Food confusion!

I have been hearing lots of conflicting advice about what food is best for kittens and so I thought I would come on here and see what you guys recommend.

Is it best to give my 6 month old boys all dried food, all wet food or a mixture of both? At the moment I am giving them a mixture of jelly pouches, gravy pouches and biscuits- all kitten food. But I heard this afternoon that it is best to just give them biscuits.

Argh, very confusing, can someone please help me out and point me in the right direction?

Thanks!!
Helen

Wet food is a better diet. Dry food usually has a lot of fillers and can have a lot of extra carbs.

Neutered male cats also seem to do better on a wet diet - less prone to urine problems and crystals.

The important thing IMO is to ensure you give them a good quality food. Good quality may cost more, but since it is a better food the cats often eat less so it isn't more expensive in the long term.

There are a number of good foods out there (you can search this forum on food and find numerous threads) but the main thing is look for foods with no by-products (by-products are often nasty stuff).

Our cats were fairly recently changed from an all dry food diet to mostly wet food now with about 1/3 cup of dry left out for them to munch on during the day. This has worked out well for us. We chose Merricks brand (well the cats did actually - I bought a bunch of different no-by-product brands and they only liked the Merricks).

The whole food thing is completely & totally confusing. I am still working things out. I never realized exaclty how many foods there are out there!

I feed TigerLily 80% wet & 20% dry with no problems. I feel Ohpelia Rose 2 pouches of wet a day & then fry food to munch on. I feed Twitch whatever wet she will eat & then some dry food.

Dry food doesn't do anything to help their teeth. That is one common "rumor". Wet food helped with Twitch being chronically dehydrated. Although, buying a cat fountain helped with that, too.

There are so many foods out there & so many websites. It will takes months for you to read all kinds of labels & learn all of this stuff. In the end, it is worth it.