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Originally Posted by Amyk
Hi again
i studied nutrition for awhile and all i am saying is that dried food helps to scrap off plaque, just like when you see these adverts that advertise dental chews for dog, dried food help to do a similiar thing. it doesnt stick as much as wet food. i have also been told this by acouple of vets ive had in the past, they have also said it was the amount of wet food i was giving them caused the gingivitis, but im not saying it will happen to every cat just a large amount.
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Can you elaborate on your nutrition studies? I studies hair dressing for a while but I don't thibk that anyone would trust me to cut their hair!!!
Most dry food is packed with more carbs and fillers than high quality wet food. These are used to increase the manufacturers profits and hold the dry together. They are also laced with chemicals to provide the missing minerals and vitamins that a cat would naturally get from eating small mammals and birds. It has taken a number of years for us humans to realise that processed foods are bad for us and fresh meat, fruit and veg is what we should be eating to maintain the optimum health. Unfortunatly there are no funding mechanisums to do these types of studies on our pet foods. The large multi-national pet food manufacturers fund the nutrition seminars in vet schools and increase the profits of vet practices by providing heavily discounted food. (A good vet practice can make as much through pet food sales as they do through treatments)
Dry also causes increased pressure on kidneys to process the copeous amounts of water that a cat would need to drink on dry. Biologically cats are not developed to drink large amounts of water.