And look, they eat eyeballs, crunch bones and cartilage, fur, whatever. They don't care. It is all meat to them.
Ha!I don't really know that low grade meat matters as much for cats. In the wild they eat whatever. Mice, rats, chipmonks, not to mention whatever they ate as wild cats. If you want to get technical, how natural of a diet is beef to a cat? You don't see little Fluffy who hunts mice and bugs, taking out an entire cow in the wild
As fed? What does that mean? As opposed to what?My cat does drink lots of water on an all-dry diet and drinks very little on an all-wet. I remember the first time I trialed an all-wet diet, I was worried that he wasn't drinking water until I realized that he just didn't feel thirsty anymore because the wet food was enough.
I feed 50/50 dry and wet right now, and leave a water bowl out. I haven't read through the entire thread yet, but the reason wet food has a """"lower"""" amount of protein is because the numbers on the can are based on an as-fed calculation. If you calculate it with the moisture content in mind, i.e. moisture removed, and compare to any dry food, it has at least double the protein.
Dry Matter Basis Calculator For Pet Food | PawDietAs fed? What does that mean? As opposed to what?
Good questionHow do you get a cat off dry diet when they will not eat wet.
How do you get a cat off dry diet when they will not eat wet.
Yeah, thanks. I've seen that article and tried the recommendations, with not much success. She does eat some with much much work on my part, but it's more of a snack. They told me when I adopted her she would never eat wet and she's pretty much lived up to that