Elaphe21 t1_j77p1fx wrote on February 4, 2023 at 6:35 PM

Reply to comment by brokerceej in Wet-food diet promotes the recovery from surgery of castration in adult young cats by napovarj

>Vet told me the same thing basically. Continue to feed wet food and he will live healthier for longer, just take care of the teeth as best as you can ongoing and pull them as

I like to offer dry food on the side. A premium/dry food is not 'bad' for cats, just has limitations in regard to hydration.

I suspect it's not so much that can food is bad for cats teeth, but the dry food helps clean the teeth via mechanical action. This is just speculation on my part, however, they have done studies that show the piercing of the kibble by the teeth removes biofilm/bacterial growth from the enamel.

Elaphe21 t1_j77ek97 wrote on February 4, 2023 at 5:25 PM

Reply to Wet-food diet promotes the recovery from surgery of castration in adult young cats by napovarj

Vet and Ph.D. here...

I wrote a long response to this abstract, but as I don't have access to the entire publication, I elected to delete it.

I do not understand how this paper made it past peer review.

I suspect chatgpt wrote this (or 100 cats on 100 typewriters for 100 years...)

BTW, Canned food is generally better for cats, but (much) worse for their teeth (I can totally tell a 5 year old cat that is fed predominantly canned food based on the number of extractions they need).