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**mainerocks**
Hey! I see that you keep posting links to catinfo.org with the wet diet and other useful links. I was just curious what you personally do for your cats. Sherlock loves all food so I don't see any issues with switching him to a wet food diet entirely, but I was wondering if from your experience you recommend it.
I asked the vet yesterday if I should switch him to all wet food and she said that what I'm doing now is fine (1/3 cup of dry a day and half a can of wet a day) and he doesn't NEED to be on all wet.
Just wondering your thoughts 
Re: **mainerocks**
After Lily got a UTI, I was so worried and did a ton of research. One thing that stood out was increasing moisture, and many places recommended switching to wet food. I stumbled on the catinfo.org site and really like a lot of what she says.
I tried to switch them both to entirely wet and it was such an ordeal. I went through close to 2 dozen brands/flavors trying to find something the would eat (that was good quality). I finally got them to accept Wellness (2 different flavors), but try as I might, they refused to convert entirely. (It got to the point of dangerous weight loss).
Actually, Kitty was the one that ate more wet and it was Lily that needed it. Sigh. Independent cats! So what I do is free feed them dry food, like they have had all their life, and then wet food at night time. Well, that was until Kitty passed away in November. Lily has eaten less and less of the wet so we are taking a break for now and I'm reintroducing it this weekend when the new kitties come home. (Then at least she can eat a tiny bit and I won't have to waste the can).
So yeah, I don't exactly practice what I preach.
) But I tried! And I try to recommend reading the site but don't tell people to follow it to a T (I should probably be more clear about that in some of posts?) I do think she makes a ton of great points and it's worth adding wet to the diet. But I'm OK with doing a combo of the two... I don't really have a choice with Lily and also I'm not sure feeding only Wellness wet would be within my budget. It gets pricey!
Sorry so long... you asked for my thoughts and you got em ;-)
Gotcha!
Thanks for the information. I really like what is said on the website too and I am very tempted to put him on a full wet food diet but no one I know has done that and the vet said it wasn't necessary so I'm a little hesitant. I am now adding warm water to his wet food, so hopefully that will help the cause quite a bit.
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