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Shadow ,
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Should be all wet if you can. It’s healthier for them.

My guy loves the dehydrated stuff but won’t eat it with water, so i mix it with raw kangaroo meat (which he also loves).

Picky little spoiled fucker won’t eat anything cheaper.

heleos ,

Our cats get wet food morning and night, and dry food available all day. They munch on the dry food occasionally, but they are now in love with wet. ~6oz of wet food per day for each of them

BillibusMaximus ,

We used to feed our cats almost entirely dry food, with wet food as an occasional treat (no real schedule for wet, just every now and then).

But over the years we’ve had a number of cats that had health issues that were mitigated by switching to mostly wet food.

So now it’s reversed- almost entirely wet food with dry food occasionally (every couple of days or so). At least, for our indoor cats.

We also take care of a feral colony (many of which we’ve TNR’d), and those cats get dry food for logistical and cost reasons.

Enkers ,

Ours absolutely detests any form of wet food. If it’s not dry, he won’t eat it.

riodoro1 ,

Mine has CKD so he mostly eats wet, but his second bowl always has some dry and he snacks on it whenever the other becomes unedible.

Michal ,

Wet food twice a day (quarter of a 300ml can each), one in the morning, and then in the evening. dry food available throughout the day.

Paraponera_clavata ,

We do only wet food. Our last cat needed it to keep up hydration, and now we do the same with our new cats. Def more expensive, and not sure it’s worth it for healthy cats that drink enough.

fraksken ,

Once a week, in the weekend they get wet food. Rest of the time it’s dry food.

seathru , (edited )
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Twice a day. Little buggers eat better than I do. But I also mix it 50/50 with water and make a kind of cat food slurry to force them into hydrating a little. And then I put a little dry food out late at night as an offering so they will let me sleep.

It sounds expensive but it works out to a little under $2 per cat per day in food.

all-knight-party ,
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I give them dry for breakfast, then wet with a little dry for texture when I feed them at dinner

Tugboater203 ,
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We do all wet, ours are a couple of old ladies, so they get what they want.

pgetsos ,

No wet food at all. I have wasted 100s of euros on wet food that he MAY lick a little bit before leaving it alone.... No idea why he hates it so much

gdog05 ,

My cat has hyperthyroidism and needs a pill twice a day. So I feed her 1/4 of a large can of wet food twice a day with the crushed pill mixed in. It’s just enough that she always finishes all of it so she gets all of her meds. And then always kibble out for snacking. Mostly snacking for her.

nalinna ,

We used to feed only dry and it ended up causing us problems when we had to switch to wet for medical reasons (one had diabetes, and then the other ended up with CKD). The one who was supposed to be smart was somehow bad at eating it (she kept trying to chew it and it would fall out of her mouth 🙄) and also just generally didn’t like it because it’s not what she spent her life eating.

I don’t think dry food is inherently bad or anything, but if that’s your primary source of calories, then you do need to make sure your cat stays hydrated and also that they don’t end up in carb-overload (unless you didn’t mind the thought of giving your cat insulin twice a day, exactly twelve hours apart).

And it sounds like you don’t have to worry about this last part, but for anyone else reading this: please make sure your cats have some amount of both when they’re young and not so set in their ways… don’t make the mistake we did!

Skua ,

Mine likes to graze throughout the day and would ignore the entire second half of any wet food I gave him, so dry food is the better option for us. I get him the best stuff I can and he gets stuck right in whenever I pour some more of it. I give him fancy wet food as a treat every so often too, just on the understanding that it will be somewhat wasted

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