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It's midnight here, so my math skills are rapidly declining, to make sure I'm understanding correctly, what would I want to do to get the correct price per oz for the kibble?

Yup, that's what I do too. It's obviously much pricier than homemade, but as my chart above shows, it's only slightly more expensive than grain-free canned. Really? That's odd. Both my cats showed dramatic improvement in their coat quality after switching them to raw. I wonder if it's a...

No, I was using the 5 lb bag of Wellness Core (as that's what I last purchased), and the 5oz cans of canned food (excluding the Blue Buffalo, which only comes on 3 oz cans). However I notice you said you calculated using the Friskies 3oz cans. 3oz cans are always more expensive per oz than the...

And because that's a whole lot of text I just wrote, here's the above broken down into a simple list. Based on PetCo prices, and feeding amounts for an average adult cat, here are the breakdowns for how much eat diet costs to feed one cat per month, from cheapest option to most expensive: 9...

Sorry but I can't see how this is possibly true. Maybe it depends on where you buy the food, but I have actually done price comparisons of different diets and a combo of high-quality grain-free dry and wet is slightly cheaper than high-quality grain-free wet. Using the prices at my local PetCo...

Was that what your vet said he should be getting, or what the label on the food says? Sometimes pet food labels tend to overestimate how much a cat should be fed. Additionally, how much a cat really needs depends on their individual metabolism and age. Not to mention the specific nutrient...

Apollo always throws up raw beef, although he's totally fine with cooked beef in canned food. Athena throws up any time her food is too cold (as in still partially frozen). But if you're warming in a bowl of warm water, and you're sure it's all thawed, then that shouldn't be the issue. Just...

Right and I wouldn't feed those high-carb wet foods either. If you're arguing against the argument that all wet food is always better than all dry food, I agree that is simplifying things too much. But I don't think that means that you can then say, certain dry foods are better than any wet...

But I'm not seeing carbs in that comparison. Just protein, fat, and fiber. Am I missing something? Here is a table where someone has done as you have (calculated percentages on a dry matter basis), with a wide variety of foods, and includes carb listings...

While the canned foods look...okay, they do have wheat gluten in them which is a very common cause of digestive upset in cats with sensitive stomachs. If grain is this cat's issue, then wheat gluten is a bad idea. And the dry foods contain both wheat and corn, neither of which I'd consider a...

^This. I had a super farty kitten with horribly stinky stools and bloating. Turned out to be digestive sensitivities. In her case grain was a big factor, but any sort of overly processed food affected her to some degree and I had to put her on an almost entirely raw diet. Basically the farting...

Which dry foods? I agree there are some dry foods that are lower carb than others, but from what I've found, any dry food still seems to be higher carb than a low-carb raw food. Obviously a food that is made mostly of meat, bone, and organ with small vegetable supplementation is going to...

No worries, things can get lost in text. Sorry for misunderstanding. I do agree that the diet that keeps an individual cat healthy is the best diet for that cat. I guess like you, I'm also just going by my experience. I'm so passionate about the types of food I feed (grain-free and raw) because...

And to clarify, I'm not trying to criticize what you feed your cats or say that your harming them. Clearly you've got a bunch that seems to be reacting well to their diet, which is great. I'm just saying there's a clear reason why so many don't feed kibble. Because some cats really do not fare...

I think the issue though is, as I said in my initial reply, that while it may be theoretically acceptable and end up being perfectly fine for some cats, clearly it's causing problems in enough cats that caution should be taken when feeding it. It's all a matter of risk factors. If someone wants...

I swear by World's Best. I was having bad asthma reactions to clay litter, and after reading about the potential lung and blockage problems they can cause in cats, I was eager to switch. The WB doesn't bother my allergies or asthma and doesn't make me worry about unsafe chemicals since it's...

Seconding Carolina's comments on the benefits of wet! One of my cats was chubby when he was on a combo wet/dry diet. All I had to do to get him to shed those extra pounds was to get the dry out of his diet. Worked perfectly!

I approve! We're nerds here as well. I usually play WoW, and lately my boyfriend has been spending his evenings playing League of Legends. I am trying to convince him to come back to WoW. I miss our instance runs together!

Cats not used to chewing stuff like that sometimes have to start slowly. I started by offering mine pieces of chicken meat cut up very small, so they could essentially just swallow them whole. I gradually increased the chunk size until they seemed to have a handle on eating large pieces. When...

Usually we hang out in the computer room, playing our various video games separately. Even if we're doing different things, we like to sit together and chat and talk about what we're doing. And then before bed we try to make some together time. This usually involves watching a show (lately...