dry food or canned food for cats

Question
Hi, I breed siamese cats, plus I own 3 nuetered male cats. My question is what food is better for them? I have been doing lots of research on the net, and it keeps coming back to canned food is better than dry, because it is a more natural diet. What is your opinion? Dry would be much easier on me, but I want my cats to be healthy. I feed Chicken Soup for the Cat Lovers Soul dry food, and Natural Balance canned food. Thank you.

Answer
First of all, dry vs. wet is a moot point if the food you are feeding is not a balanced, tested and trial fed diet. The one you are feeding isn't even tested at all on cats to see if it really works or maintains a cat at the life-stage it is designed for. I have read and studied this food and did a lot of research on it for another person.

It's a fad diet and that isn't going to give your cats the nutrition they need to produce healthy offspring and remain healthy themselves.

It has been 'formulated' to meet AFFCO requirements but that doesn't mean anything if the food hasn't been trial fed.

Wet food is good for male cats especially because it helps maintain more moisture in the system which keeps the urine dilute and thus, in theory anyway, reduces the food induced chances of developing FLUTD (feline lower urinary tract disease or disorder).

Personally, I have fed and recommended Science Diet with my own cats and clients cats for over 28 yrs. In that time, my cats have lived to be 19, 15 and so on.Clients cats seem to also be reaching an age that is usually way past the average of 11-12 yrs.

Science Diet has over 50 yrs of veterinary research behind it and is a fixed formulation food- which means it has been field fed and tested for that long and that the formula doesn't change from batch to batch like all non fixed formulated food does.

Science Diet is now the only food on the market that continues to be fixed formulated.
SD is formulated to prevent FLUTD in cats of all ages- from the kitten growth formula to the senior formulas. My cats are both on Senior now but grew up on Kitten and Adult until the youngest was 5. I then placed her on the Senior that my then 12 year old was on. She is now 14 and going strong.

Science Diet comes in canned also, so you can supplement with canned if you like. I feed mine a few teaspoons of it in the morning and evening.

Science Diet is highly digestible, which means less stool for you to clean up. It is also 'nutrient dense,' which means that after their bodies fill up on the energy they need for about three weeks, their consumption of food drops so much that people call and think the cat is sick sometimes! Cats eat to fill their energy needs, so when their body is satiated, they stop eating as much. This translates into a much lower cost per feeding per cat than any food on the market also. It will cost you about $00.28 per feeding to feed one cat.
So if you put out food twice a day for your cat- that one cat will eat .58 cents worth of food a day. Not bad for total nutrition for your cat eh?

So give the food a try. It has a 100% money back guarantee that says if after feeding this food for the whole bag, you don't see any difference, then you can get your money back 100%. Every store that sells SD will back this because Hill's backs it for the store.

So that is my recommendation for you Kristine. Let me know what you do and how it all works out for you. By the way, Hill's does make an all natural diet for cats and dogs also. Its called Nature's Best.