How Much “wet” Food Do You Give Your Cat? Is Too Much Bad?

Question by inskin: How much “wet” food do you give your cat? Is too much bad?
A friend told me not to get cats started on the wet foods (those little morsels in a can) because they would soon eat nothing else. I’ve followed that advice but give my cat a little treat once in a while. He loves it and has a surprisingly long memory for his treats, causing much whining each day, so can I give him one a day or stick with the dry crunchies?

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Answer by permanentmonday249
I give my cat a can of wet food a day along with his dry food. I started this a few months ago and he has not yet gone to that supposed “they’ll soon eat nothing else” stage.

Answer by Kayla
Wet food is actually a lot better for cats. In fact, diets of only dry food are thought to cause kidney disease, because they have no considerable moisture. The kidneys need plenty of moisture to operate properly, and cats don’t drink a lot of water. A cat’s natural diet of small animal meat is about 75% moisture (depending on the animal), which is about the same amount of moisture in canned food. Canned food is also a lot meatier. Overall, canned is better than dry. In fact, cheap canned food is better than expensive dry food in most cases.

Personally, I give my cat about 1/2 canned, and 1/2 dry, plus some homemade food. At the moments, she’s getting 100% canned because I found a good quality brand of canned food at $ 1.50 for five cans.

She still eats her dry food, though. She prefers wet, but still likes her kibble.

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