Dry Vs. Moist ...

Allegra640 wrote:

Just now got off the telephone w/my vet and he said that without a doubt, a
diet of strictly dry food is the way to go.

Whats a girl to do?


Consult the cats? If yours are anything like mine, there are things
they will eat and things they will NOT (however hungry they get). The
problem lies in learning to distinguish which is which, since their
preferences change from time to time.

rrb_041303 wrote:
Science Diet, and the like. What does he eat - 9 lives, Fancy feast,
Purina, and Petsmart's Sophistacat/Sophistacat Supreme - none of the
"high quality" foods that are best for him.

Because those companies use a disgusting thing called "digest" to make their
food more palatable.

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

Victor M. Martinez said:
rrb_041303 wrote:

Science Diet, and the like. What does he eat - 9 lives, Fancy feast,
Purina, and Petsmart's Sophistacat/Sophistacat Supreme - none of the
"high quality" foods that are best for him.


Because those companies use a disgusting thing called "digest" to make their
food more palatable.


Maybe so for some of those brands. But the Fancy Feast that he currently
eats doesn't contain digest or at least they don't list it on the label.
Which they should have to I believe. FF maybe not be the best food but
at least he eats it. Better to eat a "junky" canned food then none at
all. Especially since he has had a near bout with an urinary blockage
once already during the last year.

"Allegra640" wrote in message
...
Just now got off the telephone w/my vet and he said that without a
doubt, a
diet of strictly dry food is the way to go.

Whats a girl to do?

If you have confidence in your vet, then I'd trust your vet and do what
he says.

Joy

Because those companies use a disgusting thing called "digest" to make their
food more palatable.

What is "digest"?
Is it a process or an ingredient?
Will it be listed on the label?

Victor M. Martinez wrote:
rrb_041303 wrote:
Science Diet, and the like. What does he eat - 9 lives, Fancy feast,
Purina, and Petsmart's Sophistacat/Sophistacat Supreme - none of the
"high quality" foods that are best for him.

Because those companies use a disgusting thing called "digest" to
make their food more palatable.

Fair enough if it's unhealthy, but as far as I'm concerned, their natural
diet habits of crunching up miceys and birdies is pretty disgusting anyway,
so not surprised that something like this would appeal to them....

Ann

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http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak

Me to Jo. Dusty will not eat wet canned or moist "softer" morsels of any kind.
I have tried different stuff and flavors over the many years and he won't have a
thing to do with it. He even snubs his nose at tuna. He likes to crunch I guess.
He has been eating only dry food for 11 years and is pretty darn healthy.

TJ


"Jo Firey" wrote in message
...
We finally gave up the efforts to find a wet food that Jake would try more
than once.
He eats only dry food. Bad part is he wants to eat only Delicat and I want
better
quality than that. We compromise and mix it half and half with Nutro. I'd
only give
him Nutro, but then he just eats at the neighbors.

--
Jo Firey

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take
our breath away."
"Allegra640" wrote in message
...
Just now got off the telephone w/my vet and he said that without a doubt, a
diet of strictly dry food is the way to go.

Whats a girl to do?

TJ and The Dust wrote:
Me to Jo. Dusty will not eat wet canned or moist "softer" morsels of any kind.
I have tried different stuff and flavors over the many years and he won't have a
thing to do with it. He even snubs his nose at tuna. He likes to crunch I guess.
He has been eating only dry food for 11 years and is pretty darn healthy.

DD (RB), Cleopatra and Amelia were strictly dry-only eaters until DD got
finicky as she got ill when CRF acted up. We picked up several cans of
different flavors of moist food at the local Walmart, trying to find
something that DD would eat (she refused to eat the healthy canned stuff
the vet gave us). When the girls encountered Tuna and Shrimp flavored
canned stuff, a whole new world opened up! Amelia especially decided
that tunaand Shrimp was their absolute favorite food in the whole world.
While they'd normally graze on and off on the dry stuff, as soon as I'd
put down the tuna and shrimp all the kitties would pick a food bowl and
vacuum it clean.

Now that DD is gone and we've added the two kittens, we feed both dry
and moist.

Dan

"m. L. Briggs" schreef in bericht
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On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:34:33 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



Allegra640 wrote:

Just now got off the telephone w/my vet and he said that without a
doubt, a
diet of strictly dry food is the way to go.

Whats a girl to do?


Consult the cats? If yours are anything like mine, there are things
they will eat and things they will NOT (however hungry they get). The
problem lies in learning to distinguish which is which, since their
preferences change from time to time.

I have fed lots of wet food to the garbage disposer . (Of course they
want us to buy more!) I never have to feed dry food to that hungry
disposer. Ido tru wet from time to time -- same experience: most
goes to the disposer MLB

Same here. And I don't have to clean up loads of cat vomit almost every day
either since starting them on dry food.

--
Nanny
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 19:54:07 +0200, "Nanny"
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I have fed lots of wet food to the garbage disposer . (Of course
they want us to buy more!) I never have to feed dry food to that
hungry disposer. Ido tru wet from time to time -- same
experience: most goes to the disposer MLB

Same here. And I don't have to clean up loads of cat vomit almost
every day either since starting them on dry food.

I feed my two cats dry food, and still have to clean up plenty of cat
urps, although this seems to be more hairball-related than
food-related (some of the spots are stomach juice + hair, others are
kibble + stomach juice + hair).

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