food can lead to diabetes. He gave some other reason's but I can't remember what they are.

Dr. Fox is a veterinarian who has a weekly column in newspapers. I find his advice is usually right on.

My cat gets canned food too. He had a urinary tract infection about a year ago, and we were told to put him on wet food so he gets enough moisture in his diet. It seems to work out well. He ate nothing but canned food for a year, but just recently we've switched to dry in the morning, and canned at night.

I feed half dry (in the morning) and half canned (in the evening). JC will only eat out of little (3 ounce) cans. He prefers dry food, but many dry foods have too many "plants" as ingredients for my taste, and I worry about him getting enough mosture.

Shadow and Graycie are such fussy eaters that we can't feed them only once of twice a day, it ends up about five or six times, and it is dry mixed with canned. They love the canned in sauces and right now are eating, Chicken and Liver flavored (looks disgusting).

Graycie was only able to eat roast chicken, and this really expesive dry hair ball formula food. So we would roast him a chicken every week.

What e do for our cats

I feed both dry and canned daily because I want them to be used to both kinds in case they ever need to be on a prescription diet. I once had a kitty who only ate dry and changing him to a canned prescription diet was almost impossible. So I haven't made that mistake again. Becky

Originally posted by Ellie
According to Dr. Fox, cats need to have wet food in their diet. He said a diet of only dry food can lead to diabetes. He gave some other reason's but I can't remember what they are.

Dr. Fox is a veterinarian who has a weekly column in newspapers. I find his advice is usually right on.

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The dry food itself doesn't cause diseases as long as it is a high quality food. Many factors are involved. A cat on a dry food diet has to drink a lot to avoid problems such as crystals in the urine. The level of Magnesium has to be correct and the Ph-level has to be correct.

Swedish new studies shows that cats that only eat canned food more often have problems with theis teeth than cats that eat dry food.

I believe the best thing is to give both canned food and dry food if one doesn't want to make the cat food oneself.

I feed my cats dry food at the moment but I'm slowly switching over to homemade food.

I keep Science Diet adult chicken & rice dry food down for Dori all the time. I just keep her bowl filled so she can eat it whenever she wants to. Every morning when I wake up I give her half a package of the Friskies fine cuts. She loves the Friskies, if I am not up feeding her by 6am she bites my elbows to wake me up. I am thinking of making an appointment to talk to the vet though because since she got spayed she eats alot. I have to fill her dry food bowl up every evening, but before she got spayed she never ate more than half on a daily basis. She was small before she got spayed, but I think she must weigh 3 times what she did then and it's only been 2 months!

Sierra gets 50% amore preprepared raw salmon, rabbit and veggies, about 40% Innova Lite canned and the remainder Innova Lite dry usually as snacks and in her treat-and-play ball. I've read many advantages of wet food over dry due to its nutrient and moisture content. Sierra agrees! She by far prefers it over dry.

My vet advised me to feed my cat with dry food only, due to his continuous susceptibility to oral germs and tartar. Oscar's very happy with his dry food (Eukanuba, planning to try Hill's too) and he sometimes has cooked kinds of meat as a supplement.

Duncan gets half a can of food along with his dry food about once every other day. Most of the time, he'd rather eat the dry than the canned. His prior owner gave him half a can in the monrning and evening, but since he's come to live with me, he doesn't seem to want it as much.