After I wrote my post last night about Paducah eating all the adult cats’ food, I did a Google search to see if anyone has come up with any good feeding methods to combat it. While I was reading a post on Yahoo answers, I saw another question below about feeding canned cat food versus dry, so I clicked on that.

Now, I should preface this by saying that I cannot stand canned cat food. The smell, the texture, all of it is super gross. Obviously I am not the target market. Anyway, besides my hatred, I have never given the cats canned food because my veterinarian discouraged it. He said that the crunchy food was good to prevent tartar build-up and better for their teeth. I really did not think twice about it.

A few weeks ago I was reading an article about holistic pet medicine in a free magazine produced by the animal shelter we got Eggy from. One of the things in article talked about how canned food is better for cats because it is closer to what they would eat in the wild. It also talked about how it is more easily digested and helps to keep the cats better hydrated. I kind of mentally discarded it, in part because I hate canned food, but mostly because it contradicted what the vet told us.

On Yahoo Answers there were people debating canned versus dry, giving a lot of the arguments I read about in that article. Someone also wrote that most vets have little to no education on pet nutrition and often tout the dried food because that is what they sell in their office. Although our vet has never tried to sell us the fancy dry food they have there, it made me think.

I really want the cats to have the best and it does make logical sense that canned/wet food would be better for them. I wouldn’t want to eat dry pellets, either.
As a result, I am not sure what to do. Does anyone have any insight into this? Is canned/wet food better? I am sure if you have dogs, it is the same idea, so feel free to chime in.