Can you go with a cheaper wet food?

 

Feeding wet isn't necessarily more expensive.

My cats get a mixture of wet, dry, home cooked and raw - they cope well with the mix and basically thrive on it.

 

I could go to a cheaper wet food but cant find any that contain more meat. Most cheaper ones are only 4% of say chicken and the rest is god knows what. And the real.cheap stuff stinks!

I worked out for my 3 cats on 1 type of dried food works out at just over £1 a day. On the hilife wet it would be about £3 a day.. That mounts up over a month.

What raw do you feed? I give raw chicken as a treat and I tried a raw chicken wing once for Tinker and he was scared of it! He wouldnt go through the doorway as his bowl was near there with the wing in it..

 

IHe wouldnt go through the doorway as his bowl was near there with the wing in it..

Pardon me, but the moment I read this sentence, I can't stop laughing. No wonder Tinker was afraid.

 

dry food is good for keeping their teeth clean what e do is feed him his wet food with a little bowl of dry so he can munch on that between meals

we tried feeding dexter some coshida cat food and he wouldn't touch it at all and thats on the cheap end of the cat food market, all depends on your cat.

 

dry food is good for keeping their teeth clean

Dry food really doesn't help teeth. For the most part cat will swallow the kibbles whole. If they do chew, the dry food really doesn't have the abrasive capability to scrap tartar/plaque off the teeth. Think of it this way...does eating biscotti clean your teeth? In reality it gunks up and sticks in the indentations between teeth.

 

we get Go cat and thats what it said it really is tough gritty stuff Ah I don't know.

 

Yeah, the dry foods try to perpetuate the myth. If I recall, Go Cat is made by Purina...who also tries to say that their food is good for cats when the ingredients are far from good quality or an appropriate diet for an obligate carnivore.

 

well dexter is allergic to grain (we think) so I wont be giving him it again I am glad I now know it's bad for them, thats whiskers Go Cat & coshida food thats a no no for him !

 

Tinker mainly swallows kibble whole! I've been using PlaqueOff for nearly 5 weeks now and I really can't believe how much better his teeth look! Even his gums are red anymore.

So.. Does anyone have any idea how much of his dry food I should reduce it by or a pouch of wet? I'm doing 20g at the moment.

 

I've had good luck with Plaque Off on Jake's teeth too. Unfortunately the cats won't eat their food with it mixed in.

 

Is Jake a dog? Have you tried the PlaqueOff for cats and the one for cats and dogs? The one for cats is so fine, I wonder if that would make a difference

 

This is very true if only my boss would see it that way and give me a pay rise!

 

I don't know if you can get it anywhere other than Canada, but I use something that is called "Suzie's Tarter Liquid". I swear by it. I use it on my dog and cats. My oldest cat is 6.5 years old(we got her in april). Her teeth were very very yellow and looks like they were already starting to rot. This was the only stuff I found they would drink (has no order and little colour). My youngest 2 cats are on a wet only diet so they don't really drink, but my oldest eats dry only so she drinks it frequently. Her teeth are now white and in better shape then the younger two cats.

 

If you want to help their teeth, how about instead of feeding wet and dry, you feed wet plus once a day or once every few days feed some raw bone-in meat, and raw muscle meat?

I don't think dry food does much for dental health anyway, and it's just simply not an appropriate food for cats. Too many carbs and too little moisture to be healthy.

 

Well the dry food texture helps to keep the teeth at least somehow clean and it helps... even if just a bit. But it's not really worth it to make a regular food out of it just because of cleaning teeth. There is a ton of tools and services how to make your cat's teeth clean.

 

I think I've said this already but there *may* be some benefit to kibble but it depends on what it's been treated with. I would not feed an all kibble diet based upon dental hygiene anyway. Kibble tends to be carb and calorie dense leading to all kinds of issues. My cats are on a 90% wet to 10% dry diet. I give the kibble for them to graze on. A health cat will graze 20-30 times a day so I give it to them for a tiny bit of a nosh between their main meals.