Is there a better smell than a big pot of applesauce cooking? Gala apples are .98/lb, which is as

the vet said wet cat food is actually good for them---more protein. so I give her a very small can

about twice a week for a treat. I think the dry food is good for their dental health, but the vet said that the new views on cat's and their teeth is that bad teeth and excessive tartar buildup is actually hereditary. Some cats will always have problems, and some will have none. I had one cat with really bad teeth problems, and this cat has beautiful teeth and she is 11 and they both ate the same food.

 
Ang, a friend of mine fed her cat only dried food; it ended up dehydrating the cat so bad he died.

The vet told her next she gets a cat not to feed it dry food.

 
That sounds kind of strange... my vet told me that while canned has more water in it, dry

has moisture too. And didn't her cat drink any water?! I would think it's natural thirst for water would tell the cat to drink water if it wasn't getting enough in its dry food.

Something sounds off, like maybe an underlying kidney problem with him. Sorry about your friend's cat though.

 
I agree, our cats ate only dry all their lives...

and they lived to be 15 and 14...

so sad about your friend's cat -thing is vet's aren't always the best for recommending cat or dog food, unless they're specialists at it...

there's a lot of very good dry dog and cat foods out there, a bit of research isn't difficult and well worth it for the critters!

 
I've had 3 cats in my life, each living beyond 20, except for the current one whose 18th birthday

was yesterday. She was not expected to go beyond 10 as she has been filled with pred all her life. Lots of love works. And only she has eaten any fancy supposedly-healthful catfood.

All my cats ate primarily wet food. In the old days, the 50's, that's all there was and it was in a can called 'Cat Food', as opposed to the can that read 'Dog Food'. ANd the first one never saw a vet until the day we put her down, at 20.

The third cat cost us more in the first 6 months of her life, than the other 2 combined throughout their lives. We treat pets so differently now than we used to.

I can't understand why the cat would not drink if it were eating dry food. My cat eats the dry from time to time and the loss in the dry bowl is matched by the loss in the water bowl. Otherwise, she doesn't drink as the wet food provides sufficient moisture. It almost sounds as though there was someting else going on with that kitty who dehydrated, unless it couldn't tolerate the local water.

I use a PUR filter in my frig ... I presumed that's for making cat water.

terrible when you think you've done something that harmed your pet.

 
Her cat was a Burmese and in the end was bleeding from every orifice. Her vet said its organs were

screaming for water; it was completely dehydrated.

My male Maine Coon (my absolute best cat ever) has had 2 major bouts this year with inability to urinate.

My holistic vet finally found some juice specifically for this problem, so I hope we never face this again.

 
the juice from a can of tuna will always be drunk, in my experience...

even when they're really sick, they will lap it up and that's liquid...

plus the vet can give IV liquids and other formulations well before a cat or dog gets to the point of death by dehydration...

if you pull up gently on the skin on the scruff of their necks it should spring right back to flat in no time, if it takes more than 2-3 seconds, the animal is dehydrated and should go to the vet.

You're all going to go do this to your pets right now, right?!?!?! smileys/wink.gif

 
HA! knew it.... it's irresistible isn't it ??

I take Gomez to work too, everyone should be so lucky!

 
I honestly don't the answer to that question. The cat was up there in years by the time the

bleeding started. The vet chided my friend about the dry food consequences. She said she used it only because she didn't want to deal with tooth tarter.

 
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