I've only had my cat (adult) 6 months and my vet didn't discuss food with me. A friend's vet refers to dry food as "b*llocks" though and won't stock it in his surgery! (For the reasons in the post above). However I have heard of a lot of vets being positive about dry food.

I don't want to give my cat dried food but we all have to make our own choices and I can understand why others like it. My cat can't tolerate ordinary wet cat foods, even the 60% meat ones. They all give him the runs. So I give him integra sensitive wet food which doesn't have the 60% muscle meat but is made from a single source of animal only. (The other wet foods have organs etc of more than one animal in them.) The manufacturers say the single source is what makes it tolerable for those cats with sensitive stomachs. It also has 4% rice so has some grain but not too much. He doesn't leak poo on my bed now which I am (very) happy about. I also give him cooked chicken and fish too so he gets 100% muscle meat from there. He will not entertain eating raw food ("what? do you think I'm some kind of animal?") so even though raw would be better I'm not prepared to have that battle.

It's pretty expensive feeding him this stuff (200g tin of integra =80p) and if I ended up really skint at some point I think I would have to give him dry food given that his stomach can cope with that. You do have to do what you can afford. I hope I don't have to but you never know what is round the corner.