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Dry food?

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Catatlast · 12/09/2022 18:43

Does anyone mainly feed dry food? One of our cats is so picky about wet food flavours.
We give Go-Cat biscuits alongside wet food but if picky cat was to mainly eat dry food we'd try to give something of better quality. And plenty of water obviously.
Or are cats not meant to eat so much dry food? I know it seems to be more of a thing for dogs.
We can't keep buying boxes of wet food for her to only eat one flavour.

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unvillage · 12/09/2022 19:20

With a good source of water it should be fine, but I'd definitely skip the go-cat and go for something healthier like Thrive.

Allergictoironing · 12/09/2022 20:07

Mine get dry ad lib, and wet twice a day. But most of the time they just lick the jelly off & leave the meat. As long as there's plenty of clean fresh water, and your cat drinks well, no reason not to feed mostly dry (bar the odd lik y lix as a treat). Bro & SiL feed theirs just dry, previous 2 lived to late teens

dementedpixie · 14/09/2022 15:50

Mine have thrive dry and bozita dry mixed together. I give wet food twice a day but they aren't always impressed with my wet food offering!

iloveeverykindofcat · 14/09/2022 17:46

I'm not as militant about it as some, but I don't think it should be their only food source. Particularly not for males, who are more prone to urinary tract crystals. Cats don't have a strong thirst drive because in the wild they'd get most of their liquid from prey. I admit that one of my cats gets some, because she's a bit of an addict for it, but not more than half her intake. Ideally I'd like to to be a third, but she's a cat, so we compromise.

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