Any (good) reason to feed some dry cat food?

[CarolinaGirl]

I feed both wet and dry. She gets a 3oz can wet chunks (she will not touch pate types) split into am/pm and then about 1/4 cup grain free dry cat food daily. She is super shiny! We joke about her “cat belly flap”, but she’s a good weight and only gained one ounce between 2011 and her 2012 yearly shots. She will be 3 y/o in April.

I feed wet for the moisture content. I feed the dry for ease if I have to go out of town and can’t get someone to come over everyday (then she gets a whole can put out on the days they do come to feed/clean box).

[paulaedwina]

LOL The belly flap. I call it their seam allowance since apparently it facilitates their gymnastic leaps.

Paula

[CarolinaGirl]

[QUOTE=paulaedwina;6804820]
LOL The belly flap. I call it their seam allowance since apparently it facilitates their gymnastic leaps.

Paula[/QUOTE]

I know I’ve heard that as well. I’ve told hubby that. My cat should have a super leap then as her flap swings side to side when she trots by lol.

[pony_baloney]

All of my sister’s cats are fed a raw diet. One of them has pica, and it seems better if she gets a few bits of dry food with her meals. Maybe she needs that crunchy texture or something.

This cats eats anything: socks, towels, tissues, you name it.

[paulaedwina]

I think that is one of the reasons I will continue to add kibble. Who can live on paste alone? I think texture is important so I will continue to make kibble paste soup.

Paula

[anna_s_girl]

I have 6. They all get free choice dry and a small amount of wet twice a day. I have three bowls of water throughout the house and it seems to help with the amount they drink. No problems. No one is overweight or unhealthy.

[JB]

We also have water bowls everywhere for the cats. They have 1 dedicated to them on the kitchen counter so the dogs can’t empty it or slobber water all over the hardwood floors. But there are 2 in our bathroom (one is really the dogs’, but the cats drink from it too, the other is a “proper” kitty bowl LOL), and there are 2 bowls in the downstairs bathroom that are technically the dogs’ as well, but the cats stroll through for a drink.

I DO think having it always around and in many places helps a lot, as they can drink on a whim instead of deciding if they’re really thirsty enough to walk all the way to the other end of the house for a drink