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Originally Posted by Mia101
But people won't help talk about a good dry. That makes a lot of sense. I guess it's better for her to eat meow mix dry while I am moving to canned ?
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See, that's not what you said in an earlier post:
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Originally Posted by Mia101
I insist on feeding some dry food. I outright refuse to switch to canned only, attempts at persuasion are futile.
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I'd be happy to recommend some dry foods
for the interim, to help you transition to wet. But I was responding to your determination that dry food should be a permanent part of your cat's diet, which is not something I agree with. I understand your frustration, I've been there. My 2 cats ate dry Science Diet Light for most of their lives and because of that, I now have one with diabetes and one that's dead. It took me about a year to eliminate all the dry from the surviving cat's diet, but when I finally did, he lost 2 pounds, his insulin requirements dropped from 4.5 units twice a day to 1.5 units, and even with diabetes, he's healthier than he's ever been (glossy, dandruff free-coat that hardly sheds, amazing energy for a 15 yr old, and his semi-annual lab results are "fabulous"). Yes, I'm preachy. So what. On other forums I belong to, I see again and again the harm that dry food does to cats, and it makes me cry. Of course people will say "ya, but my mom's/cousin's/friend's cat lived to 22 and all it ate was Cat Chow". And George Burn's lived to 100 smoking 10 cigars a day and drinking whisky, that doesn't mean we all should. There's a big difference between a cat "surviving" and "thriving". Personally, I'd vote for thriving.