Have you ever tried to explain to someone feeding their cats only or mostly dry food that what they are doing isn't healthy? My Dad and my Stepmom free feed their cats dry food, they believe dry is better for their teeth and my stepmom believes that cats need roughage and fiber like we do. When I have tried to tell her that cats in the wild eat a high moisture, high protein and low carbohydrate diet she argues that they are domesticated. I'm irritated by her response. It's not intelligent. Putting a roof over a cat's head does not change a cat's biology in any way. She recently suggested that I should get indoor dry food for my cats because it has the vitamins for an indoor cat I told her I'm not feeding dry food to Rosie because I don't want her to get diabetes or any dry food related health problems and she still doesn't get it. I don't want to disrespect my elders in any way even though I consider myself an elder myself at 42. But one of their cats died of cancer and I believe he was only 13 and the other one is significantly overweight. And it really upsets me to see cats have to settle for a shorter lifespan and suffer a health problem that could be avoided because of people's ignorance and refusal to learn the truth. I'm going on vacation to visit family in Eureka for one week. They will be feeding my cats twice a day and scooping out the litter box. They won't let me get a pet sitter. I'm not going to have any dry food in the house and I'm going to tell them that I don't want Rosie to have any. I have to tell them so it won't come as a huge shock to them when they discover there is no dry food to feed. And they better not buy any or feed any of their own dry to Rosie because I'll be mad as hell. Yes, I appreciate the fact that they're doing me a favor and that they do so much for me. But I swear if they protest because I don't want Rosie to have dry food they will be crossing the line and they won't be right.. I'm worried. My vacation is the first week of October and I'm stressing over this one thing. Hopefully it will be all right.