Diet for kitten - advice needed

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My 16 week old kitten is on Royal Canin dried food. He has a bowl of this that he can eat from whenever he likes and then he also has a bowl of the same food hydrated with water twice a day. He then gets a bowl of wet food (half a pouch of whiskers kitten, instead of the dried/hydrated food) twice a week as a treat. This is on the reccomendation of the women that we bought him from.

Lately he has probably been having more of the wet food, probably half a pouch 4 times a week, so only totalling two pouches a week. I have noticed that the more wet food he has the less of the dried and dried/hydrated food he is eating. I am just wondering what the reasoning behind the ladies advice is, to only give him wet food as a treat? Is it better for them? I can see that it might be more convenient for a cat to be purely on dried food (less smell, less spoiling etc) but I just wondered if it is medically better or not for him?

My boys were on whichever decent dried kitten food was the cheapest. They had the occasional half a tin of wet kitten food which they much preferred.
I think they are lazy buggers, much easier to slurp up some wet food than crunch the dry.
I was advised by the woman we got them from (doctor at local hospital) not to worry too much about tinned/wet food. Dry was much better, less smelly and more economical.

Thanks for replying. He's not eating any of the dried food now, I think cos he's waiting/expecting something better. I guess he won't let himself starve so I'm going to stop with the pouches for a bit and get him back on the dried.

I have always given my kitten both. He's 5 months old now and has 3 meals a day of half a pack of wet food plus a bowl of dry which I replenish once a day.
He sometimes eats more dry than wet and sometimes the other way round.
Everyone says cats don't need variety but I feel mean limiting him to dry food.

My vet says cats (especially males) are much better on wet food rather than dried. Apparently they are prone to cystitis and wet food is better for this. Having said that - I have a Maine Coon kitten and he is on dried food (Royal Canin) and the vet said as they were more specialised he should stick to what the breeder recommended.
(so I've one cat on wet and one cat on dried and it's a complete nightmare!)

You are a better person than me haggis. My boys get what they are given and are happy.