Depends upon the kibble...
its pretty simple to compare the ingredients list...

This is an excellent site for that type of info
http://www.catinfo.org/

Thanks. I need something to convince a teenager(alien living in my home). Something simple that a simple mind can understand. I'm trying to prove that canned is better than kibble. Ingredients won't do it.

Carla

Katsmah, I think your link might do it! Thanks.

Carla

Great link! Don't get me started on the problems with high carb diets...and that is with human (omnivorous) metabolism (obesity & diabetes for starters)! You can imagine what too much CHO does to felines over a lifetime.

L

Teens In gen DO NOT obey their parents well, I do not think she will obey you... hopefully but I don't think so.

You could try, saying a pet is like a child and that you are responsible for is well fare. Millions of cats eat dry food with bad results. However If its a dry like EVO or Orijen its better then wellness. Wellness has grains unless you go grain free.

I hope you can get cat off dry,

Um, canned isn't necessarily better than kibble. Where did that idea come from? Ingredients is what it's ALL about, not that canned is "better". Purina canned food is worse for my dog than the Eagle Pack Holistic KIBBLE that I feed her.

Your daughter may just be right about the kibble she's choosing to feed her cat (depending on ingredients). My extremely healthy slim cat only eats kibble and has been doing so for 16 years with the odd 1/3 can of cat food as a treat 2 or 3 times a week.

Kibble was crate for the connivence of people not pets, dentally cats are really no different then the African wildcat, kibble hurts them in other ways too, like dehydration, In prey model its 75% moisture content,, kibble has less then 10% plus they tend to overeat,leading to obesity, the grains in most kibble do not help, they fuel this and lead to other issues, because pure carnivores (Felids, wild or domestic) ideally should have 5% or less of carbs.

Funny, good thing my 16 yr old slim kitty who is free fed all day long doesn't know this.... she'd have to gain weight and die right now if she did. It's all about the ingredients, you can't tell me that fancy feast is better for my cat than a high quality kibble. Nope ain't possible.

in nature there always expections,the case of the 122 year old woman who stopped smoking for the last 10 years of her life, the case of the girl with 8 limbs( she was born in india and worshiped as hindu goddess, before they fixed her), Rain man,

After killing someone's brain medically so her body could fight back with rabies antibodys- the case of the girl who survived rabies.

Most cats cats who eat food like that, die by that age, or either have issues or like yours are very lucky, we have a 13 year old cat, that was ready to die a few years ago ( obese had tumors, was inactive, we stopped it by switching to Origen. Cat is much more active, has lost weight, still has the tumor/bad teeth but is MUCH better.

I am a believer. My sister fed her beloved cat only kibble because "wet food makes her poop smell too bad." That cat had kidney failure by age 11.

My own cat pretty much refuses to drink water. He used to drink it out of the faucet but he won't even do that now and never out of a bowl. Heck, I'd be happy if he drank out of the toilet! So, I feed him a 5 oz can of food per day and add extra water to it. He doesn't mind that I dilute it and he gets extra moisture that way.

My brother's two cats are fed only kibble (the cheap grocery store kind) and both are very over-weight).

I think what someone posted above about prey being 75% moisture says it all.

PS: I wonder if my cat won't drink water because he getting all the liquid he needs from the wet food????

Stirfry...So glad you posted that detail. My cat won't drink water either. I feed her Wellness canned 3 times a day and I add ~ 1/4 oz of water to each serving and stir it up into a soup. She loves it and hopefully the extra water compensates for the 1/2 oz of kibble (Royal Canin Rabbit RX) that she gets as a snack.

As to the other posters who claim long life and health for their cats who are on a kibble diet: This is anecdotal information and is no more or less pertinant than my history of having cats (6 over the last 30 years) fed exclusively on kibble who died at the age of 13.

The truth is that dry food, ergo, high carb diets are not the best choice for felines...if they were, zoos would feed their Big Cats Purina Lion Chow.

LF

Yep

my point exactly. Felinefuture.com has lots of info on dry cat food and it linkage with poor dental health.

Most dries are 60 to 70% carbs too.

My barn cats get only dry food in good weather but this winter has been brutal and the cats have spent most of the time indoors. They both had diarrhea for about 6 weeks until I started giving them (homemade) food once a day that consisted of tuna, chicken, ground venison, DE and kelp meal. The problems went away almost immediately.

I think that because their diets weren't supplemented with live critters, they weren't getting adequate protein. Only my anecdotal opinion, but it sure works for them. Now, to get them weaned off the good stuff when the weather gets better will be a problem but I want them to go back to hunting.