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How often do you feed your cat wet food compared to dry food? (self.cat)

submitted 3 months ago by Sunny to c/cat@lemmy.world

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Just wondering how you guys balance the mix of these. Our cats looooove wet food, but keep it as a treat for every now and then. Have to keep the wet cat food in a plastic sealed container as our cats will tear through the box they come in and dig their way through haha.

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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wet food every time I can afford it. I will get a lot of flak from people here but cats are not supposed to eat that much grain.

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is there kibble with low, almost no grain percentage? For dogs there are decent options.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Cats "drink" water by eating wet food mostly. Feeding them dry food in any capacity will hurt their kidneys. They aren't used to drinking because of it and even if they do, it usually isn't enough. Most of the materials I was given for fostering / adoption says to try to switch them to wetfood and keep them on it because of the reasons above.

As to your question - there are freeze dried meats that can be given to them, but because of the kidneys thing, you aren't supposed to give them more than a few cubes a day. Iirc 15 or 20?

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

There is plenty of grain-free food out there; it's even a search option on chewy. The problem is the grain filler is often replaced by something else that's either not nutritious for cats or possibly even harmful (like potato and peas), and that still doesn't resolve the moisture content issue.