Best quality dry cat food?

rita-rabbit

burns dry is best & cheap online

dry is best unless there are health problems anyways

UKTigerlily

rita-rabbit wrote: »

burns dry is best & cheap online

dry is best unless there are health problems anyways

In YOUR opinion, which you are of course entitled too, there are no facts to say one way or the other what is definitely best & i've yet to see anyone give any reasons except for dental that they feel dry is best. Not saying it isn't or is, just that nobody ever says WHY!

rita-rabbit

wet contains more rubbish
dry is better for teeth, storage, your pocket & also my cats are slimmer, livelier & fur condition is better since the changeover.

UKTigerlily

rita-rabbit wrote: »

wet contains more rubbish
dry is better for teeth, storage, your pocket & also my cats are slimmer, livelier & fur condition is better since the changeover.

lol have to agree on storage & pricewise definitely! Her conditions better on wet but maybe it's brand more than type, she's had worse teeth on dry than on wet, but it'll be interesting to see what this new Hill's T/D is like, tho i'd rather if she had Dry she had a better brand! Royal canin do a dental one i'm wondering if that's better for them than Hill's

MrsE_2

rita-rabbit wrote: »

wet contains more rubbish
dry is better for teeth, storage, your pocket & also my cats are slimmer, livelier & fur condition is better since the changeover.

I agree dry is better, great for teeth & general health, no smell, doesn't attract flies or go nasty in the bowl:eek:

IMHO the BEST is Royal Canin, fussy persians love it & they know;)

UKTigerlily

MrsE wrote: »

I agree dry is better, great for teeth & general health, no smell, doesn't attract flies or go nasty in the bowl:eek:

IMHO the BEST is Royal Canin, fussy persians love it & they know;)

I'm definitely going to have to see about the RC dental food, it has a much better rep than Hill's & i'd feel much happier using that than Hill's as it's a brand I consider a great one! Not sure if their wet is as good as NM but will have a look, i'd like to get her onto something like that & i'm sure they do a dental food (Can't be normal dry her teeth were worse on dry!) I think the actual dental ones remove plaque where most dried foods just shatter, or that's what the Hill's one does.

sleepymy

Clinivet are a very good brand, recommended to me by my vet and has sorted my pup's food sensitivities right out, my 16 year old kitty eats it too. They don't test on animals or use cadged birds and it's also designed by a vet.

I fed my boys on a dry diet for years but after losing one to intestinal cancer last year I would feed half and half in future. Some cats find it harder to digest and their intestinal tract and suffer for it. Saying that, my beautiful boy was 15 but I often wonder if a more wet diet could have kept him going a while longer.

spookylukey

I feed half wet (high quality/high meat content) and half dry (as before), mainly for variety.

Yes dry food is convenient, yes it often works out cheaper but is it really best for a cat to be fed an entirely dry diet that is nothing like the diet they may eat in the wild?

Here's some links that may be of interest:

http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=library&act=show&item=doesdryfoodcleantheteeth

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm

http://www.catinfo.org/

UKTigerlily

sleepymy wrote: »

Clinivet are a very good brand, recommended to me by my vet and has sorted my pup's food sensitivities right out, my 16 year old kitty eats it too. They don't test on animals or use cadged birds and it's also designed by a vet.

I fed my boys on a dry diet for years but after losing one to intestinal cancer last year I would feed half and half in future. Some cats find it harder to digest and their intestinal tract and suffer for it. Saying that, my beautiful boy was 15 but I often wonder if a more wet diet could have kept him going a while longer.

Google will be busy tonight, i've never heard of that brand so am off to look! I've gone to 50/50 now, I don't have a problem with flies & wet food as I feed indoors & also she eats it right away, plus it's more natural for them & I believe in as close to natural as you can get & dry has alot of sugar generally & carbs, but she does enjoy dry too & the Vets have told me that tho normal dry doesn't necessarily help teeth as she shows, T/D will, because it doesn't shatter or something.

I'm gonna look up the above & also RC's dental food, would prefer a decent make the Hill's is appalling ingredients wise, it even lists salt!

sleepymy

Here you go http://www.clinivet.com/

I've read that dry food doesn't actually clean their teeth, it just doesn't stick to it like wet to form tartar. My boys didn't need their teeth cleaned until they were 12 & 13 and neither had a tooth removed.