Dry food as main food and wet on the side?

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We are currently feeding DCAT katkins and giving gocat as a dry food.

We were previously doing katkins and dry food natures menu so his diet was completely grain free, but DCAT had a heart issue which I read up about and found that it could have been caused by lack of taurine, so switched dry to gocat as it is not grain free (and it’s the grain that has the taurine) and TBH something had to give as the cat’s food costs a fortune!

DCAT is not really eating his wet food at the moment and hoofing down the crappy gocat, so considering switching to dry food as a main food with wet as a treat. Does anyone do this? Are you supposed to?

If so, which foods do you use as I know gocat isn’t considered to be a great choice and wouldn’t want to give it as his main source.

should I go grain free complete fry food such as natures menu and then any old wet food with a bit of grain in?

I wouldn’t be surprised if your vet recommended a product that they sell, which may well be v v expensive compared to other products! It’s a massive income generator in veterinary clinics.

Does no-one use IAMS ? I feed Arthur IAMS and Felix As Good As or Doubly Delicious. Mostly fishy. He will not start eating until both bowls are full, and he goes from one to the other in rotation Nothing else is acceptable, unless raw chicken breast offcuts or prawns.

Just look at the ingredients, it wouldn’t be good for any cat health wise and being a dry cat food would play a part in poor urinary health

If he loves go cat, then feed him that.
No need to go out of your way to wean him onto expensive food.

Mine is a male and a fussy git so we have compromised

He has cheap shit wet food first thing, he can't have dry first or he throws up but he won't eat decent wet
After that he has James wellbeloved dry food
Occasionally he will eat some raw chicken/mince

Mine has just been to vets today .. he's an 8 month old maine coon.. he stopped eating wet food when he was 3 months and only eating his whiskers dry food complete.. had a word with Vet today and was told much better for them as long as they drink plenty.. he's perfectly healthy.
Sometimes he will have a bit of chicken or fish when l cook it.

My rescue boy would only eat fish flavoured dry food. He is currently on Hills td, which is in big lumps and supposed to be good for their teeth, and Crave.

He has gradually got used to some wet but it has to be fish flavoured in gravy. Currently it is gourmet perle. He’ll only eat half a pouch at a time.

If you want to change brands then you have to introduce the new one very gradually.

" I found it hard to get him to eat what he really needed to as he just went elsewhere or ate mice"
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What proof do you have to support this assertion?

Well, it's a fact that struvite crystals are linked with a poor quality dry food, and if you look at the ingredients in GoCat, it's hardly a food to be feeding an animal that's supposed to be an obligate carnivore.

It's basically cereals and fillers with less than 10% meat.

Thanks for that @TidalShore so I wasn’t going mad when I read it, just didn’t get the full picture!

Obviously not the cause of DCAT’s heart issue though because at the time he was on KatKins and Nature’s Variety dry food which are both very high meat content. Natures variety does have legumes and peas and stuff though but not as a replacement for meat, seems to be rather replacement for other filler type stuff.

@Soontobe60 our vet sells the Nature’s variety so they will probably recommend that one. They tried to sell it to us before but we were already buying it online much cheaper!

I am leaning towards switching back to that and offering a cheaper wet food, because £2 a day on Katkins (that is not being eaten most days) and expensive dry food alongside is not the one.