I am confused now, having read this thread and a couple of others relating to food. I adopted two girl cats from the RSPCA about a year ago and a boy in August. On both occasions the RSPCA told me to feed mainly dried food (about 50 grams) for the sake of their teeth (James Wellbeloved was recommended) and said I could give about half a pouch each of wet food in the evening as a treat. When I first saw my vet with them a couple of weeks later, she said reduce the dried food a bit as they were both a little overweight.

In August we took on the boy who had had severe gingivitis and ended up having all his teeth removed, so although he occasionally eats dried food, he is fed mainly wet food but is fussy and is a bit underweight. At that time, my fairly measured feeding of the girls wasn't possible and as a result they have put on even more weight.

Today, I took the girls for their boosters and my vet (different to the first one I saw) naturally commented on their size and told me that as dried food is very heavy on calories, it might be better to give mainly wet food. I asked her what affect it would have on their teeth and she said there's actually very little in it. She also said that before dried food really came onto the market, there were few cases of obesity in cats.

I will follow my vet's advice to see if helps with weight loss, even though the girls won't like it as they hardly ever both with the boy's wet food, but I am concerned having seen some of the posts on here!!

Any comments?