Change to wet and dry food in kitten and more pee?

Question

My kitten is 4 months old. Until about a week ago I fed him only on Hills science food dry formula.

But, he was just always begging for food (I think he might be a cat which does that anyways) and wolfing down his food. But he did seem pretty hungry so I've added in a pouch of Purina wet kitten food too.

Here's the thing -he's peeing much more and his pees are huge! It's always in the litter tray so is this just what happens when you use wet food? He was forever drinking with the dry food.

Am I doing the right thing do you think? Should you mix the two? Have to say he's eat pretty much anything...

Also, he sleeps a LOT! Some days more than others - and if he's had a really active day with people around all day he'll be wiped the next day - I take it that's to be expected?

Sorry so many questions!

Answer 1

I don't know how much peeing he is doing so it's hard to comment to much on that. Too much peeing can mean diabetes.

I can tell you that you should not be feeding dry food at all, and canned shoul be fed over the pouches.

Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health

Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.

Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or is it meal or other things? Learn what meal and other things mean here.

http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea...

Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms of food allergies probably from the grains. Constipation? Dry food, not enough moisture. Blockages? Again not enough moisture in the food and you are risking something serious. People on this board say feed fiber but this is a cat not a dog and cats are obligate carnivores unlike dogs an they don't eat cereal and don't need fiber.

The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food (Cats are not naturally big drinkers) but in

Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.

You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at all or grains  at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food as it uses a muscle meat as the first ingrediant. 9lives, friskies whiskas are lower grade canned but still better then dry and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods.

Many foods are not mentioned here but if you read the labels you wiull know if it is qualaty. The price offers no guideline.

The optimum food to feed cats has no grains whatsoever, cats have no use for them and many have trouble processing them as well as the carbs. IBD is another disease that is rapidly becoming common amoung cats because of the inappropriate diets being fed.

Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? Why do people constantly repeat this old wives tale and put teeth over the organs like the kidneys?? (I have no clue)   http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...

Please read about cat nutrition.

http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics...

http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.ht...

http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.ht...

Answer 2

I'd take him to the vet to rule out diabetes and anything else and also to get advice re: the best food. Good luck.

PS - diabetes is a distinct possibility and MUST be checked for.