I feed mostly wet food but always have dry available all the time, its a Royal Canin prescription dry food that I had to feed when I had a cat with gastro problems and FIV+ but they all love it, won’t eat any other cheaper dry food. My vet said RC is one of the tastier brands and that appears to be true based on my finicky cats’ preferences.
Genuine question: why not just soak dry food? Is the content in a can really that different than the content in a high quality dry food?
I soak my cat food but it wasn’t on purpose - she gets a daily medication & supplement (on top of a vet-prescribed dry kibble) and I couldn’t get her to eat it any other way other than to soak some dry kibble and mix it in. She eats some canned cat food and turns her nose up at others.
I’ve been throwing around the idea of trying some more canned options, but it’s incredibly wasteful.
My cats hate everything that’s good for them. I’ve given up trying to get them to eat anything healthier than Purina Pro Plan. I’ve bought tons of higher quality, grain free foods and neither one likes anything except junk food. One of my cats will eat any kind of real meat and many canned varieties but the other one will eat nothing but cheap dried cat food. Maybe she has some kind of cat eating disorder?
Is the content in a can really that different than the content in a high quality dry food? Yes. Dry food has too many carbs, although some can foods with grains, fruits and veggies has a high carb content as well.
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All four of mine love the taste of the prescription RC Urinary SO.
You two sound like two high school Mean Girls with a grudge…one really is no better than the other no matter how hard they try to make it look otherwise.
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I feed the prescription RC Gastro Intestinal HE and all six love it, at $45 a bag I wish they didn’t like it so much. 
When mom was still nursing her three kittens I fed all of them the RC (non-Rx) Kitten chow and they liked that even more, I fed it until they were 18 months old but had to stop because they were getting too fat.
Mine is $100CAN/a bag so comparable to your price US and it lasts around a month for three cats fed free range. The fourth cat is on restricted food because she will gain weight just eating air. Her gut is so big and round that she almost looks like she has a bad case of worms but the vet says it’s because she had at least three consecutive pregnancies when she was feral.
My three cats all gobble up the Acana and Orjen dry foods. Plenty of different protein varieties to entice them. A bit spendy but good stuff.
My guys eat this with gusto. https://www.orijen.ca/us/foods/cat-food/dry-cat-food/cat-kitten/
My older guy gets diarrhea from every canned food he’s tried, this keeps him somewhat solid for now.
I’ve always read that is a no-no because the high grain content means it will turn into bacterial soup really quickly. If you’re adding water and it’s fed and gone within 30 minutes? Probably not a problem. More than that might be.
But still not comparable at all to canned. Soooo many carbs in dry.
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