Comments on: Dry Food to Wet Food Convert http://www.traciehotchner.com/blog/9/dry-food-to-wet-food-convert/ Cat & Dog Topics from the Author of The Cat Bible & The Dog Bible Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Tracie http://www.traciehotchner.com/blog/9/dry-food-to-wet-food-convert/comment-page-1/#comment-1468 Tracie Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:35:12 +0000 http://traciehotchner.com/blog/?p=9#comment-1468 Hi Susan - Boy , you have your hands full with your kitty's bad teeth and then not keeping the food down. Poor fella! He is living proof of the false claim by dry cat food companies that the kibble cleans teeth - since the vast majority of people still have their cats solely on kitty crack and the vast majority of cats have serious dental problems! As for his throwing up, by the sound of it you are still giving him kitty crack,right? But the problem is that the move to canned food needs to be done "cold turkey" - the highly processed carbohydrates that are so bad for him (and his teeth) and the indigestible plant fiber in kibble often cause digestive upsets. I think you'll see an incredible difference if you could take that nasty dry stuff away completely and feed any of the Cat Chat approved canned foods (the list just got longer - it's on the website). Small portions of wet food - so that he doesn't gobble - are the way to make the transition until he can pace himself. Thank you so much for taking my advice and getting him on a healthy diet - soon you'll have a lot less to worry about! Hi Susan – Boy , you have your hands full with your kitty’s bad teeth and then not keeping the food down. Poor fella! He is living proof of the false claim by dry cat food companies that the kibble cleans teeth – since the vast majority of people still have their cats solely on kitty crack and the vast majority of cats have serious dental problems!
As for his throwing up, by the sound of it you are still giving him kitty crack,right? But the problem is that the move to canned food needs to be done “cold turkey” – the highly processed carbohydrates that are so bad for him (and his teeth) and the indigestible plant fiber in kibble often cause digestive upsets. I think you’ll see an incredible difference if you could take that nasty dry stuff away completely and feed any of the Cat Chat approved canned foods (the list just got longer – it’s on the website). Small portions of wet food – so that he doesn’t gobble – are the way to make the transition until he can pace himself. Thank you so much for taking my advice and getting him on a healthy diet – soon you’ll have a lot less to worry about!

]]> By: Liz Black http://www.traciehotchner.com/blog/9/dry-food-to-wet-food-convert/comment-page-1/#comment-1447 Liz Black Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:21:40 +0000 http://traciehotchner.com/blog/?p=9#comment-1447 I just had my 8 year old siamese mix diagnosed with peridontal disease. He is going to have to have some surgery involving a large amount of his teeth being pulled. This is such a shock to me because last year there was no signs of his teeth bothering him and he has given me no signs up until this point that he was hurting. This is my problem. I'm trying to switch him over to canned food. I have fed him dry food all his life because I was raised believing that it would be better for their teeth. (My vet tells me that over all the years he's been a doctor he finds that it's a coin toss, because genetics is what causes the good or bad teeth unless you're able to brush your cat's teeth everyday and that's usually not feasible.) Who would have thought? Well now I'm trying to transition him to canned food and if I even give him a little bit of canned food a few hours later he is vomiting up everything he ate during the day. How can I switch him over to canned food? I don't want my kitty to starve. If I need to, I will cook for him chicken or whatever if that would be good for him but I'm not sure he can chew it.... I just had my 8 year old siamese mix diagnosed with peridontal disease. He is going to have to have some surgery involving a large amount of his teeth being pulled. This is such a shock to me because last year there was no signs of his teeth bothering him and he has given me no signs up until this point that he was hurting.

This is my problem. I’m trying to switch him over to canned food. I have fed him dry food all his life because I was raised believing that it would be better for their teeth. (My vet tells me that over all the years he’s been a doctor he finds that it’s a coin toss, because genetics is what causes the good or bad teeth unless you’re able to brush your cat’s teeth everyday and that’s usually not feasible.) Who would have thought? Well now I’m trying to transition him to canned food and if I even give him a little bit of canned food a few hours later he is vomiting up everything he ate during the day. How can I switch him over to canned food? I don’t want my kitty to starve. If I need to, I will cook for him chicken or whatever if that would be good for him but I’m not sure he can chew it….

]]> By: Edward Charles Ponzi Jr http://www.traciehotchner.com/blog/9/dry-food-to-wet-food-convert/comment-page-1/#comment-954 Edward Charles Ponzi Jr Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:43:20 +0000 http://traciehotchner.com/blog/?p=9#comment-954 It is surprising that so many vets still say dry food is OK -- there is lots of good data from many sources -- example: http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canned_food.htm It is surprising that so many vets still say dry food is OK — there is lots of good data from many sources — example:

http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/canned_food.htm

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