I’ve always fed my cat dry food for the most part. Why?

• It’s easy to buy anywhere, from gas stations to grocery stores, petstores and online.
• It comes in organic, always a good thing, right?
• It doesn’t smell bad like wet food.
• It’s not as messy as wet food.
• Somewhere along the lines, I heard it’s good for their teeth?

Not that I’ve left out wet food, but it was more like a “treat” then an every day thing. My parents always did 50/50 with dry and wet food which is now what most owners do. The best of both worlds since they don’t know which one to leave out. Makes sense, because that’s what I started doing when I heard they weren’t JUST supposed to get dry food. Something to do with water content and my cat goes through lots of water. But goes through less with wet food. Point proven to me!

But when you really do a little digging on the proper cat diet… you find out a lot about wet food and how a completely RAW MEAT diet is best. Who would have thought? Well, if you really think about what they would eat WITHOUT a human’s help… it’s pretty “duh”.

I know I won’t do these sites any justice in what they share, so I will just tell you where to look!

1. Raw Fed Cats
2. Raw Food Diets for Cats
3. Feeding Your Cat
4. Meat Patties by Only Natural

In order from healthiest to unhealthiest:

1. Raw meat diet
2. Animal protein based organic wet food diet
3. Dry food

The number one reason I used to feed my cat dry food was because of the smell wet food would leave behind. You can’t just leave wet food out all the time like you can with dry food – it starts to stink up everything!

But then you need to realize your cat doesn’t need food 24/7 so it doesn’t need to be left out to stink. It can simply be fed twice a day and eat it all at once, and they are done with it just like you would be with a meal.

Find a raw meat recipe here.