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Hello everyone,
I come here as a newbie in cat nutrition details with a naive question. I hope you'll be able to give me reasonable and clear answers, as it seems to be a touchy subject ...
I've been wandering a bit on this forum as I just got my first kitten and I'm always open to advice and ideas to act best towards her. We're French living in France, and I was struck by a clear difference in opinion between what vets / breeder told us here about food and what most people defend in this place - and if I'm not mistaken, most of users here are from the US
Here I see fierce defender of wet food over dry food. By fierce, I mean that I read that dry food is almost cruel to give to your cat, it should be banned, you never should give it to your cat, it's almost as horrible as declawing, etc ... I've mostly seen people violently speaking against dry food and few rational explanations apart from "it doesn't contain enough water".
Around us - sis is a vet in training, and we met a couple of caring breeder who gave us advices - and on the "French" website I went, it's quite different. Some people defend dry food only diet, some defend half/half, most people say that you should feed your cat mostly dry food and from time to time wet food - and that is also what the breeders and vet sis said. Of course, everyone agree on one point : that dry food should be high quality dry food. No food from your average supermarket. At least Royal Canin or Hills, the right kind for you cat - neutered, kitten, health issue. And the breeder recommended to us the "Now!" dry food - only meat, imported from Canada. And everyone says you should give free access to water to your cat, of course.
Now. I'm not an expert and this difference in opinion left me perplexed but I tend to get defensive in front of heated, passionate and radical answers. I'm much more receptive to reasonable explanations
What is your opinion ? What did your hear ? And what are the rational arguments for/against dry/wet food ?
I come here as a newbie in cat nutrition details with a naive question. I hope you'll be able to give me reasonable and clear answers, as it seems to be a touchy subject ...
I've been wandering a bit on this forum as I just got my first kitten and I'm always open to advice and ideas to act best towards her. We're French living in France, and I was struck by a clear difference in opinion between what vets / breeder told us here about food and what most people defend in this place - and if I'm not mistaken, most of users here are from the US
Here I see fierce defender of wet food over dry food. By fierce, I mean that I read that dry food is almost cruel to give to your cat, it should be banned, you never should give it to your cat, it's almost as horrible as declawing, etc ... I've mostly seen people violently speaking against dry food and few rational explanations apart from "it doesn't contain enough water".
Around us - sis is a vet in training, and we met a couple of caring breeder who gave us advices - and on the "French" website I went, it's quite different. Some people defend dry food only diet, some defend half/half, most people say that you should feed your cat mostly dry food and from time to time wet food - and that is also what the breeders and vet sis said. Of course, everyone agree on one point : that dry food should be high quality dry food. No food from your average supermarket. At least Royal Canin or Hills, the right kind for you cat - neutered, kitten, health issue. And the breeder recommended to us the "Now!" dry food - only meat, imported from Canada. And everyone says you should give free access to water to your cat, of course.
Now. I'm not an expert and this difference in opinion left me perplexed but I tend to get defensive in front of heated, passionate and radical answers. I'm much more receptive to reasonable explanations
What is your opinion ? What did your hear ? And what are the rational arguments for/against dry/wet food ?