I’m the one who asked about wet food – I was given that advice on a cat owner forum from someone who said they were a veterinarian – and it seems it is passed around on the forum all the time as just general “wisdom”. I feed my cat dry food and when I heard that I felt really bad like I had been hurting her without knowing, and wanted to know what you thought is all.

drferox:

You might remember Dippa, my old childhood cat.

She’s nineteen and a half now.

She’s deaf, but she has been since she was 4. And she’s a cantankerous cranky old lady, but she has been since forever.

She has stage 2 chronic renal disease, but she has for almost five years now, and it’s not progressing in any great hurry.

Her diet is mostly t/d dry food – which is dry and contains carbohydrates and would frequently be decried as ‘bad’ in some corners of the internet, and the cheapest wet food on the shelf for treats. Most of her diet for the last decade has been t/d, because as far as diets go it’s reasonably good for kidney health and she likes it.

Whoops, the younger of my childhood cats, is seventeen and a half and on the same diet. She also has stage 2 chronic renal disease, but at seventeen something’s going to happen. She’s a bit harder to photograph, she’s so smoochy.

And Wonka and Trash Bag also get a dry food based diet, because it’s okay for them. The instant it’s not, I will change it.

So don’t feel bad about feeding dry food and don’t stress about changing unless you’ve got specific advice from someone who’s examined your animal to say otherwise.