Cat won't eat dry food

eamon

Cat 2 only eats dry food (Go Cat). When Cat 1 was alive and well he would eat any and everything. Cat 2 would lick the gravy & eat the jelly but leave the meat. I did spy her eating some cooked sausage a few years ago.

Shoshannah

Mankysteve wrote: »

Our vet recommend a largely dry diet due wet food being bulked out with too much water causing kidney problems.

I would definitely contest this. Cats are a desert species with a sadly insufficient thirst reflex and it has been suggested that many exist in a permanent state of mild dehydration - they need as much moisture in their diet as possible.

I would always recommend a wet diet if possible for cats with known kidney or bladder disease, and see no reason why it may not help some cats to avoid developing these conditions in the first place (or at least reduce the chances/severity).

bratz81

my cat will eat anything, wet, dry, people food, flowers, my hair, anything. He's greedy lol. However he gets dry food now, a special diet the vet has him on to help dissolve crystals in his bladder. Which he got while on a purely wet food diet.
It's Royal Canin urinary s/o...and makes him thirstier as well, so he's getting fluids and so on. He drinks loads! mostly out of the sink or a glass.

However, I had another cat previously who wouldn't touch dry food. Would rather starve than touch it tbh. Some cats just don't like dry food, or are fussy. And some aren't.