Do You Feed Your Cat/Dog Dry or Wet Food?

[Placebo]

All my cat gets is dry food and she's gonna like it! :P

[RockaFowler]

1. The Cat Gets Dry Food

The Dogs get dry in the morning and wet at night.

[liberalmuse]

2. Dry only.

Wet dog food gives her the runs.

[Doug Decker]

3. Sometimes I mix it up and then put...

a light sprinkling of shredded cheese on top.

It that weird?

[ogradda]

7. my kitty loves shredded cheese

i give him a little sometimes but he can't have much since it's not good for him.

[Doug Decker]

11. Why is it bad?

My dog loves it and sometimes she won't eat so I put a little cheese on it and she goobles it up.

[ogradda]

16. i dont know about dogs

too much binds a cat up so they can't poop (just like in people) but you'd have to give your animal quite a bit for that to happen. it won't kill 'em but you'd probably have to give them an enema if it went on too long. ugly thought <shudder>

[Doug Decker]

26. Doesn't seem to be a problem here...

but thanks for the quick response.

Welcome to DU!

[LiberalEsto]

4. Dead Republicans

that's what I feed 'em

[flvegan]

Dogs and cats, both

Get dry. Dogs are all vegetarian (the rescues slowly transfer over) but the cats get all the meaty goodness that Nutro can offer their little carnivore butts.

[Peanut Gallery]

5. dry food for my cat

He eats very little else - doesn't like table scraps at all. I occasionally give him a little bit of canned tuna as a treat.

[legally blonde]

6. My cat LOVES

wet food. He goes crazy every time I get a can out. But, he likes dry too. Actually, he's not picky--he's a little piggy and will eat anything.

[Zuni]

20. my kitty is a lil' piglet herself

she is always lurking around, looking for food. Even if I just fed her, If I eat something that smells good (just about anything) she will hover around me as I eat.

[CelticWinter]

8. Dry but

then they get a treat of canned cat food in the evening and the dog he gets 'pizza' when its here lol, hes not crazy about canned food, but likes snauges.

[newscaster]

9. THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER

THE FOOD IS WET OR DRY.
WE HAVE A CAT WHO GETS A HALF CAN OF WET AT MEALS BUT HAS A BOWL OF DRY FOR NIBBLING.
WE ALSO HAVE THREE DOGS. THEY GET A MIXTURE OF DRY DOG FOOD AND REGULAR CHICKEN SHREDS. BUT THE MAJOR PART OF THEIR FOOD IS DRY.

THE REASON:

TOO MUCH SUGAR IN CANNED FOOD. BAD FOR THEIR TEETH AND THEIR STOMACHS.

SINCE WE STARTED HAVING DOGS AND CATS, 37 YEARS AGO, OUR GUYS LIVE WELL BEYOND THEIR NORMAL AGE RANGE AND ARE HEALTHY AND ACTIVES DESPITE NEVER HAVING CANNED DOG FOOD.

[ogradda]

23. my cat has dry all day for nibbling too

he gets 1/2 can of wet in the morning and the other 1/2 at nite. i didn't know wet was bad for them tho my little piggy cat lloovveess wet food but i can't afford it for all day.

[kokomo]

10. Wet food attracts ants and other bugs. Dry doesn't seem to.

My cats like any food as long as it is expensive, or whatever we humans eat! They won't "people food" except out of OUR dishes, however. Put it on the floor in their bowl and they turn up their noses. They don't like milk but love ice cream, especially Dairy Queen.

They don't like generic brands from the Dollar Store, etc :mad: and I most often end up throwing it away.

[Dukakis88]

12. We give the dog live, moist Freepers, and also freezed dried Freeper jerky

She's a happy and healthy dog, with a very moist coat.

[TaleWgnDg]

13. Typically, I roast a few 'neighborly' Republicans, then

feed em generously to my dog. Sometimes my cat gets some too, if she's good. Both my dog and my cat are very happy.

[Dukakis88]

14. I'm thinking of switching her to an all-stem-cell and partial birth diet.

Because as a liberal I have no respect for human life, and worship Satan.

[DS1]

19. Don't forget to put the dish in the center of a pentagram of black candles

:-)

[Zuni]

15. My cat gets 2 cans of Fancy Feast a day

and she has a bowl of Meow Mix dry food to snack on/clean her teeth with.

[tuvor]

17. Neither. We feed our dogs raw meat and bone only.

Having the same genetic makeup as wolves, it's the most sensible thing in the world.

We adopted a retriever from the SPCA, overweight by about 20 pounds. Now, about four weeks later, he's looking much better and has a lot more energy. And his coat is no longer greasy-feeling.

We've also been doing this with our pug for the past four years.

The many benefits (better coat, fewer health problems, lower vet bills) outweigh the slightly higher cost.

[kokomo]

32. I once owned a wolf/malamute "hybrid" who would only eat 100% meat.

He refused to eat any dog food with cereal added. Got to be quite expensive to feed the mutt. But he was the greatest "dog" I ever owned. So gentle and such a people "dog" that it made me laugh to see BushCo try to demonize wolves in their commercial.

http://www.pets4you.com/wolf.html

[DS1]

18. I use those Whiskas pouch things. Seemingly better quality than that

SHIT that's blended up and put in cans.

He also has a 24/7 supply of Iams dry food to supplement the 2 to 3 to 4 pouches a day ( I'm helping him beef up for the cold )

[Zuni]

22. Those pouch things are the shznitt!

Companion, Special kitty, Whiskas and Friskies all are brands---but it doesn't matter---my kitty LOVES them.

[China_cat]

21. Dogs get mixed, cats get canned only

Due to the fact that we have 2 diabetics and dry food is just too high in carbs for them...they're on 'catkins'. Since we have 6 cats, total, it's too hard to try to feed the diabetics and the non with different diets. Add to that that the 2 needing insulin are 2 of 4 brothers and we definitely don't want -4- diabetics.

[Piltdown13]

24. My kitties get both

They've got a feeder stocked with dry food available pretty much 24/7, and they also get about half a can of Fancy Feast each most evenings.

[flamingyouth]

25. They really only like dry food

The canned stuff only my late Tiffany liked. :shrug:

[elfin]

27. Dog - dry food with a teaspoon

of yoghurt on the top.

[marigold20]

28. Both for our two cats

1/2 packet of Friskies in the pouch and all the dry food they want. They've been a little depressed since we fixed the dripping bathtub faucet. Now they must drink from a bowl instead of the faucet.

[kokomo]

36. My cats don't like the recirculating aerating water fountain I bought them

They still make a dash for the toilet bowl if the lid isn't put down.

[luckypunch]

29. Dry food for my dog

She gets Chicken Soup For The Pet Lovers Soul, with a touch of either yogurt or non fat cottage cheese, and whatever else she can beg, borrow or steal.

[samplegirl]

30. I think a little of both is good

the moist food i think is good for their coat

[CO Liberal]

31. Our Cat Gets "Stinky Food"

Either salmon, tuna, whitefish, or mized grill. For an extra-stinky treat, she gets shrimp and sardine....

The dogs each get around a cup-and-a-half of Ol' Roy Kibbles, Chunks, and Chews (Wal-Mart's version of Kibbles & Bits), with some Ol' Roy Burgers & Cheez Bits mixed in.

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. Jessie (the wonder Sheltie) is on prescription dog food (dry) for recurren

bladder stones...Merlin (the wonder cat) is also on dry. :hi:

[MsConduct]

34. Canned food for breakfast...

and the dry is out all the time for nibbling. They are not indoor cats, but they LOVE that Purina Indoor dry food.

[Spirochete]

35. I jusy\t switched mine to canned food

from dry. He's pretty old, and I don't think his teeth are what they used to be. That I can relate to, myself, and so I'm feeding him canned food, now.