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Natures Menu seems to be a good one, as Poppy eats for England in feline terms when given it. It costs around £24.30 for 48 x 100g pouches at Pets at Home.
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Basically - yes - the worst wet is better than the best dry. It's true - this is all because cats are obligate carnivores and have evolved to get 99% of their moisture from their food, they don't have a natural thirst drive and so dry food being dry is incredibly dehydrating for them and they struggle to drink enough to compensate. This can lead to kidney problems, UTIs, the forming of crystals which block the urethra etc. Because of boys' longer urethral tracts they are more susceptible to the later. (Also can't digest the grains, rice, or potatoes or veg that companies add to their food to fill up our cats. It does fill them up but briefly as cats can't digest these substances properly and so they poop it all back out again.) So because of this wet is better.

For raw try Natural Instinct.
Absolutely ditto to the above - My interest in raw feeding came about from owning a dog, but then through research I learned all the above. We have a 13-ish rescue cat, she was starting to look and act her age, drinking LOADS of water, furballs around the garden, bringing up food, and a very messy back end nearly all the time. We were having to trim her fur to clean her up as she is long haired. I knew she should ideally be on wet, raw but she was a stubborn girl and flatly refused to change from whiskas dry. So over a loooong period of about 2 months I slowly introduced applaws wet into her dry which she accepted. Once on to applaws wet only, I then crumbled in k9natural freeze dried raw dog food ( freeze dried is NOT dehydrated ) - and added a little bit of warm water. She now eats exactly whatever the dog is eating on the day - natural instincts frozen raw, k9natural freeze dried, free flow chicken and tripe, whatever ! the transformation is amazing ! no more hairballs, no more messy back end ( ever ) no bringing up food, she is a kitten cat again and obviously very happy and comfortable on her raw diet.
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Absolutely ditto to the above - My interest in raw feeding came about from owning a dog, but then through research I learned all the above. We have a 13-ish rescue cat, she was starting to look and act her age, drinking LOADS of water, furballs around the garden, bringing up food, and a very messy back end nearly all the time. We were having to trim her fur to clean her up as she is long haired. I knew she should ideally be on wet, raw but she was a stubborn girl and flatly refused to change from whiskas dry. So over a loooong period of about 2 months I slowly introduced applaws wet into her dry which she accepted. Once on to applaws wet only, I then crumbled in k9natural freeze dried raw dog food ( freeze dried is NOT dehydrated ) - and added a little bit of warm water. She now eats exactly whatever the dog is eating on the day - natural instincts frozen raw, k9natural freeze dried, free flow chicken and tripe, whatever ! the transformation is amazing ! no more hairballs, no more messy back end ( ever ) no bringing up food, she is a kitten cat again and obviously very happy and comfortable on her raw diet.
Well done you on getting your cat off the kibble but I hope you are adding taurine to her food - cats aren't little dogs; there are some important physiological differences, which means that these need to be reflected in the food they eat. Cats need to take in taurine through their food (dogs can synthesise it themselves), which gets depleted through the mincing process. Not much of a problem for dogs but certainly problem for cats.
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