I often hear that dried cat food is bad for cats. That it may cause diabetes or heart disease, as well as weight gain in cats and dried food should therefore be avoided. Does this apply to all dried food, or just some brands of dried food? Would the dried food brands that list meat or chicken as the main ingredient be better for a cat than those that list corn meal or grain as the main ingredient? Thanks.
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I've been feeding my cat Nutro Max dry food for all of his 10 years and he's perfectly healthy.
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What? As far as i can remember, we have always gave our cats dry food. None have ever died from eating it. All our cats that have died have died of old age and that's because we put them down. Dry food is just fine for them
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i dont know about the meat vs. grain but dry food isnt bad in general. im sure certain brands are bad though. it is a lot better for their teeth than wet food i know that
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Dried foods that are sold in supermarkets or cheap brands of food are bad for a cats health it could give them urine infections and other diseases. You should ask the vet which brand is better.
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No its fine, in fact its better than moist cat food cause it cleans their teeth and moist cat food is mainly water anyway. How many wild cats do see on tv hunting down and killing grain for gods sake they eat meat! thats why its better.
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Dry cat food is more likely to be full of artificial preservatives. It also often contains less meat than the canned foods. If you bought two foods from a supermarket and one was dry and one was canned, even if the canned was a cheap food it most likely will have better ingredients than the dry food. Dry foods also more often contain artificial coloring. However if a dry food is a high quality food (not the type from the supermarket) it should not contain artificial preservatives or coloring and should be mostly meat. Personally I avoid a food with ANY corn, wheat or soy. Cats are obligate carnivores and they have no need for any grains/carbs in their diet so I use a grain-free cat food. You can usually find these higher quality foods at smaller specialty dog/cat stores or usually there are a few high quality brands at the big chain pet stores. The other reason people say canned food is better is due to the water content. Cats are not made to eat food that contains no water, so they can sometimes have health problems when on a dry food only diet due to the lack of moisture in the diet. There is also a myth that dry cat food cleans their teeth and canned food causes teeth problems. This is not true unless you are using a cheap canned food that is full of grains and sugars. Most cats don't chew their dry food enough to actually do any good for their teeth and most cat foods shatter as soon as they munch on it so there are not really teeth-cleaning benefits.
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Hi You certainly will hear this from me all the time. Dry food should be illegal for cats! yes and I mean all dry foods. Meat as the first ingredient is better then anything else and grain free dry food is much much better then dry foods that have grains as the carb content is lower. But nothing can make up for the fact that cats are suppose to get their moisture needs from their prey. They are not big drinkers and dry food dehydrates. So what you have is blockages for males, and in later stages of life, dehydration and kidney disease. I learned all this from my cat getting diabetes from eating dry foods. I worked on a diabetes board and have seen the examples of thousands of cats with all different sort of problems and what happens when the switch is made to wet food or raw from dry. The evidence is overwhelming. Unfortunately the reach of the food companies which make most of their profits from this crap far exceeds any evidence
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