I’ve always been really into the whole “a cat should only eat wet food” thing but before you get a cat... it just all works so well in theory and then your cats come along and throw you a curveball. XD
So right when we got the cats, my parents read something about how cats should have some dry food so I compromised and have them now on Merrick Purrfect Bistro Chicken in the morning and one 3 oz can of whatever food (I like to rotate it; they were on Meow Mix for a while but have appeared to have grown bored of that so now it’s just whatever good quality food is on sale).
This arrangement works perfectly for my cat Salt. He’d eat anything. I swear I can throw a pill into his mouth and he thinks, “oh, food, yum” and swallows it no problem. Haha.
My other cat, Pepper? Well... he’s another story.
He’s never been a big fan of wet food in general but he’s always eaten most of it. I say most because I think he’s only finished all of his food like three times maybe in the seven or eight months we’ve had them. Hence he’s looking really skinny and Salt is looking rather fat.
Now recently it’s gotten worse, to the point that I’ll give him his food and he’ll just sit there and look at it until I add some dry food on top, st which point he’ll slowly approach it and sniff at it suspiciously and try to eat around the wet food. Ugh. So my parents are all like, “This cat drinks a ton of water. He’s like addicted to water. So I don’t see why you can’t just feed him exclusively dry food.” Now I must say they’ve got a point—I’ve never seen a cat so fascinated with playing with and drinking water. My mom jokes that he must be diabetic but I looked that up and he displays no other symptoms—and he’s always been like this.
My dad says that I’m welcome to buy a more expensive dry food in order to feed to him at night while I’d still give Salt his wet food. I honestly hate this idea because if you ask me, wet food is just so much better in so many ways. Of course there’s the option of raw, but I don’t want to make that (don’t really trust myself to and all that) and there’s just no way we could afford the commercial raw food. So I went off to find the best dry cat food with a low carbohydrate level and lots of protein.
I think my best bet is Tiki Cat Carnivore Chicken & Fish, And my dad is okay with that price point for feeding one cat at night.
I’m still not super happy with this so I’d kind of like to hear what you guys think. Should I just keep at it with the wet food, or should I give this a try? Salt might try to steal it but he does that anyway so I’ll just be careful. Anyway. Just wanted a second opinion… thanks in advance!
Edit: forgot to add, we like to keep our wet cat food priced at around 50 cents per 3 oz. Will buy more expensive foods if they're on sale for around this price.
So right when we got the cats, my parents read something about how cats should have some dry food so I compromised and have them now on Merrick Purrfect Bistro Chicken in the morning and one 3 oz can of whatever food (I like to rotate it; they were on Meow Mix for a while but have appeared to have grown bored of that so now it’s just whatever good quality food is on sale).
This arrangement works perfectly for my cat Salt. He’d eat anything. I swear I can throw a pill into his mouth and he thinks, “oh, food, yum” and swallows it no problem. Haha.
My other cat, Pepper? Well... he’s another story.
He’s never been a big fan of wet food in general but he’s always eaten most of it. I say most because I think he’s only finished all of his food like three times maybe in the seven or eight months we’ve had them. Hence he’s looking really skinny and Salt is looking rather fat.
Now recently it’s gotten worse, to the point that I’ll give him his food and he’ll just sit there and look at it until I add some dry food on top, st which point he’ll slowly approach it and sniff at it suspiciously and try to eat around the wet food. Ugh. So my parents are all like, “This cat drinks a ton of water. He’s like addicted to water. So I don’t see why you can’t just feed him exclusively dry food.” Now I must say they’ve got a point—I’ve never seen a cat so fascinated with playing with and drinking water. My mom jokes that he must be diabetic but I looked that up and he displays no other symptoms—and he’s always been like this.
My dad says that I’m welcome to buy a more expensive dry food in order to feed to him at night while I’d still give Salt his wet food. I honestly hate this idea because if you ask me, wet food is just so much better in so many ways. Of course there’s the option of raw, but I don’t want to make that (don’t really trust myself to and all that) and there’s just no way we could afford the commercial raw food. So I went off to find the best dry cat food with a low carbohydrate level and lots of protein.
I think my best bet is Tiki Cat Carnivore Chicken & Fish, And my dad is okay with that price point for feeding one cat at night.
I’m still not super happy with this so I’d kind of like to hear what you guys think. Should I just keep at it with the wet food, or should I give this a try? Salt might try to steal it but he does that anyway so I’ll just be careful. Anyway. Just wanted a second opinion… thanks in advance!
Edit: forgot to add, we like to keep our wet cat food priced at around 50 cents per 3 oz. Will buy more expensive foods if they're on sale for around this price.
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