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My husband and I struggle with this quite often, and I'd love to hear your thoughts. We've got 8 indoor cats, so trying to balance providing a high quality diet with a reasonable price
Currently, we alternate between TOTW and Chicken Soup dry foods with a pet fountain. We do also try to monitor water intake as best as we can. Ideally we'd feed a grain free canned diet exclusively (I have a severe aversion to raw meat- I throw up when I see it, or raw would be our choice) but if we did a wet exclusive diet, we'd be talking $400-$450/month in food!
If we chose a cheaper (read Friskies) canned food, we'd be down to $170 a month, but we'd be sacrificing serious quality. We also have several cats who have exhibited symptoms of grain allergies (we have two dogs with serious grain allergies, so I know what to look for)
Currently, we pay between $60 and $80 a month for the TOTW/Chicken Soup and occasionally another high-quality GF formula.
Does anyone feed a successful mixed diet? What would a good ratio of wet calories to dry calories look like? I'd love to get the additional benefit of fluids from the canned food, but keep the benefits of remaining strictly GF.
Advice?
Currently, we alternate between TOTW and Chicken Soup dry foods with a pet fountain. We do also try to monitor water intake as best as we can. Ideally we'd feed a grain free canned diet exclusively (I have a severe aversion to raw meat- I throw up when I see it, or raw would be our choice) but if we did a wet exclusive diet, we'd be talking $400-$450/month in food!
If we chose a cheaper (read Friskies) canned food, we'd be down to $170 a month, but we'd be sacrificing serious quality. We also have several cats who have exhibited symptoms of grain allergies (we have two dogs with serious grain allergies, so I know what to look for)
Currently, we pay between $60 and $80 a month for the TOTW/Chicken Soup and occasionally another high-quality GF formula.
Does anyone feed a successful mixed diet? What would a good ratio of wet calories to dry calories look like? I'd love to get the additional benefit of fluids from the canned food, but keep the benefits of remaining strictly GF.
Advice?