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Switching to dry food
- Thread starter Nic
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Why are you wanting to switch her to dry food? It is convenient for owners but the worst food for cats. It should be no more than 25% of their diet. Even the cheapest wet food is better than dry.
Good info here: http://catinfo.org/
I imagine that this is for your convenience, as it is definitely better for a cat to have a majority of raw or canned food. If you really need to do this, then reducing the amount of wet food gradually seems better than just quitting feeding it... but of course we all would urge you to reconsider this move.
Nic
Savannah Kitten
the breeder I bought her from... and I quote
Other Things to Know About Feeding
Each kitten converts to dry food at a different rate. Some leave Select Exotics eating a considerable amount of dry food, soon choosing to eat strictly dry. Others will take months to convert to dry food, thinking it’s the end of the world if they don’t get their spoonful of wet food each morning.
If your kitten does not seem be very interested in dry food, we recommend mixing the dry into their wet food at an increasing rate to force conversion to the dry food. Long term, we recommend their diet consists mainly of dry food as it’s nutritional and calorie content is much higher than wet food which is 90% water.
Some people ask about feeding a raw diet to their hybrid cat. This is certainly your choice. Be advised, however, a raw diet requires a great deal more effort, plus added dietary supplements. Raw food diets for pets are available in the marketplace. Some individuals choose to make the diet themselves. To make a balanced ration which meets the calcium-phosphorus ratio necessary for a feline diet requires knowledge most people lack. So we recommend that if you choose to feed raw food, you do it in combination with a high quality dry food. When feeding in this manner, it is important the raw food be fed in limited amounts so your cat is not omitting the dry food.
so what is really right?
Other Things to Know About Feeding
Each kitten converts to dry food at a different rate. Some leave Select Exotics eating a considerable amount of dry food, soon choosing to eat strictly dry. Others will take months to convert to dry food, thinking it’s the end of the world if they don’t get their spoonful of wet food each morning.
If your kitten does not seem be very interested in dry food, we recommend mixing the dry into their wet food at an increasing rate to force conversion to the dry food. Long term, we recommend their diet consists mainly of dry food as it’s nutritional and calorie content is much higher than wet food which is 90% water.
Some people ask about feeding a raw diet to their hybrid cat. This is certainly your choice. Be advised, however, a raw diet requires a great deal more effort, plus added dietary supplements. Raw food diets for pets are available in the marketplace. Some individuals choose to make the diet themselves. To make a balanced ration which meets the calcium-phosphorus ratio necessary for a feline diet requires knowledge most people lack. So we recommend that if you choose to feed raw food, you do it in combination with a high quality dry food. When feeding in this manner, it is important the raw food be fed in limited amounts so your cat is not omitting the dry food.
so what is really right?
If you ask about diet, you likely will get many answers, just like in humans there are those that strongly advocate different diets.
it is true that commercial diets are generally balanced diets, and if you choose to make your own raw diet you do have to pay attention to supplements to ensure it is properly balanced. There are commercially formulated feline supplements (eg Mazuri makes two small feline ones, one for adding to meat and one to add to whole prey to fill in any nutritional gaps). It is definitely important not to feed just chicken breasts to a cat and think that is a balanced diet. But I do not agree that feeding kibble with a raw diet ensures that the diet is properly supplemented. Kibble is supplemented for the amount of kibble, not to supplement an additional amount of meat.
