It is very individual what cat owners choose to feed their cats with. There are cat owners who like to feed their cats both wet food and dry food, cat owners who only feed their cats dry food and then there are cat owners who only feed their cats wet food.
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Therefore, cats should not eat dry food
During the days the vet went Sara Molin out on her Instagram advocating why cats should never eat dry food.
Sara Molin works as a veterinarian and has over 20,000 followers on her Instagram account. There she usually shares facts with pet owners and has question and answer sessions where she answers various animal questions and dilemmas.
Molin’s Instagram post about cats and dry food quickly went viral, garnering over 1,000 likes and over 200 comments.
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One of the reasons Molin believed that cats should never eat dry food is because of the high carbohydrate content of dry food.
She believes that dry food is not suitable food for an animal that is a strict carnivore. An animal that is a carnivore is an animal that eats meat and feeds on eating other animals.
She also wrote that obesity in cats has increased in recent years and a risk factor for obesity, among other things, is dry food. Hin also referred to the research study: “Early-life risk factors identified for owner-reported feline overweight and obesity at around two years of age”from 2017 that produced that result.
“Not giving any dry food at all protects against obesity,” writes Molin, among other things, on his Instagram.
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Cats that eat dry food have a higher risk of developing diabetes
She also referred to the study as Sweden’s Agricultural University done, where 2,066 cats were included, of which 396 had diabetes. The study found that obesity is the single biggest risk factor for diabetes in cats. So cats that eat dry food have a greater risk of obesity and diabetes than cats that mostly eat wet food.
“For cats of normal weight, for example, the risk of developing diabetes seems to be greater if they predominantly eat dry food than if they mostly eat wet food. The researchers believe that a possible explanation is that dry food contains more carbohydrates than wet food,” writes Molin in his Instagram posts.
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The vet’s recommendation: “Give your cat wet food”
A further study that Sara Molin brings up in her Instagram post, which supports her opinion that dry food is not good for cats, is an American study that showed that young cats fed dry food had an increased risk of urinary tract symptoms compared to young cats fed wet food.
Sara Molin ends her Instagram post with:
“My recommendation: Give your cat wet food/canned food or a balanced raw food.”.
Among the comments, cat owners are not entirely in agreement. Many comment that they also find wet food to be the best option for cats, while others claim that their cats have lived long lives and are healthy, despite only being fed dry food.