I have been reading this a lot lately......"my old cat lived 19 + years on Fancy Feast or Friskies......etc.
I have been having the same discussion with family members. All of our childhood cats lived 19+ years. They ate what is now considered low quality wet food, I honestly don't remember seeing anything but canned cat food then.
However, I think the part of this equation that has been left out is that they were also indoor/outdoor cats. They had access to, and did hunt their own food, there by "supplementing" their diet.
Now I know how unsafe outdoors is for cats, but I can't help but wonder what the trend of "indoor" only cats along with the advent of "dry food is good" has contributed to the host of problems we see in cats now.
How much of the old wet food was really bad....but hunting made up for it?
I have been having the same discussion with family members. All of our childhood cats lived 19+ years. They ate what is now considered low quality wet food, I honestly don't remember seeing anything but canned cat food then.
However, I think the part of this equation that has been left out is that they were also indoor/outdoor cats. They had access to, and did hunt their own food, there by "supplementing" their diet.
Now I know how unsafe outdoors is for cats, but I can't help but wonder what the trend of "indoor" only cats along with the advent of "dry food is good" has contributed to the host of problems we see in cats now.
How much of the old wet food was really bad....but hunting made up for it?