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I can't figure out which is worse - a low quality wet food as the primary
food, or a high quality dry...


The low quality wet food is worse. Why would one want to feed high levels of
salt (as one example) in a poor quality wet food?


Because I'm worried about them not drinking enough and getting kidney and
bladder problems.
I have lost 3 cats over the course of my life to such problems. I'm afraid of
losing another.
I had one (as a child) who kept getting stones and needing VERY expensive
surgery, so my parents put her down.
Then I lost my Julian and he was only 4. He got a blockage from a bladder
stone and went toxic and by the time I got him to the vet, it was too late.
He was too much of a trouper and I never knew he was sick until I woke up one
morning and he was on his side, mewling in pain, and couldn't walk. He
couldn't pee at all. Total blockage. Poisoned his blood, from what I
understand from what the vet said, and the bladder was nearly ruptured with
some urine leaking into the body cavity.

My parents lost their Tom (I grew up with him, sort of, but he was their cat
and I was out of the house when he passed) at only 13 to renal failure. I
loved him a lot, though, even if he wasn't technically mine. I lived with him
for like 11 years.

So, I'm looking at the pros and cons of quality, wet vs dry, and so on. I
don't think I can bear losing another one young to something I could have
prevented.

If I thought it had nothing to do with their diets, I'd just feed them the
good quality dry and be done with it. It's less expensive (I've spent WAY
more money than usual this month on wet food vs dry and I'm not even getting
the high quality stuff much, since they won't eat it) and they enjoy it more.
I'm just very worried about their health.
2 cans a day shared by 3 cats averages $1 a day right now. When they really
start eating it, it'll be a can each and hopefully better quality stuff in
there, so probably more like $2 a day. That's $60 a month. That's a LOT more
than the $25 a month I spent on two bags of very good (not best; they won't
eat that) quality dry.
So if the good quality dry is just as good or better than the lower quality
wet, I'd be more than happy to let them have it.

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